Top 16 Documentary Movies Popular from 1978

A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band. Info on The Last Waltz / IMDB / YouTube

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies. Details on Faces of Death / IMDB / YouTube

A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there. Find out about Gates of Heaven / IMDB / YouTube

Director Martin Scorsese talks to actor Steven Prince about his past. As the night goes on, Prince reveals some very amusing and moving stories of his experiences with drugs and violence. Explore American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince / IMDB / YouTube

Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). The businessman was kidnapped in an effort to secure the . Info on Germany in Autumn / IMDB / YouTube

Performing at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978, Carlin mesmerizes his audience in the second of his 12 HBO specials. The show was originally planned as part of a concert/sketch movie, The Illustrated George Carlin, that never came to fruition.The routines include: Death, Kids & Parents, Newscast #2, Time and Al Sleet, the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman. Read about George Carlin Again! / IMDB / YouTube

A featurette sponsored by Pepsi-Cola that was originally intended to be released in Summer 1978 as a promotion for the Southern Rock outfit's planned musical roots LP. The plane crash in 1977, which claimed the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backup vocalist Cassie Gaines, transformed the album into an epitaph entitled First - and Las. Find out about A Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd / IMDB / YouTube

The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Get info on Scared Straight! / IMDB / YouTube

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces. Find out about Par desmit minutem vecaks / IMDB / YouTube

Bob Dylan on tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975; concert footage, documentary interviews and bizarre improvised character scenes. Read about Renaldo and Clara / IMDB / YouTube

Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War. Learn about The Memory of Justice / IMDB / YouTube

Documentary on the London punk-rock scene, circa '78. Check out The Punk Rock Movie from England / IMDB / YouTube

Through the imagined life of a single mother, the filmmaker and figure of German feminism Helke Sander creates a lively and committed photograph of 1970s West Berlin, between documentary and fiction. Read about Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit - Redupers / IMDB / YouTube

Emanuelle hosts a Mondo film look into bizarre and perverse sexual encounters, fantasies, and rituals from around the world. Look into Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World / IMDB / YouTube

Documents the pain and joy plants experience and how they communicate it. Soundtrack by Stevie Wonder. Find out about The Secret Life of Plants / IMDB / YouTube

Fascinated by forbidden rituals and ceremonies, world explorer Arthur Davis takes a crew with hidden cameras to Africa and South America to secretly record the beauty and horror of the law of the jungle. BRUTES AND SAVAGES is the filmed document of his death-defying adventures. Shocking, brutal and repulsive, this film mixes bizarre authentic footage with incredibly. Info on Brutes and Savages / IMDB / YouTube