Mein Kampf. A calm, fair, objective and appalling documentary of Hitler and his gruesome works, compiled from news reels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films and secret-police footage by Swedish Film Maker Erwin Leiser.
La Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's vast (three hours) dramatization of the Apocalypse as a modern saturnalia wallows in boredom, but also develops episodes of transcendent moral horror.
Days of Thrills and Laughter. Silent comedy, including Charlie Chase, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks.
L'Avventura (in Italian). Director Michelangelo Antonioni draws with exquisite skill a picture of lovers pairing unhappily on an Aeolian beach—characters bored, futile and afflicted with Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death."
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Newcomer Albert Finney battles society in the best British film to come along since Room at the Top.
Shadows. Led by Actor-Turned-Director John Cassavetes, actors improvise a film on racial tensions and make some howling blunders—but also, almost accidentally, a significant piece of folk art.
TELEVISION
Thurs., May 4
Brand Names Foundation Dinner (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.).* An address by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Pre-empts Face the Nation.
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). D. W. Griffith's America. The American Revolution, with Lionel Barrymore.
Fri., May 5
The Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). In "The Joke and the Valley," Dean Stockwell is an idealistic stranger, Thomas Mitchell and Keenan Wynn the rustic pranksters. Justice triumphs. Color.
Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Walter Cronkite and CBS reporters focus on a major news story of the week.
Sat., May 6
Kentucky Derby (CBS, 5:15-5:45 p.m.). Watch yourself lose the office pool.
The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "Are Labor Unions Too Powerful?" Teamster Boss James Hoffa argues that they are not; Publisher Arthur H. Motley, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, disagrees. NBC's John K.M. McCaffery moderates.
Sun., May 7 Washington Conversation (CBS, 12-12:30 p.m.). Correspondent Paul Niven interviews British Novelist C. P. Snow.
Accent (CBS, 12:30-12:55 pm.). James Fleming chats with famed Photographer Edward Steichen.
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A rebroadcast of the grim documentary, Suicide Run to Murmansk, the story of a World War II convoy that lost 22 of 33 merchant ships.
Winston Churchill—The Valiant Years
(ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Plans are drawn for the final assault on Germany.
Tues., May 9
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). "The World of Penguins," invaded by an expedition to the Falkland Islands.
Bell & Howell Close-Up (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). "The Land of the White Ghost"—Part 1 of a series on Africa.
THEATER
On Broadway