All Films

A Pinto for the Prince

1979 • 17 min • Canada

In 1977, Prince Charles was inducted as honorary chief of the Blood Indians on their reserve in southwestern Alberta. The ceremony, conducted in the great Circle of the Sun Dance, commemorated the centennial anniversary of the original signing of Treaty 7 by Queen Victoria.

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Tamagiku Dōrō

1979 • 45 min • Japan

Dance teacher Omiyo survives a double suicide with her lover and is forced into life as the courtesan Tamagiku in Yoshiwara. Living in misery, she meets Gengo, her lover’s look-alike brother, and they fall in love. Jealous rival Naraya frames Gengo as a criminal, and he is struck by lightning and killed before Tamagiku’s eyes. After her own death, Tamagiku rises from hell to seek revenge on Naraya and his allies.

The Arena of Life

1979 • 20 min • Poland

The last performance of the Grand Circus in the 1978 season. The camera meticulously captures important details, gestures, situations and emotions on the faces of circus artists.

Proverb Dictionary: He Who Shoots Often, Hits at Last!

1979 • 1 min • Japan

Amateur animation by 20-year-old Hikeaki Anno while he was studying at Osaka University of Arts. The short is an animated form of the idiom "even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots".

A Woman's Revenge

1979 • 60 min • Turkey

Aysel is your typical farmer’s daughter; she keeps to herself, does her chores, and helps take care of her aging father. All of that is about to change though when a group of men staying at Aysel and her father's home after their car breaks down, rape Aysel and kill her father. The men return to their normal lives in the city but Aysel has followed them back and has plans for revenge.

Marx for Beginners

1979 • 7 min • United Kingdom

In order to understand the works and ideas of Karl Marx, this animation takes an ordinary man through several different periods of history, from the cavemen to the philosophers of the world to better comprehend Marx ideals for the proletarian and why the world is an unfair contradiction of all sorts.

Que Ninguém, Nunca Mais, Ouse Duvidar da Capacidade de Luta dos Trabalhadores

1979 • 35 min • Brazil

The documentary covers the first phase of the brazilian metalworkers' strike in 1979. It was made to be shown to the workers during the truce between the two phases of the strike, with the aim of mobilizing them for the second phase. The film shows the large assemblies, with more than 100 thousand metalworkers, in the Vila Euclides field, in São Bernardo do Campo; the mobilization for a vigil at the Union; the resulting street conflicts and the triumphant return of the board, headed by Lula, in the great assembly in which the truce was proposed.

Beats of the Heart: Salsa

1979 • 60 min

'Salsa' captures a unique moment in time for this most exuberant and socially dynamic music.

Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter

1979 • 58 min

Starring Dan O Herlihy as Mark Twain, this PBS special was created by renowned Twain scholars.

Robbie

1979 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for some reason. His laces become caught on the tracks and he has an accident so serious that he will never play football again. A film for showing to eight to eleven-year old children and their parents, which points out the folly of breaking railway fences and trespassing on the line, and illustrates the immediate dangers. Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train".

Hot Stuff

1979 • 5 min

A thirsty man searches for water in the desert.

A Movie Star's Daughter

1979 • 46 min • United States of America

A shy teen enrolls in a new school and doesn't make friends easily. Then, overnight, everyone wants to be her friend, once it is discovered that her father is a famous movie star.

Your Children Come Back to You

1979 • 27 min • United States of America

A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

Yes: Live In Philadelphia 1979

1979 • 50 min

Yes: Live In Philadelphia 1979

A Rainy Day

1979 • 30 min

A television star goes home to Texas for her father's funeral and spends time with her mother for the first time in five years. Reminiscing about her childhood allows the daughter to work through lifelong resentments and to forgive her mother.

Mammoth Bone

1979 • 58 min • Yugoslavia

The vagrants of a 15-year-old school dropout who's torn between jobs that do not suit him, and dreams of having music career.

Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter

1979 • 25 min • United Kingdom

An enraged detective's wife kills her husband by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled.

Rabbit's Moon

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

Rabbit's Moon is an avant-garde short film by American filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and released in two different versions. It was filmed in 1950, but not completed (nor released) until 1971. This, the second version, was re-released in 1979, sped up and with a different soundtrack.

When Stroker Strikes

1979 • 14 min

A superhero team training in the art of Kung Fu to prepare for a secret mission against The Stroker.

The New Aladdin

1979 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The Adventures of Sinbad

1979 • 47 min • Australia, United States of America

Sinbad relates the story to his son of his adventures in trying to reclaim the Caliph's magic lamp from the Old Man of the Sea.

Kate Bush: Live at Hammersmith Odeon

1981 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A live performance from Kate Bush's critically and commercially successful The Tour of Life, recorded on May 13th, 1979.

Casper's First Christmas

1979 • 24 min • United States of America

Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound and more Hanna-Barbera characters get lost and decide to spend Christmas by vising Casper, the friendly ghost. But soon they encounter a not-so-friendly ghost.

The Goose-Girl at the Fountain

1979 • 56 min • East Germany, Germany

A young blacksmith, searching for happiness in a series of dreams, realizes that he must find a rejected princess and hold her hand. A fairytale after the Brothers Grimm.