All Films

Why Should We Care About Each Other?

1985 • 2 min • Sweden

Political ad for the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the 1985 election.

Black Sabbath: Live Aid

1985 • 13 min • United States of America

Setlist: - Children of the Grave - Iron Man - Paranoid

Sons of...

1985 • 31 min

Justin, a young gay man is on a break from film school, struggling to come to terms with his father’s violent opposition to his sexual orientation.

Dulce espiritu

1985 • 47 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Disasters of the Century

1985 • 37 min • United States of America

This entry in the "Reel Moments" video series contains newsreel and archive footage of famous 20th century disasters, including: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, various ship sinkings, racecar crashes, and assassinations, with emphasis on the assassinations of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy.

Natural History

1985 • 2 min • Japan

Several painted figures are superimposed.

Who Painted the Red Sea?

1985 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A little liar on the back desk during a geography lesson talks about his summer adventures.

Carried Away

1985 • 6 min • Canada

This animation film celebrates the creative process--its beauty, fury, and consequences. It is a highly stylized and impressionistic rendering; each scene corresponds to a step in the process. Black and white photographs, representing reality, are overlaid with animated colour drawings, representing fantasy. It illustrates the artist braving creative storms, indulging runaway imagination and learning, by trial and error, to take possession of his creative energy. Film without words.

Metallica: Day on the Green

1985 • 26 min

Metallica at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA, USA Creeping Death (Live) Ride the Lightning (Live) For Whom the Bell Tolls (Live) MTV Day On The Green Interview with Lars and James

Time Out

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An anxious cat, immediately engaged in a flurry of stressful morning activities, works himself into a nervous breakdown.

Vanessa in the Garden

1985 • 25 min

When a brilliant young artist's beloved wife dies in a carriage wreck, the grief-stricken husband is possessed with an incredible plan to bring her back through his art.

India Cabaret

1985 • 60 min • France, United Kingdom, United States of America

A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a cabaret house in Bombay.

South America: A New Look

1985 • 24 min • United States of America

Gives a brief overview of the history, geography, distribution of population, the political/social/economic systems, the Catholic Church, the military, and the problems in South America.

Youp van 't Hek: Gebroken glas

1985 • 44 min • Netherlands

Registration of the matinee performance written by the Dutch comedian Youp van 't Hek, commissioned by Toneelgroep Centrum.

Memory of the Camps

1985 • 58 min • United States of America

In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience. A film was made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. It was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and was broadcast for the first time in its entirety on PBS FRONTLINE in 1985.

Mrs Capper's Birthday

1985 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

1985 • 50 min

This behind-the-scenes documentary follows Team Salkind as they set out to bring Santa's "true" story to the screen. Dudley Moore (Patch) hosts; David Huddleston intros in character as Santa.

Supergirl: The Making of the Movie

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

A documentary filmed during production of the film "Supergirl" showing the world how and who made it. This interesting featurette includes interviews with the cast and crew along with footage from the film and excerpts from the musical score.

The Laundromat

1985 • 59 min • United States of America

Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.

Boulez-Répons

1985 • 43 min

In this vivid transposition of contemporary music for television, Cahen "responds" to the complex musical transitions of Répons, a work by French composer Pierre Boulez. Performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain and conducted by Boulez, the intricate Répons was designed for an ensemble of twenty-four musicians, six soloists and a "real-time" digital processor. In Cahen's re-composed interpretation, he responds with visual and temporal transformations, "opening" the images in space and time and applying electronic techniques to engulf the instrumentalists in ocean, sky, and trees. Mirage-like superimpositions, temporal shifts, mirroring effects and de-synchronization result in a rhythmic confluence of the illusory and the real. Immersing the viewer in image and sound, Cahen mirrors the transformative process of Boulez's music.

Kidsongs: A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm

1985 • 28 min • United States of America

Join the Kidsongs Kids for a musical day on the farm and meet all of their animal friends. Milk the cows, feed the piglets, cuddle the ducklings and meet Mary's famous lamb as you sing the songs we all know and love. Bounce along on an old-fashioned hayride and sing around the campfire in this heartwarming music adventure.

Dereza

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Orson Welles' Magic Show

1985 • 27 min • United States of America

Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini in the 1920s, when Welles was still a boy. In this unfinished television special, filmed between 1976 and 1985, Welles performs various magic tricks for the camera, promising that no trick photography is used.

Now I Can Tell You My Secret

1985 • 15 min • United States of America

Film exploring the sensitive issue of disclosing child sexual and physical abuse through the depiction of peer and trusted adult relationships.