A half-hour comedic monologue by Bill Martin, made up of short routines each delivered in a different character voice. Martin wears a smoking jacket and plays host in a manner spoofing Orson Welles, tended by butler Nesmith.
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Sally meets some old friends of Murray's from his life in South Africa whom he has never mentioned. A pleasant reunion disguises the real purpose of a visit; revenge.
The Reunion
Veteran actor Kwan Tak Hing plays the legendary Hung Kuen master Wong Fei Hong in this story of the legendary ‘Shadow Kick’.
The Magnificent Kick
A reincarnated "Satanic Witch" from New Amsterdam, circa 1600's comes back to revive her cult members by sucking the life force out of people.
Necropolis
Two girls rediscover their love for playing rock, find a drummer and begin practicing. When one of their mothers intervenes, they run away from home and are forced to fend for themselves on the streets against gangs and rival bands. Soon they are discovered and taken under the wing of rock manager Johnny Tremaine (played by Steven McDonald) who uses them for sex and his own aspirations of wealth. The Love Dolls set out to get revenge on those who have wronged them, and rise to the top of the rock world.
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
In 19th century Europe, to celebrate the emperor's daughter's betrothal to a rich prince, a group of prisoners are set free. Among them are a pair of con artists who convince the emperor to hire them to tailor the wedding apparel, which they claim will only be visible to intelligent and competent people.
The Emperor's New Clothes
Cowboy Duell McCall wants to quickly deliver a herd of cattle to town, get paid and move on but romance with local girl Nora gets him involved in a feud between the town boss and Nora's dad.
Desperado
Japan's establishment as an economic superpower led to a Golden Age of Japanese architecture. Six innovators stand out particularly, fusing Japanese traditions with modern materials and technology.
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead.
Down in the Valley
Anna Reringer leaves her husband and goes to San Francisco to fulfill her dream of becoming an actress.
The Method
Take a sneak peek behind the scenes of a casting audition for roles involving nudity. Twenty-one separate castings have been compiled in this video with some of the best female auditions ever.
Centerfold Screen Test
Vintage Hollywood themed shockumentary.
Death Scenes
Richard Fontaine and Bob Mizer started the current exploration of the male nude in film and photography. The two shared ideas props and models and reinvented some of the sexual icons that we all still recognise today. The gladiator the sailor, the cowboy… Starting with posing-straps and graduating to nudes their "art studies" enlisted the talents of up-and-coming actors and bodybuilders. This film recalls that era.
Richard Fontaine's Days of Greek Gods
Teenage girl is caught shoplifting and decides to face a jury of her peers in Student Court, instead of facing her punishment in Juvenile Court.
Student Court
A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep inmates in check.
Caged in Paradiso
War film set in Vietnam in February 1966. A wounded American soldier, marooned by the crash of his helicopter, shares a poignant moment with a Viet Cong soldier who spares his life through a common love of music. They play a brief duet on harmonica and flute and exchange instruments before the arrival of a rescue helicopter sends the VC away.
Caesura
The government's new urban renewal policy results in street gangs fighting for control of the inner cities. While most of the residents flee, one factory owner determines to fight the gangs for his property.
Dead End City
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy.
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
It's about the life of a family in the 1960s and 1980s
Growing Up
Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family situations involving the use of illegal drugs.
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Aspiring models in a Soho photo studio, aiming for the centerfold, are getting molested, tortured and killed by a mysterious perpetrator, who hides its identity by wearing a cloth bag over its head.
The New York Centerfold Massacre
A successful businessman in Hawaii disappears amid allegations of illegal activities. Years later his four sons bear the burden and repercussions of these allegations, as well, taking care of his legacy. Now when a stranger comes all sorts of things happen like a secret that their father kept from them and the truth of their father's disappearance.
Island Sons
The saga began on a crisp, calm April night in 1912, as the RMS Titanic slipped below the icy waters of the North Atlantic. It became one of the most shocking and mystifying tragedies of all time... Never again would an ocean liner be as glorified; never again would a ship be considered "unsinkable". Join us in a bold and exciting expedition to the Titanic's resting place 12,500 feet below the surface; a mission as technologically challenging and daring as a trip to the Moon! Witness explorations in and around the Titanic: the retrieval of a ship's safe, navigation equipment, china, and more; plus interviews with survivors and renowned experts. It's the complete saga of the Titanic, from construction to catastrophe and finally, discovery... in one compelling home video.
Treasures of the Titanic
The coastal Danakil in Northeastern Ethiopia have found an environmentally suitable way of life netting sharks far out to sea which they export to the south Arabian states.
Hauling Sharks
Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adapted by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.
Barn Burning
A madman kidnaps an innocent child and only an ex-race car driver can deliver the ransom, a fortune in gold, in time.
Goldrunner
Set during the Crusades, the story of Lombardi opens with the rivalry of two brothers -- Arvino and Pagano -- who vie with one another for the love of Viclinda. Pagano attempts to kidnap Viclinda and commit a fratricide, extinguishing Arvino, but succeeds only in murdering his father in error; circumstances force him into exile in the Holy Land. Thus begins a complex and harrowing series of events that will ultimately lead to the reconciliation of both men, followed by the death of one.
I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata
Pramila and Bimal live with their father and step mother. Bimal is looking for a job and gets romantically involved with Shanta, a married woman. Pramila also gets involved with Nagen, her boss. The complexities lead to Shanta committing suicide and Pramila going through an abortion. Both are shattered but resolve to get back into life.
Nirjan Sanlap
A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
A team of investigators gets trapped in a supposedly haunted house in this SOV short.
So Say The Dead
Shots of walking down 42nd Street showing storefronts including everything from Texas Fried Chicken to 25¢ porn arcades.
Goodbye 42nd Street
Marie Harper and Linzi Drew she their fantasies with you in this spin-off from the Electric Blue TV & Video Magazine series. Penthouse Centerfold Julie Mulherrin discusses safe sex in a short clip before the movie.
Electric Blue Special: Marie & Linzi’s Fantasies
A Christmas special based upon The Pillow People who were produced by Spring Industries and PCE Marketing in 1986-88. They were a fairly large series of pillow shaped fabric characters with fabric arms and satin legs, and bold printed features.
The Pillow People Save Christmas
Early computed animation in which two characters meet and fall in love.
High Fidelity
Beat This: A Hip-Hop History is a 1984 BBC documentary film about hip-hop culture, directed by Dick Fontaine. The cast includes Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc — the film includes footage from Herc's original dance parties — The Cold Crush Brothers, Jazzy Jay, Brim Fuentes, and The Dynamic Rockers. It is narrated by Imhotep Gary Byrd. Originally part of the Arena television series, it was among the first crop of documentaries about hip-hop.
Beat This!: A Hip Hop History
In Oz once again, Dorothy meets TikTok the mechanical man, servant of Princess Lulu.
Ozma of Oz
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly like him and then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlow.
The Man with Bogart's Face
Various romantic entanglements occur among the week's visitors to a Club Med resort in Ixtapa, Mexico. The "chef du village" is shocked when a former lover turns up, and must also cope with the troubled son of a close pilot friend killed on a rescue flight.
Club Med
A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she receives a letter, the writer's situation is played out for us, then she writes her advice and the writer reads her response and does his/her best to act upon it.
Advice to the Lovelorn
An examination of the effect of McCarthyism on two ordinary Americans. Interviews with Paul McCarty and his family describe the loss of his job in a Paducah, Kentucky power plant in 1953 when his loyalty was questioned; he lost job after job for over twenty years. Interview with Luella Mundel, the object of false accusations based on her unconventional views and actions. Interviews with colleagues, friends, and a historian recreate the dramatic trial which devastated Mundel personally.
American Inquisition
A boy named Peter must save Easter. An evil character named Tin Whiskers takes over the town and re-names everything including the streets to have tin in the name. He has several animal friends who help him and Mother Nature even gives him help.
Peter and the Magic Egg
A young couple's wedding ceremony is brutally interrupted when a pair of outlaw brothers arrive and massacre almost everyone in sight. They kidnap the beautiful young bride and leave her husband for dead. Luckily, he only sustains a flesh wound and quickly saddles up to track down the brothers before they sell his wife and a group of other women at an auction to a group of Mexican brothel owners.
Comin' at Ya!
Dogs dream about taking naps.
Dog Brain
A documentary about the Cuban Revolution's transition into an authoritarian dictatorship, including repression, imprisonment, torture, and execution of political dissidents, while the rest of the world turned a blind eye.
Nobody Listened
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
A bodybuilder, anxious to build his own gym, dates a wealthy heiress to obtain funds to finance his dream.
Flex
A documentary filmed during production of the film "Supergirl" showing the world how and who made it. This interesting featurette includes interviews with the cast and crew along with footage from the film and excerpts from the musical score.
Supergirl: The Making of the Movie
a man is made redundant by computers taking over his job
Boolean Procedure
A vendetta between two Corsican families is the background to Alexandre Dumas' story of the strange bond between twin brothers, who are separated at birth.
The Corsican Brothers
A professional safe cracker finds love in while in search of riches.
Jimmy Valentine
Short film.
Pandilleros
Two American friends travel all over Europe and end up meeting an all female Rock Band from Holland and they pass themselves as record company executives. Both men return to the states and the band soon approaches them about signing to their record company and they soon start booking them gigs and getting them exposure but have to avoid getting caught and not reveal their true selves.
Dutch Treat
Video of Rachel Rosenthal’s elaborate performance staged as part of 1984’s Carplay series at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. KabbaLAmobile, commissioned by Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and the Mark Taper Forum in 1984, was performed in the Department of Water & Power parking lot. Seven expert drivers and cars from Tom Anthony’s Precision Driving Team and music by performance artist The Dark Bob support Rosenthal’s text. While the cars dance and perform stunts in Kabbalistic formations, Rosenthal chants and declaims both twelfth-century Kabbalistic poetry and copy from automotive magazines in order to show how materialism has supplanted spiritual values in our culture.
KabbaLAmobile
A Travelling is a Moral Affair
In Hong Kong, and later Thailand, a band of four robbers steal and kill, as their fiercely loyal leader sticks to his principles.
Four Robbers
A young New York woman, devastated to find out that her husband has been cheating on her, decides to hop a plane to Paris to get away. However, she falls asleep on the plane, misses her connection, and winds up in Israel, with no money, no luggage and no friends.
Goodbye, New York
Two brothers' lives are changed forever when they hit the road to a snowbound Alaskan village. Brother Ray and Pete had been feuding for years. So, when their ailing father asks them to drive a semitruck full of gifts and supplies from California to the isolated Alaskan village of Willow Creek, they agree ---- reluctantly. Along the way, they pick up trouble when they're joined by Jessie, who is Ray's estranged wife and Pete's ex-girlfriend. Then, a blizzard strands the truck deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles from help, with time running our fast, they realize only a miracle can save them. But, as they are about to be reminded, Christmas...is the season for miracles.
Christmas Comes to Willow Creek
The Dead’s 20-song performance on 7/2/89 saw the band at the height of their late-80s success following the release of In The Dark just two years prior. Songs which made their way into the setlist that night included “Playing in the Band”, “Wang Dang Doodle”, covers of Bob Dylan‘s “Queen Jane Approximately” and “Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)”, “Friend of the Devil”, “Eyes of the World”, “He’s Gone”, “Sugar Magnolia”, and “Dear Mr. Fantasy” just to name a few.
Grateful Dead: Live at Foxboro
A behind-the-scenes television documentary of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,
The Making of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
George Burns hosts his first Christmas special. Special Guests: Bob Hope ; The Hawkins Family ; Ann-Margret