1989 Movies

A deeply personal reflection upon the loss of a parent — specifically, Tanaka's mother.

The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Nguyen Cong Hoan.

A child with albinism is often regarded in traditional societies as a curse on their family. Salif Keita, born from a noble lineage of Mali, lived in...

This now classic outdoor adventure film tells the story of Robert Perkins’ seventy-two day solo canoe journey in the Canadian Arctic. Perkins not only...

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BBC documentary about West Country animators. The first half covers CMBT, the studio behind The Trap Door and Stoppit and Tidyup (along with an unmade...

Funded through the Canada Council, this new media video, formatted on a Targa computer program, was one of several works created though the New Tools...

In the army where individuality is lost, from the highest ranking enlistee, Oh Chil Pal, to the newly enlisted Hong Ju Gong, the soldiers try for a mo...

A documentary shows several contemporary Soviet citizens who are staunch supporters of the discredited Stalin.They include a public prosecutor, a fact...

(Badi’a) is a woman who disagrees with her husband (Fawzi) because there is another woman in his life. She is a fifty-year-old woman who approaches li...

Shows how people with AIDS and their caregivers can work together to meet the challenges of the AIDS epidemic.

This film is about the largest work of art ever produced in Iceland, the mural on the front of the Búrfell hydro-electric power station. Sigurjón Ólaf...

The coastal "motorway" that links the Icelanders together is usually referred to less euphemistically by continental tourists who are used to asphalt...

The story of a herring enterprise in Árneshreppur á Ströndum which began in 1934 with the construction of the country's biggest herring plant in the v...

A documentary about the life and work of the Icelandic writer Gunnar Gunnarsson.

Among the species illustrated are Fulmar, Gannet, Cormorant, Shag, Kittiwake, Common Guillemot (or Murre),Brunnich's Guillemot, Razorbill and Puffin....

A documentary programme about jewish refugees who settled in Iceland in the 1930's.

Although the Icelandic Sagas contain many descriptions of stately homes, none of them stood the test of time. However, an archeological finding at Stö...