The Shogun Assassins
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Life on Earth
The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.
Heaven Sent
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their…
This Old House
TV’s original home-improvement show, following one whole-house renovation over several episodes.
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
The original thirty-minute version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo constitutes the fourth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 22, 1979 and ran for one season…
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief. George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out…
Einstein’s Universe
A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated and hosted by Peter Ustinov and written by Nigel Calder.
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite – but opposites attract. After school, the two head to…
Macbeth
Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and…
The War at Home
Documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin area during the time of the Vietnam War. It combines archival footage and interviews with participants that explore the events…
Archie Bunker’s Place
Archie Bunker’s Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular…
Youth – Part II
Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily….
The Quatermass Conclusion
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large…
Hurricane
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid…
Game For Vultures
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
Poto and Cabengo
Documentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.
The Woman with Red Hair
Kozo and his colleague rape their boss’s daughter and have sex with an unnamed woman.
The Fifth Estate
Each week the fifth estate brings in-depth investigations that matter to Canadians – delivering a dazzling parade of political leaders, controversial characters and ordinary people whose lives were touched by…
The Ropers
The Ropers is an American sitcom that ran from March 13, 1979 to May 22, 1980 on ABC. The series is a spin-off of Three’s Company and based on the…
Benson
José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
A young couple is overjoyed when they find out that, after having had two girls, the wife is pregnant again, and this time it will be a son. However, the…
Christmas Lilies of the Field
Sometime after the events in ‘Lilies of the Field’ (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of homeless…
Fast Break
David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who…
The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie
A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, “starring” the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and…
The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone
The Flintstones and Rubbles win a trip on “Make a Deal or Don’t” to Count Rockula’s castle in Rocksylvania where they have an unpleasant meeting with the Count and his…
Gas Pump Girls
June and her friends take over a service station formerly run by her uncle. They perform every trick in the book to attract the customers.
An American Christmas Carol
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of…
Arabian Adventure
An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy…
The Bitch
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
The Brood
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist’s therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the…
City on Fire
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
The Dark
At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and…
Fast Company
An early departure from director David Cronenberg’s canon of visceral horror, 1979’s Fast Company profiles one of his personal passions, racecars, in a gritty melodrama that also features exciting racetrack…
Escape to Athena
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don’t want only their freedom, but they also seek for…
Eagle’s Wing
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne’er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle’s Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans…
Fascination
A thief seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva and Elizabeth. The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult…
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left Charles to…
The Proud Twins
After his parents are murdered, Jiang Xiao Yu (Fu Sheng) is separated from his twin as a baby and taken by a family friend to “Villains Valley,” where he is…