The Young Riders - Season One
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Josh Brolin, Stephen Baldwin, Brett Cullen, Anthony Zerbe, Melissa Leo, Christopher Pettiet, Don Franklin
Available Quality: DivX
Set just before the American Civil War, this series presented a highly fictionalized account of the heyday of the Pony Express. Its focus was a group of young Express riders based at the waystation in Sweetwater, Kansas. Running the station was ex-Texas Ranger and all-around eccentric Teaspoon Hunter. The role of cook, housekeeper and mother hen was filled first by Emma and later by Rachel. The riders included the future "Buffalo Bill" Cody and James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok, as well as Ike, a mute, Buck, a half-White/half-Kiowa scout and the Kid, a quiet Southerner. Their final member was Lou, a young woman who lived and worked with the r...
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Year: 1989
Country: UK
Director: Barry Purves
Starring: Roger Rees, Barry Purves
Available Quality: DivX
Will, a poor player who bears an uncanny resemblance to Shakespeare, auditions on stage in front of Peter, a busy producer with his nose in the trade papers, hardly noticing Will's extraordinary performance. Will, using the prop of a life-sized doll and changing costumes with magical speed, acts out brief scenes at the heart of Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, As You Like It, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Merry Wives, the Tempest, the Winter's Tale, and other of the Bard's plays. It's an infinite variety show, and finally Peter's attention is on Will. What will the producer say when Will finishes?
Baywatch - Season One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Michael Berk, Gregory J. Bonann, Douglas Schwartz
Starring: David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth
Available Quality: DivX
Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, sans the 1990-1991 season, of which it was not in production. From 19992001, with a setting change and large cast overhaul, it was known as Baywatch Hawaii. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Baywatch was the most watched TV show of all time, with over 1.1 billion viewers around the world each week.
Great Balls of Fire!
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Jim McBride
Starring: Stephen Tobolowsky, Dennis Quaid, Alec Baldwin, Winona Ryder, John Doe, Lisa Jane Persky, Robert Lesser
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.
The Golden Girls - Season Five
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Susan Harris
Starring: Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The series revolves around four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida. The owner of the home is a widow named Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), who was joined by fellow widow Rose Nylund (Betty White) and divorcée Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur). They both responded to a room-for-rent ad on the bulletin board of a local grocery store. In the pilot episode the women had a gay cook named Coco, who was eliminated immediately because there was already not enough dialogue for the three women. The three were soon joined by Dorothy's mother, Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty) after her Shady Pines retirement home burned down.
The Wonder Years - Season Two
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Carol Black, Neal Marlens
Starring: Daniel Stern, Fred Savage, Dan Lauria
Available Quality: DivX
The show achieved a spot in the Nielsen Top Thirty for four of its six seasons. TV Guide named the show one of the 20 best of the 1980s. After only six episodes aired, The Wonder Years won an Emmy for best comedy series in 1988. In addition, at age 13, Fred Savage became the youngest actor ever nominated as Outstanding Lead Actor for a Comedy Series. The show was also awarded a Peabody Award in 1989, for achieving two seemingly contradictory effects: evoking a traditional family sitcom while pushing boundaries and using new modes of storytelling. In total, the series won 22 awards and received another 54 nominations for various awards. In 199...
Lock Up
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: John Flynn
Starring: Tom Sizemore, Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, Jordan Lund, Darlanne Fluegel, John Amos, Frank McRae
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.HD 1080p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE
The Terror Within
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Thierry Notz
Starring: George Kennedy, Tommy Hinkley, Starr Andreeff, John Lafayette, Andrew Stevens, Terri Treas, Joseph Hardin
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
It's the post-apocalypse, and the world has been changed by "the accident," a chemical warfare experiment gone awry. At an isolated subterranean complex, a group of people survives because they were able to get the antidote for the illness. They rescue a surface survivor from the gargoyles, who unfortunately had time to impregnate her, and when the "baby" is born and escapes into the ventilation ducts, they begin experiencing an attrition problem.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Season Six
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Michael Cox
Starring: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Williams
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
As well as being broadcast by ITV in the UK, the series was popular overseas, particularly in the United States, where the episodes initially ran on PBS stations there in the Mystery! strand. Later series gained co-production funding from Boston PBS broadcaster WGBH. The shows have also been transmitted on cable television stations Disney Channel and A&E Network in the US, and on CBC in Canada. In the UK, the series has often been repeated on Granada Plus, ITV3 and BBC Two, who ran the complete series on Saturday afternoons from 2003 to 2005. This makes the series one of the very few major in-house ITV series ever to have been subsequently sh...
Monster High
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Rudy Poe
Starring: Andrew Husmann, Dean Iandoli, Diana Frank, David Marriott, Robert Lind, Sean Haines, Doug Kerzner
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Two high school goofs steal an explosive device from another world that has been hidden on earth, and an alien named Mr. Armageddon is sent to retrieve it from them.
Full House - Season Four
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Jeff Franklin
Starring: Dave Coulier, John Stamos, Bob Saget
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
After Danny Tanner's wife Pam is killed in a collision by a drunk driver, he recruits his rock musician, brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis and quirky comedian, best friend Joey Gladstone to help raise his three daughters: D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle, in his San Francisco home. Over time, the three men as well as the children bond and become closer to one another.
Born on the Fourth of July
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Tom Cruise, Tom Berenger, Frank Whaley, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans, Jamie Talisman
Available Quality: DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Shirley Valentine
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1989
Country: USA, UK
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Bernard Hill, Tom Conti, Joanna Lumley, George Costigan, Sylvia Syms, Anna Keaveney, Alison Steadman
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
The Tall Guy
Year: 1989
Country: UK
Director: Mel Smith
Starring: Tim Barlow, Jeff Goldblum, Anna Massey, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson, Geraldine James, Harold Innocent
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Dexter King plays straight man to unpleasant comedian Ron Anderson. He falls in love with Kate, a pretty nurse he meets when he is receiving injections for hay fever. When Anderson fires him, he acquires the title role in a musical stage version of "The Elephant Man". Kate dumps him when she suspects he is having an affair with a fellow cast member, and he must win her back.
Gojira vs. Biorante (Godzilla vs. Biollante)
Year: 1989
Country: Japan
Director: Kazuki Omori
Starring: Kosuke Toyohara, Kôichi Ueda, Megumi Odaka, Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, Koji Takahashi
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A scientist combines the cells of a rose with those of Godzilla to create a biological creature more horrifying than any seen before. The two do battle after a destructive tour of Japan by Godzilla. A newly released version includes many new fight scenes that were cut out of the theatrical version.
The Return of the Musketeers
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 1989
Country: UK, Spain, France
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Michael York, Kim Cattrall, C. Thomas Howell, Christopher Lee, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Roy Kinnear
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abb
Glory
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Jay O. Sanders, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi Kennedy, Andre Braugher
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.
The Shell Seekers
Genres: Drama
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Waris Hussein
Starring: Serena Gordon, Denis Quilley, Sophie Ward, Angela Lansbury, Michael Gough, Patricia Hodge, Irene Worth
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a bohemian childhood in London and the wilds of Cornwall...
Captain N: The Game Master - Season One
Genres: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Animation
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Garry Chalk, Michael Donovan, Doc Harris
Starring: Michael Donovan, Garry Chalk, Doc Harris
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Captain N: The Game Master was an American animated television series that aired on television from 1989 to 1991 as part of the Saturday morning cartoon lineup on NBC. The show incorporated elements from many of the most popular Nintendo games of the time. There was also a comic book version by Valiant Comics, albeit only featuring characters from games produced by the Japanese company Nintendo.
The Bush Tucker Man - Season Three
Genres: Documentary
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Stephen Burstow, Tim Clark
Starring: Les Hiddins
Available Quality: DivX
As a part of this research, Hiddins was introduced to the Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana) by the Aborigines, who had used the plant for thousands of years. He sent the fruit to be analysed, and it was found to have the highest concentration of Vitamin C of any known natural substance in the world.Hiddins retired from the Army in 1989 with the rank of Major but continued to serve with the Army Reserve until 2001, working with Indigenous Australian communities in northern Australia.Hiddins and the Chain of Ponds Winery released the distinctive Bush Tucker Man wines in 2002.