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Under the guidance of legendary manager Dusty Baker and a talent-loaded team, the Astros would deliver one of the finest seasons in MLB history. After sweeping the Seattle Mariners in the ALDS and the New York Yankees in the ALCS, their showdown was set against the red-hot, hard-hitting Philadelphia Phillies. And though Philadelphia would jump out to a 2 games to 1 lead, the Astros lifted off behind a stellar bullpen; the second no-hitter in World Series history; and sensational offense. After a resounding Game 6 victory at Minute Maid Park, Baker earned his long-awaited first World Series ring as manager.

In 1992, the Toronto Blue Jays brought their country to its feet and out into the streets with a sense of national pride. But good baseball transcends borders, and this was a World Series for which baseball fans the world over could be proud.

It was the story of two last-place baseball teams who, one year later, found themselves playing in perhaps the greatest World Series of all time.

An aging village chief entrenched in traditional Cameroonian ways clashes with his daughter. She was educated in France to help support the family, but has taken on the trappings of Western Europeans.

Public Information Film on the dangers of solvent abuse.

One of only two surviving works by Humphrey Esterhase (1931-2012). Over fifty years ago, Esterhase’s entire filmography of seven underground movies was destroyed while he was travelling in South America. His luggage, containing the only copies of these works, was thrown overboard during a mutiny on a boat he had booked passage on. The incident ended with the mutineers being summarily executed and the reclusive Esterhase gave up making films. All he left behind were these two abortive attempts to begin again late in life.

During the height of the Cold War, the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit produced eleven (11) films for several trade unions on political and industrial issues. Independent film-makers worked with them to develop critical dialogue from one generation of concerned film-makers onto another. FILM-WORK looks at sequences from 4 of these films and interviews some of their makers, raising a diversity of issues pertinent to current debates in film, history and politics. The 4 films that are looked at are PENSIONS FOR VETERANS (1953, NSW Branch, WWF), THE HUNGRY MILES (1954, WWF), NOVEMBER VICTORY (1955, WWF), and HEWERS OF COAL (1953, Miners Federation). PENSIONS FOR VETERANS covers the issue of the need for pensions to be given to workers who have worked on the waterfront all their life. THE HUNGRY MILES shows the strength of the workers, the union and its democracy. HEWERS OF COAL is about the coal miners and their struggle to get better working conditions and pensions.

Narrated by award-winning James Earl Jones, THE CLINTON 12 tells the compelling story of the integration of the FIRST public high school in the South as a result of the Brown vs the Board of Education decision by the US Supreme Court. The title refers to the 12 black teenagers who, in the fall of 1956 were forced to attend the all-whit high school in Clinton, Tennessee.

Released as a promotional film series along the group’s album of the same name, the film features CIX members exploring dark themes, including bullying, violence, societal abandonment, and death.

Lens and Mirror Film is part of the Light Occupations series, in which Gill Eatherley performs simple investigations of the filmic equipment, particularly the camera and the projector, in short films that are each three minutes in length – corresponding to the length of a 100-foot roll of film.

Early experimentations with film by a materialist sculptor and future structural filmmaker.

Five experimentations with film as a medium, a physical object and a record of social reality.

Mexican feature film

"Fill is my first video; the monitor becomes a picture-sound box. The screen is filled by laying sheets of aluminum foil on a microphone and wrapped one at a time and then unwrapped. The audio implodes during the wrapping and explodes as the sheets are pulled away from the microphone. Besides the obvious reading of physical filling, the title also refers to filling time or a 'filler' between television shows."- Askevold

Recovering from her wife's apparent suicide, Jenny lives in a Utopian reality. But when this illusion is disrupted she is forced to confront the horror that was left behind.

Wasima and Jessica, her granddaughter, had a fight. After Jessica slammed the door and walked out, she was cursed to become a stingray. Wasima and Jessica (already a stingray) were interviewed on TV and invited as guests. Two years later, a mysterious figure is waiting for Mrs. Wasima at her house.