This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
Rap music has articulated a black aesthetic that is influencing pop culture around the world. But does it also promote violence, misogyny, and crime? This program featuring rap master Melle Mel describes the history of rap and hip-hop from its roots in earlier oral and musical traditions to its full flowering in the mid-1990s. Commentary by Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa, rap’s early innovators; music critic Nelson George, author of hiphopamerica; radical jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron; movie star and rapper Ice Cube; former gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg; members of Public Enemy, Arrested Development, and the jazz/hip-hop fusion group UFO; and others speak out about the urban African-American experience, civil rights, social responsibility, and other pressing topics. Clips from music videos provide a visual perspective on the genre. Some images and lyrics may be objectionable.
Phonm Penh, Cambodia. Nai has nightmares in which The Yeak, a monster from Khmer mythology that eats children who misbehave, appears to him.
A car drives through the streets and tunnels of New York City. On board, four teenagers talk, play, and flirt. An innocent joyride amongst friends? Right away the viewer understands that this is not just simple fun as the drugs get in the way.
Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo. Their target? Women, and increasingly men and children. "The Illusionists" turns the mirror on media, exposing the absurd, sometimes humorous, and shocking images that seek to enslave us.
A 50-something lawyer's solitary life is upended when he discovers he has a 15-year-old half sister!
On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husband is surviving the chaos and expectations of family and friends, each intensifying her spiraling panic.
Famed Mexican action and music star Antonio Aguilar brings blazing charisma to the title role of Gabino Barrera, a 19th-century reformer and fighter for the common people. Barrera, a self-styled Robin Hood of the Wild West, becomes a local folk hero whose noble exploits are celebrated in song throughout his town in this rousing adventure. The film, which spawned several sequels, also stars Maria Duval and Jaime Fernandez.
Classic and obscure collection of old Christmas themed trailers and shorts from the 1940's through the 1960's.
A young engineer borrows a suitcase from a friend, not knowing it countains ten thousand dollars inside. Soon after the friend dies in a car crash, and a lighter found at the scene might be key to solving the case.
In the disputed territory of Kashmir, a young Muslim woman meets and falls in love with a Hindu man.
Hala is an orphaned child, hosted by a billionaire in his palace, to escape from the orphanage in which she and other children suffer from the injustice of the supervisor, and then Hala succeeds in filling the void of the life of the billionaire and imposing her will on him with her captivating innocence, and even succeeds in directing his heart to his secretary who loves him until he exchanges that love .
Harris, his wife, his mistress and his half German sister arrive with a boat to a distant Aegean island, assessable only by boat. The boat man forgets them and they are stranded there. Harris gets stung by a bee, and he develops an allergy. He gets terribly swollen and his alter ego emerges. Suddenly all secrets, hidden truths and feelings come into the open.
Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films.
This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
After getting an abortion, Traci Patterson begins to suspect that something sinister is following her and her friends.
A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons, while other crew men try to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons' treasure.