1986 Movies

Documentary film from 1986.

The Central American country of Guadiana has decided to embark on a new path of development. The US special services are trying to overthrow the revol...

SWIMMY, FREDERICK, CORNELIUS, FISH IS FISH, and IT'S MINE! are magically brought to life.

An experimental film about two women--one urban, another rural. They appear watching from windows, going about their daily tasks. Both are waiting, fo...

Documentary about a toy maker.

Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.

Through interviews with survivors of sexual abuse, parents, social workers, community activists, and abusers thmselves, this piece explores the feelin...

Originally titled, "Espirito de Cabo Verde"

Boy, his three pals and an old man who were sailing down a river in England are intercepted by a mugger, who turns their boat into a pirate-ship.

A campaign is launched to prevent peasants from leaving the countryside for the city. The village tries to adapt the advice of the technicians for sel...

In 1985, three major uprisings rocked Britain, in Brixton, Handsworth and Tottenham. The most explosive was the latter, on the Broadwater Farm housing...

A short stop-motion collage film that constructs a garden out of materials and objects such as flowers, beads, plastic cellophane, candles, even ketch...

A film by Cosey Fanni Tutti, originally commissioned for the Taboo Festival of Eroticism on the 6th March 1986. Statement: Expression of oneself and o...

The Blooms of Banjeli documents research in Banjeli, Togo on iron-smelting technology, its rituals, and the sexual prohibitions surrounding it. Includ...

A documentary on the eight-month-old AIDS/ARC vigil at San Francisco's UN Plaza where people with AIDS and ARC have chained themselves to the Federal...

An AIDS education film for youth featuring three people with AIDS who share what it's like to live with the disease and how to protect against it.