1968 Documentary Movies

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Monterey Pop(1968)

3.8/5 (with 36 votes)

Featuring performances by popular artists of the 1960s, this concert film highlights the music of the 1967 California festival. Although not all musicians who performed at the Monterey Pop Festival are on film, some of the notable acts include the Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Otis Redding, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix's post-performance antics -- lighting a guitar on fire, breaking it and tossing a part into the audience -- are captured.

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker - With Hugh Masekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, Canned Heat, The Mamas & the Papas, The Animals, ...

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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One(1968)

| 1h 15min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, and another camera records Greaves and his crew. Sometimes we watch the crew discussing this scene, its language, and the process of making a movie. Is there such a thing as natural language? Are all things related to sex? The camera records distractions - a woman rides horseback past them; a garrulous homeless vet who sleeps in the park chats them up. What's the nature of making a movie?

Directed by William Greaves - With Don Fellows

The Queen(1968)

| 1h 8min | Documentary

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the viewer into rehearsals and dressing rooms as the drag queen subculture prepares for this big national beauty contest. Jack/Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies, and their protégé, Miss Harlow, is in the competition. But, as the pageant approaches, the glamorous contestants veer from camaraderie to tension.

Directed by Frank Simon

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches(1969)

3h | Documentary

4.1/5 (with 8 votes)

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Directed by Jonas Mekas - With Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, John Cale, Timothy Leary, Angus MacLise, Jack Smith, ...

High School(1968)

1h 15min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 22 votes)

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.

Directed by Frederick Wiseman

They Call Us Misfits(1968)

1h 40min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

A documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of society. The film is the first part of a trilogy.

Directed by Stefan Jarl - With Kenta

A Film Like Any Other(1968)

| 1h 48min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and students’ protests. The picture consists of two parts, each with with identical image tracks, and differing narration.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Sex and the Law(1968)

1h 31min | Documentary

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A look at what happened when Denmark abolished censorship in the late 1960s.

Directed by Gabriel Axel - With Arne Hansen, Ejnar Hans Jensen, Kirsten Norholt, Paul Kelvin, Susanne Jagd, Holger Juul Hansen, ...

The White Match(1968)

1h 42min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Documentary film about the protests against the 1968 Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Rhodesia, in Båstad, Sweden. In a series of interviews, demonstrators and members of the Swedish government give their views on sport, politics and civil disobedience.

Directed by Roy Andersson, Bo Widerberg

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield(1968)

1h 39min | Documentary

1.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. She takes a trip to the nudist colony on the Isle of Levant, where she almost kind of joins in. Then it's off to Paris, where she gets a beauty treatment from Fernand Aubrey, and attends some racy dance revues. In New York and Los Angeles, she visits some topless clubs and listens to a topless all-girl pop band. The film wraps up with some posthumous footage of her family in mourning.

Directed by Joel Holt, Arthur Knight, Charles W. Broun Jr. - With Jayne Mansfield

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Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869-1948(1968)

5h 30min | Documentary

Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869–1948 is a 1968 documentary biography film, detailing the life of Mahatma Gandhi. The film was made to seek to tell the life story Gandhi, and his incessant search for Truth. The film contains animation, live photography and old prints to provide an integrated image of his life. The story itself is narrated using mostly Gandhi's own words. There are several versions of the film. There is the 5 hour version in English, a shorter version which runs for 2 hours and 16 minutes, and an even shorter version which runs for an hour. A Hindi version exists, running for 2 hours and 20 minutes, and a German version at 1 hour and 44 minutes.

Directed by Vithalbhai Jhaveri

Revolution(1968)

| 1h 27min | Documentary, Music, History

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

The San Francisco scene in 1967-68. Documentary about hippies shot during the height of the movement . Viewpoints from many kinds of people. Music by Steve Miller Band, Mother Earth, Quicksilver Messenger Service and others.

Directed by Jack O'Connell

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Be Seeing You(1968)

45min | Documentary

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations for becoming involved with the union and the struggles of their day to day life.

Directed by Chris Marker

Journey Into Self(1968)

47min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Journey into Self is a 1968 documentary film introduced by Stanley Kramer, and produced and directed by Bill McGaw. The film portrays a 16-hour group-therapy session for eight well-adjusted people who had never met before. The session was led by psychologists Carl Rogers and Richard Farson. The participants included a cashier, a theology student, a teacher, a principal, a housewife, and three businessmen. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1968.

Directed by Bill McGaw

The 17th Parallel(1968)

1h 53min | War, Documentary

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

On the border of North and South Vietnam, civilians live underground and cultivate their land in the dead of night, farmers take up arms, and bombs fall like clockwork. Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan’s record of daily life in one of the most volatile regions of a war-torn, divided country is both a hazardous piece of first-hand journalism and a shattering work in its own right, simmering with barely repressed anger.

Directed by Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968(1968)

58min | Music, Documentary

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A close-up of bass player and composer Charlie Mingus as he and his five-year-old daughter await eviction by the City of New York.

Directed by Thomas Reichman - With Charles Mingus

Inquiring Nuns(1968)

1h | Documentary

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?".

Directed by Gordon Quinn

A Face of War(1968)

1h 12min | Documentary, War

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A Face of War is a 1968 documentary about the Vietnam War, by Eugene S. Jones. The New York Times called it "one of the great Vietnam documentaries." Roger Ebert called it a "heart-wrenching masterpiece".

Directed by Eugene S. Jones

Survival 1967(1968)

1h 10min | Documentary

This film documentary uses the 1967 Six-Day War and its immediate aftermath as its basis. The material primarily presents Israeli sources and perspectives.

Directed by Jules Dassin

Christopher's Movie Matinee(1968)

1h 28min | Documentary

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

When a camera crew are sent to document hippie protests in Yorkville, Canada's counter-culture capital, they are charmed by a group of misunderstood kids with their own ideas about what kind of movie to make.

Directed by Mort Ransen

Mars(1968)

28min | Science Fiction, Documentary

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Like the previous film Luna produced by Klushantsev, the film Mars was created at the intersection of educational science films and science-fiction. It consists of seven pieces, which tell (based on scientific understanding of the 1960s) of the physical conditions on planet Mars, the possibility of life on Mars and what forms it might take, of Martian canals and "seas" of the Red Planet. In addition, the film includes the director's fantasy hypothetical forms of life on mars, and of the exploration and colonization of Mars in the near future.

Directed by Pavel Klushantsev

Legendary Champions(1968)

1h 17min | Documentary, History

Documentary focusing on heavyweight boxing champions from 1882 to 1929.

Directed by Harry Chapin

Columbia Revolt(1968)

59min | Documentary

In April 1968, black and white students rebelled against the university administration, occupying five buildings, including the president's office in one of the first campus revolts of the Civil Rights/Vietnam War era. The revolt began as a protest against university expansion into neighboring communities and its role as a slum lord. After five days of student control, the administrators and trustees ordered the police to clear the buildings. What resulted was an unprecedented display of brutality and repression. Narrated by one of the student rebels, the detailed eyewitness account of this event galvanized other campus revolts around the country.

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1968 Documentary Movies

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Monterey Pop(1968)

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One(1968)

The Queen(1968)

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches(1969)

High School(1968)

They Call Us Misfits(1968)

A Film Like Any Other(1968)

Sex and the Law(1968)

The White Match(1968)

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield(1968)

Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869-1948(1968)

Revolution(1968)

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Be Seeing You(1968)

Journey Into Self(1968)

The 17th Parallel(1968)

Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968(1968)

Inquiring Nuns(1968)

A Face of War(1968)

Survival 1967(1968)

Christopher's Movie Matinee(1968)

Mars(1968)

Legendary Champions(1968)

Columbia Revolt(1968)

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