Movies

This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw...

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context...

Documentary about early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, who helped to expose grim working conditions in American factories and mines,...

Dioxins, PCBs and profit v. public health. A hard-hitting investigation of dioxins and PCBs, with a clear scientific explanation of why they are the...

A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America."

Abortion and contraception go back thousands of years. So does the question of who should control them. Our attitudes about controlling human...

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the...

The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.

A champion of the strenuous life, Teddy Roosevelt embodied the notion of an expanded presidency. Stamping the presidency with his own colorful...

A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who...

An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new...

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful...

A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and...

The Face of a Genius is a 1966 American documentary film about Eugene O’Neill, produced by Alfred R. Kelman for WBZ-TV Boston. It was nominated...

A documentary about the New York Public Library, including the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts and the Schomberg Center in Harlem.

World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight.

Set prior to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, the 1980 documentary 'Ghosts of Cape Horn' retraces the journey made by sailing ships during...