1999 Movies

King Gimp is a 1999 documentary that was awarded the 2000 Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary and 2000 Peabody Award. "King Gimp" followe...

Goomer is an intergalactic space trucker who lands in an unknown planet and finds it impossible to leave. After a long intergalactic trip his robot as...

Anne is partly handicapped following a car accident and in the year of her rehabilitation she has rarely left her apartment in America. She lives with...

Blind blues musician Paul Pena is perhaps best known for his song "Jet Airliner". In 1993, Pena heard Tuvan throat singing over his shortwave radio an...

A short film by Gary Goldberger, Lara Hannay, and Peter H. Reynolds.

An attempt to summarize the director's life and work to date, starting from his early youth and ending with his work on "Pan Tadeusz".

A Japanese direct-to-video film.

Charyarsaba, an isolated mountain village in Nepal. Living here means working hard for one's food and worshipping one's ancestors and the gods, who gu...

Who was Charles Ponzi?... a scoundrel, a petty criminal, a misunderstood financial genius, a criminal mastermind, or perhaps simply a salesman extraor...

This mockumentary tells the story of actual Swedish/Finish rap-star Markoolio. By a not too serious tv-reporter, we are told that 'Markoolio' is an an...

An infant girl named Hannah is abducted by her grandmother Barbara Thomas. Hannah's father David Overton, convinced that Barbara is the head of a cove...

Flora, a librarian, is hitchhiking to a job in a faraway town. Simple-hearted plumber Tim is headed to the Black Forest, a cow for his nuptials in tow...

Michelle Kwan and friends skate to songs from Disney movies. Viewers voted on the internet for which songs would be used in this special. The top ten...

Short documentary on "the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe", Czech puppet animation director Jirí Trnka.

A review of Howard Hawks's work, focusing on "His Girl Friday".

Florist Valerie unwaveringly believes in the great love of her life, even though her friend Bea has just been divorced and tries to convince Valerie t...

Nava, a social worker, shares the painful secret of her suffering with Jania, another woman victimized by her husband and the two form a healing bond.

Two very bored shadowy characters try to think of something to do--and end up playing "Shadow Puppets."