All Films

Walt Disney World Celebrity Circus

1987 • 60 min • United States of America

The Walt Disney World Celebrity Circus originally aired November 27, 1987. Join Mickey Mouse, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Lisa Bonet, Tony Randall, Kim Fields, Tim Conway, and Jim “Earnest” Varney along with 500 Clowns, lions and elephants for this once in a lifetime event. EPCOT Centers World Showcase plays host for the breathtaking performances.

Masumi Itsuki: Romanko Hunting

1987 • 60 min • Japan

A young man falls in love with Masumi at first sight and sends her a video letter.

In the blink of an eye...(amphibian dreams)..."If I could fly I would fly"

1987 • 26 min

Collaborating with choreographer Elizabeth Streb, Lucier constructs a suite of dances in which the human figure is abstracted and isolated within a natural landscape. Structured in three segments, the work suggests the evolution of a mythical being moving from a black void to a natural landscape, and then into an aerial world. Fragmenting and isolating the physical body in space, or in relation to simple elements of landscape, Lucier evokes themes of confinement, the struggle to defy gravity, and a metaphorical desire for transcendence.

Three Little Froggies #1

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The main characters of the animated film are three little frogs, who suddenly lost their home due to drainage of the swamp and are now forced to look for a new reservoir for life. Together they dream of finding a sea in which they can settle. But the search for a new home is not an easy task. It's very difficult for little frogs in the modern world, where there are many cars and an incredible amount of dangers around.

Ciudad de Pobres Corazones

1987 • 53 min

Fito Páez gives a concert in a nightclub while, in parallel, a box is stolen from his dressing room and disputed by a group of dark, violent and mysterious characters. Movie inspired by Fito Páez's eponymous album.

Aliska's Adventures in the Land of Imagination

1987 • 31 min • Soviet Union

Writer Boris Zakhoder invites children not only to watch, but also to become participants in the adventure of “one very good little girl in one very, very interesting place.” It's about Alice, who dreams of going to the land of Imagination.

Viimeinen ilta

1987 • 44 min • Finland

A film about a night out dancing in 1961. About love that is crushed before it can flourish.

Bernardo Bertolucci: The Italian Traveler

1987 • 53 min • France

Documentary about Bernardo Bertolucci, and his film The Last Emperor, tracing the director’s geographic influences, from Parma to China.

There Were Times, Dear

1987 • 60 min

Bob and Susanne Millard deal with the onset of Bob's Alzheimer's disease.

Wind Organ

1987 • 2 min • Japan

Animated film by Tsutomu Shibayama.

Red Hot Skate Rock

1987 • 30 min

Red Hot Skate Rock is a 30-minute music film filmed on September 20, 1987 by Vision Street Wear at the Vision Skate Escape in Los Angeles. The film features an 8-song performance by the Red Hot Chili Peppers during the band's The Uplift Mofo Party Plan tour and includes skate demos by skateboarders Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Steve Caballero, Chris Miller and many more pro skaters. To date, Red Hot Skate Rock was the first and only officially released video recording of the original Red Hot Chili Peppers lineup. Guitarist Hillel Slovak died of a drug overdose less than a year later and Irons would quit shortly after Slovak's death.

Jack Kerouac's Road: A Franco-American Odyssey

1987 • 55 min • Canada

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writer with Québec roots who became one of the most important spokesmen for his generation. Intercut with archival footage, photographs and interviews, this film takes apart the heroic myth and even returns to the childhood of the author whose life and work contributed greatly to the cultural, sexual and social revolution of the 1960s.

Language Says It All

1987 • 25 min

Language Says It All is a 1987 American short documentary film about deaf children and their caregivers, directed by Rhyena Halpern and produced by Halpern and Megan Williams. The film follows four families as they come to understand their deaf child's need for language. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Genesis | Live at Montreux 1987

1987 • 40 min • Switzerland

Highlights of a May 1987 set in Montreux, Switzerland.

A Pair of One

1987 • 27 min • Australia, United Kingdom

Tells the story of Greta and Freda Chaplin, a pair of English identical twins who dress alike, try to walk in step and for much of the time speak the same words in unison. The program looks at their lifestyle, background and situation as two people who give the appearance of having only one mind.

Haïti, Nous là! Nou La!

1987 • 28 min • Canada

From Haiti, images and testimonies that describe the climate that reigned during the aborted elections of November 29, 1987. A powerful military police in the service of a despotic power terrorized an impoverished people that they wanted to keep submissive. The government had succeeded in ousting Duvalier. However, another dictatorship has taken over, and nothing has changed. However, both on the radio and in the streets, the voice of the Haitians was heard with strength and courage. But what if it was all a sham of democracy?

The Genesis Solution

1987 • 47 min

How does Genesis relate to the "real world?" Does it matter whether one believes in Creation or Evolution? Watch this unique and important message for today and understand why the Genesis Creation account is foundational to Christianity.

The Black Dog

1987 • 19 min • United Kingdom

This rich, symbolic, intensely personal yet universal film wordlessly follows the path of a woman on a journey of self-discovery.

In the Land of the Owl Turds

1987 • 30 min • United States of America

Roland drives a dada art gallery on wheels and attracts more girls than he knows what to do with. Unfortunately, they rarely stick around. Can it be his chicken imitations? His dead animal skulls? His green body make-up? Can a handsome boy who feels like a Martian find happiness with earth girls? And if not, then with who? Or what?

Lions of the African Night

1987 • 60 min

Documentary exploring the nighttime lives of the greatest of all cats, the African lion. The film follows a large pride of more than two dozen lions as they stalk various prey through the jungle and grasslands.

Ryoko Sano C'est Laitue

1987 • 40 min • Japan

Idol Ryoko Sano - C'est Laitue, 1987 VHS tape. Original 1st video, Lettuce no Love Report.

Pirverdi's Rooster

1987 • 27 min • Soviet Union

Based on the story of the same name by Jalil Mammadguluzade. The story of a man and a master who knows how to appreciate beauty.

The Haunting of Barney Palmer

1987 • 54 min • New Zealand

The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his great uncle. Young Barney fears that he has inherited the Scholar family curse; a suite of 80s-era effects ramp up the supernatural suspense. The film was a co-production between PBS (United States) and Wellington's Gibson Group, which resulted in Ned Beatty (Deliverance, Network) being cast. It was written by Margaret Mahy, based on her Carnegie Award-winning novel The Haunting, and an early fruitful collaboration between her and director Yvonne Mackay.

Whatever, White Bear

1987 • 34 min • Japan

A story about an albino brown bear and his woodland friends as they encounter various human artifacts in the woods and interact with them.