All Films

Super Mario Traffic Safety

1989 • 10 min • Japan

Short made to promote traffic safety staring characters from the Super Mario Bros. universe.

Ivasyk-Telesyk

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The animation is based on a Ukrainian fairy tale about an old married couple, who had no children. One day the woman asked her husband to cut down a log and put it in a cradle for a night. The old man did what she had asked him to do. Next morning, a surprise was waiting for them.

Report From the Land of Love

1989 • 45 min • Soviet Union

The relationships of the characters depicted in the film appear as part of the life of the country. At the same time, the social world is shown from an intimate point of view. The techniques of both fiction and documentary films, as well as television and amateur chronicles were used. The film was played by non-professional actors.

Grandad's Gone Daft

1989 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Jimmy Jewel plays the part of Grandad George Saunders in this Scene play from the late 1980's. Is grandad really going daft or is it just old age catching up with him?

Legenda - Pieni ihmetarina valtatien varrelta

1989 • 48 min

A small gas station is held in the grip of a sinister trio of men until a rugged stranger, acting as the protector of truckers, appears on the scene. He puts the villains in order. At the same time, a legend of wonder is born, and the gas station begins to attract the crippled and burdened, awaiting healing

War Story

1989 • 6 min • United Kingdom

This claymation short film uses a real interview for dialogue. Bill Perry relates stories about his youth, his tilted house, and adventures during WWII in Bristol, England during the blitz. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

About air flying in Russia

1989 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The provincial Russian town of Nerekhta is celebrating its 775th anniversary. The basis of the holiday is the legend about the local craftsman Krikutny, who was the first in the world in 1731 to fly in a balloon. Was there really the balloonist Krikutny, or was this story invented by the provincial official Sulukadzev? Whom to believe? To the text of the charter for the first ballooning or to historians who refute the reality of this event?

Hairway to the Stars

1989 • 12 min • United States of America

The arms race goes to the beauty parlor with Bette Davis in The Letter.

The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji

1989 • 10 min • Japan

"The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.

Megazone 23 III - Part 2 - Day of Liberation

1989 • 50 min • Japan

"Megazone 23 III" The Day of Liberation, a 1989 anime OVA, focuses on Eiji and Eve as they confront Bishop Won Dai and his "Project Heaven," a plan to reinhabit Earth. Eiji, a B-Level hacker, and Eve, a legendary figure, become entangled in a network war and the plot to re-inhabit Earth. The story centers on their efforts to stop Bishop Won Dai and Project Heaven.

Customers From Hell

1989 • 10 min • United Kingdom

John Cleese training video on customers.

Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports

1989 • 24 min • United States of America

A TV special that aired on February 15, 1989 on CBS. It was the final production in which Mel Blanc voiced the Looney Tunes before his death on July 10, 1989

Building Bombs

1989 • 54 min

This Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles everyday life in Aiken, S.C. -- ground zero for America's hydrogen bomb-making facility, the Savannah River Plant. Through interviews with residents, politicians, activists and factory workers, the incisive film looks at the consequences of living in the shadow of nuclear weapons and the illegal dumping of radioactive waste. Actress Jane Alexander narrates.

A la Manière De

1989 • 1 min • France

Short animated film presented at Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy in 1989 by the students of GOBELINS, l'école de l'image.

Akko-chan's Got a Secret! – The Sea! The Specters!! The Summer Festival

1989 • 24 min • Japan

Akko and her friends are on summer vacation, and what could be more of a summer event than a beach trip? A festival is occurring around the beach, and while everyone is enjoying the festivities, Taisho and his gang head to a supposedly cursed island. Does Akko have anything to do with it?

Uncradled

1989 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About a fastidious beauty who could not decide who can become her husband. Her younger sisters decided get married, and Marussia still can not be determined. And no one knows how much more time she would remain alone with such a personality if a young man didn’t decide to conquer the impregnable girl...

Communicators From Hell

1989 • 12 min • United Kingdom

John Cleese training video.

Two Bogatyrs

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on Russian and Kazakh fairy tales, cartoon tells the story of two heroes - Ivan and Batyr.

Записки Пирата

1989 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Tales for children under three

1989 • 53 min • Belgium

These tales for children under three years of Eugène Ionesco are illustrated by drawings of children. The presence of the storyteller is preponderant on the screen. The images of his aged face filmed in close-up create a strange atmosphere.

The Clouds

1989 • 20 min

A black and white semi-narrative film, touching on moments in the narrator's life unavailable to his recollection, and a journey through the North of England on the prevailing wind.

Under African Skies: Ethiopia

1989 • 58 min • Ethiopia

First aired on TV on the BBC Two on 29 September 1989, this second episode of the documentary series "Under African Skies", a grand project aimed at presenting the rich diversity of contemporary African music of those days and known for its unforgettable memento "A celebration of the new sounds of a continent. " traverses the nostalgic roots and the euphoric contours of Ethiopian music of the '80s.

You on Kazoo!

1989 • 29 min • United States of America

Take a fun ride with some friends in the journey of playing instruments such as the kazoo!

Marisa Monte: MM ao Vivo

1989 • 51 min • Brazil

Marisa Monte's debut album concert. The show was recorded live at the Villa-Lobos Theater and featured special appearances by Ed Motta, Paulo Moura, and Nouvelle Cusine.