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- The series chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb and the spread of nuclear arms over the following decades. It continues past the dissolution of the Soviet Union to Vladimir Putin's ascent and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- This unflinching series documents the 9/11 terrorist attacks, from Al Qaeda's roots in the 1980s to America's forceful response, both at home and abroad.
- When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
- Jerry McKibbon is a tough, no nonsense reporter, mentoring special prosecutor John Conroy in routing out corrupt officials in the city, which may even include Conroy's own police detective father as a suspect.
- A docuseries exploring the influence and legacy of recent events and how they have charted new and unanticipated paths forward.
- A slacker who does his best to avoid confrontation strikes up an unlikely friendship with a dangerous thug who suddenly forces his way into his life.
- Animals and humans switched places. Now, animals are ruling the earth and humans are at the verge of extinction.
- Released after the Russian victory over the Germans in WWII, the film stresses the role of the officer staff during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- Follows author Dave Eggers as he meets students and teachers after his novel and others were pulled from Rapid City, SD schools. Through footage of meetings and rallies, we see how books were designated "to be destroyed."
- Teenage German soldier is falsely accused of being a war criminal and arrested in Poland of 1945.
- The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.
- Derrick Hunter is a loving husband, a respected member of his local church and a professional Special Forces Soldier. But, when he returns home from his tenth combat deployment, his wife Tiffany quickly discovers that there's something wrong. He's less social, has trouble sleeping, is easily angered and struggles to find work after his discharge is final. With Derrick's symptoms growing worse each day, he begins to contemplate suicide.
- This film of love, desire, betrayal and revenge follows a young man as he seeks his fortune on the streets of Seoul.
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- Finding themselves in financial difficulties because of the failure of the Edgerton-Tennant Company, New York socialites Diana and Silvette Tennant decide to work as society hostesses. Also affected by the business failure is James Edgerton, who is in love with Diana. Employed by wealthy E. H. Rivett to stage a fashionable party, Diana encounters Colonel Carew, who harasses her with questions about a murder in Reno which has clouded her name. Driven from the party by his questioning, Diana is pursued by Carew to her apartment, followed by Mrs. Wemyss, a widow jealous of Carew's attentions to Diana. Diana's good name, her love, and her honor are at stake until Edgerton comes to her rescue, forcing a full revelation of the Reno affair and clearing the path for a union between Diana and her benefactor.
- The Turning Point is a personal journey through a couple's adventure to becoming new parents; through all the highs and lows of pregnancy. Once the baby is born a whole new story begins to develop. The filmmaker and his wife must adjust to the steep learning curve of being new parents, the very little sleep and their old lives now gone forever; replaced by a crying, eating machine who they have to learn how to love. The Turning Point is a funny, heartwarming and honest film; edited in a very tight, almost dream like fashion. It is a story that most people go through at least once in their lives, but told in way and from a perspective that has not been seen before.
- History often turns upon small but crucial events, which seem obscure at the time but come to be appreciated later as having the quality of fate. This outstanding six-part series examines several of these pivotal moments within the context of 20th-century Communism, exposing the machinations of those behind the scenes and underscoring the importance of their actions.
- Few Americans realize that the Battle of Midway - just six months after Pearl Harbor - doomed the Japanese to defeat. Discover how Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Yamamoto, two leaders from vastly different cultures, designed and executed their battle plans. See the spectacular naval and aerial battles as they played out.
- John, a temperate young farmer, is a dutiful husband and fond father of a sweet little girl. He is first seen at breakfast In the heart of his happy family which consists, in addition to his wife and daughter, of his old father and mother. The meal finished we next see John industriously working in the fields with a group of other men. His companions are wont to refresh themselves often during the day by the use of spirits, which they secure from a peddler who brings a small keg to them in the fields. John at first refuses to drink but becomes the object of several slighting remarks because of this, and finally after some persuasion is tempted into "taking just one drink." The flavor and the stimulation please him. He indulges in another glass and soon becomes enamored of the possibilities of pleasure in the "flowing bowl." We next see him with a group of rakish companions at the village inn. Several drinks make him forgetful of the little family at home and some time is spent in boisterous songs and stories. Unaccustomed to drinking John is soon too intoxicated to leave with his companions. He falls into a drunken slumber with his head upon the drinking table. Now comes to his poisoned mind a dream which makes this hour a turning point in his life and forever cures him of the desire to feel the apparent joys of the habitual drinker. In his dream he sees his happy family; into their presence he finally staggers in a beastly state of intoxication. The amazed and frightened wife gently remonstrates with him, but is abused by harsh word and finally brutally beaten. Crazed by drink he hurls his baby from his way and unheeding the reproaches and entreaties of his old father he carries on his orgy by further drinking. He sees the heartbroken wife and frightened child flee from the farm. He watches them as they struggle painfully along a public road, suffering for want of food and care. Then the unhappy mother sinks dying beside the road and the heartrending sobs of the little girl over the body of her only friend rouses him for an instant from his horrible dream. He attempts to throw off his drowsiness and the horror of his dream, but the wine is still too potent in his body and he again falls asleep. Now he sees his life grow even more degraded. The home once so happy becomes the stage of an awful drama. He sees his feeble father trying to draw him away from his mad career of drinking. Unable to influence him for good the father reproaches him with his unworthy conduct. Stung by the rebuke and crazed by alcohol he grasps the old man's throat. He sees his father's struggles and death. He then sees his own arrest and the hours of labor spent in prison for his crime; sees himself one of a crew of low criminals working under guard in a stone quarry, planning with the associate outlaws for escape. He watches attempted flight, the pursuit by the guards, the solitary guard following him through the forest, the final hand to hand struggle between himself and the officer who overtakes him, a struggle in which he is pierced through the brain with a bullet and in awful agony dies. John awakes greatly agitated, and observing before him the table covered with empty bottles knows he has made the first step in a path which may lead him through the very scenes and among the awful tragedies he has just watched in his dream. With a strong effort of will he throws off, to an extent the effects of the liquor and makes his way to his home where the family are most anxiously awaiting his already tardy return. He describes to his wife the events of the afternoon and his horrible dream. He then expresses his firm determination never to touch the poisoned cup again and to live only for his family's and his friends' good.
- Frank and Bert are rivals for the hand of Nell. Bert, recognized by the sheriff as a wanted man, is placed under arrest. Frank is accepted by Nell, and the two are married. A year passes. Bert is released from prison and returns home, only to have the memory of Nell haunting him constantly. He goes to the cabin of Nell and Frank, finds her alone, and endeavors to make love to her. She resents and in the struggle that ensues she receives a long scratch on the cheek. But she succeeds in obtaining his gun and ordering him from the house. Frank returns, asks her how she received the scratch and when she tells him that the baby did it, he becomes suspicious. Bert realizes that if Frank should find his gun trouble would follow. He employs Pedro, a Mexican, to leave a note where Frank will be certain to find it, to the effect that he, Bert, will meet Nell at the well at two o'clock. Frank finds the note and goes to the well. Bert then returns to Nell's home. Frank hears her screams and runs back. He enters the house and the two men fight. The stove is overturned, and the house catches fire. Nell seizes the little baby and rushes outside, just in time to prevent Pedro from shooting in the window at her husband. As the men are fighting inside, one of their guns is discharged and the bullet, going through the window, wounds Pedro. The sheriff and posse arrive just in time to rescue Frank from the burning house, which collapses, burying Bert with it.
- An avant-garde peek inside a woman's mind and her silent battle with Depression.
- Three Round is hired to kill a woman and her child. He is an assassin that only carries 3 bullets in his gun.
- The Widow Baker receives five thousand dollars from the railroad for the right of way over her land. This sum she deposits in the town bank. Through a glaring newspaper ad she is now tempted to invest her money in a fake gold mine company. Dan Walton, their representative, meets her at the train, escorts her to their office for a beautiful certificate of stock. In taking out his watch, Walton reveals his mother's photo in the case, which impresses the widow and she lovingly strokes the sharper's head as she tells him never to forget his mother. Deeply moved, Walton sees the old lady off to the train, then returns to the office, secures her money, tells his pals he is going to return it to her and when they try to stop him, holds them at bay with drawn gun as he slowly backs out of the door. Walton journeys to the widow's country cottage, returns her money and receives her blessing, goes to the railway station, finds himself without fare back to the city, smiles grimly, then sets out along the ties, happy in the thought that he has proved himself a man.
- Dayton Reeves, the son of an aristocratic California family, inherits a taste for drink. He is a man of prominent club life, sincerely devoted to his little mother and only sister. Nan Clark of the underworld is the only child of a poor but devoted mother. In the poorest section of a big city, she is surrounded by crooks of every type. One, Chic Fagan, induces her to make the first leap into a criminal life. He persuades her to burglarize the Reeves' home and so lift herself and struggling mother out of their poverty, making it clear to the desperate girl that it is the "easiest way." Dayton Reeves, leaving his mother, departs for an evening of gambling and drink at his club. Catherine Reeves, a heavy loser at a recent progressive bridge whist party, tries in vain to obtain from her mother an addition to her monthly allowance to free herself of her financial obligations to Mrs. Chandler. Mrs. Reeves cannot comply with her daughter's wishes, and sits alone. Nan enters the house by a rear window and stands breathless before entering the dining-hall. Dayton Reeves departs from his club under the influence of liquor. Entering his home he is distressed to find an unwelcome visitor, whom he takes pity upon, telling her if she will promise never to steal again, he will let her go free and not warn the police. Dayton, in the act of consuming a glass of whiskey, is stopped by the gentle hand of Nan, who offers a compact. If Dayton will stop drinking, she will stop stealing. After a brief elapse of time Dayton Reeves decides to give Nan her chance in life, to take her into his mother's home as a companion for his mother. Catherine Reeves, to meet her financial obligations, pawns her jewelry to free her from debt. A progressive whist bridge party is held at the Reeves homestead. Catherine Reeves is a heavy loser and is almost panic stricken. Seeing her opportunity, she steals from a guest a small silver purse containing a large amount of money. Mrs. Filkins, discovering her loss, is deeply incensed and commands Dayton Reeves to send for a detective to clear the matter then and there. Nan, who has now become like one of the family, is in the room at the time of the theft, and by a natural coincidence sees Catherine Reeves take the purse. The arrival of the detective creates excitement and as Dayton Reeves is explaining the serious incident, the detective notices Nan Clark, once of the underworld, and in his mind, "he need look no further." Nan persuades Catherine to quickly pass her the purse. The detective requests a woman to search Nan. Wrapped in her handkerchief, clasped tightly in her hand, is found the missing money. Dayton Reeves can scarcely believe that all his efforts to reform Nan have failed. He tells the detective to take her away. After Nan's departure, the guests having dispersed. Catherine's conscience becomes her master. Falling on her knees before her brother, she tells of Nan's loyalty and her own guilt and the reason that prompted it. The butler is quickly followed to summon the detective and bring back Nan, who enters the Reeves' homestead, not as the companion of a dear and loving mother, but as the sweetheart and loving wife of Dayton Reeves.
- Here we have a film dealing with the most fascinating subject: the efforts of a band of criminals to obtain a very valuable picture. Their tool is a woman, who in the power of the leading criminal, attempts to secure the picture by making love to the owner of it. She succeeds in winning his love but also awakens her own and with it her conscience and a desire to live a right life. Her struggle for freedom from her evil associations and the determination of the criminals not to lose so valuable an assistant forms one of the most interesting and melodramatic films released in a good many months.
- Stella Lee, the lonely daughter of a prosperous farmer, advertises for a husband. Raymond Blackwell, a handsome but irresponsible young man, reads the personal and, inspired by mercenary motives, promptly replies. Stella, although receiving many other answers, decides upon Raymond. The father now takes charge of the affair and after making a personal investigation, invites Raymond to visit the family in the country. Blinded by his secret ambition, Raymond fails to notice the true worth of the girl. The father provides a comfortable home near the old farmhouse and Raymond and Stella are married. A year later discontent rushes in and the husband leaves for the city and resumes his wild career with companions of doubtful character. The father visits Raymond in his daughter's behalf and is angrily ordered to leave the room. The old gentleman delivers a scathing denunciation and departs. Time goes on. One evening, as Raymond is placing the day's collections in his employer's safe, his two companions enter and, seeing the act, propose a robbery. When they are on the point of gaining Raymond's co-operation, a telegram arrives announcing the dangerous illness of the wife. He is between two fires. The wife wins. Raymond repudiates his disreputable companions and hastens to Stella's bedside. The shock is too much for her and she falls into unconsciousness. Overwhelmed with a guilty conscience, grief and remorse, Raymond is about to end all when Stella recovers from her swoon. A complete reconciliation is affected. Health is regained and the two young people return to their cottage to begin a new and happier life.
- John Carewe is apparently blessed with all that man most desires. He has a comfortable home, beautiful wife and loving little daughter, yet he persists in neglecting his wife and home, spending his time among the bright lights. His wife tries to make him reform, but Carewe is set in his ways, and while he loves his wife, he cannot give up his evil habits. Mrs. Carewe finally determines to try a little strategy on her wayward husband. When he arrives at home that night, a trifle intoxicated, he finds a note from his wife telling him that she has taken the baby and departed. She is in reality only as far away as the next room. Carewe's grief at the realization of his folly and its result prompts him to contemplate suicide. He takes out his revolver and is about to use it when little Doris makes her appearance upon the scene. His joy on learning that he has not lost his wife and child is as great as was his grief. He decides to turn the tables on his wife and does so by smearing some tomato ketchup over his shirt bosom, and then firing several shots into the floor. His wife rushes in and faints at the sight of her supposedly dead husband. He, however, has learned his lesson and the happy family are once more reunited.
- Unable to further endure her husband's cruelty, a woman leaves her husband, secures a divorce and goes back to her old home. While canoeing, she falls into the water and is rescued by a wealthy young man who courts and marries her. Her first husband has gone the downward path and has become a burglar. He breaks into the home of his former wife, and in a thrilling duel with her husband, is wounded. The woman rushes into the room at the sound of the pistol shots and recognizes him. To avoid unwelcome notoriety, he is allowed to depart and goes out through the window into the darkness. The dramatic worth of this picture is apparent, as James Kirkwood and Mace Greenleaf, two of the best legitimate leading men in the country, interpret the principal roles. Many of the scenes are staged in beautiful country spots, presenting artistic backgrounds of verdure, flowers and rippling waters.
- His early life was one long battle against poverty, against Fate. His mother was attacked by blindness, the result of hard work, and because of his poverty he was unable to provide the necessary treatment which the physician said she required. His mother's total blindness, followed by her death, left him embittered against the entire world and filled him with one overwhelming desire, to accumulate wealth, the only power the world recognizes. He succeeded, he became rich beyond expectations, but his heart remained hard, his nature unsympathetic and deaf to all appeals of a charitable nature. History repeats itself. He had a stenographer who was supporting her mother. The time came when this mother was also attacked by blindness. When the poor girl was informed of the state of affairs, and that it would require a fee of five hundred dollars to restore her mother's sight, she was crushed with grief, for she did not have the money. The cashier, who cared for the stenographer, thought he saw his way clear to helping her by advancing the necessary sum out of the petty cash, intending to replace it before payday. Unfortunately, the cashier was ordered to report for duty in South America and an auditor arrives who went over his accounts and discovered the shortage. The hard-hearted head of the concern was informed of the apparent theft of the money and orders his cashier's immediate arrest. The stenographer went to him, explained matters most fully and pleaded for forgiveness for the cashier, but without avail. The man was obdurate. Then it was that he had a vision of his own past life, his own mother's need, and his inability to assist her. In a moment his heart was softened. His eyes were opened to a new view of life and he relented. The officer who came to lead the cashier to prison was sent away.
- A voice inside of us is constantly leading us towards our true paths. But will it be heard or silenced in the world surrounding us, in the fire of emotions, and in the noise of our busy minds?
- The earliest 'rockumentary' of John Mayall and his musicians filmed in their homes, dressing rooms, motorways, airports, clubs, concert halls and at festivals. In 1969, Mayall changing the emphasis of his band away from the 'electric circus' of lead guitar and drums to a more gentle approach without drums and with acoustic guitar, flutes and saxophones. "The Turning Point" celebrates this revolutionary period.
- Robert Van Pelt's attitude towards his wife changes from that of indifference to mistrust on his seeing, one night after she has spent the evening with a friend, her friend's brother who has escorted her home, try to kiss her at the door. He does not wait long enough, however to see his wife send the man away and when she enters the house, he tells her that it is time for a divorce. Thinking that he is much abused, he goes with a friend to a cabaret and is much taken with a singer, whom he invites to call at his office. The woman calls next day, just after Mrs. Van Pelt has arrived to plead with her husband not to close down one of his factories, a proceeding which will result in much suffering by the men. The singer hears Van Pelt's curt refusal, and seeing the true worth of his wife, enters the office after Mrs. Van Pelt has left and denounces the husband. Van Pelt goes home to find the superintendent of the factory there, also bent on begging for the lives of his men. The hardhearted rich man is not moved until the maid rushes into the room with a baby she has found on the doorstep. The clinging arms and the helplessness of the child captivates him, and softens him, and he sends the superintendent away with the happy news that the factory is not to be closed, but enlarged, and he takes his wife again to his heart.
- David Drummond surprises a thief in his Alaskan cabin. He frees the man. Years later, in Washington, D.C., he meets the same man, and learns from him of a plot against the government incriminating Senator Delafield. Drummond is in love with Elinor Delafield, the senator's sister. It is a remarkable fact that Delafield and Drummond are almost the counterparts of each other in physical appearance. The Alaskan determines to save the brother of the woman he loves from turning traitor to his government. The opportunity comes when Delafield falls ill and cannot attend an important meeting of his committee. Drummond takes his chair and impersonates the absent senator. The speech he makes is not at all the one Delafield had intended to deliver. But it saves the senator's honor and wins Drummond the grateful Elinor for his wife.
- Set in four segments, "Turning Points" looks at how individuals and congregations struggle with sexual orientation and their faith. The first segment, "Called to Serve," follows the Rev. Susie B. Smith, now serving a congregation in the UCC, returning to the congregation of her first call, North Anderson Community Church in Anderson, South Carolina. Together and separately, the congregation and Pastor Smith examine their losses and their gains when Susie left the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in order to be with her partner and to continue to serve as a minister In the second segment, "A Mother's Son," The Calhoun family explores the shock, the grief and the now strengthened families ties between them that were deeply tested when their son first came out. Among the challenges, the Calhouns were forced to chose between their congregation and their son. The third segment records the powerful reunion between two women who had parted under tragic circumstances years earlier. Now both mature women, at the time of their first encounter Joanna Adams was a young minister and Kathryn Cartledge was a parishioner filled with self-loathing about her core identity. Decades later they explore together what went wrong in the first encounter, telling a story that is both heart wrenching and healing. The final segment, "Open Door," examines the wellbeing of a welcoming Presbyterian congregation and their members in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In interviews and in worship, members and leaders of the congregation express their insights and attitudes toward being a welcoming place for gay and lesbian Christians. In-between each segment, deeply respected theologians Homer Ashby (McCormick), Walter Brueggemann (Columbia) Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Princeton), and Shirley Guthrie Jr. (Columbia) connect the stories to scripture and faith.
- The Turning Point - A Return to Community explores the vital importance of community in the 21st century and its role in helping us create a life sustaining society for the benefit of all. Peak oil and climate change present enormous and unprecedented challenges to society as well as significant opportunities. 'The Turning Point - A Return to Community' seeks to inspire and motivate people to embrace the coming changes with enthusiasm rather than despair and paralysis. The film features practical examples of 'low carbon' enterprises in and around the Findhorn Foundation community, particularly local food and energy production and interview material with pioneers in the fields of global change and human ecology including Richard Heinberg, Joanna Macy and Rob Hopkins.
- Snowy music video for a tragic song from The Black Queen.