1987 Movies

Short film in which Sid Laverents chronicles his life story. Part 2 of 3.

Quark the troll has to get through the long, cold winter.

Directed by Sara Petty.

The construction of the Thai-Burma railway began in 1943 with a substantial number of Allied prisoners of war and Asian conscripts providing the bulk...

Short directed by experimental artist Robert Darroll.

Dramatized short about Canadian Marilyn Bell's attempt to be the first person to swim across Lake Ontario and what it must have felt like, narrated by...

This extraordinary, never-before-aired, "lost" concert was part of a roadshow that toured through 21 cities in the summer of 1987. This live footage w...

Backed by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal in Montreal, Canada, famed soprano Kiri Te Kanawa sings selections from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The...

Two decades after their first "big deal" landed them in jail, the original gang of Italian thieves is back in action. Peppe "The Panther" (Vittorio Ga...

Looking beyond popular aviation trailblazers such as Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh and the Wright brothers, this fascinating documentary chronicle...

Pianist Yevgeny Kissin brings his inimitable touch to Tokyo's Suntory Hall in this 1987 concert, when the virtuoso was only 16. A stirring version of...

Music - Austrian composer Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in A Minor is the subject of this musical documentary. Recorded at the Alte Oper in Frankfur...

The meat grinder disappeared, the telephone disappeared, the TV disappeared, the tape recorder disappeared. It was schoolchildren who created a myster...

Musical - Never before seen performances created for the musical explosion "Gospel" and hailed by the critics. - Shirley Caesar, The Clark Sisters, J...

A pre-internet mash up of The Archies and The Sex Pistols

“The Ascent of Man..” Parts I, II, & III videotapes focus on the human psyche, its possible primordial essence and subsequent deviations thereof....

One of the most structured of Yufit’s reels with an elaborated montage work. This film combines three diverse worlds in an absurd manner to show the a...

Veteran reporter Roger Cohen gets a hot tip that leads him on a trail of terror. As his investigation uncovers terrifying tales of witches, demons and...

A documentary about Paul Tudor Jones.

Chinese movie , Shanghai Film Studio in 1987, the film is based on the French writer Jules Verne's novel "a Chinese gentleman ordeal" , starring comed...