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Presents insight into Spain's history, culture, and lifestyle of its people by focusing on some of the activities of a family in Madrid. (WorldCat)

A young Moroccan boy learns the craft of making saddles. (WorldCat)

Educational film showing the culture of Africa through music, dance, costume, religion, work, and education. The films shows traditional African v...

This film is a portrait of Japan from a Western view, covering briefly its history of being closed off to trade through WWII, then focusing on the ...

“A film about Indians in many parts of Canada who are concerned about preserving what is left of their own culture and restoring what has been lost...

“Twilight of an Era examines some of the important events in Canada during the Depression years: the Moose River mine disaster; the great drought o...

“A film about the life of an Indian fisherman of the prairie provinces. For commercial fishermen the film shows simple but effective sanitary measu...

Loosely-constructed footage of the 1984 Chicago Kool Jazz Festival in Grant Park and the 25th Annual International Folk Fair.

A series of footage depicting Mayor Harold Washington speaking at numerous events - both political and cultural - throughout the city of Chicago. 

First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union Frol R. Kozlov visits the Midwest in 1959.

Silent and sound newsreel outtakes from Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Chicago on July 6, 1959. The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, were on a ...

Part 6 of the United States Information Agency's "Atoms for Peace" film series. Explains the training programs in nuclear physics for foreign scien...

Episode of the United States Information Agency's television series "Personal Report" about Johnson Publishing Company and Ebony magazine....

Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of the Republic of Senegal, visits Washington, D.C. on November 3, 1961.

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attends the Tutankhamun Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on November 3,1961.