A 1968 performance, starring Rudolf Nureyev, of Tchaikovsky's ballet about a little girl who receives a nutcracker for Christmas and is swept into an adventure filled with conflict, bravery, and sweet surprises.
Banker Andy Dufresne is unjustly sentenced to life in the brutal Shawshank State Prison. Through patience and strength of will, he is able to play upon the corruption of the warden to bankroll a new life in Mexico following his escape.
Features real-life stories of young people dealing with various financial and lifestyle scenarios, discussing banking and credit to investments, budgeting, insurance, and self-employment, and including personal financial advices from national financial advisors.
Patch Adams is a doctor who rejects the impersonal manner he was taught in medical school, and uses every means possible to make his patients laugh, even at the risk of losing his career.
Presents three short dramas about love, betrayal, risk, courage, and prejudice in the lives of African-Americans, based on short stories by Richard Wright, John Henrik Clarke, and Maya Angelou.
Presents the second season of the HBO series "Def Poetry," featuring original material performed by contemporary urban poets and well-known music/comedy artists. Contains adult language.
Presents season six of HBO's "Def Poetry" hosted by Mos Def, featuring performances of original material by established, as well as up-and-coming spoken word poets, musicians, and comedians.
As campers at a summer theatre camp deal with their own problems with relationships and sexual identity, a has-been Broadway songwriter, who is working as a counselor, tries to revive his career.
Explores the long history of tattooing, describing the reasons it has been done in cultures around the world, from rites of passage to slave branding, and showcases the work of some acclaimed tattoo artists, discussing the meaning of tattoos to people in the modern age.
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside.
