During her Italian vacation, a young and beautiful American tourist finds herself as a guest in a coastal villa inhabited by a bunch of odd people.

One year in the life of a young country boy who enters adulthood. Franek Wróbel leaves his home village and seeks a new life for his own, while writing a diary.

In search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

A documentary about Twarda Street in Warsaw. People living there lead a modest life, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Residents of Twarda Street still rely on crafts, services and some trade. Observational shots and narration by young inhabitants of the street create the mood of the place.

Examines the hopes and aspirations of a group of 18-year-old girls following their graduation from a college in Warsaw.

The first Polish documentary about the life of Gypsies. The film crew accompanied a tabor of the small Gypsy community during their journey from place to place. Their customs, relationships and cultural elements were captured on film. The individual scenes are not overcolored or enriched with any kind of romanticism, which was often presented in Polish literature concerning this community.

A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.

Cinéma vérité feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.

A documentary about a group of Warsaw tram workers who moonlight in the city orchestra at night.

A short Polish black and white silent movie directed by Roman Polański. The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths (one of whom is played by Polanski himself). Finally, they arrive back at a beach and then disappear in the sea.

A girl strolls through the Old Town streets of Warsaw and listens to the sounds of the city, which change from random noise into a kind of outdoor concert.

An interventionist documentary showing the phenomenon of widespread prostitution, maintained in the style characteristic of the "black series" of Polish documentaries of the mid-1950s. Staged shots at the Polonia café are juxtaposed with a documentary recording of arrests conducted by the police among Warsaw prostitutes and interrogations of the arrested.

The perils of alcohol: parents ruin the lives of their children because of drinking.

Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population.

Documentary Short by Jerzy Ziarnik

Short propaganda film. Warsaw's post-war reconstruction as seen through the eyes of the passengers of a red bus.

A recording of the performance of the symphonic poem entitled Fairy Tale by Stanislaw Moniuszko at the ‘Ursus’ Factory in Warsaw. It took place in 1952 and was performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Witold Rowecki.

Bucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.

Without any commentary, we can witness the severe flooding that struck Poland in the spring of 1947.

A film suite divided into three parts showing successively the defeat of Warsaw, the gradual awakening of the capital and the first post-war Warsaw spring. The film has no commentary, only music, whose mood and rhythm are closely related to the character of the presented images.

Movie filmed directly after the liberation of the concentration camp at Majdanek.

The images are synchronized to match the rhythm of five different traditional Polish songs in this early experimental musical short film.

Anti-German propaganda short film made jointly by Poland and Britain during WWII.

This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farming and timber practices and their impact on impoverished farmers.

A short experimental film by Stefan Themerson which explores what might happen to you if you step out of line.

Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.

A mixture of puppets, diagrams, animation and live action presents an anti-war message.

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.

Documentary showing the dangerous working conditions of coal mining across England, Scotland and Wales.

A short film which documents the lives of the Sinhalese people.

Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios. This film is the first part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

Rain falls on a Dutch city.

Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

About 'The Zone', a wasteland just outside Paris and a refuge to lower classes from the middle of the 19th century to the 1940's where they could build shelters and live mostly out of sight from the society.

This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor, with little or no comment (intertitles) from the director, Cavalcanti (whose first film this was).

An experimental avant-garde film from director Henri Chomette in which the pure elements of form are emphasized.

Ballet Mécanique (1923-4) is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by artist Fernand Léger and filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray). It has a musical score by the American composer George Antheil (However, the film premiered with no soundtrack, on September 24th, 1924 at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik in Vienna). It is considered one of the masterpieces of early experimental filmmaking.

An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.

A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.