Power Play (1978)

A reporter attempts to figure out why there has been an energy crisis in the United States.

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.,In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she …

Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff…Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.

This precious document is an interview with the three Moses sisters, Ethel, Julia and Lucia Lynn, made by historian Pearl Bowser for her project of archiving an oral history that gathers over 200 documents and accounts of key Afro-American figures. In this video recorded in 1978, the sisters, then aged around 70, talk about their memories of working chorus girls and dancers at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem and, for the first two, their past as the starlets of race films. Their views and reflections on what celebrity means to them also help to give meaning to a feeling of belonging, to their perception of the black American community.

Julian Bream presents a series of 4 masterclasses on the guitar, recorded in the informal atmosphere of his home in Wiltshire. The fifth episode is a guitar recital in his local chapel in the same year 1978 where the same music is performed.

A documentary exploring the existence of extra-terrestrials.

"Do you remember Vietnam? Do you remember all those television pictures of far-away suffering, of reporters shouting over the noise of meaningless battles. Vietnam ran longer than Z Cars and at times had popularity ratings even higher than Kojak… Some nostalgia may creep into this film but, if it does, it will be nostalgia purely and simply for the endurance of the Vietnamese people, whom I admire."

Every year, a ritual known as Ida is performed by the Umeda people, who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sawanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Ida, the central social and cultural drama of the Umeda, is a fertility ritual, in which a dominant theme is the metamorphosis of the cassowaries.

The Voyage of Charles Darwin was a 1978 BBC television serial depicting the life of Charles Darwin, focusing largely on his voyage on the HMS Beagle. The series encompasses his university days to the 1859 publication of his book On the Origin of Species and his death and is loosely based on Darwin's own letters, diaries, and journals, especially The Voyage of the Beagle and The Autobiography of Charles Darwin.