This film explores how the conflict with the North affects "South Vietnam's traditional culture, and seeks to explain why the South Vietnamese people...
Processions
Don't Corner Me
Corn for the Dough
"This film depicts modern American products and U.S. economic development through the U.S. national exhibit at the 1966 trade fair in Addis Ababa,...
Africa Goes to the Fair
"This film examines immigration to the United States from the late 1800s to the 1950s. Ellis Island is the focal point of the program, which includes...
The Strangers
Change the Music
Train conductor Manolin warns passengers Don Fiero and his daughter Ava about local bandits and asks them to bear arms in defense of the train. Don...
Very Manly
"This film, made by the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) as part of its Cold War campaign to promote American interests and ideology abroad, covers...
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Journalist Burrito and scientist Manolin visit the “Red Planet” and are given special glasses with which to view the planet’s...
Interplanetary Travel
Manolin the Bullfighter
"This film deals with South Vietnam's "Open Arms" program, designed to encourage communist defectors. The film presents three defectors who tell how...
Three Who Returned
"This film documents the U.S. tour of Lebanese singer Fayrouz (sometimes spelled Fairuz), and her troupe of 60 dancers and musicians, across eleven...
Fayrouz
Directed by eventual Bolivian president, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, who ran the production company of this film, Telecina Ltd. from 1953-1957....
Little Juan Can Read
Kindergarten
An anthology of five short films ("The Hands of a Stranger", "The Other War", "A Distant Province", "The Eighth District", and "PHILCAG"), made...
Five Faces of Vietnam
"This film, narrated by an elderly woman, shows how Oglala Sioux pictorially recorded their calendar histories on buffalo hides, called 'winter...
Winter Count
The Spirit of America is a 1963 American short documentary film produced by Algernon G. Walker about the Spirit of America, the trademarked name used...
The Spirit of America
"This film documents President Nixon's 1972 trips to the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, Iran, Poland, and Austria. Highlights include...
A Time For Peace
"This semi-animated documentary film portrays Czechoslovakian animator Paul Fierlinger's arrival to the United States and covers his production of a...
Fresh Colors
"This film presents rare documentary footage of presidential inaugurations, from William McKinley in 1897 to Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The film conveys...
The Day of the Oath