1986 Movies

Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.

Through interviews with survivors of sexual abuse, parents, social workers, community activists, and abusers thmselves, this piece explores the feelin...

Originally titled, "Espirito de Cabo Verde"

Boy, his three pals and an old man who were sailing down a river in England are intercepted by a mugger, who turns their boat into a pirate-ship.

A campaign is launched to prevent peasants from leaving the countryside for the city. The village tries to adapt the advice of the technicians for sel...

In 1985, three major uprisings rocked Britain, in Brixton, Handsworth and Tottenham. The most explosive was the latter, on the Broadwater Farm housing...

A short stop-motion collage film that constructs a garden out of materials and objects such as flowers, beads, plastic cellophane, candles, even ketch...

A film by Cosey Fanni Tutti, originally commissioned for the Taboo Festival of Eroticism on the 6th March 1986. Statement: Expression of oneself and o...

The Blooms of Banjeli documents research in Banjeli, Togo on iron-smelting technology, its rituals, and the sexual prohibitions surrounding it. Includ...

A documentary on the eight-month-old AIDS/ARC vigil at San Francisco's UN Plaza where people with AIDS and ARC have chained themselves to the Federal...

An AIDS education film for youth featuring three people with AIDS who share what it's like to live with the disease and how to protect against it.

A tape that explores the politics of words and the significance of names. Fingers tracing letters written on walls. A hand holding a pen as it fills t...

A 1986 film about open sea sprimp fishing in Florida, showing the techniques, rituals, and superstitions of the African American, Anglo, and Mediterra...

Nasser Pooyan goes on a trip to the north of Iran with some of his friends. He has an accident with a child hitting him with his motorcycle. Because o...

Emphasizes shape recognition and following directions in short segments using original music, animation, puppets and live action. One segment is based...

After the war a young woman from Saigon goes to the countryside at the call of the government to teach love of country to the local people. There she...

Boy Borya reads a book about pirates instead of doing homework. He tears off the handkerchief from the parrot's cage, flaps it and exclaims: "I would...