All Films

Gagan Chowdhuryr Studio

1999 • 23 min • India

The Studio Of Mr Gagan Choudhury

Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games

1999 • 59 min • United States of America

Fists of Freedom examines one of the 20th century’s most memorable moments — the dramatic “Black Power” demonstration of American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the victory stand at the 1968 Summer games in Mexico City. Using rare footage, archival photos and interviews with key figures from the era, revisit a pivotal event in American history.

Rosies of the North

1999 • 47 min • Canada

They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history. Like many other factories across the country from 1939 to 1945, the shop floor at Fort William's Canadian Car and Foundry was transformed from an all-male workforce to one with forty percent female workers.

Shania Twain: Winter Break

1999 • 46 min • United States of America

Winter Break was recorded at the Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami, Florida on January 17, 1999, for a crowd of 10,000 people. During the show, Twain received special guests Elton John, the Backstreet Boys and Leahy onstage. The special features scenes of Twain visiting her hometown Timmins, Ontario in between songs. It aired on March 3, 1999 on CBS, attracting ratings of 10.3 points, about 18.7 million viewers.

On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death

1999 • 55 min • Sweden

The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.

Sad to Die

1999 • 15 min • France

Twenty-year-old Caro is looking for her friend Nath. To do this, she travels to various villages throughout the country. Along the way, Caro meets the young unemployed woman Noémie. She sends her on her way to Marseille.

Boy Next Door

1999 • 13 min

Who's the hunky new neighbor across the street? Teenage Charlotte and her brother, Chris, both want to know. Cruel sibling rivalry abounds as each woos the new guy while trying to undercut the other's advances. Three is definitely company!

Billy and Zorba

1999 • 20 min

In a Scottish fishing village squeezed between sea and bluffs, a single mum named Mhairi has accepted an offer from her boyfriend Black to move to the city to live with him: more opportunities for her and for her son Billy.

Taking the Plunge

1999 • 15 min

A woman deals with the revelation that her partner has cheated on her on New Year's Eve, 1999.

Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales

1999 • 32 min • United States of America

John Milius narrates this featurette on the Clint Eastwood classic.

The Wind Within

1999 • 25 min • Taiwan

A young woman in an old town is looking for a place to stay. How does her gaze differ from the goddess's?

Imagining 'Heavy Metal'

1999 • 36 min • United States of America

Documentary about the making of "Heavy Metal" (1981).

At Death's Door

1999 • 14 min • Ireland

Death is training his son in the art and responsibilities of the family business. His son does well until he's sent out on his own to claim an accident victim. Instead, he's asked by a friend of the dying man to help with CPR. Taken aback, he assents, the dying man is resuscitated, and Death's son is in the doghouse with dad. Enraged, pop gives his son 24 hours to deliver a corpse, so the young man sets out to ice the man who asked him for help earlier that day. Junior's target is a young actor, Tom, going through opening night and loved by Sarah, a rather histrionic young woman. A near-Death experience awaits them all as Junior comes of age.

Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons

1999 • 5 min • United Kingdom

In 1999, Anderson supervised the production of a computer-animated test film, Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons, to explore the possibility of updating some of his 1960s puppet series for a 21st-century audience.

Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee

1999 • 6 min • Japan

A music video by Koji Yamamura.

Natal 71

1999 • 52 min • Portugal

Natal 71 is the name of a record given to the soldiers of the portuguese colonies overseas for Christmas 1971. Niassa's Songbook is the title of an audiotape illegally recorded by soldiers during the war years, in Mozambique. They are memories from a country which was shut from the rest of the world, poor and ignorant, laid to sleep by a stale and primitive propaganda which tried to hide all the conflicts from us and kept us from thinking and recognising the repressive nature of the regime we lived in.

Paul F. Tompkins: Driven to Drink

1999 • 30 min • United States of America

In this (mostly) one-man show, comedian Paul F. Tompkins holds forth on alcohol, pretension and Hollywood, managing to drink four full pints of Guinness over the course of the performance.

Dance of the Goofys

1999 • 5 min • United States of America

As they do every night, the Goofy Fairies come out to close all the flowers. When the goofiest Goofy Fairy causes his boss to be captured by a young boy with mad scientist ambitions, he must overcome his goofy shortcomings and come to the rescue before his boss becomes a science project.

Welcome to Primetime

1999 • 47 min • United States of America

A documentary about the Nightmare on Elm Street series.

Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs

1999 • 38 min

A tribute to stopmotion supremo and special effects genius extraordinaire Ray Harryhausen, the man behind some of cinema's greatest fantasy films - The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason & The Argonauts and One Million Years BC. Featuring exclusive footage of Harryhausen at work on his first stopmotion for over 20 years, and contributions from many of Hollywood's top special effects directors and creators.

A Little Christmas Story

1999 • 58 min • Finland, Sweden

A little girl gets separated from her teddy bear and is inconsolable.

Beast Academy

1999 • 58 min • Japan

When Kanako a schoolgirl was making love with a teacher at the back of schoolhouse, she broke the stone monument which was built to seal lewd beasts. Then the beasts came back.

The Love of Three Oranges

1999 • 60 min • Taiwan

Taipei, 1990s. Pizza boy JJ bumps one day into his ex-girlfriend Pony who is now pursuing a lesbian relationship with Mimi. On his first visit to the girl JJ gives in to Pony's seduction and makes love to her in the presence of Mimi who is seemingly asleep... Pony is now enjoying the secret excitement of her affair with JJ while Mimi tries hard to put up with it. But as days go by, JJ finds himself more and more obsessed with Mimi. At this stage none of the three is sure of what they want from love...

50 Glorious Years: A Royal Celebration

1999 • 50 min

Celebrating the 50 year marriage of Her Majesty the Queen and her husband and consort Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, the Duke of Edinburgh.