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Ten of the most dangerous and disruptive men in the prison system have been brought together in an experimental unit at Hull Jail. A new softly-softly regime is being tested on inmates like Fred Low, who is serving three life sentences - one for killing a fellow prisoner - and Patrick Mackay, serving five life sentences for manslaughter and robbery. 40 Minutes gained access to the unit as the prisoners started to reveal themselves to the hand-picked staff, and as conflicts began. The most serious clash was over the only woman working full time in the unit, and it involved David McAllister, serving 19 years for armed robbery and assault, who later escaped from the unit and was on the run for five days. This film tells the story of the most controversial unit in our prisons.

The two top women's wrestlers in Britain fight for the most coveted prize, The British Ladies' Championship Belt.

A Mowelfund experimental film

An aging man recounts his experiences as a pilot during the war. – Victorian College of the Arts

A Mowelfund experimental short film. A woman runs from something in an entranced dream state.

An innovative act in its time. The eponymous video album of the popular heavy-metal band Tublatanka, the basis of which is a live recording of a concert in the Bratislava amphitheater, combined with a visual montage of historical period archives. The song "Truth wins" became the anthem of the STV broadcast during the so-called The Velvet Revolution in November 1989.

This conversation between critic Peter Thompson and Jane Campion took place in 1989, following the success of Campion's short films. It was produced for the Australian Film Television and Radio School, where she studied.

A short film by Tessa Hughes-Freeland: The Story of the Little Green Man was made for an exhibition Mike Osterhout curated at Hallwalls entitled "Nepotism".

Less than two years after his serious road accident, Eric Escoffier brought together the "Turbo" team (Frédéric Ancey, Michel Fauquet, Christine Janin and Stéphane Schaffter) with whom he will attempt to climb Everest without oxygen and without prior acclimatization in the Himalayas, the project being to complete the Paris-Everest-Paris loop in two weeks. It is also a medical experiment: the athletes spend a week at Mont Blanc, at the Vallot observatory between 4000 and 4800m, then a week in a hypobaric chamber in Grenoble. Doctors (Dr. Richalet, Herry and Bittel) perform tests throughout this training, which will learn about how the body acclimatizes to altitude and allow applications in the management of mountain-related illnesses . On September 2, 1989, they arrived at Everest base camp in China. They attempted the ascent via the North Col but could not carry out their project, prevented by bad weather.

This film consists of loosely assembled footage including a confrontation between abortion-rights advocates, abortion-rights opponents and police at Chicago's Daley Center Plaza (likely during the protest on June 17, 1989 which attracted approximately 5,000 attendees), a brief shot of Soldier Field, a double exposure of a moonlit rural countryside, a close-up of a car passenger's typing hands, a ship’s steering wheel, a street intersection, a camera which lays next to a loosely scattered pack of batteries and a portrait shot of Bill Stamets as he peers through a still camera’s viewfinder.

The protagonist has an existential hatred for a fellow soldier, who forces his friendship on him. Antipathy is replaced by mutual obsession, which has irreversible consequences. Masloboishchykov’s second film school project, which screened at Semaine de la critique, is based on the short novel Lagoftalm by the lesser-known writer, Dmitry Bakin. The military setting is conveyed through a combination of aggressive tensity and comic music, making it look and seem more like a prison or a madhouse.

Poetry film based on "El regalo" by Honduran writer Clementina Suárez.

About the folklore ensemble of elderly village singers.

The short film Images represents one of the first audiovisual works of art created in Czechoslovakia, the production of which was made using computer animation. During her studies in the Film and Television Graphics Studio at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, Lucie Svobodová focused primarily on classical animated storytelling through figurative drawing, but in one of her first films, Images, she abstracts the central plot and character and develops the possibilities of a new color morphology through the Amiga computer graphics system.

The story is about a tribe of primitive people who did not want to listen to the advice of a dissident, which led to a dangerous neighborhood with an approaching glacier.

About the VI International Competition of Young Ballet Dancers and the tragic fate of dancer Māris Liepa.

A slapstick OVA featuring super deformed members of the Shinsengumi members.

An animated film about randomly proclaimed opinion leaders and the herd mentality of the crowd.

May Fung's 1989 film Thought IV: The Edge of the World is a collage that responds to the ever-changing world beyond Hong Kong. It features highway shots that recall the exterior views from the taxi in Routine, war reportage, and images of coastal landscapes and stretching bodies. The film represents another generation's aesthetics of self-expression.

The first film in the Death File series.

Documentary short on the military training for the 1989 freshmen of Beijing Broadcasting College.

On the eve of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, collective farmers gather at the village club and speak candidly about their difficult lives. The meeting begins, and these same people are transformed into "levers of the party."

Documentary on Christian metal band Stryper.

A look at the fight for civil rights in the north of Ireland from 1968 to 1988.