| Ellis Island Revisited | Georges Perec, Robert Bober | France |
| Rockshow | Paul McCartney | United States |
| The Space Movie | Tony Palmer | United States |
| Workers '80 | Andrzej Zajączkowski, Andrzej Chodakowski | Poland |
| 80 Blocks from Tiffany's | Gary Weis | United States |
| Going the Distance | Paul Cowan | Canada |
| Nine Days and the Whole Life | Yuri Zanin | Soviet Union |
| Day of the Killer Tornadoes | — | United States |
| Utlänningar: Del II - Le Rom | Peter Nestler | Sweden |
| La Soufrière | Werner Herzog | Germany |
| All This and World War II | Susan Winslow | United States |
| Elementarz | Wojciech Wiszniewski | Poland |
| High Grass Circus | Torben Schioler, Tony Ianzelo | Canada |
| Bugs Bunny: Superstar | Robert McKimson, Larry Jackson, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett | United States |
 Grey Gardens | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Horde | United States |
| Catfish: Man of the Woods | — | United States |
 Hearts and Minds | Peter Davis | United States |
 That's Entertainment! | Jack Haley Jr. | United States |
| A Private Collection | Walerian Borowczyk | France |
| Argentinísima II | Fernando Ayala, Héctor Olivera | Argentina |
| Grierson | Roger Blais | Canada |
| Runan Caycu | Nora de Izcue | Peru |
| L'Acadie, l'Acadie | Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault | Canada |
| Le Cochon aux patates douces | Barbet Schroeder | France |
| Return of the General | — | United States |
| Woodstock | Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Wadleigh, Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Dijapazon - Gita Predić-Nušić | Mirjana Samardžić | Yugoslavia |
| Warsaw Ghetto | Hugh Burnett | — |
| You Are on Indian Land | Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell, Mort Ransen | Canada |
| Love in Our Time | Elkan Allan | United Kingdom |
| Serving the Soviet Union | Vladimir Boykov, Boris Nebylitsky | Soviet Union |
| The River Schooners | Pierre Perrault | Canada |
| A Hurricane Called Betsy | — | United States |
 Eat the Document | Bob Dylan | United States |
| A King's Story | Harry Booth | United Kingdom |
| Allemagne Terminus Est | Frans Buyens | East Germany, Belgium |
 L'antimiracolo | Elio Piccon | Italy |
| Let My People Go: The Story of Israel | Marshall Flaum | United States, Israel |
| There Are Still Slaves in the World | Folco Quilici, Maleno Malenotti, Roberto Malenotti | France, Italy |
| Kitka – a poem in living water | Risto Jarva | Finland |
| Women of the World | Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, Franco E. Prosperi, Paolo Cavara | Italy |
| À St-Henri le cinq septembre | Hubert Aquin | Canada |
| Royal River | Gordon Sparling | Canada |
 Letter from Siberia | Chris Marker | France |
| The Kurnell Story | Ken G. Hall | Australia |
| Africa Adventure | Robert Ruark | United States |
| Martin Andersen Nexøs sidste rejse | Jørgen Roos | Denmark |
| Naked Sea | Allen H. Miner | United States |