| The Kid Who Couldn't Miss | Paul Cowan | Canada |
| The Profession of Arms | Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen | Canada |
| Constellation of Rifleman | Juris Podnieks | Soviet Union |
| From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today | Helena Solberg | United States |
| Half a Life | Romain Goupil | France |
| Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott | Mary Benjamin | United States |
| Huie's Sermon | Werner Herzog | Germany |
| Challenger: An Industrial Romance | Michael Rubbo | Canada |
| Larisa | Elem Klimov | Soviet Union |
| Making 'The Shining' | Vivian Kubrick | United States |
| Mstislav Keldysh | Gennady Raspopov | Soviet Union |
| The Space Movie | Tony Palmer | United States |
| Murmansk-198 | Arnold Altmäe | Soviet Union |
| Nine Days and the Whole Life | Yuri Zanin | Soviet Union |
| Marée noire et colère rouge | René Vautier | France |
| Utlänningar: Del II - Le Rom | Peter Nestler | Sweden |
| Gamín | Ciro Durán | Colombia |
| James Dean: The First American Teenager | Ray Connolly | United States |
| Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Donald Brittain | Canada |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Philippe Mora | United Kingdom, United States |
| Bugs Bunny: Superstar | Robert McKimson, Larry Jackson, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett | United States |
| Hearts and Minds | Peter Davis | United States |
| If I Don't Cry Out | Humberto Solás | Cuba, Haiti |
| A Private Collection | Walerian Borowczyk | France |
| Grierson | Roger Blais | Canada |
| Twister! | — | United States |
| A Lady Called Camille | — | United States |
| Fuck Off! – Images from Finland | Jaakko Talaskivi, Erkki Seiro, Jörn Donner | Finland |
| Goodbye Uncle Tom | Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, Franco E. Prosperi | Italy |
| Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War | Masao Adachi, Kōji Wakamatsu | Japan |
| Woodstock | Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Wadleigh, Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Dijapazon - Gita Predić-Nušić | Mirjana Samardžić | Yugoslavia |
| The Forest | Ivan Balaďa | Czechoslovakia |
| Warsaw Ghetto | Hugh Burnett | — |
| You Are on Indian Land | Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell, Mort Ransen | Canada |
| El Grito, México 1968 | Leobardo López Arretche | Mexico |
| From the City of Lodz | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
| Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz "Witkacy" | Grzegorz Dubowski | Poland |
| A Hurricane Called Betsy | — | United States |
| Jalil Mammadguluzadeh | Əli Musayev | Azerbaijan |
| Never a Backward Step | Arthur Hammond, Donald Brittain, John Spotton | Canada |
| A King's Story | Harry Booth | United Kingdom |
| Magic of the Rails | — | — |
| The Verdict of History | Fridrikh Ermler | Soviet Union |
| Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment | Robert Drew | United States |
| Moravian Hellas | Karel Vachek | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic |
| The Yanks Are Coming | Marshall Flaum | United States |
| À St-Henri le cinq septembre | Hubert Aquin | Canada |