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1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life

1981 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A sometimes harsh, sometimes goofy look at the routines that give our lives form.

Diana

1981 • 49 min • United States of America

Diana Ross' 1981 TV special featuring live concert footage from The Forum in Inglewood, California mixed with studio performances.

A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)

1981 • 9 min • Brazil

Documentary about power and class relations in the sociocultural context of Bahia, considering the history of oil extraction in the state.

Space City

1981 • 33 min

Scripted collaboratively with King and Brintzenhofe, the filmmakers created a cinedance that takes the viewer through the thresholds of dreaming, waking, and transcendental awareness, using real and painted images of the city, a 19th century attic and outer space. King’s voice recounts a dream of space without walls, a time of childhood and ecstacy. © 1981 Robyn Brentano, Andrew Horn, Kenneth King

Sigurd Fafnersbane

1981 • 40 min • Denmark

An animated retelling of the legendary hero Sigurd of Norse folklore.

Nafarrako ikazkinak

1981 • 25 min • Spain

A documentary exercise on the lives of the last basque representatives of this ancestral trade: charcoal burners.

The Monkey King and the Fruit of Immortality

1981 • 45 min • China

Sun Wukong and the group arrive at a monastery, where the Daoist lads offer Sangzang some ginseng fruits, shaped inexplicably like babies. Incensed he has not been offered one, Wukong steals three, and shares them with his brothers.

Lamaload

1981 • 30 min

Jane spent her childhood in a remote valley in the Peak District above Macclesfield. Ten years later she returns with her fiancé. Her dramatic rediscovery of Lamaload is the subject of this poignant story.

Cún Con Đi Học

1981 • 10 min • Vietnam

A puppy skips school to run a football game and learns a lesson.

Direct Hit! History of Assault

1981 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film from Toei Central.

We Were German Jews

1981 • 58 min • United States of America

In 1943 Herbert and Lotte Strauss made the courageous decision to escape from Germany and almost certain extermination in a Nazi concentration camp. This is a personal account of their dramatic flight, building a new life in the United States, and coming to terms with the Holocaust. "We Were German Jews" grapples with the torment of living with the legacy of the Holocaust. The film chronicles Herbert and Lotte Strauss' return visit to Germany. They were not trying to assuage any sense of guilt over having survived; they wanted to confront the past by going back to where they had lived before the onslaught that claimed most of their relatives. This understated, very personal story adds significantly to the body of evidence that explores human behavior in the face of genocide and insists that we remember the past and learn from it.

The Replacements: Incident on 7th Street

1981 • 50 min • United States of America

During the first week of September 1981, Twin/Tone took the mobile recording unit and rented a bunch of video gear and recorded 15 bands live (five nights) at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis... These movies are from the show on September 5th. The band had released "Sorry Ma..." earlier in the year and were already working on future projects. These clips are presented as they were recorded live... in set order and very much with the tuning that troubled the night. The Replacements were the middle band of three (Husker Du closed the show) and played two 25 minute sets.

Return to the Titanic

1981 • 58 min • United States of America

Mike Harris is an accomplished writer, explorer and film producer who had led major expeditions around the world. In 1980, Mike organized a group of marine scientists and oceanographers and led them on the first ever expedition to search for the Titanic in the North Atlantic. His film "Search for the Titanic" featured legendary actor Orson Welles as his on-camera host and narrator. On Mike's second Titanic expedition he produced "Return to the Titanic" which featured television star James "The Virginian" Drury. Jim actually joined Mike on his second historic expedition.

Moomin Valley: Summer in Moomin Valley

1981 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The Penultimate

1981 • 12 min • France

A man wanders through a wrecked, dystopian city, finding violence everywhere he turns.

Alice in Wonderland

1981 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom.

God's Angry Man

1981 • 44 min • Germany

The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970s and '80s, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show.

Ozzy Osbourne: After Hours

1981 • 24 min

This performance was recorded on April 28, 1981, for the TV show After Hours at Studio 31 in Rochester, New York. The set included "I Don’t Know", "Crazy Train", "Mr. Crowley" and "Suicide Solution", along with an interview with Ozzy Osbourne. This footage is the only known professionally recorded video of Randy Rhoads performing full songs live with Ozzy Osbourne. Additional segments featuring Ozzy or Randy aired on Two on the Town, Entertainment Tonight (early 1982), The Rock Report, and MTV, which awarded Randy Rhoads the Best New Talent Award posthumously in March 1982.

Making a Monster Movie: Inside 'the Howling'

1981 • 8 min • United States of America

Making-of featurette for 'The Howling' (1981)

Who's in Charge?

1981 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Based on the sequence of events which led to the deaths of two young trackmen, concluding with an enquiry into the reasons why they were killed. Intended for railway staff responsible for track maintenance, particularly those in supervisory grades.

Cinématon n°102 : Manoel de Oliveira

1981 • 3 min • France

The Cosmic Machine

1981 • 43 min

After an encounter with a strange creature, Martin is faced with a world-changing task: he must be the one to build a cosmic machine that will help bring peace to Earth.

I Like to See the Wheels Turn

1981 • 56 min • Canada

To anyone outside the Atlantic provinces, K. C. Irving is virtually unknown. Yet he is reputed to be the richest man in Canada, patriarch of a New Brunswick-based industrial empire involving oil, transportation, newspapers, lumber and much more. This one-hour documentary marks the first time a filmmaker has gained access to the legendary Irving, whose business career began in 1924 with the purchase of an oil truck. It is an absorbing look at a man who amassed great wealth as a by-product of his main objective: "to see wheels turn."