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- 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 suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.
- 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.
- The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
- 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.
- 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 computer programmer becomes fascinated with the digital currency Bitcoin, and through his involvement in the Bitcoin community, we learn about the impending global impact of this amazing new technology.
- A woman's dangerous inclinations, a sadistic child killer, and a panic surrounding an online murder challenge reveal the insidious violence of a small New England town.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two sportswriters investigate why a promising young ballplayer threw only one pitch for the New York Yankees a half a century earlier and then mysteriously dropped out of baseball, eventually becoming a homeless alcoholic.
- Five individuals with disabilities unlock their potential towards employment, live independently and show the value they can bring to society.
- Adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between fantasy and reality. The film follows Georg Bendemann, a young merchant living 1900s Prague, who is struggling to maintain balance in an ever changing world. As his situation deteriorates due to complicated familial relationships, we are compelled to question the very nature of what we are seeing.
- "Boys To Men" focuses on Ran, a 23-year-old Israeli, and Alex, an 18-year-old New Yorker and the other misfit residents, whose typical day in the dorm consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior and chaos. As they grow older throughout college, their friends, problems, and the girls they are seeing change. Can the odd couple stay best friends through their up's and downs?
- 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.
- 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.
- A young woman's kindness is taken advantage of and is kidnapped. Before morning comes, she'll need to find a way to escape.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "The Marshall Tapes" was an unfinished film that took a brief look into the house where Robert and Alice Solus went missing in 1950, with first hand experience from a family relative. This is the second attempt to finish the film.
- 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 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.
- Ghosts haunt a home while they wait for their opportunity to cross over.
- A top ten list of how not to make a movie.
- 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!
- JFK: The Last Speech explores the dramatic relationship between President John F. Kennedy and the poet, Robert Frost. A relationship that reached its tragic climax after an encounter between Frost and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War.
- 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.
- 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?
- An ignored homeless situation is taking place in the quaint, affluent, college town of Amherst, MA.
- Brandon and Teddy's friendship is tested after they are affected by a hit and run accident that leaves a woman in a coma.
- 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.
- A man struggles with his biggest fear.
- 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.
- 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.
- A melancholic man going through life in Paris struggles to find meaning as his memories, nightmares, and day-to-day existence converge into one.
- In this lecture from 1989, Stuart Hall provides an extraordinarily clear summary of the origins of cultural studies.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- Documentary follows the path of college a cappella from auditions to rehearsal to performance to competition.