All Films

The Keeper of Herds

1999 • 36 min • Portugal

A documentary about a family of goat herders in Portugal and the relationship between man and animals.

Uncle Gus in: For the Love of Monkeys

1999 • 10 min • United States of America

This cartoon follows the journey of a wily unemployed geezer and his rag-tailed bunch of friends as they travel to the zoo to reunite Uncle Gus with his AWOL fiancée.

Quiet Riot Live in Minneapolis '99

1999 • 41 min

Quiet Riot performed live in Minneapolis in 1999, with a show on July 11, 1999 at the Target Center. Setlist: "Sign of the Times", "Slick Black Cadillac", "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" (Slade cover), "Angry", "Let's Get Crazy", "Cum On Feel the Noize" (Slade cover), "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)"

Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena

1999 • 57 min • United States of America

Five Chicana cultural critics gather over a meal to discuss and debate the life, death, and legacy of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

Donald's Valentine Dollar

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

It's Valentine's Day, but Donald can only afford a "$1.00" box of candy for Daisy's present. Unfortunately, his dollar bill blows away on a gust of wind and into a kite-flying park. Donald straps on a kite to make a set of wings and takes to the sky, battling other kites, stormy winds and his pesky, playful dollar-bill before he emerges victorious. Sadly, the $1.00 box of candy is already sold by the time Donald returns to the store. Luckily, it was Daisy who bought the box and happily feeds Donald chocolate.

The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains

1999 • 12 min

A documentary look at the 'making of' and cult success of the troubled Lou Adler directed film "Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains" starring Diane Lane.

Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan

1999 • 45 min

"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media with which people communicate than by the content of the communication." - Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan, one of Canada's most influential and controversial figures, burst into the center of media circles in North America with his strange and prophetic pronouncements - "electric light is pure information" - on advertising, television, and the emerging computer age. "Out Of Orbit" also pays tribute to McLuhan, his message, and the way in which his theories and words have penetrated and influenced the consciousness of today's media-literate society.

Leaving Cleaver

1999 • 60 min

In March 1997, social activist, former Black Panther, and author, Eldridge Cleaver sat down with Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a discussion of his life as a civil rights activist. It would be the last major interview Cleaver gave before his death in May 1998. This film draws on the 1997 interview, archival footage, and commentary from Cleaver's former wife Kathleen, as well as audio tapes of a 1975 interview that Gates did with Cleaver in Paris.

Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker

1999 • 43 min • United States of America

From world-renowned performer of the Jazz Age, to WWII spy, to civil rights activist – a look into the iconic life and legacy of Josephine Baker, narrated by Arsenio Hall, including rare archive footage, and interviews with Debbie Allen, Lynn Whitfield (who portrayed Baker in The Josephine Baker Story), and two of Baker’s sons.

Beastie Boys: Live in SECC, Glasgow

1999 • 46 min

This concert was recorded by MTV for the "Westwood One - MTV Concert Series," which aired on November 20 and 21, 1999.

Gagan Chowdhuryr Studio

1999 • 23 min • India

The Studio Of Mr Gagan Choudhury

Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games

1999 • 59 min • United States of America

Fists of Freedom examines one of the 20th century’s most memorable moments — the dramatic “Black Power” demonstration of American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the victory stand at the 1968 Summer games in Mexico City. Using rare footage, archival photos and interviews with key figures from the era, revisit a pivotal event in American history.

Rosies of the North

1999 • 47 min • Canada

They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history. Like many other factories across the country from 1939 to 1945, the shop floor at Fort William's Canadian Car and Foundry was transformed from an all-male workforce to one with forty percent female workers.

Shania Twain: Winter Break

1999 • 46 min • United States of America

Winter Break was recorded at the Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami, Florida on January 17, 1999, for a crowd of 10,000 people. During the show, Twain received special guests Elton John, the Backstreet Boys and Leahy onstage. The special features scenes of Twain visiting her hometown Timmins, Ontario in between songs. It aired on March 3, 1999 on CBS, attracting ratings of 10.3 points, about 18.7 million viewers.

On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death

1999 • 55 min • Sweden

The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.

Sad to Die

1999 • 15 min • France

Twenty-year-old Caro is looking for her friend Nath. To do this, she travels to various villages throughout the country. Along the way, Caro meets the young unemployed woman Noémie. She sends her on her way to Marseille.

Boy Next Door

1999 • 13 min

Who's the hunky new neighbor across the street? Teenage Charlotte and her brother, Chris, both want to know. Cruel sibling rivalry abounds as each woos the new guy while trying to undercut the other's advances. Three is definitely company!

Billy and Zorba

1999 • 20 min

In a Scottish fishing village squeezed between sea and bluffs, a single mum named Mhairi has accepted an offer from her boyfriend Black to move to the city to live with him: more opportunities for her and for her son Billy.

Taking the Plunge

1999 • 15 min

A woman deals with the revelation that her partner has cheated on her on New Year's Eve, 1999.

Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales

1999 • 32 min • United States of America

John Milius narrates this featurette on the Clint Eastwood classic.

The Wind Within

1999 • 25 min • Taiwan

A young woman in an old town is looking for a place to stay. How does her gaze differ from the goddess's?

Imagining 'Heavy Metal'

1999 • 36 min • United States of America

Documentary about the making of "Heavy Metal" (1981).

At Death's Door

1999 • 14 min • Ireland

Death is training his son in the art and responsibilities of the family business. His son does well until he's sent out on his own to claim an accident victim. Instead, he's asked by a friend of the dying man to help with CPR. Taken aback, he assents, the dying man is resuscitated, and Death's son is in the doghouse with dad. Enraged, pop gives his son 24 hours to deliver a corpse, so the young man sets out to ice the man who asked him for help earlier that day. Junior's target is a young actor, Tom, going through opening night and loved by Sarah, a rather histrionic young woman. A near-Death experience awaits them all as Junior comes of age.

Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons

1999 • 5 min • United Kingdom

In 1999, Anderson supervised the production of a computer-animated test film, Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons, to explore the possibility of updating some of his 1960s puppet series for a 21st-century audience.