Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2929 Films to Buy & Rent
Wave, The (1981)
- Dir. Alexander Grasshof
Feat. Bruce Davison, John Putch
- A powerful "after school special" that dramatizes a real experiment conducted in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be…
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
- Dir. Ferninand Fairfax
Feat. Robert Hardy, Sian Phillips, Nigel Havers…
- 8–part drama series about the future British Prime Minister, during his years in political exile in the 1920s and 1930s. Robert Hardy plays…
An Audience with Dame Edna (1980-1988)
- Dir. Alasdair MacMillan
Feat. Barry Humphries
- A compilation of three TV specials starring the indefatigable and imperious Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries in drag) as she shares her opinions on…
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (TV Series) (1980)
- Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigates strange phenomena around the planet in this intriguing television series. Travelling the world from…
Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) (1980)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Elisabeth Trissenaar…
- This monolithic tome set in Weimar–era Germany represented the peak of dir. Fassbinder's filmmaking career. Across 15 hours, it details the…
Beulah Land (TV Mini-series) (1980)
- Feat. Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert…
- There are plenty of well–known faces in the support cast of this old–fashioned, three–part mini–series dramatizing the lives…
Blake's 7 (TV Series) - Series 3 (1980)
- Feat. Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating
- More adventures and intrigues for the crew of the 'Liberator', in this classic British TV Series.
Series Three: 13 episodes over five…
Bosom Buddies (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari
- Box office everyman Tom Hanks dons womenswear as a yuppie advertising executive resigned to living in an all–female tenement.…
Cowboys (TV Series) (1980)
- Dir. Michael Mills
Feat. Colin Welland, David Kelly, Roy Kinnear
- Wickedly funny early–80's comedy centered around a dubious firm of dis–functional builders.
Dallas - Season 4 (TV Series) (1980-1981)
- Feat. Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray…
- Further episodes in the classic piece of 80s TV Americana, following the fortunes of the well–heeled Ewing and Barnes families. Available over…