1972 Movies

A sci-fi/occult/psychedelic performance film set to an original soundtrack by Rhys Chatham. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

This classic documentary made by director Robert Elfstrom shows Pete Seeger as a fighter for human rights through songs such as I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hi...

Made under the Burmese dictatorship, Maung Wanna’s debut feature tells a story of Sein Lin, the drummer for a traditional dance theatre group in Rango...

"In this now infamous tape, exemplary of his early transgressive performance style, Acconci sits and relates a masturbatory fantasy about a girl rubbi...

A tribute to fellow artist Sol LeWitt, Baldessari sings lines from LeWitt's thirty-five statements on conceptual art to the tune of popular songs.

As Landow and his students were testing a new video camera, an elderly man began to talk to them about new technology. This impromptu conversation for...

A martial arts master accompanies a beautiful singer with equal kung fu abilities to an ultimate showdown.

Directed by Michael Meignant.

The rodeo circuit as experienced by Canadian world-champion cowboy Kenny McLean. The film follows him on the stampede trail from Texas to Alberta, wit...

Satirical musical comedy using animation technique. It is a study of 80 Amlash sculptures.

Taped by his son shortly before Watts' death, this program captures the noted philosopher/mystic's ideas on the meaning of time and change, if they ha...

The film, mostly shot on the outskirts of the Vadamarachchi area (Sri Lanka) tells the story of an ordinary peasant's life, rooted in tradition but de...

The famous teacher Fa, old and hoary, it returns to the town of origin together with the adoptive daughter Chin Sin and of the preferred disciple You-...

K-Z is a 1972 Italian short documentary film directed by Giorgio Treves, his study of the slaughterhouse in the centre of Turin as an allegory of a Ge...

Against a black background and a pulsating beat matching white symmetrical geometric flashes around a central orb, white lines are drawn in mirror ima...

This documentary film follows the exploits of Ron Kovic and the Vietnam Veterans against the War on an epic journey to the Republican Convention in Mi...

In 1972 there were about 3800 Bedamini speakers, living in 60 long house communities scattered throughout 700 square kilometers of tropical rainforest...

A documentary about the Apollo 13 moon shot that was nearly lost in space.

Grateful Dead - At Old Renaissance Faire Grounds 1972