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A look at the life and work of the great theatre, radio and film artist.

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

A young woman (Debra Margolies) just out of prison tries to make a new life in Boston.

A look at the life, work, and impact of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), pop icon and artist, from his childhood in Pittsburgh to his death after a botched surgery. Warhol coined the word "superstar," became one, and changed the way the culture looks at and understands celebrity. After studying at Carnegie Tech, he goes to New York to be a commercial artist. By 1960, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rosenquist are inventing pop art. Warhol starts "The Factory," his workshop where he paints and makes movies. His is a cafe society of late nights and parties. His family, friends, an agent, a curator, gallery owners, actors, the co-founder of "Interview," and others tell stories and assess his art.

Commemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the most important movies of the century.

A prominent businessman's children become the target of a young, unemployed man, who sees them as his ticket to wealth.

The actor in question is George C. Scott. Many of his co-workers on the film Les Complices de la dernière chance (1971) talk about what it is like to work with the famed actor. His father, George D. Scott, talks about what George Jr. was like as a child and what his thoughts were about him going into acting. George Jr., in turn, talks about how he got into acting, his filmography, working on this film, his co-stars Tony Musante and Trish Van Devere, and why he has a disdain specifically for the Oscars, twice which he has refused a nomination (one which he won regardless).

"Reunion" compares and contrasts two different (and yet oddly similar) high school reunions: an American woman's in Florida and her Polish husband's in Poland. What transpires is a bittersweet commentary on cultural boundaries and how we transcend them.

An unexpected, mysterious encounter between two strangers atop a bridge one stormy eve averts a tragedy, serving as a poignant reminder that in a harsh and chaotic world, we all need a soul friend to help us survive.