| A Tale of the Wind | Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan-Ivens | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands |
| Imagine: John Lennon | Andrew Solt | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Crossroad | Ivars Seleckis | Soviet Union |
| Alfred Laliberté, Sculpteur | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Canada |
| Eddie Murphy Raw | Robert Townsend | United States |
| The Cure in Orange | Tim Pope | United Kingdom |
| Əbədiyyət yolu | Cahangir Zeynallı | Soviet Union |
| Dmitry Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola | Semyon Aranovich, Alexander Sokurov | Soviet Union |
| Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima | Michael Camerini | United States |
| O Picasso | Camille Coudari, Gilles Carle | Canada |
| Ballad of the Little Soldier | Werner Herzog | Germany |
| The Target Is Your Brain | Feliks Soboliev | Soviet Union |
| Strada Pia | Georg Brintrup | Germany, Italy |
| The Kid Who Couldn't Miss | Paul Cowan | Canada |
| When the Mountains Tremble | Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates | United States, Guatemala |
| Coming Soon | John Landis | United States |
| Half a Life | Romain Goupil | France |
| Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography | Bonnie Sherr Klein | Canada |
| Mstislav Keldysh | Gennady Raspopov | Soviet Union |
| Going the Distance | Paul Cowan | Canada |
| Nine Days and the Whole Life | Yuri Zanin | Soviet Union |
| With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade | Lorraine Gray | United States |
| 10 minutes older | Herz Frank | Soviet Union, Latvia |
| Always for Pleasure | Les Blank | United States |
| Winds of the Milky Way | Lennart Meri | Soviet Union, Estonia, Hungary, Finland |
| Etnocidio: Notas sobre El Mezquital | Paul Leduc | Canada, Mexico |
| Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? | John Korty | United States |
| Um ano de independência | Fernando d’Almeida e Silva, Luís Carlos Patraquim | Mozambique |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Philippe Mora | United Kingdom, United States |
| Songs of Fire | Nikos Koundouros | Greece |
| Cree Hunters of Mistassini | Boyce Richardson, Tony Ianzelo | Canada |
| De Cierta Manera | Sara Gómez, Julio García Espinosa, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| Earthquake! | — | United States |
| Runan Caycu | Nora de Izcue | Peru |
| Twister! | — | United States |
| Malcolm X | Arnold Perl | United States |
| Weekend of a Champion | Frank Simon, Roman Polanski | United Kingdom |
| A Lady Called Camille | — | United States |
| Africa Uncensored | Oreste Pellini, Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni, Guido Guerrasio | Italy |
| Le Cochon aux patates douces | Barbet Schroeder | France |
| Wake Up, Mes Bons Amis! | Pierre Perrault | Canada |
| The Forest | Ivan Balaďa | Czechoslovakia |
| El Grito, México 1968 | Leobardo López Arretche | Mexico |
| The River Schooners | Pierre Perrault | Canada |
| Jalil Mammadguluzadeh | Əli Musayev | Azerbaijan |
| The House of God | Abolghasem Rezaei, Jalal Moghadam | Iran |
| Let My People Go: The Story of Israel | Marshall Flaum | United States, Israel |
| Memorandum | Donald Brittain, John Spotton | Canada |