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The Tour de Corse 1984 review brings you the full story of round five of the 1984 world championship, as the island of Corsica hosted the French rally. Amazingly, this event was the debut for two cars which would become sporting icons; the fire-spitting Group B Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 (T16) and the legendary Audi sport Quattro. The Tour de Corse is an all-asphalt rally, and the stages include narrow mountain roads with huge drops just inches away – it is always a true challenge of skill and bravery, and the 1984 running was no exception. Alongside the new cars from Peugeot and Audi, the field included the dominant Lancias and Renault 5 Turbos. The all-star driving cast includes Markku alen, Mikki Biasion, Stig Blomqvist, Walter Rohrl, Ari Vatanen. It proved an incredible debut for both Peugeot and Audi, and an unpredictable battle throughout – including the unlikely alliance between the French and Italians against the rising threat of the Germans.

Action from the Portuguese round of the 1986 World Rally Championship. 1986 was to be the final year of the Group B cars and the superfast, turbo charged cars used by the main challengers areshown here in full flight, demonstrating their powerful capabilites through every stage. The new Ford RS200, Juha Kankkunen in his Peugeot plus strong challenges from Eriksson’s Golf GTi Audi, Mazda, Rover and Citroen feature, so enjoy once more the very best highlights from what turned out to be one of the most exctiing rounds of the season.

Experience one of the most dramatic years in the history of the Monte-Carlo Rally with this comprehensive look at the 1986 World Rally Championship season-opener. Packed with incredible action footage from the historic mountain stages, plus interviews with legendary drivers and jaw-dropping slow-motion film, this is the complete story of an unforgettable event. The '86 Monte-Carlo Rally was the first round of what would prove to be the very last year of the awesomely powerful Group B 'supercars'. Enjoy the sights - and incredible sounds - of the Martini Lancia Delta S4, Audi Quattro S1, Peugeot 206 T16 and Metro 6R4 as they do battle.

Two drivers were still capable of securing the World Rally Drivers’ Championship as the 1986 series was wound up in the United States of America. Juha Kankkunen (Peugeot) and Markku Alen (Lancia) battled it out through the forests of Washington State with scarcely a thought that the issue would really be decided by an FISA court later in the month. That situation was reached after Peugeot protested against their exclusion from the San Remo event in Italy, which significantly affected the points score. However, as the cameras show to great advantage, the action on the Olympus Rally was fast and furious, with local star John Buffum going really well in a semi-official works Audi Quattro and providing substantial opposition to the big two. But all eyes were on the Flying Finns as they ignored the political wrangles and got on with the driving. Hurtling along the smooth wooded straights and screaming round the curves, the French and Italian manufacturers top men tried all they knew.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, or the TVA, was a project like no other, and after more than a half-century, continues to shape life in the South.

The story of America's first nuclear reactor accident, an incident that occurred on January 3, 1961 and escaped public attention for some twenty years.

Short film about the German painter Emil Nolde

An irrigator in northern Peru transforms sugarcane into sweet cane, inspired by the poetic narration 'Hay Sí, Santiago Paisi' by César Calvo

This feature documentary profiles poet Milton Acorn, who left his home in Prince Edward Island in the late 1940s to earn his living as an itinerant carpenter, and wound up in Toronto as one of Canada's most highly regarded poets and one of its most outrageous literary figures. Dubbed "The People's Poet" by fellow poets, he won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1975. Burned out by personal crises, Acorn moved back to Charlottetown in 1981. This film, directed by a P.E.I. filmmaker, brings out Acorn's wit, love of nature, unorthodox political views, and sometimes infuriating personal contradictions.

The events immediately following the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in Washington DC on March 30, 1981 .

Various stages of the school career and career choice of a Greek boy from Macedonia, who has lived in Cologne since the age of 8, are shown.

The film records incidents from the everyday life of a shepherd near Cologne during one year.

Lisa has a guinea pig and already knows well how to take care of it. Her friend Janis is also allowed to buy one. He prepares a cage and food, and the guinea pig soon feels at home. At the end of the film, both children let their animals play together.

Angela Ramos, the first woman journalist, irreverent and passionate figure in Peruvian intellectual and political life. She is a key figure in understanding the role of women in the Peruvian scene, an issue that currently deserves the greatest consideration in academic, intellectual, and political debates and forums.

Documentary about Senegalese novelist Aminata Sow Fall.

On-site filming by Otto Sieber and his film crew as they staggered down the ruined slopes of Mt. St. Helens. Combined with additional film shot before, during, and after the eruption.

Documentary directed by Lothar Kienzler and Ursula Wieser

Documentary about the anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration on April 9, 1989 in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, which was brutally put down by special units of the Soviet army. 21 demonstrators were killed, hundreds were seriously injured and poisoned.

Portrait of a baby monkey, "Britches", who was artificially blinded as part of a $275,000 research project at the University of California at Riverside. Short scenes from the 1985 ALF break-in and rescue of animals at that lab, and later recovery of Britches.

The workers of the central pharmacy of Tunisia cut the throat of a calf to celebrate the dismissal obtained at the cost of numerous strikes. But the new director, however chosen by them, praises the old director and tells them that after all this anarchy, order will once again reign. Film made live by an employee of the central pharmacy.

Director Anthony Ramos joins his good friend, painter Frederick J. Brown, on a trip to Beijing for a retrospective of Brown’s work at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square in 1988, the first retrospective of an American artist in China.

The zither and me.

On the banks of Ozana follows the lives of children who dedicate their time to agricultural work.

BBC documentary about West Country animators. The first half covers CMBT, the studio behind The Trap Door and Stoppit and Tidyup (along with an unmade feature, tantalising concept art for which is shown). The second half covers Maya Brandt, an independent animator who had recently begun her career with a couple of shorts made for Channel 4; again, concept art for an apparently unfinished film is showcased in the documentary.

Erotic Psyche [Bradley Eros & Aline Mare] ELECTRAMORPHIC 1987, 14 min, Super-8mm-to-16mm Visions of creation & destruction: the birth of pyromania and explosive technology. Promethea’s homage to Reich & Tesla and the Orgone of Alternating Current. ‘Very Kali-graphic.’

A film about Steinn Steinar, a pioneer of modern Icelandic poetry.

In this documentary, we witness the manifold presence of woman as mother, lover, worker and symbol in the works of the artist, and follow the development of her role during the career of the artist.

A short IMAX film created for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, designed to simulate flying in a helicopter over Fort Worth, Texas. The film was traditionally shown before each Omni Theater feature, in part to acclimatize new viewers to the IMAX dome format, before being superseded in 1992.

Hackney teenagers - black, white, gay and straight - talk sex, love and marriage in this compelling drama-documentary.

A touching personal story of a woman losing a friend to AIDS.

One winter day in the life of a village boy.

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

At home, outdoors. Street shots.

A visit to a laboratory conducting medical experiments on rats. Laboratory workers' reflections on the relationship between rats and humans and the impact of stress on the quality of research.

Limited VHS film of a 1989 performance by Suzanne Langille & Guitar Roberts.

This video portrait of Nam June Paik was made during Bielický’s studies in Düsseldorf. Paik’s gaze steadily confronts the lens of a camera attached to the iconic Paik-Abe video synthesizer, his face dissolving in the mutating video signal.

In one of his first video studies, Bielický explores the physical limits of video representation. He separates bodily movements into several monitors or lets them be deconstructed through rapid editing and the disruption of the video signal, creating a peculiar type of video-body.

This documentary follows Martha Clarke's creative process for a year as she finds her own voice as a choreographer following her departure from Pilobolus Dance Theater.

Documentary about celebrated racing tipster Phil Bull, with dramatised parts illustrating his career.

Documentary about the night life in Newcastle's Bigg Market.

The women's culture festival in Oslo 1979

The problem of preserving the akhaltekin breed of horses, known in ancient times as ‘sky horses’, pride of the Turkmen people. In 1935 there were tens of thousands – now, fifty years later, only a thousand left, due to their slaughtering for meat ‘for the Motherland.’

This film is an expository documentary that discusses the livelihood of migrant workers in Singapore and how they are treated as a transient and disposable workforce in the 1980s. The demand and influx of migrant construction workers reached a high in the early 1980s as Singapore started the tunnelling works and construction of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system. The film was a response in defending the dignity of the workers and highlighting the contribution of foreign labour towards Singapore’s development.

Behind the scenes on the set of Hawk Jones, the 1986 shot on video action movie featuring a cast of all children actors.

Shot in 1986, the film presents scenes from the everyday life of a Mbororo pastorialist family living on the outskirts of Garoua, by then, the biggest town in Northern Cameroon. It documents the gradual sedentarisation and Islamisation of the Mbororo and presents rituals, chants, dances, healing practices as well as the transmission of traditional knowledge about medical plants and local religious beliefs.

Back in 1989, Miss Asia-Pacific was hosted by Hong Kong and where our rep, Lorna Legaspi, won the crown and effectively became the first Filipina

A fifteen-minute portrait-documentary to accompany "Irene 59", the film about her mother.

Kalyian was inspired by the blind princess from the island of Samar, a freedom fighter and the founder of Kali, a Philippine martial art. Kalyian is a modern-day personification of the female warrior spirit. It depicts the timeless battle of women, whose inherent warrior qualities are first fought, then realized, and eventually developed into harmony with the total self. It is the same force that gives women of this nature the strength to survive and succeed. Kalyian depicts both a primordial and futuristic sensibility, combining broadcast post-production effects with techniques drawn from Kabuki Theater, dance and Kali.

Documentary that narrates the origins and acts of the Shining Path and the injustices committed by the Armed Forces at the time of the internal armed conflict in Peru. The acts of the former will be seen in Lima and Ayacucho, and the latter mostly in Ayacucho.

This is one of the few films to document archaeological work on ancient civilizations in Africa. It also deals with an important subject, African iron smelting, and presents convincing evidence for early indigenous technologies far more complex than previously expected. The Tree of Iron is set in Tanzania, East Africa, on the western shores of Lake Victoria, where Haya people have lived for centuries.

The eastern Indonesian island of Sumba is the last island in the Malay archipelago where the majority of the people still follow their ancestral religion, called marapu. This film, shot in 1986, focuses on a challenge to the authority of the spirits and ancestors in a village ritual to restore fertility after a fire and famine. Narrated by the priests who communicate with the spirits in prayers and sacrifices, it documents a week of offerings, dancing and oratory in "Dream Village" in the western Kodi district. The name comes from a dream of prosperity the village founder once had, and dreams are also the ways in which priests are called to serve the spirits.

This is an intimate account, using film and Sibelius's music and words, of a great artist's struggle with his medium, with the world and with himself. The films set out also to try and free Sibelius's reputation from some of the unnecessary encrustations of history by looking at the composer's own declared intentions, so poetically expressed, which are earning the increasing attention and respect of composers today.

This film tells with verve and a touch of self-irony the history of research on the Dogon since the famous 1931 expedition of Marcel Griaule. The film establishes the original expedition in the context of French anthropology at the time. Jean Rouch, celebrated filmmaker and less known as an anthropologist on the Dogon, narrates part of the story, and interviews Dogon elders and veteran expedition-member, Germaine Dieterlen.

Documentary about Samoa and the myth that it is paradise.

This traditionally ethnographic sequence film focuses on the negotiations betwen representatives of two families during a payment of bridewealth. In the past the husband's group would carry a spear and a sword to hang in the wife's house. Now, a payment is made as a substitute for the spear and sword. The payment of bridewealth is a long and complex ceremony in which representatives from the husband and wife's family engage in a heated negotiation process. The bride and groom are completely excluded from the negotiations and never appear in the film.

The "Flying Doctors' Service" is a mobile medical team that intervenes where health services are absent. When a villager becomes ill after eating spoiled meat, the "Flying Doctors' Service" is called. They then have to fly him back from Kajido to Nairobi.

The “Voice of Kenya” is the radio that symbolizes the country’s independence. Which means that being a producer there is no small issue. To get a children’s chorus to rehearse in a church, to put together a programme with champagne, or to prepare a recording of a musical edition for Christmas, these are just some of his numerous tasks…