One Year in a Life of Crime
7.3
1989
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Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this gritty profile—which includes hidden-camera footage of actual thefts—exposes the \petty\ crimes that are paralyzing America.
Forbidden City, U.S.A.
6
1989
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A documentary about Forbidden City, a San Francisco Chinese-American nightclub open from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Iron Maiden: Maiden England
8.8
1989
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On November 27th and 28th 1988, Iron Maiden filmed their two sold-out concerts at Birminghams NEC.
For All Mankind
8.2
1989
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An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.
Our Children
10
1989
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Our Children is a documentary about different youth groups found in the GDR, particularly the young anti-Fascist group. Different young people are interviewed about their coming to terms with their history, country and society. Christa Wolf and Stefan Heym are among those interviewed.
Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman
7.2
1989
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A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. \Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary.\ - Elke Schieber, film historian
Thomas Hart Benton
7.2
1989
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Thomas Hart Bentons paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people to appreciate.
Dracula: Live from Transylvania
5.8
1989
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A live-event TV special exploring the reality and legend surrounding the story of Dracula. Ancient European castles associated with vampire legends are visited; vampire experts are interviewed; and people claiming to be vampires are featured.
A Winter Too Many
7.9
1989
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16 years have elapsed since Too Long A Winter and a combination of failing health and a series of devastatingly bitter winters culminates in Hannah being heart-wrenchingly driven off her beloved farm.
Heavy Petting
6.1
1989
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Celebrity confessions about their first sexual experiences.
Charles Manson Superstar
6.6
1989
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For forty years, Charles Manson has survived most of his life in what he calls the hallways of the all ways, the reform schools, jails and prisons that have been his home and tomb. His thought was born in the hole of solitary confinement, apart from time and beyond the grasp of society. In his cell, he created his own world and speaks his own language: he has concluded that there is only the mind. From convincing his followers to move into the desert to train for the apocalypse, to leading a murderous crew through a string of devilish murders, you will see and hear from Manson himself of how he created a preconceived terror based on his philosophy of life. Manson claims that the so-called straight world outside of prison is but an inverted reflection of the underworld in which he has lived. To him, the reality that presidents and law-abiding citizens accept begins in the hermetic alternate universe of criminals, cons and outlaws.
Roger & Me
7.5
1989
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After General Motors closes its factory in Flint, Michigan, eliminating 35,000 jobs, filmmaker Michael Moore undertakes a quixotic quest to interview General Motors chairman, Roger B. Smith.
Pink Floyd - Live in Venice
8.2
1989
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Live concert by Pink Floyd in Piazza San Marco, Venezia, in 1989, performig: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Learning To Fly, Yet Another Movie, Round And Around, Sorrow, The Dogs Of War, On The Turning Away, Time, The Great Gig In The Sky, Wish You Were Here, Money, Another Brick In The Wall, part two, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell.
Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
7.1
1989
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A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. Hes on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work.
Comic Book Confidential
7
1988
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In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisners \Spirit\. It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of William B. Gaines until it came crashing down the rise of censorship with the imposition of the Comics Code. In its wake of the devastation of the mediums creative freedom, we also explore ECs defiant survival with the creation of the singular \Mad Magazine\ by Harvey Kurtzman.
Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism
5.4
1989
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An epidemic of ritual abuse of children from infants to teenagers is sweeping through the country. According to recent TV and radio broadcasts 2 million children a year are reported missing, many too young to be runaways and 5 thousand unidentifiable bodies of children are found each year in the US alone. \Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism\ takes you behind the scenes into actual black witchcraft and satanic rituals. Former Satanists, practicing witches and law enforcement experts explain the vastness and diversity of the movement. Experts tell why people join and how Satanists recruit their members as well as their victims. Parents are given clues to determine if their children are involved. Most importantly, dangerous doorways into the occult are exposed.
Depeche Mode: 101
8.3
1989
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Depeche Mode prepares for the 101st and final concert of its massive world tour at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California, while a group of fans who won a contest travel to the concert through the United States on a bus.
Playboy: Wet & Wild
6.8
1989
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From head to toe... theyre wet. From start to finish... theyre wild. Get ready for an extravaganza of mini-bikinis and less, starring more than two dozen of your favorite Playmates from the pages of Playboy Magazine. From Jamaica to Tahiti, Mexicos Gulf Coast to Australias Great Barrier Reef, youll enjoy high-spirited adventures that are outrageous, intimate, sexy and fun. At exotic locations or in a back yard car wash free-for-all, where theres water these beauties just cant stay dry. Take the plunge and get in on the aquatic action with Playboys \Wet and Wild\.
Growing Up in America
7.5
1988
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Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other 60s rebels, then and now in a follow up to his 1971 film \Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family.\
Surname Viêt Given Name Nam
6.5
1989
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Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present. She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions.
The Congress
7.1
1989
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The U. S. Congress is one of the countrys most important and misunderstood institutions. Ken Burns tells the story behind this branch of government.
After Winter Comes Spring
6.5
1989
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Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.
Homework
7.9
1989
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In this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education.
Death Scenes
5
1989
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Vintage Hollywood themed shockumentary.