Chittibabu, an orphan, longs to have a family of his own. Shortly after getting married, he tires of his overbearing relatives and tries to find a way to rid himself of them.
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.
Wile E. Coyote hopes to stop and catch the Road Runner using a huge, boulder-throwing catapult. But no matter where Wile E. positions himself, the catapult drops the boulder on him.
The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier.
Hiromi appears on the outside to be a mature, resilient girl, but on the inside she feels like she's falling apart. She is having troubles at home mainly because of her parents wanting to separate. Her dog, Junkers, tries to comfort her in ways no other dog can. You see, he can talk and grant her 3 wishes.
The story follows a boy named Quon and others who suddenly wake up with supernatural powers.
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter. The play attracted record crowds and earned the coveted top prize from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. While the play is seen as a groundbreaking work of art, the timely story of Hansberry’s life is far less known.
It is 9 April 2023, 4:20 p.m. sharp. A soundscape of artillery, gun salvos and death cries brings the halls of the Backstage-Werk in Munich to life. The visitors in the packed hall look eagerly at the first world war scenery that has been erected on stage shortly before. The hooded musicians climb onto the stage and bring the audience at the Dark Easter Metal Meeting to the boil for the second year in a row. 50 minutes of brutal death metal paired with melodic black metal rain down on the audience like a drumfire. At 5:10 pm the spectacle has come to an end, leaving an oppressive, queasy feeling in the stomach. This was probably one of the most impressive shows Kanonenfieber have ever played.
1918. A Red Army soldier Fyodor Krohov, authorized to withdraw farmers corn surpluses, comes to a small village, where White Guard can show up any day. He must persuade peasants to hand over the surpluses. But men are hesitating, some lend an ear to a wealthy peasant Mokey Zhlobin, unwilling to give away his hided corn. The only one person, backing up Fyodor is a local self-made inventor, living in the outskirts with his beloved beauty-wife, having equipped his house with electricity, power-saw bench and other gimmicks. The inventor takes him as a close friend and his young wife falls in love with Fyodor. The love triangle appears, but their ideals are above all. Together they manage to find the hidden corn and survive in uneven battle with bandits who rushed into a village.
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.
As told by real-world sex workers, the documentary Whores on Film, navigates the history of sex work in cinema and the stereotypes that have engrained themselves in film language. The clichés of the sex worker as unable to receive or give love, lacking in agency, desperate and even unredeemable, are presented with overflowing evidence from some of Hollywood's most respected films. A fascinating insight into how cinema impacts real-world communities and a hopeful argument for the power of cinema to comfort and inspire.
A mild-mannered stamp maker searches for the man who slept with his wife. Disguised as a customer, he approaches the man.
Timeless: A National Parks Odyssey combines beautiful natural footage of America's landscapes and combines them with a soothing, but moving score from Patrick O'Hearn. The DVD release of this program includes a captions option that will describe the locations as they are on the screen, and maps of the areas.
Hong Kong detective Chan [Anthony Wong] travels to the mainland city of Quangxi in search of the killer of his partner years earlier. Along with his new partner Lily Yeung [Li Fei], a mainlander living and working in Hong Kong, they enlist help from Wendy Wu [Carrie Ng], chief of an elite all-female SDU.
A perfect ski vacation heads downhill in Winter Hollow, where any mention of Christmas unleashes the feared Headless Snowman. It's "A Scooby Doo Christmas" when Scooby-Doo and crew set out to melt the ferocious Frosty and save the holiday. It's no fun in "Toy Scary Boo" when all the toys in Happy Toyland start coming alive and wreaking havoc. In "Homeward Hound," a fiercely fanged cat creature petrifies the competing pooches at a dog show, including the visiting Scooby-Doo! Finally, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo's wildest dreams come true when they win a tour of Munchville, home of Scooby Snax dough and it spells out a "Recipe for Disaster."
two people decide who will save a dog inside their pool.