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Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis

Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis

1996 • 54 min
While most think an oasis in the desert is at best a mirage, this is not always so, as is the case of the jewel of the great African Kalahari Desert, Okavango. This nourishing delta, the largest within the borders of the Dark Continent, is the lifeblood for thousands of weary animals making the trek across the unforgiving sun-baked lands of Zimbabwe. Brought to video by National Geographic, this documentary refreshes the minds of the viewer with an educational and visually stunning look at the natural watering hole that supports the nomadic wildlife of the surrounding Northern Botswana region.
Ocean Wave of Stars

Ocean Wave of Stars

1996 • 1 min • United States of America
The ocean wave of stars through time and space.
Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner

Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Lana Turner

1996 • 60 min • United States of America
Rarely seen movie trailers reveal Lana Turner's rise to stardom. Hosted by Robert Osborne.
Friend to Friend

Friend to Friend

1996 • 15 min • United States of America
This video has been produced by the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania to explain who the Freemasons are, what they believe and what they do. It answers important questions which are likely to be asked about the fraternity. The video is designed exclusively for individual Masons to personally share with their friends. Those who seek membership in Freemasonry must do so voluntarily through a member of the fraternity. Please consider it the highest compliment that a Freemason has shared this video with you. It is a message of kindness... from Friend to Friend! PLEASE RETURN THIS VIDEO TO THE MASON WHO SHARED IT WITH YOU.
Sitting on a Volcano

Sitting on a Volcano

1996 • 55 min • Canada
Only fifty years after the Holocaust, the world has allowed another genocide to take place, this time in Rwanda. In April 1994, the international community sat by and watched while a million Tutsi men, women and children were massacred in the central African nation. Sitting on a Volcano, the first volume in the three-part Rwanda series, follows the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Hutus who fled Rwanda to take refuge in neighbouring countries. One year after the slaughter, they find themselves trapped beween gangs of Rwandan war criminals in control of the refugee camps and their country's new masters, who show little interest in reconciliation. Sitting on a Volcano criticizes the international community, which continues to feed the killers in the refugee camps and refuses to acknowledge human rights violations in Rwanda.
Marlene Dietrich: Shadows and Light

Marlene Dietrich: Shadows and Light

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom, United States of America
Following the life of Marlene Dietrich through her films (including home movies) and interviews with family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, and presumed lovers. From the cabaret scene in 1920's Berlin, silent films in Germany, her triumph in _The Blue Angel_ in 1930 (for which her screen test is included in this film), to Hollywood with Josef von Sternberg. The highest paid female star of her time, the luster dimmed by 1935. and in the later part of the decade she might be the most valuable actress in the world but also the most unemployable. But with _Destry Rides Again_ Marlene became a sex symbol who could play comedy and the most remarkable comeback in Hollywood was a reality. She was one of the most active entertainers of the allied troops during WW II. After the war movies were infrequent, but a new career on the stage continued for another 20 years, until she retired into seclusion for the last decade of her life.
O Menino, a Favela e as Tampas de Panela

O Menino, a Favela e as Tampas de Panela

1996 • 5 min • Brazil
A boy who steals cooking pot lids from his home and from a neighbor's flees through alleys, staircases and dead-ends in São Paulo's Paraisópolis favela.
Cirque du Soleil: Full Circle

Cirque du Soleil: Full Circle

1996 • 20 min • Canada
Come in under the Big Top for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Cirque du Soleil's ninth creation, which critics have described as "the most dramatic, the most esthetic and perhaps the most melancholy show in the history of this marvelous circus" (La Presse, Montreal). Full Circle shows you the making of Quidam, from its very beginnings to its triumphant finish.
En vill en

En vill en

1996 • 4 min
A music video for a cover of DumDum Boys' song "En vill en" performed by Penthouse Playboys.
Really Roxette

Really Roxette

1996 • 52 min • Sweden
In 1995, Sveriges Television decided it was time to make an in-depth documentary about Sweden's biggest export since ABBA. A Roxette road movie around the Crash! Boom! Bang! Tour.
Jackson Browne: VH-1 Storytellers

Jackson Browne: VH-1 Storytellers

1996 • 45 min • United States of America
Another episode of VH1’s classic series Storytellers, this one featuring Jackson Browne and features the following tracks: Running on empty, Rock me on the water, The pretender, Doctor my eyes, Rosie, Barricades of Heaven (lost verse), Barricades of Heaven, Something fine, For everyman.
Taking on the Kennedys

Taking on the Kennedys

1996 • 52 min • United States of America
What would it be like to run against one of the most powerful political families in America? Enter the backrooms of American politics as a doctor named Kevin Vigilante takes on the Kennedys. In his first race for public office, Kevin Vigilante challenges Ted Kennedy's youngest son, Patrick, and gets the political education of a lifetime. Dedicated to running a clean fight, Vigilante soon finds himself in the midst of a mud slinging contest. With negative ads about Vigilante filling the airwaves, and John F. Kennedy Jr. signing autographs outside polling stations, Vigilante realizes he has no chance of winning without slinging mud of his own, and proceeds to take off his gloves. Endemic of contemporary campaign politics, the sound byte takes precedence over the speech as issues are overshadowed by negative television advertisements. Taking on the Kennedys aired as a part of PBS' P.O.V. series.
In the Rivers of Mercy Angst

In the Rivers of Mercy Angst

1996 • 21 min • United States of America
A woman struggles to free herself from the "Keeper of Memory" in this surreal odyssey.
Evangeline's Quest

Evangeline's Quest

1996 • 54 min • Canada
Explores the creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,” and the phenomenon it became.
Nowhere Fast

Nowhere Fast

1996 • 10 min
Short film directed by Saskia Jell starring The Lunachicks.
Badass Supermama

Badass Supermama

1996 • 16 min
An homage to and investigation of the blaxploitation cinema of Pam Grier.
The Happy Prince

The Happy Prince

1996 • 28 min • United Kingdom
A statue of 'The Happy Prince' (happy because he had devoted his life to pleasure behind his palace walls) looks out with horror at the destitution of his citizens. He persuades a little swallow to abandon his winter trip to Egypt and be his messenger, a job which entails stripping the statue of its precious jewels and gold to help feed the poor. Winter sets in, the once sparkling statue now looks grey and crumbling.
Silent Night

Silent Night

1996 • 26 min • United Kingdom
One Silent Night, a snowman is magically brought to life by an ice fairy. Wandering the town scared and alone, the snowman meets the friendly Rachel who helps him find his singing voice whereupon the town learns to love him.
Pavement: Tibetan Freedom Concert

Pavement: Tibetan Freedom Concert

1996 • 26 min
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Psycho-lettes

Psycho-lettes

1996 • 10 min • Spain
A gang of biker girls kill men and cut their penises off.
Memories of Water

Memories of Water

1996 • 11 min • Canada
A man murders his dying lover. He drowns him in a tub of water. We drift through the man's mind in the hours after the death. He falls more and more deeply into layers of memory. La mémoire de l'eau is a tale of fear, love and grief set in a world of uncertain boundaries.
Alain Cavalier - Sept chapitres, cinq jours, 2 pièces-cuisine

Alain Cavalier - Sept chapitres, cinq jours, 2 pièces-cuisine

1996 • 55 min • France
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired 26 January 1996.
To můj Láďa...

To můj Láďa...

1996 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia
Tomáš Vorl's short film captures a few minutes of inner monologue in the body of Eva Holubová, who returns from shopping and lovingly thinks about her husband Láďa, how they met, how they got together, how they were expecting a child... and Láďa was, is and will always be the best... A cheerful, original and in its own way instructive spectacle.
Tots TV: Snowy Adventure

Tots TV: Snowy Adventure

1996 • 38 min • Finland, United Kingdom
Tilly, Tom and Tiny go off in search of a snowy adventure. They visit a land far, far away where it is very cold and everywhere is covered in lots and lots of snow. The Tots have even more fun when they return to their secret house and find it also covered in snow. Now everyone including Furryboo and Donkey can enjoy a magical white Christmas!