1979 Movies

An adaptation of the short story by Ambrose Bierce, follows the grim fortunes of a rebel sniper who becomes trapped in the rubble of a bombed-out hous...

Shows the abject poverty and miserable life style still endured by Peruvian peasant farmers, and notes how the changes to the land tenure system broug...

Feyers is Dirk de Bruyn's most complicated work employing the many techniques he has experimented with over the years. Appropriately subtitled 'a danc...

An avant-garde home movie featuring Chicago monuments and activities at night and the lyrical rural beauty and architecture of Ithaca, New York.

The donkey laughs at the zebra and giraffe because of their patterned skins. He tells them that they are wearing pajamas. In the end, he laughs at the...

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. A short animated film critiquing Cold War global politics.

A short documentary about a folk artist who carves apples to make heads for dolls.

A historical survey of the office of the Canadian governor general, from its inception through the inauguration of Edward Schreyer to office.

Two explorers follow the trail of an escaped convict who had supposedly found a fortune in gold in a cave in the mountains.

What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boheme. In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic he...

"Suddenly the Light" is a true story based on the life of Beverly Massegee. This is an exciting and heart-warming story about her life as a performer....

Ija Ominira is the cinematic transposition of a novel by Faleti. It is the story of a tyrannical and cruel king who is killed by his people, now tired...

1979 Angolan documentary.

An excursion to the Gaviota Islands in Lake Nahuel Huapi becomes a psychedelic trip: taking advantage of the very power of the natural landscape and i...

During the ensuing years of developing the land, remodeling the house, the studios, and various outbuildings, as well as various projects and excursio...

When she learns that her fiancé has played their wedding rings in gambling, Despina leaves him. He will buy the wedding rings again and visit her to r...

One of the most daring and radical shows presented in Brazilian television: "Abertura". It was broadcast between February and October, 1979, with week...

For a long time now, we have been seeing outrageous attempts at tackling the 'woman problem' (and the 'man problem') by pretentious and old-fashioned...

Two schoolgirls get to know the scary side of a classroom.