1972 Movies

Romantic drama about a couple dealing with an unwanted pregnancy at a time when abortion was illegal.

“[A] rather perverse exercise in futility,” this tape documents Baldessari’s response to Joseph Beuys’s influential performance, How to Explain Pictur...

Eighteen-year-old Pásztor Béla joins the communist party.

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Gholam is released from prison and gets involved with Heydar, whose father, Morshed Zaman, was Paralyzed by Gholam . Gholam rapes Heydar's sister Azam...

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi and Hakudo Kobayashi presented the video performance Eat at Video Hiroba's first exhibition, Video Communication DO IT YOURSELF KI...

Aslani takes us on a mesmerizing journey through Iran’s archaeological sites of Chogha Zanbil, Kerman, Damghan, Yazd, and Kerman, narrating the tale o...

A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the women’s ceremony, w...

Captured and subjected to severe torture, Çal Hasan manages to escape from the castle where he is imprisoned after a great struggle. After receiving t...

The program investigates the secrets behind the success of Japan’s most famous baseball team, the Tokyo Yomiuri Kyojin-gun, affectionately known as th...

Taking place during the women’s liberation movement, Idemitsu filmed the Womanhouse which became her first 16mm film work. Judy Chicago and Miriam Sch...

Tinsmith, storyteller, and traditional fiddler, John Doherty, travels the hills of Donegal. Here he talks to Sean O'Haughey of the Irish Folklore Comm...

Mi Raza: Portrait of a Family is a documentary about the Navarro-Gonzalez family, a multi-generational Mexican-American family living in Chicago's Pil...

Short pinku, distributed by Nikkatsu in 1972.

Documentary about the founder of of Private Magazine, Berth Milton Sr. Here he is depicted as a cool, international playboy, driving around in luxurio...

The film tells the story of Murat, who wants to take revenge on those who killed his son. Murat has just been released from prison. His son Zeki has f...

"IN PROGRESS is a 20-minute time-lapse movie recording the passage of days and seasons from September through May on a bit of landscape photographed o...

“The changing dots, ectoplasmic shapes and electronic music of L. Schwartz’s ‘Mutations’ which has been shot with the aid of computers and lasers, mak...

1972 Bollywood drama from director Ram Mukherjee.