All Films

Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

1999 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

Minamata: The Person Who Dug the Well

1999 • 42 min • Japan

Documentary on the life of Teruo Kawamoto, a leader of Minamata disease activism

Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)

1999 • 56 min

This is the story of one town's journey to survive the changes of a new economic era. It begins in Midwestern America ... but it's more than that. It's the story of every industrial town struggling to find its way in a new age. This PBS documentary tells a story about how one community in Ohio is trying to adapt to the historic economic crosswinds sweeping the world today. Lima is a town of 45,000 residents in the agriculturally rich northwestern part of the state. Lima's journey, through the 20' century, is a microcosm reflecting many of the economic trends that have effected millions and has reshaped this country. Lost in Middle America is a discovery process where people help tell the story of Lima through their own personal stories. This is a story of every industrial town struggling to find its way in a new age. It's a story of lost pride, enduring hope, and the strength of the human spirit.

50 Years of Cyprus: War and Peace

1999 • 45 min • Turkey

32.Day, a news classic by Mehmet Ali Birand, is with you this time with the documentary 50 Years of Cyprus!

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Live at Bizarre Festival

1999 • 54 min • Germany

Filmed in Cologne, Germany, for 1999's Bizarre Festival, Joe and the band play new material as well as Clash classics for an adoring audience.

Hermit Crab

1999 • 30 min

A human-sized story about an old-fashioned man.

Everest At Any Cost

1999 • 57 min • France

In 1983, three climbers became the first French people to reach the summit of Everest. Among them were expedition leader Pierre Mazeaud and a promising 25-year-old climber, Jean Afanassieff. Twenty years later, the two legends, accompanied by mountain guide Michel Pellé, retrace the steps of their exploit and make the trek from Kathmandu to the foot of the roof of the world. This is an opportunity to retrace the history of the successive assaults on Everest and to assess the current situation of a mountain that has become a victim of its own success: while Sherpas have been able to take advantage of Western enthusiasm and thus enrich themselves and equip the summit to make it more accessible, the site's attendance poses numerous problems, both human and ecological.

Samedi, dimanche et aussi lundi

1999 • 13 min

The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

1999 • 51 min

1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community.

50 Years of Cyprus: Separation

1999 • 50 min • Turkey

32.Day, a news classic by Mehmet Ali Birand, is with you this time with the documentary 50 Years of Cyprus!

Shame No More

1999 • 12 min • United States of America

In true 1950's educational film style we watch as high school boy Johnny wrestles with a terrible secret. Johnny is a closeted-heterosexual. What will his dads do when they discover he's only pretending to be like everyone else.

Operation Grandma

1999 • 50 min • Israel

Mivtza Savta ("Operation Grandma") is a satirical Israeli comedy about three very different brothers trying to get around many obstacles to bury their grandmother on her kibbutz. The story takes place in Israel, in the fictional kibbutz "Asisim".

Ian Dury: On My Life!

1999 • 60 min

Autobiographical documentary in which Ian Dury, fighting a battle with cancer to which he would later succumb, recalls his life and career. With contributions from painter Peter Blake and members of Dury's band, the Blockheads.

A Bunny Girl's Tale

1999 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Intrigued by the desire to have been a Bunny Girl, the director takes a look at what it meant. Interviewing several of the original Bunnies she learns the rules and expectations on the girls as well as the more sinister side of a 1976 murder.

Dead on Time

1999 • 15 min

It's the last fifteen minutes of 1999 and Steve Armitage plans to leave his mark by becoming the first suicide of the new millennium. However, complications ensue with a busted power card, a homicidal landlord, and a very pregnant neighbor.

Slipknot - Live at Hairy Mary's 1999

1999 • 58 min

01 (sic) 02 Eyeless 03 Wait and Bleed 04 Liberate 05 Surfacing 06 Purity 07 Prosthetics 08 Spit It Out 09 Only One

Charles Lindbergh: The Lone Eagle

1999 • 53 min • United States of America

When Charles A. Lindbergh, made the first flight across the Atlantic to Paris, he was soaring into history. The amazing journey made him the most famous man in America, if not the entire world. His solo achievement was prelude to a life of accomplishment, triumph and tragedy witnessed by millions through the lens of his celebrity, which he never sought and endured stoically throughout his lifetime.

He-Hog the Atomic Pig

1999 • 14 min

Pilot for He-Hog the Atomic Pig by John Kricfalusi and Spumco

J.D. Salinger Doesn't Want to Talk

1999 • 48 min • United States of America

Famous recluse J. D. Salinger has hidden from the world since "The Catcher in the Rye" took the world by storm. Banned in schools, and horrifically inspiring the killing of John Lennon, the book had repercussions no one could have foreseen and which seemed to drive the author further into hiding.

Två kokta i ett bröd

1999 • 9 min • Sweden

About the arrival of new technology to the village where the IT-technician and the farmer get in a conflict.

The Phox, the Box, & the Lox

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

In a town called Pudding on the Ritz, a sly fox attempts to trick a nitwit into opening a cursed treasure chest. However, the fox's trick comes back to bite him in the end. Based on the Fractured Fairy Tales segment from Jay Ward's "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show", this short premiered before the live-action feature "Dudley Do-Right".

Variaciones sobre un mismo crimen

1999 • 30 min • Costa Rica

A cinephile falls asleep during a projection and reality starts to confuse with dreams

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Roseland Ballroom

1999 • 44 min

For HBO Reverb

Das Clown

1999 • 8 min • United States of America

The tale of an old man and the clown doll he brings to life. Told like an old-fashioned educational slide show.