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- Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
- This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.
- Struggling writer, Danny, must cope with the unexpected arrival of a corpse.
- Who better to scrutinize and investigate the quirkier achievements of the impressive and expansive Roman Empire than co-creator of the brilliantly accomplished question; 'What have the Romans ever done for us'? Terry Jones is in search of an answer. Unearthing the secrets of the Roman world in his own idiosyncratic and bizarre way, he reveals how ordinary people really lived in ancient Rome.
- Medea (Zoe Caldwell) is in Corinth with Jason (Mitchell Ryan) and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason.
- A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history.
- In this l973 Alice Walker short story, a wayward daughter returns to her rural Georgia roots but is unable to sustain a connection with her sharecropper family because she has the notion that her roots are strictly African.
- Documentary seeks to answer why the majority of the German people were so willing to follow Hitler, even as he led them into war.
- It is a psychological documentary portraying a three day experiment conducted by Dr. Mark McDermott and Dr. Phil Zimbardo.
- No single work has shaped Western civilization more than the Bible. In this provocative seven-part series, renowned archaeologist John Romer (Ancient Lives) traces the roots of the world's most important book in light of archaeological evidence. Who wrote the Bible? Where did the story of creation come from? What can archaeology tell us about Abraham, the Exodus, and Jesus of Nazareth? Join Romer as he visits dig sites at Jericho, Jerusalem, and elsewhere to uncover the motives and methods of the people who told the sacred story, attacked it, defended it, and transformed it throughout history. For believers and non-believers alike, this fascinating journey reveals the Bible not only as a record of historical events, but also as a profound profession of faith that still holds our hearts and minds.
- The documentary follows physicist Keith Schwab through the roller-coaster emotions of a ground-breaking experiment in nano-technology.
- The story of a young noblewoman in love with a man she cannot marry. In her struggle, she must confront the most infamous of all Jewish characters: Shylock demands his pound of flesh.
- A biography of the celebrated Mexican writer and diplomat, Carlos Fuentes, who has specialized in "crossing borders," and attempting to bridge the differences between Latin America and the U.S.
- Philaminte, the Chrysale's wife, and her daughter Armande are under the influence of a fashionable poetry which rages in a certain "bourgeois milieu" in Paris. They are overcomed by the poems of Trissotin, cynicaller than you think. Philaminte decided to marry him her daughter Henriette who is in love with Clitandre. She complains to his father but it's a clever trap imagined by her uncle Ariste which is going to reveal the truth: Trissotin is involved by the money and when Arist reads a false letter which says that Chrysale has lost his fortune, Trissotin goes away.
- A film about cults and the the indomitable human soul.
- On April 1 1980, five individuals seeking political asylum crashed a bus through the gates of the Peruvian embassy in Havana, Cuba. In the following days, 10,000 people stormed that embassy's grounds, signifying wide-spread disdain for Cuba's dictatorship. Fearing that continued civil unrest might cause further violence, Fidel Castro proclaimed that any Cuban wishing to immigrate to the United States could board a boat at the nearby port of Mariel. In what some considered a bold move, Castro forced prisoners and street indigents to board these same boats. While only a small percentage of the 125,000 Mariel refugees were actually criminals, Castro succeeded in tarnishing the image of those fleeing the country. However, for the vast majority of those who left Cuba, this was the beginning of a costly journey to freedom. The exile would begin not only with a parting of personal possessions, but a separation from family that for many would last a lifetime. But for the Marielitos the cost of their mass exodus was outweighed by something previously unimaginable: a chance to pursue their dreams. Dr. Jose Garcia left through Mariel as a 13 year-old boy. His journey takes us through personal accounts of lives affected by the Mariel exodus, of those who departed and also those who stayed behind. Culminating with his long anticipated trip back to his birthplace, we see the emotional reuniting of family and friends as we explore and listen to the unheard 'Voices From Mariel'.
- Archaeologist John Romer reconstructs the life of a village in ancient Egypt.
- FOLLOW ME DOWN is a feature-length documentary about music in prison. Shot over the course of two years in three Louisiana prisons, Georgetown ethnomusicologist Ben Harbert weaves together interviews and performances of extraordinary inmate musicians--some serving life sentences, some new commits and one soon to be released. The result, in essence, is a concert film, but instead of bright lights and big stages, these musicians rap in the fields while picking okra, soothe themselves with R&B in lockdown and create a cappella gospel harmonies. With unprecedented access and Harbert's insistence on letting the music speak for itself, the film offers an unexpected look at prison life, pushing viewers to reach their own conclusions about criminality, regret, redemption, and the humanity in us all.
- Walter James Cross, living alone, contemplates suicide, and then decides against this and instead finds an empty theatre where he tells the story of his long struggle with schizophrenia to an imaginary audience.
- When the religious charlatan Tartuffe insinuates himself into the household of the wealthy but credulous Orgon, it is not long before he takes over, acquiring the deed to the property, disinheriting Orgon's son, and becoming betrothed to Orgon's daughter. But when clever Elmire, Orgon's wife, trips up the imposter, Orgon throws him out only to finf himself arrested and his family evicted instead. A last-minute intervention by the King restores order and metes out justice.
- An examination of the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) and his association with physicist Wolfgang Pauli. Explores the sources and themes of Jungian psychology: aspects of the soul, the mandala as tool and symbol, medieval alchemy in contrast to modern science, the world of Eros, the connections between psyche and matter. Dream recreations provide an additional avenue of access to the work of Jung.
- This mini-series profiles nine "adventure" photographers and examines how they are able to capture such difficult subjects as whale sharks, molten volcanoes, Mount Everest, and untouched pre-Inca tombs.