All Films

High School Agent

1988 • 56 min • Japan

Teenager Kanemori Kousuke is a secret agent for the international VN spy network. Using his computer hacking skills, he tracks international criminals. Later he goes after Neo-Nazis to the Arctic were they try to raise a U-boat with a sinister secret.

The Diary of Rita Patel

1988 • 50 min

It's a new start for teenager Rita Patel and her family - new home, new school, new diary, new life. But their happiness is short-lived when racist skinheads attack the family and their home.

Les lutteurs immobiles

1988 • 58 min • France

The consumer society is dead. Welcome to the preservation society! As of their first school year, children are taught to love objects, which most of them do. But not all citizens. To remedy the problem, The security forces crack down on vandals, bands of protesters and other iconoclasts. And for greater efficiency the States uses the services of Kief, a mad scientist who operates on prisoners so as to pair them with totem-objects. Which is why Judith gets wrinkles when her clothes are creased. Which is why the skin of librarian Mikoski gets pierced with holes whenever rats gnaw at his books.

Benny and the 'Roids

1988 • 25 min • United States of America

A high school football player learns the dangers of steroid abuse.

86400 Seconds of Police Duty Work

1988 • 58 min • Soviet Union

Based on real events in 1974 in Riga: the robbery of collectors and the murder of the driver. The personnel of the Gorky, Odessa regional executive committees and the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Latvian SSR took part in the film.

Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman

1988 • 57 min • United States of America

Walt Whitman was the first major poet to create a truly American vision and style. His extraordinary example gave American verse much of its subsequent character and diction. Rejecting traditional constraints of form and subject matter, Whitman considered democracy itself appropriate grist for his own poetic mill, inventing a radically different sort of free verse to express what he had to say.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Pistoia Blues Festival

1988 • 57 min

July 3, 1988 – Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble perform at Pistoia Blues Festival in Pistoia, Italy

Guns N' Roses Live In Philadelphia

1988 • 51 min • United States of America

Guns N' Roses Opening For Aerosmith 04 August 1988 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA Tracklist: 1. It’s So Easy 2. Mr. Brownstone 3. Out Ta Get Me 4. Patience 5. Band Introductions 6. Instrumental Jam 7. Sweet Child O’ Mine 8. Welcome To The Jungle 9. Used To Love Her

Space Family Carlvinson

1988 • 45 min • Japan

After hitting a passing spaceship and causing it to crash, a troupe of aliens and robots rescue the only survivor. It is a human baby named Corona that they decide to raise on their own, using the data they retrieved from the computer to mimic the life she would have had on Earth.

Someone Will Know Me

1988 • 12 min

A documentary focusing on three members of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team.

Sonic Youth: 930 Club

1988 • 9 min

Proshot footage from the band's 1988 tour.

You Don't Have to Die

1988 • 27 min • United States of America

A young boy's successful battle against cancer and his subsequent efforts to help other children overcome their fears of the illness.

Give Me This

1988 • 27 min • Poland

"Give Me This" is a unique recording of a therapy session conducted by Wojciech Eichelberger at the Psychoeducation Laboratory, the first Polish institution of psychotherapy, training and coaching established in 1978. The film includes recordings of fragments of group activities and statements of the participants.

The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Massacre Parts 1 + 2

1988 • 5 min

A short horror duology from the Netherlands.

Andrew Dice Clay: The Diceman Cometh

1988 • 56 min

Recorded live in August of 1988, Dice brings his greatest bits to the Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia.

We, the Normal

1988 • 11 min

In Kuchar’s unique video-diary style, we experience the artist negotiating awkwardly with domestic settings, a party and a short trip to the mountains in Boulder, Colorado. Interspersed with these scenes are dated adverts and illustrations that juxtapose and play with his reality.

George Strait: Live!

1988 • 52 min • United States of America

Multi-Platinum selling country superstar George Strait is captured for the first time on video in this dynamic concert performance shot at the Dallas Reunion Arena on New Years night 1986/1987.

Journey to the Promised Land

1988 • 30 min

Lehi and his family, led by the Liahona, arrive to the shores of a great sea after traveling far from Jerusalem. Nephi, son of Lehi, is commanded by the Lord to build a ship. They practice faith and obedience to overcome every obstacle and sail to the Promised Land. Witness their gratitude as they kneel on the shore of their new home and give thanks to God for the successful journey.

Lucian Freud

1988 • 40 min

For much of his career, Lucian Freud allowed his paintings to speak for themselves, but in 1988 he talked for the first time - to Omnibus - about his work and ambitions.

Secrets of the Unknown: Dreams and Nightmares

1988 • 26 min • United States of America

Dreams and Nightmares journeys into the human subconscious. Peering under the brain's mysterious veil, the idea that dreams send clues and warnings from another dimension is examined in detail.

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me

1988 • 55 min • United States of America

Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, stranded on a swift-moving ice floe, cowering before a sadistic brute. The film showcases generous footage of her most memorable performances. In this Emmy-award winning documentary, the celebrated actress reflects on her life and work spanning the 20th century, particularly her years as D.W. Griffith's favorite leading lady and collaborator.

Le Dernier Mot

1988 • 14 min • France

A short commissioned piece on 'famous last words' set in WWII.

The Quest for Tannu Tuva

1988 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The story of physicist Richard Feynman's fascination with - and efforts to visit - a remote country in the center of Asia, called Tannu Tuva, "the land where the reindeer meets the camel".

Rendezvous Canada, 1606

1988 • 29 min • Canada

The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who share a pivotal time in Canada's history: the first contact between European and First Nations peoples.