1970s Movies

Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute...

Jim Bridwell was one of the best climbers in the world in the 70s, 80s. The documentary chronicles Bridwell's career from those early days to his...

In the summer of 1976, a shared family yard becomes the setting, as the adults bicker over selling the garden and the kids are free to explore the...

In the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, Jim Estelle, head of the Texas Department of Corrections, plays a deadly game against the ruthless...

During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the...

Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her family in Chile and accused of having worked for...

An isolated teenager explores the past, his late father, and unstable memory through the use of celluloid on his 16th birthday.

German TV film, also shown on Spanish TV in 1976, this is a film all about TD which includes informal interviews and concert/studio footage, most of...

Dr. Sadik Ahmet fights for the democratic rights of the Western Thrace Turkish minority living in Greece. After graduating from Athens University...

Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

István Szabó reveals a lesser-known side to the public in this work, which strings together eight shorts of Budapest into a single...

The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as “the gentleman...

This chronicle of the Christchurch Commonwealth Games marked one of the National Film Unit's most ambitious productions. Though a range of events...

The true story of the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire, the worst mass murder of LGBTQ people in America until the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016.

William Douglas Street is bored with his life. Working for his father is getting to him, his wife wants more money, and he's had enough. His solution...

1979. An intense conspiracy unfolds after the robbery of a legendary fortune.

Anna, 12, lives in a village by the sea. She helps her dad in his shop, but does not like the summer guests in the village.

Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are...

Having been married for seven years, a tourist office director and his well-known television presenter wife, Alekos and Efi Fotiou go through a...