All Films

The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'

1990 • 21 min

A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.

Bob Fosse: Steam Heat

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

A documentary profile of director/choreographer Bob Fosse. Includes clips from his films and television specials as well as interviews with Fosse, remembrances from his friends, and commentary by Gwen Verdon. A Dance in America presentation, broadcast as part of Great Performances.

Poison in the Rockies

1990 • 56 min • United States of America

Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.

Contre-courant

1990 • 11 min

About images and photographs of real estate and specific objects of the urban landscape, a voice speaks to us of the search for something that is unknown and hidden from the view of everyone in Paris. The film starts from the disappearance of the Bièvre river to talk about the pollution problems.

The World Within: C.G. Jung In His Own Words

1990 • 60 min

Documentary about Carl Jung based on footage of interviews in his last years of life. An introduction to 'Man and his Symbols', the last book he wrote.

The Audition

1990 • 25 min

When Jane, a film director, auditions her mother for a role in her latest television series she tries to keep their relationship professional. But her mother, disorientated by the cameras, refuses to play along. A professional casting quickly turns into an audition for the more personal roles of mother and daughter.

The Scarecrow

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Rosalia Zelma employs a traditional drawing to offer a story in which a scarecrow is attracted by a white hare. Sadly, the long-eared beauty’s affections hop elsewhere, in search of a suitor with deeper patchwork pockets filled with carrots.

The Phone Ranger Rides Again!: The Case of Careless Clyde

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

An DNA Productions Short

The Spirit Within

1990 • 51 min

This documentary looks at various Indigenous spirituality programs that run in western Canadian federal penitentiaries, as well as in some provincial institutions. These programs are led by elders, with assistance from liaison officers. They include workshops, ceremonies, and other traditional methods that help put the incarcerated back in touch with themselves, their culture, and their spirituality.

The Magic Finger

1990 • 25 min • United Kingdom

"When the Magic Finger is upon you extraordinary things begin to happen...." and when the Magic Finger is put upon the Gregg family for shooting some ducks, only the inventive imagination of Roald Dahl could have devised the events which take place!

The Hedgehog Must Be Prickly?

1990 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A cozy house in the forest lives a family of hedgehogs. All of them are good, but only one of their children has no thorns, instead of them were soft curls.

Banned in the USA

1990 • 49 min

A video portrait of 2 Live Crew as they fought to release their album "Banned in the USA" during the censorship crisis of the late 80s and early 90s that ultimately resulted in the "PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT" sticker. This 49-minute documentary was directed by Penelope Spheeris.

Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda!

1990 • 15 min • Brazil

Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife Marta is the family breadwinner. Things escalate in the relationship when the man starts to feel undervalued by his wife.

Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash

1990 • 48 min • United States of America

Celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the animated cat-and-mouse team, Tom & Jerry, including clips from their animated shorts!

Dig My Do

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

An Elvis-like dog sings an ode to his hairstyle.

Lyuba

1990 • 12 min • Soviet Union

A young girl takes refuge in the woods to escape her mother's rages. Here she reenacts scenes of her physical and sexual abuse using stuffed dolls. It seems she wants her late father back, despite the sexual abuse, for at least he loved her. Now all she has left is her physically and mentally abusive mother.

Introduction to the End of an Argument

1990 • 40 min • Canada, Palestinian Territory, United States of America

This highly kinetic tableaux of uprooted sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial biases concealed in familiar images. Relying on valuable snippets from feature films such as "Exodus", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Black Sunday", "Little Drummer Girl", and network news shows, the filmmakers have constructed an oddly wry narrative, mimicking the history of Mid East politics.

Grand Funk Railroad: Live At L.A. Forum 1974

1990 • 55 min

Grand Funk Railroad Live At The Forum, Los Angeles U.S.A 06-01-1974 01.Footstompin' Music 02.Rock & Roll Soul 03.Heartbreaker 04.Shinin' On 05.The Loco-Motion 06.We're An American Band 07.T.N.U.C. (With Drum Solo) 08.Inside Looking Out

Monster

1990 • 9 min • Soviet Union

In one apartment there lives a strange rational creature. A neighbor treats him favorably. But another vicious neighbor who has just moved into this apartment is trying to remove this creature from the apartment.

Burning Down Tomorrow

1990 • 8 min • United States of America

Burning Down Tomorrow is a 1990 American short documentary film about the global rainforest crisis. It was produced and directed by Kit Thomas. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The Burning Times

1990 • 57 min • Canada

This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film questions whether the widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times.

A 25 Year Old Gay Man Loses His Virginity to a Woman

1990 • 22 min

"This tape is an exploration of my latent heterosexuality with porn star / performance artist Annie Sprinkle as instructor and sage. After assuaging my fears that I can have sex with a woman & still maintain my gay identity, Annie warms me up with some playful, sensual wrestling. She then instructs in the use of a tampon while relating men's need to make war with their inability to menstruate. For the rest of the tape, she guides me through the specifics of sexual exploration, positions of coital congress as well as post- coital ritual."

Wedded

1990 • 30 min

A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their child sleeps in the next room.

The Chipmunks Rockin' Through The Decades

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

Get ready to jam with The Chipmunks on some of the hottest tunes in rock! Join host Fresh Prince on a rockin' and rappin' funfest of music from the '50s to the '90s! Alvin hooks up with Michael Jackson himself - dancing to "Beat It," like you've never seen before! Then Alvin, Simon and Theodore work their Chipmunk magic on songs made famous by Rock Legends Little Richard ("Tutti Frutti"), Elvis Presley ("Heartbreak Hotel"), and Elton John ("Crocodile Rock") and Supergroups like The Beatles ("She Loves You"), The Beach Boys ("Surfin' Safari"), The Rolling Stones ("Satisfaction"), and others! Rockin' With The Chipmunks is bursting with fantastic music and lots and lots of fun surprises!