Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

The trio performs in Germany with special guest Nas joining them

La Vanessa was the organiser of the first gay rights march in Chiapas State, Mexico. Four years after her murder in 1992, this study of mexican transvestite culture documents a period of fear marked by 29 brutal murders. It originally aired in '96 as part of Channel 4's Latino Nights line-up ("a season of programmes from and about Latin America"), and--aside from showing up at a few niche trans-festivals here and there--seems to have disappeared altogether after that.

Pistol-packin' urban warriors on the front-lines of the drag king revolution.

A man falls in love with a woman from an affluent family. However, the situation goes awry when her diabolic brothers decide to jeopardise their relationship.

Slackers in their 20s gather for a pre-Thanksgiving party and find themselves facing the end of the world in ensemble comedy that offers thought fodder concerning the plight of a generation that has been so overshadowed by the hype surrounding the baby boomers that they feel there are no frontiers of reality left to explore. All of the guests know each other from their high school days and have grown up to take wildly divergent paths, many of which are observed before the fateful gathering, hosted by the strangely devilish Kurt Swan, a convicted killer.

A soon-to-be married couple gets caught up in the sinister plans of an alien race bent on the domination of planet earth.

Channel 4 documentary charting the meteoric rise and equally swift decline of Mary Millington, the girl-next-door who became one of the most famous porn stars of the 1970s.

Three devout young women fall into depravity as they cultivate what they believe is a very up-close-and-personal relationship with Jesus.

Video #2 Andrew Reynolds, Jeremy Wray, Jerry Fowler, Kris Markovich, Max Schaaf, Reese Forbes, Rune Glifberg, Steve Berra, Tom Boyle

When six year old Olivia is diagnosed with the Wilms tumor in her kidney, the doctors suggest an immediate operation and chemotherapy. Healing chances would be 95%, but when her parents learn how other children suffer from the procedure, they're terrified and refuse to expose their daughter to such a torture. Instead they consult faith healer Hamer, who claims to be able to heal cancer without drugs. When the youth welfare office attempts to force them to have Olivia medicated properly, the family flees from Germany. So Olivia's condition worsens, and a great press campaign is started to change the parent's mind...

Two young people - a girl and a boy - on a beautiful summer's day at the public swimming pool. A film about a close but 'impossible' relationship.

The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the metaphysical universe of the Italian painter.

Get ready to dance your way to a healthier body with Richard Simmons: Dance Your Pants Off!

From Father Abraham to John the Revelator, from the first century church to this moment, the people of God have always seen themselves as pilgrims — never settlers. "This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through" is more than a line from an old song. This sojourner's theme has been told to children in stories, sent in letters of encouragement to friends, preached from pulpits and whispered behind the closed doors of the underground church in times of persecution. But mostly, it's been sung. When kings were unjust, they sang of a kingdom whose builder and ruler was God. When the world seemd like a foreign country and when the strange language of power and materialism was the accepted tongue, these pilgrims reminded each other that they were natives of a far better place to which they were traveling. When they were separated, estranged or lonely, they sang of a great homecoming when all the singers would one day be together around their Father's throne.

A young woman steals a taxi when the driver is helping a passenger into a house. When she stops at a hot dog stand, the taxi is hijacked by a gunman.

The story follows Revan, who uncovers the mystery behind the death of his former lover, Reny, ten years after she vanished. The truth is revealed through Reny's spirit at her family's tea plantation villa. Ten years prior, Revan worked as an engineer at the plantation. After the owner passed away, management fell to his friend, Bono, who plotted to seize the estate by marrying his reckless son, Guntur, to Reny. While Guntur obsessed over Reny, his sister Selvi was deeply in love with Revan. Consumed by jealousy because Revan only had eyes for Reny, Selvi manipulated a foreman named Degol to murder her rival. In the ensuing chaos, Degol shot both Reny and Guntur. The crime was covered up with a lie that the two had eloped together, leading a heartbroken Revan to eventually marry Selvi. Now, guided by Reny's restless spirit and the testimony of an old witness named Pak Amat, Revan finally exposes the dark conspiracy buried in the past.

A history of U.S. spy satellites

A television one-man show based on the works of N.V.Gogol.

Sunny is a psychopathic serial killer in the form of composer/musician whose victims are adulterous artistes. His deranged behaviour and actions are the direct result of having witnessed his father murdering his adulterous mother. Meanwhile, Sunny falls in love with Natasha, a new talent he's grooming. Although she has a good reputation, Sunny fails to convince his deranged father of this and Natasha almost becomes a victim of a different sort.

Sigmund Freud's revolutionary ideas transformed our conception of the mind. Yet, fears and obsessions wracked the father of psychoanalysis. His theories continue to inspire debate, even as the discipline he invented drifts farther from his work. Through personal letters, diaries and interviews with biographers, psychiatrists and Freud's grandchildren, this documentary explores the life of the man who was once derided as the doctor of love.

The Simpsons Have Landed! is a 40-minute BBC special that aired on November 24, 1996 on BBC One, to celebrate both BBC channels, One and Two, at the time, gaining the rights to air The Simpsons, along with Sky1.

Antero and Maria Araújo's story is the shortcut chosen by the director to show life in Maraima, a small town in the state of Ceará, Brazil, including life in community and the military influence. Maria wanders through the state praying to ward off the symbolical presence of the Dragon. That's when she finds Antero, an end-of-the-world prophet, who will join her in her pilgrimage and fight against the mythical being.

Nationally recognized stress management expert Loretta LaRoche unleashes more of her trademark humor to help put life back into perspective. Drawing on theories of cognitive science, LaRoche shows that rethinking how we think is the first step. Modern life is overwhelmed by the speed of our communications and has left us feeling that every action is a chore. Through joy and laughter, we can find a way back to a healthier pace of life.

Paul Joyce’s documentary profile of Robert Altman, with contributions from Altman, Elliott Gould, Shelley Duvall, assistant director Alan Rudolph and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury. Originally broadcast on July 17th 1996 in Channel Four’s Cinefile series.

A record commercial featuring the greatest musical group of all time, the Meatles. You'll see rare interviews with The Fab Foreskin, as well as never before seen clips that have never been seen before

"Incredible," "beautiful" and "exotic" are only a few of the words (besides "eek!") that describe Bugz. Everything from bugs you'd recognize to bugs you've never seen before (thank goodness!) creeping, jumping, fluttering, squirming and scurrying across your TV screen.

The tumultuous relationship between a publisher battling breast cancer and her teenage daughter who refuses to feel sorry for herself.

Tetsu Umekawa is a member of a motorcycle gang in Oita, who spends his time playing thinner with his delinquent friends and bullying the top students. With his natural good sense of timing, he rises through the ranks of the bikers and starts dating a beautiful girl, but this is short-lived, as one setback after another hits him. Disgusted with his hometown, Tetsu moves to Tokyo in a fit of pique. He moves in with his brother, a successful professional boxer. However, he rebels against his brother, who leads a stoic life in order to keep winning, and ends up becoming a henchman of the yakuza. Tetsu leads a lazy life, but then he learns that his brother has died during a match...

This thought-provoking film explores the creation of Michelangelo's famed mural on the ceiling on the Sistine Chapel, a piece widely considered to be one of the finest works of the Renaissance era. Commissioned in 1508 by Pope Julius II, the nine-panel fresco took a full four years to complete and includes key scenes from the Book of Genesis, including the creation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the Great Flood that buoyed Noah's ark.

Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy.

Japanese documentary about the world tour of legendary Korean Pon-chak singer Epaksa.

Two brothers lived happily with their married sister. Once they both got married; motivated by their wives, one choose the path of honesty and hardship and the other one became corrupted.

An easy-going, Blue-eyed Norwegian businessman seeking fame and fortune in the post-cold-war Riga. His involvment with a beautiful young Latvian girl, get's him tangled into obscure business with the mafia, the Russian fleet and the 'Sons of Norway'

After killing her husband, the beautiful but cunning Lulu evades justice with the help of the people that are in love with her. A Polish teleplay of Frank Wederkind's play that adapts the second part of the story.

First entry in the Yakuza Girlboss trilogy

A luckless Newar girl named Rajamati from Kathmandu gets involved in a series of failed relationships. Based on a 200-year-old ballad popular in Newar society.

Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Theorem, as a ten-year-old schoolboy, beginning a 30-year quest with just one goal in mind: to solve the problem that has baffled minds for three centuries.

A second-class saxophonist's failures makes him fall into the nocturnal underworld, and eventually in jail. There he meets a manipulative and perverse mobster who senses the man's successful wife could be his key to launch a big criminal hit.

Rin makes singing as a side career, although he has high academic qualifications. His career has come to fruition in which he has made his name as a singer. After his mother's death, he seems to lose direction and purpose in life. His father Datuk Rahim was a successful entrepreneur and at the same time wants his son to follow in his footsteps to help run the business. Rin close friends with a mechanic who has his own workshop.

Documentary of the band R.E.M. writing and recording their 1996 album "New Adventures in Hi-Fi.

Duplicate of "El Que a Hierro Mata... A Hiero Muere"

A trainspotter decides to throw himself into his hobby.

Lady Thunder (Pamela Sutch) and Lightning Girl (Tina Krause) return to battle the evil Dr. Sominus (G W Lawrence) and his partner in crime, The Black Ghost (Deana) who is once again teamed with Shadow Girl (Dawn Murphy). Dr. Sominus plans to spray earth’s atmosphere with chloroform, thus sending every man, woman, and child into a deep sleep. Only Lady Thunder and Lightning Girl can stop him! Or will they, too, fall victim to his fiendish plot?

Tomáš Vorl's short film captures a few minutes of inner monologue in the body of Eva Holubová, who returns from shopping and lovingly thinks about her husband Láďa, how they met, how they got together, how they were expecting a child... and Láďa was, is and will always be the best... A cheerful, original and in its own way instructive spectacle.

One laugh after another, a sparkle of jokes. In the live performance of the 95/96 season Benigni presents the program of his "Partito del Pinzimonio". A torrent of joy. From the Electoral Reform to the reform of the Ten Commandments until Benigni becomes God, gets angry looking at Italy and proclaims the anticipated Last Judgement. No one can miss the roll call: Berlusconi, Craxi, D'Alema, Prodi, Ferrara, Bossi, Fini, Sgarbi, Buttiglione... Benigni's is a terrible God, except that at each of his judgements all humanity gathered in the valley of Giosafat bursts into a thunderous laughter. Justice is done!

Through testimonies by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Pierre Guigane, and Sotigui Kouyate himself, SOTIGUI KOUYATE: A MODERN GRIOT dresses the portrait of one of Africa's greatest actor now based in Paris. From Africa to Europe, the film unveils the multiple facets of Sotigui Kouyate, actor, musician and modern griot.

Film directed by Jessica Yu

Shaul and Rami are best friends, 40 years old. Both are in unhappy marriages, but Rami has found comfort in the arms of a Russian immigrant with whom he's having an affair.

Our medical system is geared toward healing patients. But what if there's no cure available? This moving, intimate documentary uses three cases to explore how hospice care prepares both terminally ill patients and their families for a gentle, safe passage. While patients are given comfort, companionship, dignity and peace, families are prepared for their inevitable loss.