Cinematic Era: 1990 Vintage

Del, Rodney and Uncle Albert deliver a goodwill message to British troops serving in the 1990-91 Gulf War.

The Old West was an awe-inspiring place where boomtowns sprang up overnight, and the steam-engine train was the lifeblood of the frontier. This video takes you on a journey back to that legendary place in time. You'll relive the adventure on two of the Old West's most famous railroads: The Virginia & Truckee and Nevada Northern. This thrilling program puts you inside the cab of the giant Baldwin locomotives listening to the engineer. Shovel coal, ride the cowcatcher and drive rods. See how the American West was really traveled.

Hanayagi Genshyu: Capable of bloody violence, yet at the same time an empathetic dancer and singing all-round talent – an unusual Japanese woman who acts and lives according to her own individual and very radical standards. In her artistic interpretation of a classic Japanese work, she rejects rigid, tradition-bound stylization, allowing feelings to speak instead. She reinterprets the content from a woman's perspective.Hanayagi Genshyu: Capable of bloody violence, yet at the same time an empathetic dancer and singing all-round talent – an unusual Japanese woman who acts and lives according to her own individual and very radical standards. In her artistic interpretation of a classic Japanese work, she rejects rigid, tradition-bound stylization, allowing feelings to speak instead. She reinterprets the content from a woman's perspective.

Parents of a middle class family along with their children are living happily. Suddenly an accident turns their world upside down.

The film treats those thematic contents of the fresco painting in the church "St. George" in Staro Nagoricani that present the cruelty in the persecution of true fighters for the Christian faith. "In the summer of our Lord 1317, the great painters - Evtihie and Mihailo Astrapa, were called upon to decorate the church of St. George in Staro Nagoricani with magnificent paintings: the dazzling elegance of the style did not prevent them from depicting scenes of unstoppable executioner's invention in the calendar and life of St. George."

Beat writer and underground legend Herbert Huncke in his only acting role, does psychological battle with his prodigal companion.

Severely injured, Trang is taken by her Vietcong comrades to hide in a civilian’s house. There, she encounters An, the son of a South Vietnamese police officer. Contrary to his cold and stern appearance, An secretly orders his men to spare Trang’s comrades and sercretly brings her home to nurse her back to health. From that moment, a deep and complex bond begins to grow between the pair.

Nina, a bright and ambitious young journalist, is interested in the stories written by a journalist and editor named Miss Ida. Nina, who has just ventured into the field of journalism at a Harian Nasional newspaper publishing company, has attracted a lot of attention because of her open attitude and always committed to her article assignments by interviewing every respondent around the area and entering a night disco club just for the sake of her assignment.

A documentary about the last moments of the Polish United Workers' Party.

8mm early film directed by Hiroyuki Oki.

Eyes on the Prize recounts the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation. It is the story of the people - young and old, male and female, northern and southern - who, compelled by a meeting of conscience and circumstance, worked to eradicate a world where whites and Blacks could not go to the same school, ride the same bus, vote in the same election, or participate equally in society.

Documentary about untold stories of Jewish citizens escaping from the Eifel in the early days of Nazi Germany.

Documentary about tattooing and something else involving a needle.

A crafty spider becomes so good at spinning his web that he can no longer control his appetites.

Highlights from the 1990 European Truck Racing Championships

Animated short whereby a bear hunts humans.

Frontline examines how Saddam Hussein built Iraq's massive arsenal of tanks, planes, missiles, and chemical weapons.

Asumi is a bright and lively 12-year-old girl who lives in Itami with her father Yusuke, who runs a coffee shop. Surrounded by beautiful waitress Nahoko and Daisaku, a university student who calls himself a genius inventor, she leads a happy life. 　One day, a strange phenomenon known as the “Flower Blizzard Incident”, which has been happening all over the Kansai region, occurs near Asumi's house. Yusuke, a former ace of the defence force, gets excited and starts investigating the case. At that time, Asumi meets Ferilin, a boy fairy who holds the key to the case. Asumi asks him about the truth behind the incident. However, Ferrillin escapes and Nahoko, who tries to catch him, is turned into a doll. 　Asumi, Daisaku and Yusuke track down Ferrillin in order to stop the Hanabuki incident and restore Nahoko to her former self. Daisaku, in particular, is in love with Nahoko and wants to save her at all costs.

This film describes a yearning for beauty and gentleness. The philosopher Lothar Kühne was especially concerned with how we live and build. He applied his own ideas about the traditional house to his Villa Rotonda in Vincenza, Italy, not grand, but homely and marvellous. Here he developed his dream of the New House, achallenge to the concrete confines of urban living. In the film, La Rotonda is the motif of yearning which helps to explain Kühne's rigorous dedication to change and to convey the mental and physical torment he felt in the face of the concrete jungle. In November 1985 Prof. Lothar Kühne sought solace in the sea. This film is an indictment of ignorance and stupidity, a plea for sensitivity towards creative minds.

Melik's uncle gives travel advice, specifying whom to engage with and whom to avoid. Melik during his whole trip does the opposite of everything he says.

Exercise routine teaching the basic of ninjutsu.

In 1937, the young French engineer Jo Dupuche landed a job in Ecuador, with the promise of a better life. While he stops on a Caribbean island, he discovers that the mine where he was hired has gone bankrupt and finds himself penniless. Trapped with his wife in the tropics, the couple must cope. While his wife finds work thanks to white settlers, Jo is housed in a ghetto where he forms a romantic relationship with a young prostitute. Shot on 35mm in Cuba at the end of the 1980s with all the constraints inherent to the country, this TV film paints an uncompromising picture of colonialism in line with the eponymous novel by Simenon (1934).

Based on the play of the same name by Nikolai Kolyada.

The action of this film takes place in the past. An unknown gentleman arrives in a small European city, who leads a trained monkey with him. The monkey is dressed in clothes. The gentleman announces that the monkey is his nephew. It becomes clear that the gentleman is very rich. He bequeaths his wealth to his monkey nephew. All the residents who have unmarried daughters are in a hurry to win the heart of the monkey nephew. But the gentleman mocked them. He leaves,and the monkey stays. Angry people lock her in a cage. Two children let her out.

Horse racing, which is one of the three men's festivals of Mongolia, will be about its features and the skills and traditions of Mongolian horsemen that have been inherited for hundreds of years.

Hiroyuki Sekine （1990, 8mm, color, 16 min)

Lucky Number addresses the world of compulsive gamblers. Topics include who these individuals are, what drives them to gamble, the consequences of compulsive gambling, and treatments available to them. Interviews with gamblers, various experts (such as professors), and major individuals (such as Pete Rose and Brian Maloney) are also present.

Darkness falls and beer after beer will be consumed by the brothers and pledges of the Alpha Sigma Beta Fraternity. An intruder, looking for bloodshed, has joined the ceremony on this, the last night of pledge period. Mysterious and hypnotic, the thrills come at you faster than ale through a loaded beer bong. See how it all began – the unfinished short that puts the HELL in Hell Night.

A group of different activities and things are associated according to the idea of "construction".

A woman is crying and falling, torn apart by the lightning of masochism.

A drama movie from Cambodia.

Dana, a famous lesbian tennis player meets a girl she wants to get to know. A lesbian romantic comedy set on the Buttercup Bras Women's Tennis Tour.

It has been nearly 15 years since Do Sanh returned to Vietnam. He is now 29 years old. In the documentary, Sanh talks about his current life, the experiences he has had, and the tough times he had to go through since the filming for director Hans-Dieter Grabe's documentary "Sanh und seine Freunde - Beobachtung einer Rückkehr nach Vietnam" ended in 1974.

Are you a doldrum dyke? No one calls when you're out? Still single? You need the Lesbian Impress Card. Watch this (spoof) ad and see how it will change your life! A comic commentary on butch, femme and consumer culture.

A Film by Phil Mulloy

Short film directed by Eckhard Blach

A sociological portrait of young people – "children of martial law" (anarchists, skinheads, young Piłsudski supporters, yuppies).

Duka, a young unmarried Hamar girl learns what awaits her in life from the older women of her tribe. Their often humorous conversations range from teenage pregnancy and growing old to relationships with men. Although the men are dominant, the women are not servile and on occasion will mock the posturing of the men. The women's high spirits are revealed during the harvest celebrations and the blessing ceremony for a new baby. Young women avoid the watchful eyes of their elders as they flirt and dance.

A video by Mario Sasso

Documentary about Sansibar

As the 1980s reached its frantic climax, Jenny Holzer was the world’s most celebrated artist, with 3 solo shows in 1989: the Dia Art Foundation, the Guggenheim Museum, and The Venice Biennale, where she was the first woman to represent the United States and where she was awarded first prize for the most outstanding pavilion.

A documentary about the 50 year career of Ambassador Pétur Thorsteinsson in the Icelandic Foreign Service.

A documentary programme about the contemporary Icelandic composer Atli Heimir Sveinsson.

A film about a concert tour of the Icelandic pop group Sykurmolarnir (The Sugarcubes) to Japan

This film on breeding behavior of the Arctic Charr contains exceptional underwater footage taken in their natural habitat.

Recorded from Wink's "Shining Star Concert Tour" from the Sendai performance held at the Miyagi Prefectural Civic Center on January 20, 1990, and the Hamamatsu performance held at the Iwata Civic Cultural Center on the 22nd of the same month.

A season review of Newcastle United 1989 - 1990.