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1960s Documentary Movies

Public list by WPS with 210 movies or TV shows/series

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Monterey Pop(1968)

NR
| 1h 20min | Documentary, Music
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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Love Meetings(1965)

1h 32min | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 116 votes)

Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex, apparently their least favorite subject: he asks children if they know where do babies come from, asks old and young women about gender equality, and asks both genders if a woman's virginity still matters, how do they view homosexuals, if sex and honor are related, if divorce should be legal, if they support the recent abolition of brothels, etc. He interviews workers, intellectuals, students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and other different people, painting a vivid portrait of Italy in the years of the Economic Boom, suspended between modernity and tradition.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vincenzo Cerami - With Camilla Cederna, Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia, Oriana Fallaci, Adele Cambria, Cesare Musatti, ...
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Mondo Cane(1962)

1h 45min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.

Directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, Franco E. Prosperi - With Rossano Brazzi, Stefano Sibaldi
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The House Is Black(1963)

20min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 54 votes)

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

Directed by Forugh Farrokhzad - With Ebrahim Golestan, Forugh Farrokhzad

Titicut Follies(1967)

NR
| 1h 24min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 46 votes)

The film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. TITICUT FOLLIES documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers and psychiatrists.

Directed by Frederick Wiseman

Tokyo Olympiad(1965)

2h 50min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic pole-vaulting match between West Germany and America, and the final marathon race through Tokyo's streets. Two athletes are highlighted: Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who receives his second gold medal, and runner Ahamed Isa from Chad, representing a country younger than he is.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Nando Martellini, Abebe Bikila, Hirohito
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Africa Addio(1966)

R
| 2h 2min | Documentary, Horror
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

A documentary about the end of the colonial era in Africa, portraying acts of animal poaching, violence, executions, and tribal slaughter.

Directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco E. Prosperi - With Sergio Rossi
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Black Panthers(1968)

28min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America’s attention.

Directed by Agnès Varda

The Perfect Human(1968)

13min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 22 votes)

An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.

Directed by Jørgen Leth - With Claus Nissen, Majken Algren Nielsen, Jørgen Leth

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back(1967)

NR
| 1h 36min | Documentary, Music
3.7/5 (with 62 votes)

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker - With Bob Dylan, Bob Neuwirth, Joan Baez, Alan Price, Tito Burns, Donovan, ...
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Chronicle of a Summer(1961)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 38 votes)

Paris, summer of 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, along with sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin, both assisted by Marceline and Nadine, roam the crowded streets asking ordinary people how they deal with the misfortunes of life. Are you happy? But their real purpose is to find out if people can speak sincerely in front of a camera and how they react when they are later invited to analyze the meaning of their answers.

Directed by Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin - With Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Régis Debray

The Lovely Month of May(1963)

2h 45min | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 17 votes)

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.

Directed by Chris Marker
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One(1968)

R
| 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

Triumph Over Violence(1965)

2h 18min | Documentary, History, War
3.7/5 (with 15 votes)

Romm's "Ordinary Fascism" pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firmest of convictions that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world.

Directed by Mikhail Romm - With Mikhail Romm, Marlene Dietrich, Hermann Göring, Joseph Stalin, Cab Calloway, Marika Rökk, ...

Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution(1967)

Documentary

In this CBS News report, Leonard Bernstein examines creativity in pop music of the mid 1960s. This is probably one of the first examples of pop music being examined as a "serious" art form.

Directed by David Oppenheim - With Leonard Bernstein

Primary(1960)

1h | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occuring.

Directed by Robert Drew - With John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Robert Drew, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert F. Kennedy
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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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Portrait of Jason(1967)

1h 45min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked, pill-popped view of what it was like to be coloured and gay in 1960s Unites States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Directed by Shirley Clarke - With Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee, Jason Holliday
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Flying Clipper - Dream Voyage under White Sails(1962)

2h 38min | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A 1962 West German documentary film directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber.

Directed by Hermann Leitner, Rudolf Nussgruber - With Hans Clarin, Burl Ives, Grace Kelly

Vive Le Tour(1962)

18min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A short documentary about the 1962 Tour-de-France. Topics covered include: crowds of people and motorcycles, drinking raids and feeding, pileups, doping, "the charge," and the mountain stages.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Jean Bobet, Louis Malle

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

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, ...

Jungle Cat(1960)

1h 9min | Documentary, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 7 votes)

This final True-Life Adventure would also appear to be one of the best, as we go into the South American jungle to observe the jaguar. Jungle Cat is more intimate than its kin, allowing individual animal characters to be developed. Central to the cast is a pair of jaguars (one ebony), whose fighting leads to love and, not long after, two babies (one resembling each parent).

Directed by James Algar
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The Queen(1968)

NR
| 1h 8min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 12 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

La Rabbia(1963)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their "salvation", and suggesting that their "innocent ferocity" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovannino Guareschi - With Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Carlo Romano, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elizabeth II

Rabindranath Tagore(1961)

54min | Documentary, History
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Docudrama about the life of Rabindranath Tagore, Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art, becoming in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The film was released during Tagore's birth centenary year.

Directed by Satyajit Ray - With Rabindranath Tagore, Smaran Ghosal, Satyajit Ray

Lonely Boy(1962)

27min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world. Taking a candid look at both sides of the footlights, this film examines the marketing machine behind a generation of pop singers. Interviews with Anka and his manager reveal their perspective on the industry.

Directed by Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor

Violated Paradise(1963)

1h 8min | Documentary, Romance / Love, Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding love and a job as ama, a pearl diver.

Directed by Marion Gering

Far from Vietnam(1967)

1h 55min | War, Documentary
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, ... - With Bernard Fresson, Karen Blanguernon, Marie-France Mignal, Maurice Garrel
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