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- Acclaimed poet Robert Frost reminisces on his career. He is also seen giving lectures at Amherst and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, in daily life at his rural Vermont home, and receiving the Congressional Gold Medal from President Kennedy.
- Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity.
- A political biography of I.F. Stone that details his approach to the news, his working habits and some of his exposés of government treachery that made his one-man newspaper, I.F. Stone's Weekly, important.
- When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.
- Unsuccessfully trying to close old family wounds on a trip back to the Rhode Island home of her miserable childhood, a troubled Brooke Adams finds her new friendship with neighbor Trish Van Devere has her stuck in another family drama.
- Some of America's great writers, directors, historians, performers, actors, artists, culinary chefs, government officials, musicians, journalists, scientists, and entrepeneurs, share with us their fascination with and their love for the Library of congress.
- A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches art, Andy's a college dean. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
- A serious college student earns his tuition, not by working in the dining halls or local restaurants, but by being an assassin for hire.
- A suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.
- Mike DeCarlo and Renee are a teenage / college aged couple whose relationship is on its last legs. When the changes in their young lives and the overbearing presence of Renee's high school classmate, Bryan Morocco, take its toll, the couple splits, leaving Mike broken hearted and unable to accept the end. But with the help of his friends, he's about to realize that the hardest part of love is learning when to walk away.
- It's a bizarre, trippy road comedy as an unemployed comic book artist, a carefree bartender, a stoner musician and two low-lifes attempt find a 10 minute drive turning into a day-long adventure of weirdness.
- The story of this film is about the difficulties teens face as they try to handle the challenges of growing up. The plot follows the daily struggle of Elliot Garcia (MJ Alhabeeb Jr), a 16-year old, and his sincere attempts to do the right thing, at all fronts, and against all odds. But when bad news starts to pile up Elliot snaps, and his innocent but foolish reactions spiral down out of control to a frightening, but memorable end.
- Spring 1634: Unidentified Indians kill John Stone, a scurrilous Englishman and pirate. The English blame the Pequots and for two years Colonial-Pequot tensions remain high. 1636: Block Island Indians kill John Oldham. The English send an expedition to punish the Block Islanders and to demand John Stone's killers from the Pequots. Talks with the Pequots break down and violence erupts. The Pequots attack English settlements, and the English declare war on the Pequots -- the first declared war in America. 1637: English Puritans, with Mohegan and Narragansett allies, burn a Pequot village at Missituck (Mystic), massacring 400-700 men, women, and children. The English pursue the remaining Pequots until most are either killed or enslaved. Pequots are forbidden to use their tribal name and are subjugated to other Native Tribes allied with the English. With the help of sympathetic English leaders, they eventually are able to reestablish their own communities, which become the first Indian reservations in America.
- In this gothic comedy, an abused, eccentric young man makes good use of his mean Aunt's expiration (sometimes death can be a blessing in disguise). But it takes the help of a unique friend to realize-it's okay to be strange!
- In 1st Century A.D. Ireland, Queen Medb from Connacht has invaded Ulster, and a 17-year-old warrior, Cuchulainn, stops her army's progress single handedly. The slaughter he yields is so devastating that only one warrior remains with a chance of defeating Cuchulainn, his older brother, Ferdia. When he refuses to face his brother in single combat, Medb's daughter, Finnabair, seduces Ferdia as a component to her mother's plot, and the warrior agrees to meet Cuchulainn in the morning. Fergus, the general of Medb's army and one time friend of Cuchulainn, is distressed by Ferdia's decision. He steals away to Cuchulainn's camp and attempts to dissuade the boy from facing his brother, but Cuchulainn insists that he cannot leave his country defenseless. The following morning Ferdia rides to the ford and his meeting with Cuchulainn turns sour when the boy questions Finnabair's love for Ferdia. Their fight becomes nostalgic as the brothers remember their training in arms, but Cuchulainn's drawing first blood in the evening unravels Ferdia's sense of rivalry, jealousy, and inadequacy. On the second day these emotions emerge through their combat, and Ferdia's desire to fight outgrows Cuchulainn's when the younger brother throws down his weapons that evening. Enraged because Cuchulainn will not fight as fiercely as he is capable, and because he cannot escape his younger brother's shadow, Ferdia is more determined than ever to prove himself. The third day of their combat culminates in tragedy.
- Nick sleepwalks through life. Withdrawn from his computer-addicted mother and alcoholic best friend, he loses himself in a fantasy world of his own creation. Stumbling upon a long-abandoned swimming pool, Nick encounters the Nightingale, a young woman he thought existed only in his imagination.
- Magdalena Welling (Amy Shelton-White) wasn't always a recluse, living in an abandoned warehouse, surrounded by outdated computers, archaic medical equipment, and responsibilities almost too great to bear. She was once a successful surgeon; her husband Arthur (Sanjiban), a brilliant scientist. But now, they exist in a world of emptiness and solitude, continuing the radical artificial intelligence research that Arthur had started a lifetime before. Before the accident. Now, after four years of ceaseless work, they've made a breakthrough, a discovery so great that it could change the face of science. But it will also require a sacrifice so great, that Magdalena's world will never be the same.
- Set in the inner city, about a group of individuals who aspire to achieve their goals and survive the trials and tribulations of life on the streets.
- In this lecture from 1989, Stuart Hall provides an extraordinarily clear summary of the origins of cultural studies.
- Man struggles to sleep.
- 1998–2008TV-MATV Episode
- Eric Carlson, a young college student, witnesses a brutal slaying in the hills of Amherst, Massachusetts. After some investigation, Eric slowly discovers the unpleasant reality behind the popular vampire myth. As a clean up crew member for a local team of slayers, Eric becomes disillusioned with the romanticized aspects of violence and learns the truth is never as simple as black and white.
- "It's Complicated" is a romantic comedy about a lonely webhead who, when his online love interest shows up looking for him, pretends to be his roommate, declares himself missing and leads the girl on a wild goose chase in search of himself.
- A lonely delivery driver is in for the wildest night of his life.
- The transcendent in nature and language are considered with poet, Wally Swist. Framing his work through the matrix of natural images, Swist leads viewers through the snowy woods of Amherst, Massachusetts. In our often frantic paced society, his poems invite listeners to slow down and think - a dangerous idea.
- A top ten list of how not to make a movie.
- A care giver named Clive working in a nursing home develops a sexual attraction towards an old man who does not reciprocate. The constant noise of a heartbeat cannot be ignored. The question is, whose heart is it?
- Documentary follows the path of college a cappella from auditions to rehearsal to performance to competition.
- An organic documentary focused on five Asian American students, their diverse backgrounds, and the prejudices they encounter within American society and the Asian American community.
- This film is a meditative work which focuses upon the spiritual and existential perceptions of fire and water. It ponders the emotional, yet absolute dependence of mankind on the elements of nature. Fire and water. The essentials of life. The forces perpetuating eternity. To be is dependent on fire and water - the fire to enable being, the water to sustain being. Sacred are the elements of eternity... the elements of our destiny.
- A satirical crime film about two amateur robbers.
- Here's To Love! is reminiscent of the past glory of silent film, when the beauty of the image predominated, yet it looks firmly to the future. It is the story of a quest by three young people to find their aesthetic idol and save him from his degraded state.
- In this absurdist odyssey, three best friends try to make their first feature film.
- Promotional video for a modeling competition.
- A young man awakens to find that he, and his bed, have been placed in the middle of nowhere. His peculiar passage home proves to be quite precarious.
- Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story depicts one man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of subversive art. This 98-minute film combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation from over 70 years worth of art from the renegade children's book author and illustrator. Using a historical palette of 20th century events to paint an artist's epic yet controversial life story, this HD documentary film offers a feature-length retrospective of Ungerer's life and art, pondering the complexities and contradictions of a man who, armed with an acerbic wit, an accusing finger and a razor sharp pencil, gave visual representation to the revolutionary voices during one of the most tantalizing and dramatic periods in American history. Far Out Isn't Far Enough explores the circumstances of his meteoric rise and fall on American soil, but also delves into Ungerer's formative years leading up to, and prolific years since, his time in America.
- A charged domestic disturbance and a crumbling marriage divide two families, sending them out of the house and into the mysterious land of night. When Lyle, Roberta, Bill and Officer Larson go on a lone search to indulge in their innermost fantasies, their worlds, dreams, fears and truths inevitably collide.
- Henry is aloof and apathetic, but his stoic exterior shrouds a macabre psychological affliction. Over the course of a day, Henry's paranoia comes to a blistering apex when a terrifying phantasm forces him to confront the root of his anxiety.
- The gripping and heart-warming story of six people with various physical disabilities and an able-bodied partner who was in a relationship with one of them and their experiences with sex.
- Lance Wesley lost his job and fiance on the same day. Depressed and downtrodden, he moves back into his parents' Guesthouse where he spent his youth. As he fights constantly with his frustrated and patient-less father, relics from his past pay him a visit. Will his past propel him forward?
- A documentary about the needs of the disabled who have personal care attendants and the choice of doing daily activities independently or asking for help.