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- I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.
- Lives spiral out of control when four friends cover up a murder.
- Stranger than Fiction is a 15 week series of acclaimed documentary films from around the world, some of which changed the ground rules for the documentary. Many have not been shown on television in Australia before now. They are an eclectic and eye-opening mix of programs and a wonderful late night treat for film buffs and anyone looking for something outside the standard fare. They are all multi-award winning films from outstanding filmmakers. The series is presented by Mike Rubbo - Mike was the Commissioning Editor of Documentaries at the ABC some years back. Prior to that he worked as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada for many years. He has worked on, lectured about and presented films in Europe, America, Russia and Asia. He knows most of the filmmakers and takes great delight in telling the behind-the-scene stories of their films.
- Collection of 19 new original Looney Tunes shorts made as webisodes with Daffy, Bugs, Porky, Sylvester, Twitty, Taz, Foghorn and others. Segments include Daffy's show about the supernatural and Duck Dodgers' take on Planet of the Apes.
- Reconstruction, through interviews, archive footage and dramatic sequences, of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s which conducted opinion surveys on everything from sex to the Abdication, the Munich Crisis and World War 2.
- Authorities, journalists along with the cast & crew from _Departed, The (2006)_ talk about the film's influences. Among them being a real-life Boston gangster named Whitey Bulger, who is the mold for Jack Nicholson's character.
- Society girl Diane Drexel invites her friends to see a screening of Carmen in which they have acted. She then tells the projectionist to show her original film, Stranger Than Fiction . This film then unfolds the following action: When the lights are turned up the guests find they have been robbed by the "Black Heart," head of a notorious gang, who have left their familiar mark. Diane declares that she will not marry her indolent fiancé until he has tracked down the robbers. In the slums, Diane meets The Shadow and through him learns that Dick is endangered; with his help she joins the gang. Following a series of escapes, climaxed by an airplane stunt in which the "Black Heart" is forced to his death, the lights flash on and Diane informs the guests that this is her idea of how motion pictures ought to be made.
- Hard pressed for money, the broker has appropriated funds of the firm, and dreads his partner's discovery of the deed. He tries in vain to borrow money, and determines to end his life after writing a confession. In the act of placing a pistol to his head, he is interrupted by a message informing him that oil has been discovered in the vicinity of his land, and the loan he requested will now be made. His one thought is to destroy the letter he left on his partner's desk. Entering the office by night, he is attacked by two robbers, who snatch the letter and leave him wounded. Fleeing from the police, the crooks enter the home of a novelist, who has procured a burglar's kit as a preliminary step to his investigation of the underworld. The kit establishes him as one of their order, and they invite him to their lair. At the home of the broker, whose daughter he loves, he overhears the two crooks and their female accomplice blackmailing his friend on the strength of the incriminating letter. He rushes to their den, secures the letter and, after a battle with the crooks, who are captured by the police, delivers the missive to his future father-in-law.
- The music video for the song "Stranger than Fiction" by the American punk rock band Bad Religion from the 1994 album with the same name.
- In the next chapter of 'The Girl's' life, two traumatic events happen in her most recent high school year: a Lock Down and a family secret. She is shocked and deeply affected by both things that happen yet manages to recover and to understand the importance and value of family and the complexity of truth.
- This edition takes a look at Billy Arthur, the world's tiniest editor, who edits "News and Views"; the building of exact replicas of famous battle ships; a sixteen-year-old boy who designs hats when not in school; a couple who tour in a strange home-made trailer made of spruce log; and a visit to Philadelphia for a tour of the only thimble manufacturing plant in the United States.
- This one presents a millionaire who has a hobby of making doll furniture for poor children, a cow which gives birth to four calves; a sculptor who works with metal instead of clay; a church for the deaf; an English truck driver who is the father of 13 children; a Canadian who paints miniature pictures with a single-hair brush, the smallest post office in the world; and an acrobatic youngster with remarkable contortion skills. And does it all in nine minutes.
- Tales Stranger Than Fiction" is an immersive audio experience by the visionary Ray Griggs. Each episode unveils a standalone journey through realms of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the supernatural, captivating the imagination.
- This 'Stranger Than Fiction" short visits a man who has piped mineral water to his home; a Texas banker who bakes as a hobby; a man in Shasta. California who has built a grocery-store museum, and a professor in Oklahoma who collects rare odors as his hobby.
- Two dysfunctional families meet/clash, famous writer father-unknown writer son, daughter-mother. Daughter of one family meets and falls in love with son of the other family.
- A panel of different types of people discuss popular topics. In this edition, they are discussing the birth of Jesus Christ.
- This entry in the series covers unusual occupations, beginning with a Philadelphia pants-presser, Dominick de Gregorio, who shows an amazing model of the Delaware River he made of balsa wood; then a wild-horse roundup in Nevada, and a man in Louisiana who raises thousands of alligators as a hobby and, while in Louisian, the camera takes a look at a giant oak that is 35 feet around with a root spread of 168 feet. The short concludes with a look at a new invention for tomato pickers that is amusing as well as practical and, finally, the world's champion bubble blower blows some bubbles.
- A young man tries to escape from the chaotic life in a metropolitan by indulging in daydreams of making a movie where his life and dreams, past and present become indiscernible from each other on the crystallized facets of everyday life.
- Documentary on the true story behind the movie Big Miracle (2012).
- Joe Muhlbacker, Cheyenne, Oklahoma, turned hermit in 1914 and sculptures in cement, turning out a curious assortment of work; 80-year-old Clara Stringer of San Antonio, Texas is a costume designer; Phyllis Armstrong of Wayland, New York, has a pet lamb she plays with as she would a doll; Little Lydia Shields, Newton, Mass., has a Great Dane that she rides like a pony; and Alfred Nilson, radio station monitor in New York City, lives on a Chinese junk in New York waters.
- A six-year-old girl, Barbara Schultz, is an official candy-taster for a large candy manufacturer; Fredrick Kuhn of Philadelphia makes trinkets from peach pits; J. A. Sanders of Kansas City, Kansas has a chair with 200 compartments; W. P. Reid of Augusta, Georgia owns a gas station but is also a justice-of-the-peace, in the event a gas customer wants to get married while there; Professor George Keller, of State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pa., runs a one-ring circus during his summer vacation; and there is a voodoo graveyard in Sunbury, Georgia.