1979 Movies

Tale of Abraham who battles a King for his land and who seeks revenge on Abraham for killing his son. And the birth of his son, Isaac and the scheming...

This BBC Bristol documentary, Narrated by Bert Lloyd looks at the Gaelic music of the Outer Hebrides. It won the Silver Harp award. Directed by Barrie...

A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior i...

Peter Kennedy's collaborative video 'November Eleven' (1979),made with filmmaker John Hughes, portrays media coverage of the dismissal of the Whitlam...

A story about a rookie detective in the beginning of his investigative career.

Blue Bathroom is a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and materiality. It begins with an apparently straightforward r...

1979 Hong Kong kung fu film. A young warrior takes revenge on the man who killed his master.

Wulan is plagued by a recurring nightmare and is advised to get married to cure herself of it. Unfortunately, her husbands keep dying on their wedding...

Luciano Pavarotti’s sang some of opera’s most demanding roles – Manrico in Il trovatore, Rodolfo in La bohème and Cavaradossi in Tosca – winning him t...

A man begins studying "The Secret Book of 36 Deadly Styles" to avenge the death of his father.

Vilma has not found peace in life since her father's death. Being an only child and living with her mother, all hopes of lifting both women out of the...

Documentary about a steelworker strike on New Year's Eve 1978/79.

Based on Joni Eareckson's autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new l...

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Documentary about the Sandanistas, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and their supporte...

In the second of three additional Gilligan's Island movies following the series, the gang finds a way of getting rescued from the "uncharted desert is...

The doomed love story of Sher, a kitemaker, and his cousin, Tahera. A tale of Old Kabul, based on a short story by Akram Osman.

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.

Father and son are members of a decadent circus. Tired of being constantly criticized by the owner of the circus, Trombada, the ventriloquist, makes a...

Brief history and profile of Inuit communities in Northern Labrador and the role of the Moravian missionaries in the region. Warning for outdated and...