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Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

A frog and a princess, both cursed by a witch, figure out how to break each other's spells.

Follows actress Meryl Streep and actor Raul Julia as they prepare to perform Shakespeare's comedy "The Taming of the Shrew" for the "Shakespeare in the Park" theater festival.

A series presenting various railway adventures from around the world.

In Colonial New England two indentured servants fare differently. Twelve-year-old James is contracted to a family that treats him like a son and his friend Davy works for a callous farmer.

A young Quebecois artist named Madeleine, who lives in Vancouver during the hippie era, is trying to find herself. She meets some interesting characters that help her through her journey.

A close-up of bass player and composer Charlie Mingus as he and his five-year-old daughter await eviction by the City of New York.

A shallow young woman reluctantly agrees to spend a few days with a young man she dislikes, who is dying.

A little girl is injured in an accident and confined to a wheelchair. When Christmas arrives, the forest animals decorate a small tree outside her window to give her a happy holiday.

Presents the people of Saigon as seen through the eyes of 3 young American journalists exploring the consequences of the Vietnam war, and the American presence in Saigon.

Depicts the experiences of two elderly people in their first month at a home for the aged--a man, isolated from the world he knew, and a woman, wrenched from a family setting. The film focuses on the feelings of the two new residents in their encounters with other residents, medical staff, social workers, psychiatrists and family. A touching, sometimes painfully honest dramatic experience, it is valuable for in-service staff training, and for all other audiences both professional and non professional, interested in the problems of the aged.

The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.

Produced in 1979, this classic short documentary explores the mass media and its impact upon society, uncovering shocking details showing how in many cases it is the media itself that drives the news cycle.

A study of the huge outcroppings of bedrock, the Kopjes, which protrude like rocky islands in an ocean of grass in the heart of Africa's vast Serengeti Plain. They provide shelter and shade for an array of plant and animal life.

Cartoon directed by Ub Iwerks starring Flip the Frog.Flip's lunchroom is being robbed by a deadbeat customer on its opening day. Flip foils the crook and earns a big cash reward.

Armenian-American film maker & journalist Theodore Bogosian takes on the controversial subject as to weather the deaths of over 1 million Armenians in eastern Turkey during the first world war was as a result of the war itself, or was a deliberate and systematic extermination by the Turkish government to rid their land of a race of people they found troublesome. Turks claim that it was the war; Armenians say they can prove ti was genocide. For the first time an Armenian is taking on the subject in film.

In a claymation setting, a woman tries on different wardrobes, faces, and hairstyles, unable to determine who she is or wants to be.

Primetime National Public Television documentary about Iceland, North Atlantic puffins, and the efforts of a team of zoologists to create a unique seabird exhibit -- another step forward in the evolving face and function of zoos worldwide.

An allegorical story about a young writer who leaves home with his manuscript determined to conquer the world, then returns home after years of struggle as an old man with the world still unconquered.

A film on postwar Vietnam.