1970s Movies

Evoking a cinema verite feel not found in most sports documentaries, Fast Break examines the 1977 Portland Trailblazers basketball team in a...

Years ago, artists would walk around the muck at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, and build loads of sculptures out there on the...

The teacher of a primary school in a mountainous village, arrives in Athens to force a rich businessman to keep his promise and to build a new school...

A former serviceman joins a movement to challenge the continent's political status quo during the Second World African Festival of Arts and Culture...

In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland....

A colourful trip back in time, as Debbie McGee hosts a 1970s-style dinner party.

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

Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the...

Documentary about the life of jazz and funk saxophonist, Maceo Parker

From Jimi Hendrix to Patrick Hernandez and even Madonna, everybody crossed the path of Jean Vanloo. Who is this mysterious character from Moeskroen...

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...

How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition,...

The rise and fall of Commodore computers in the 70s and 80s as described by the people who created the companies and technologies.

A city symphony of '70s New York as it exists in the movies that mythologized it.

Part of the animated anthology series 'Festival of Family Classics' by Rankin/Bass Productions, this adaptation follows a blonde, pig-tailed Alice as...

This documentary explores Life and Art of Queen bassist John Deacon.

A rich widow tries to pursue a relationship with a younger violinist despite the objections of her older brother and his wife.

Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) in the early 1970s. "Those years...

The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power...