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320 results for ""Contemporary Films"".

Title ▼ Year Creator Length Holdings
Your children's eyes.

Explains the structure of the eye and illustrates eye defects, diseases and injuries and their treatment…

1945 British Information Serv / Realist Film Unit 660 AV Geeks Archive +2
World Of Rubens, The

Presents a portrait of the Flemmish painter, Peter Paul Rubens, through his masterworks. Analyzes the diversity…

Contemporary Films AV Geeks Archive
Woof Woof

Presents a dramatization about a dog and a cat who fight when they meet and who…

1969 Contemporary Films 14 min AV Geeks Archive
Women on the March: The Struggle for Equal Rights Part 2

Uses old film footage to show the status of women in England, the United States, and…

National Film Board of Canada Released in the U. S. by Contemporary Films/McGraw-Hill. AV Geeks Archive
Woman In The Dunes

Presents the tale of a man held captive with a woman at the bottom of a…

1964 Contemporary Films 123 min
Winning Films Of The Nsa Festival 2

Shows eight winning films from the second National Student Film Festival.

1967 Contemporary Films 112 min
Winning Films Of The Nsa Festival 1

Shows ten winning films at the first National Student Film Festival at the University of California…

1966 Contemporary Films 80 min
William Morris Hughes

…of Australia during 1915-1922, shown in contemporary film and stills. Includes film footage of World…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Wholly Communion

Pictures a poetry reading which made history in Albert Hall in London. Shows the 7,000…

1966 Contemporary Films 33 min
When I Am Dead And White

Presents a film about mediocrity. Looks at a pathetic young man who wants to be somebody…

1968 Contemporary Films
What's new. [Series 12], Blue like an orange. 1970 UNESCO 10:00 Library of Congress
What Is Life

Presents an animated science film which explores the essential quality of life that is common to…

1972 Natl Film Board Of Canada 3:00 Library of Congress
Whaler Out Of New Bedford

Uses a 1300-foot long panorama painting to depict the story of whaling in all corners…

1963 Contemporary Films 24 min AV Geeks Archive
We Are The Lambeth Boys

Portrays a group of teenagers of a youth club in South London, following their lives in…

1959 Contemporary Films 53 min
Watch On The Rhine

Features an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play of Nazi intrigue during World War II. , WATCH…

1943 Contemporary Films 114 min
Wanda

…Similar in feel to other contemporary films, “Two-Lane Black Top” and “Killing of A Chinese…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Voyage Surprise

Presents a comedy about a mad old man who starts surprise tours, without knowing where he…

1968 Contemporary Films 108 min
Visions of the Future: Then and Now | Q&A with filmmakers ▶

Screening: "Latencies of the Statistical Image" (2024), The Twilight Zone: “From Agnes — With Love” (1964), "Fembot…

The Unpopular Archive
United Nations Dateline

Shows a vital but rarely-seen part of the United Nations--the realm of the 'NEWSMAKERS.'.

Contemporary Films 28 min
Understanding Aggression ▶

Combines artwork depicting man's aggressive behavior throughout the centuries with live-action sequences in order…

1971 Contemporary Films 29 min
Umbrella

Tells the story of a nine-year-old boy who steals an umbrella. Portrays an autocratic…

1969 Contemporary Films 35 min AV Geeks Archive
Twelve Angry Men ▶

Presents an excerpt from the feature film Twelve Angry Men. Features English writer Arnot Robertson, who…

1957 Contemporary Films 95 min.
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

Tells the story of an old prospector in search of riches and the avarice that brings…

Contemporary Films 2:06:00 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Treasure Of Sierra Madre

Describes three prospectors who find gold and lose it through personal avarice. Stars Humphrey Bogart.

1948 Contemporary Films 126 min
Tovarich

Presents a story built around Russian aristocrats in reduced circumstances who are forced to take a…

1937 Contemporary Films 98 min
Tonio Kroger

Depicts a writer-hero's feelings as he travels to southern Italy to visit the homeland…

1965 Contemporary Films 88 min
Toni

Features the story of the Spanish farm-workers in Provence.

1934 Contemporary Films 90 min
To Live

The shock and impression left behind by war on its witnesses conveyed with power and poignancy…

1994 Contemporary Films 132 min
To Help Them Learn (1977) ▶ Churchill Films (CHUH) AV Geeks Archive
Tight Little Island

Depicts a community which demonstrates its solidarity and ingenuity when hiding and consuming a shipload of…

1949 Contemporary Films 81 min.
Three R's In The Sand

Shows how Arab refugee children are being educated.

1963 Contemporary Films 20 min
Three - Ten To Yuma

Shows how Western conventions are reversed with the heroic virtues portrayed in the character of the…

1957 Contemporary Films 92 min
Thomas L'imposteur

Presents the extraordinary adventures of a young man in France during the first world war.

1965 Contemporary Films 94 min
This Special Friendship (Les Amities Particulieres)

Presents the story of the homosexual love between two boys at a Catholic bording school.

1965 Contemporary Films 99 min
This Is Bbc

Shows a day at the British Broadcasting Corporation.

1959 Contemporary Films 68 min
There Was A Door

Deals with the care and treatment of the mentally retarded and emphasizes the British trend toward…

1959 Contemporary Films 38 min
The Written Word

Discusses the UNESCO libraries located in Nigeria.

1956 Contemporary Films 29 min
The Would - Be Gentleman (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)

Presents a performance of the Moliere play rendered by the Comedie Francaise.

Contemporary Films 95 min
The World Of Rubens

Presents a portrait of the Flemmish painter, Peter Paul Rubens, through his masterworks. Analyzes the diversity…

1969 Contemporary Films 20 min
The White Sheik

Presents a satire by Federico Fellini concerning a new bride who leaves her husband for a…

1952 Contemporary Films 85 min
The Vicious Circle

Discusses the relationship of poverty to ignorance. Considers the inability of many of the poor in…

1949 Contemporary Films 28 min
The Unreal World Of Watteau Contemporary Films
The Umbrella ▶

Presents a day in the life of a young boy, Charles, and the events that drove…

1961 Contemporary Films 28 min
The Trial Of Joan Of Arc

Describes the trial of Joan of Arc and its outcome as recorded in official transcripts and…

1962 Contemporary Films 65 min
The Titan - The Story Of Michelangelo ▶

Re-creates the life of Michelangelo (1475-1564), viewing the places he lived and worked. Examines…

1950 Contemporary Films inc. New York. [from old catalog] 67 Australian Centre for the Moving Image +4
The Third River

Explains that Iraq's 'THIRD RIVER' is a pipeline of oil. Depicts the many steps involved…

1954 Contemporary Films 28 min
The String Bean (Le Haricot)

Tells how a wispy old woman cultivates a potted string bean plant with a tender devotion…

1964 Contemporary Films 17 min
The String Bean

The camera follows an old woman as she tends to things around her apartment. She then…

Pathe Contemporary Films 600 ft. Oddball Film and Video
The Stowaway

A story about a thirteen-year-old boy who stows away on his father's schooner…

1960 Contemporary Films/McGraw-Hill 15 New York Public Library
The Story Of Louis Pasteur

Shows Pasteur's struggle for acceptance of his ideas in research in the medical fields.

1936 Contemporary Films 85 min

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