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- A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
- When a nurse leaves her job to walk home, a young boy tries to grab her pocketbook, but she wrestles him to the ground, gets her pocketbook back, and drags him to her apartment in a headlock. There she feeds him and teaches him some valuable lessons before sending him home.
- An introduction to the work of graphic artist M.C. Escher.
- Questions the extent to which sexual stereotypes limit aspirations of females by telling about a girl who is faced with the prejudice of the boys and the route manager when she takes over her brother's paper route.
- Mary Jo overcomes her shyness and shares something unusual with her classmates.
- Throughout the seas of Southeast Asia, there are nomadic families of the Bajao tribe, who spend their entire lives living on large sailing outrigger canoes. They live off the resources of the ocean and the thousands of small islands in this region. Yet they manage to have developed an interesting culture. We travel with them as they fish, collect sea-shells, trade them for food, cloth, etc. at villages, and join other Bajao families on remote islands for ceremonies.
- An animated film in which littering busybodies from the city decide that a smiling, upside down possum in the forest is frowning and they try to entertain him at movies and nightclubs in the city.
- A woman changes her identity to fight in a Massachusetts regiment of Washington's army in the American Revolution.
- First of the Man And the State series, dramatizing the character of Socrates in the context of his 339 B.C.trial, posing questions about if the state has the right to silence individuals.
- No two nations are exactly similar in following any one system of government, either socially, economically, or politically. Therefore the terms capitalism, socialism and communism are general terms, often misunderstood. There are even differences in the popular use of the terms versus their technical meanings. This film explains these terms and presents some history of their results.
- Yuji helps his mother at home, and father in forest cutting trees. He wants to be a forester, but when he follows a load of trees to sawmill, and then sees the wood being made into pianos, he wants to become a musician.
- A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
- We divide Asia into five major regions, each very different. Here are the people, the land, agriculture, industry, and culture of these regions.
- Pockets of poor housing can be found in every city of the world. But in the 3rd world it is a serious problem. In this film we follow the daily life of a family in a crowded slum of a typical 3rd world city.
- The Spanish Conquistadores wrote down the history of Peru's ancient civilizations, as told to them by the Inca. But archaeologists found evidence that this "history" was entirely false. Great cultures developed in So. America long before the Inca.
- The life and economic standards-of-living of people in a one-crop nation (coffee) is compared with those of a nation with a diversified economy.
- Brazil, South America's largest nation, is mostly tropical, but is becoming one of the most industrialized nations on the continent. This film examines the various lifestyles of the people and their problems, both urban and rural.
- Introducing the land, agriculture, industry, and daily life of the people of the several different regions of Africa.
- Colorful and exciting ethnic dances from around the world, usually express the different social and cultural backgrounds of their people.
- Introduces the concept of "The Third World". It discusses the differences between the Socialist bloc, the Free-Trade (Capitalist) bloc, and the less developed 3rd World nations. Most were colonies of "First World" nations, and most still have some ties with their x-rulers. We examine the daily life, economy, problems, and future possibilities for the people of these nations.
- Daily life of a Thai farm family, seen through the experiences of their son, Deely: growing rice, getting water, going to school, shopping in town, etc.
- Certain conditions are necessary for the development of civilizations. We examine ones that started in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, China, the Indus valley, Greece and Italy. Often, each was influenced by others, and each was eventually conquored by others.
- Traditional handicrafts in Japan started as the production of needed utencils. Some families shown in this film are now in their 6th or 7th generation of making what have become works of art, mostly using natural materials.