All Films

Maiden Bigelo or Chewing Story

1995 • 3 min • Russia

About a girl who chewed gum all the time.

Bill Maher: Stuff That Struck Me Funny

1995 • 58 min • United States of America

Bill Maher's first feature-length stand-up comedy special for HBO. Premiered September 23, 1995.

Frankenstein's Planet of Monsters!

1995 • 50 min • United States of America

Three female astronauts are tricked into landing on a barren planet ruled by a Frankenstein monster. They promptly get thrown in a dungeon and are later attacked by a swarm of monstrous creatures.

Jane: An Abortion Service

1995 • 58 min • United States of America

This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training. As Jane members describe finding feminism and clients describe finding Jane, archival footage and recreations mingle to depict how the repression of the early sixties and social movements of the late sixties influenced this unique group. Both vital knowledge and meditation on the process of empowerment, Jane: An Abortion Service showcases the importance of preserving women's knowledge in the face of revisionist history. JANE: AN ABORTION SERVICE was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Vagina & Virgin

1995 • 8 min • Japan

Vagina And Virgin is more an experimental work from which you may have an idea how Sono thinks about the relationship of vagina and virgin.

Second hand’s Lourdes

1995 • 17 min • Spain

Luciano (Álex Angulo), a sewner from a small provincial city, will cause a series of incidents that will end the suspension of the feasts of the Virgin. All for an omelet sandwich that his mother prepared for him to go to work.

Blue Helmet

1995 • 25 min

A young man, who served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a few months during the war, recounts his experiences. Throughout the film, we only see his face filmed in close-up, along with a few photos. The interview acts as a strong testimony to the failure of the international community in the Yugoslav crisis.

Great Classics on Video

1995 • 30 min • United States of America

Three classics tales (The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, Jack and the Beanstalk) are retold in condensed adaptations.

Madagascar

1995 • 54 min • Cuba

The 50-minute "Madagascar" has the resonance and eloquence of the best poetry, as it deftly turns an adolescent's search for identity into a metaphor for socialist Cuba. Laura is a professor at a shabby, stultifying college. Her daughter, Laurita, stops going to school, wishes to move to Madagascar and quickly races through several phases. One day, she looks like a heavy-metal fan, another like a bohemian who weeps at poetry and art. Slowly, she crosses the line from ordinary adolescent confusion to intense neurosis and beyond, finally becoming so obsessed with religion and good works that she brings 10 homeless children into the cramped house she shares with her mother and grandmother.

The Summit

1995 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

The Weinerville Chanukah Special

1995 • 24 min

The Weinerville Gang is throwing a Hanukkah party at the Weinerville Ski Lodge. Upon preparations on the decorations, two aliens crash landed their ship at the lodge who both resemble giant potato pancakes. The aliens explain how they escape form their planet after being fed up with their planet's leader who forces his citizens to do anything with the powers of his ray gun. The gang decides to help them out buy buying vegetable oil at the local store and return to the lodge. While at the lodge the gang and the refuge aliens encounter the alien leader with his army have just taken over the Ski lodge. How will the gang be able to save their refuge friends from another world?

Monster Commando M

1995 • 30 min

A short tokusatsu movie where real life pro wrestler Mayumi Ozaki plays a bounty hunter and has to fight a monster. It's part of a series of sci-fi monster hunter movies starring female pro wrestlers. The other two are Monster Commando H and Monster Commando Y.

Who's in Rabbit's House?

1995 • 13 min • United States of America

Adapted from a Masai folktale about a rabbit who can't get into her house because the Long One, who "eats trees and tramples on elephants, " is hiding inside. This animated production is presented as a play performed by Masai actors wearing animal masks.

Savannah Cats

1995 • 52 min • Kenya, South Africa

The grasslands of Africa are a banquet spread for feline predators. Explore the hunting and nurturing habits of lions, leopards, and cheetahs of the African savannah, as well as the overlooked grasses that lay the foundation for the amazing array of wildlife flourishing among its leaves.

Doctor Zhivago: The Making of a Russian Epic

1995 • 60 min

Omar Sharif narrates and others discuss the making of Doctor Zhivago.

Across the Sea of Time

1995 • 51 min • United States of America

A young Russian boy, Thomas Minton, travels to New York as a passenger on a Russian freighter. Close to Ellis Island he gets off and thus starts his journey to America the same way as all immigrants in former times. Thomas is searching for the family of one of his ancestors, who had emigrated decades ago, but once sent a letter home together with a sample of his new profession: 3D-Photography.

Leona's Sister Gerri

1995 • 57 min

Millions have seen the photograph, and no one who has seen it will ever forget it. A naked woman, dead from a botched illegal abortion, lying on a motel room floor. The picture appeared in Ms. Magazine in April 1973, and quickly became a symbol for the abortion rights movement. LEONA'S SISTER GERRI tells the dramatic story of Gerri Santoro, a mother of two and the "real person" in the now famous photo. Should the media have used this image? What circumstances led to Gerri's tragic death? Powerfully addressing issues of reproductive rights and domestic violence, this video is a moving portrait of Gerri Santoro's life and society's response to her death.

Out of the Night: The Stephen Arrington Story

1995 • 45 min • United States of America

Steve Arrington's hopes and dreams were lost in a nightmare of bad decisions, bad company, and bad moves. He went from hero to villain, lost his honor and self respect, and found himself trapped in the no-win world of drug smugglers and big-time losers. He had to choose between silver and lead - dirty money or a bullet in the head. The first glimmer of hope came when drug agents cut short his out law career. A scapegoat for his high-rolling superiors in the cocaine racket, Arrington found the locked doors of a federal prison offered him a chance to find his way Out of the Night. His discovery of forgiveness helped him recover his self esteem and led him to fulfillment of his dreams. Out of the Night proves that there is hope for the fallen and escape for the trapped. You'll be inspired with new reasons to believe in God's forgiving love and patient leading

World's Greatest Train Ride Videos: Trans-Siberia

1995 • 48 min • United States of America

The World's Greatest Train Ride" video series takes you on the train adventure of a lifetime! Filled with all the breathtaking excitement of authentic train travel, this exhilarating journey through Russia takes you on a complete rail tour.

Interior Scroll — The Cave

1995 • 7 min

In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll reading the text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina. The scroll embodies the primacy of an extended visual line shaped as both concept and action. The extracted text merges critical theory with the body as a source of knowledge. Beatty's camera moves from the naked group actions into close-ups of the unraveling text.

Mega Vision

1995 • 60 min

Anju Mira radiates her charm in the diverse world of fantasy in her final performance at Takarazuka. Her exceptional dancing talent is for all to enjoy when she dances to the jazz music directed by Linda Haberman.

The Wrong Address

1995 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A film by Krzysztof Zanussi inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “The Lady with an Ermine”. The director takes us to the Museum Czartoryski in Cracow where he presents his favourite painting and with the aid of video effects, he wryly invites us to compare “The Lady with an Ermine” with the better known “Mona Lisa”.

This Marching Girl Thing

1995 • 20 min

Cindy is a baton twirler with the Southern Twirlettes. Make-up, hair, letards, sequins and stockings...she looks like she fits in. She's just beginning to feel like she doesn't.

Clarkson's Motorsport Mayhem

1995 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Clarkson presents a montage of various crashes, motorcycle stunts, auto racing mishaps, and other vehicular carnage.