1997 Movies

Rural women’s successful movement in Andhrapradesh to force the state to declare prohibition of alcohol

A conniving muscleman with the strength and appetite of a dozen men; a prince kidnapped as a child returns to claim his throne disguised as a beast; a...

Nakalevara – Death and rebirth of Darubarhma Jagannath

Chronicling the life and times of dancer Tehreema Mitha, the camera examines the role of traditional Hindustani and modern dance in the contemporary P...

Ashgari Bai is one of the oldest exponents alive of the dying art of Drupad, the most orthodox form of Hindustani Classical music. The story about the...

Rural peasant women in India struggle to maintain traditional farming practices in defiance of the spread of technologically-based cultivation in this...

Featuring shy eight-year-old Ajit, a small village boy sent to work in a Calcuttan household, the unobtrusive camera watches him closely as he diligen...

The life of Lalon Fakir, the mysterious bard.

Seethalakshmi was born in an uprooted tribal family, now settled on the banks of a river in North Kerala, India. She grew up adhering to the tradition...

The film narrates the incredibly moving story of the anti-arrack (state-supplied distilled liquor) movement that led to the eventual ban of arrack sal...

Life and struggles of the young waste pickers in Kathmandu

This half-hour film coincided with the opening of the Log House Museum in West Seattle in 1997. For the first time, the story of the pioneers was told...

Award-winning film-maker Antony Thomas examines the growing evidence that how twins turn out has more to do with their genetic make-up than their upbr...

A 1997 Kannada horror movie by S R Rajan starring: Charanraj, Dolly Minhas and Pournami

A satirical sketch about the different rhythms, intensities and body languages of walking people and an experiment of characterization through movemen...

Johnathan Watson live

Weird Al gets a spa makeover while playing his favorite videos.

Jim Charlesworth, director of Princeton University's Dead Sea Scrolls Project believes that a large number of scrolls have yet to come to light. The p...

A pair of frog-like aliens are sent to Earth on a mission.