1979 Movies

The final days of the reign of the Shah: processions of mourning and jubilation, scenes after the fire in the Cinema Rex in Abadan, southern Iran, in...

During the Cultural Revolution a powerless newspaper writer struggles with his conscience at the pervasive dishonesty and immorality from the top on d...

The first half of the film features neon signs and scenes of Chicago night life. The second half of the film depicts scenes around Kleinhans' home in...

Shot on board a boat from the Westman Islands, this film covers a typical fishing trip. Follows the three-man crew of this small vessel at their work:...

Nagna Sathyam is a 1979 Telugu, drama film. The film was directed by U. Visweswar Rao.[

Simpson Street is a portrait of a neighborhood in New York's South Bronx shot during the 'Summer of Sam', 1977. It opens with a brief history of the n...

The Bar Rock was destroyed by fire in December 1978. A few days after the fire, employees and patrons of the bar collected these photos of the establi...

A poetic, experimental film composed of fragmented images, voices, and urban impressions, where electricity becomes a metaphor for modern emotion and...

"The ecstatic, mythic montage of Alaskan landscapes" is also "about the act of making" and an antidote to the stodgy notion that life crawled forth fr...

The starting point of Kaiserschnitt is a triangular construction. A horse stands in the centre of a large space, tied to a rope. Ulay and Abramovic ar...

About giving birth to a child. Gudrun Schyman, a controversial left wing politician, gives birth to her son Dan.

A documentary report on the tragic fire at Rex Cinema in Abadan in 1978, featuring interviews with survivors and witnesses and footage from the immedi...

The story of a Serer village in the groundnut basin of Senegal. Using the words of their ancestors passed on by oral folklore, the villagers trace the...

Investigation into political journalism in Quebec. Mainly focusing on English-speaking journalists in the press gallery at the National Assembly and t...

Documentary on the 1976 Tiananmen incident produced by the official China Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio.

Documentary about how the government in Angola used Fake News against the independence movement in its own country and how the Western press simply ad...