Around the World in 80s Movies

Around the World in 80s Movies


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Fire and Ice (1983) | Ralph Bakshi
March 20, 2020

This animated story involves a fantasy world imagined before the last ice age, featuring human civilizations and exotic dinosaurs coexisting. It is a time where the lands are divided among two factions, the evil Ice Peak sorcerer warlords,

Return to Oz (1985) | Walter Murch
March 12, 2020

Nine months after her Oz experience, Dorothy wants to return to check in with her friends. Aunt Em thinks Dorothy is mentally ill. She seeks treatment from an experimental clinic using electroshock therapy to treat maladies of the mind.

Willow (1988) | Ron Howard
March 06, 2020

The story involves Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a farmer who dreams of becoming a sorcerer's apprentice among the Nerwyns, which are a race of little people. One day, he encounters a baby who has washed onto the riverbank near his farm. The baby,

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) | Ken & Jim Wheat
February 28, 2020

The moon of Endor gets attacked by a vicious band of thuggish Sanyassan marauders, whose ancestors also crashlanded on Endor some time ago, and a powerful shape-shifting sorceress named Charal under the leadership of King Terak.

The Ewok Adventure | Caravan of Courage (1984)
February 21, 2020

George Lucas's story for this made-for-TV spin-off from the Star Wars films involves a spacecraft that crash lands on Endor. The mother and father spend the film looking for their two children, a fourteen-year-old named Mace Towani and his four-year-ol...

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) | Steve Binder (with David Acomba)
February 14, 2020

The Star Wars Holiday Special is a two-hour made-for-TV musical variety show movie that aired on November 17. 1978 on CBS for its November sweeps period.). Variety shows were hot on TV in the 1970s and this effort would serve as a ratings bonanza,

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) | Nicholas Meyer
February 07, 2020

The final of the Star Trek films to feature the entire original cast, Star Trek VI draws many parallels to the end of the Cold War between the United States (represented here by the Federation) and the Soviet Union (the big bad Klingons).

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) | William Shatner
January 31, 2020

Star Trek V starts off with the crew taking over the reins of new Enterprise starship, and their first impromptu mission requires them to travel to the near desolate planet of Nimbus III, where a rogue Vulcan known as Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) has pl...

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) | Leonard Nimoy
January 24, 2020

Star Trek IV starts with our heroes on planet Vulcan, loading up to go home and face punishment from the Federation for their hijacking of the Enterprise and its subsequent destruction, as well as the sabotage of the Excelsior.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) | Leonard Nimoy
January 17, 2020

Star Trek III starts off with the weary Enterprise crew returning home after their near-death battle with Khan, and the actual death of Spock, whose body had been torpedoed to the Genesis world, which was a newly transformed planet,