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- This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.
- Hedda Gabler (Dame Diana Rigg) is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman (Denis Lill). Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg (Philip Bond), turns up on the scene with tragic results.
- Greenaway's documentary short shows us...well, 26 bathrooms, some in use by their owners while we visit. Whee!
- A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history.
- The murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies.
- Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him to see details, but not wholes.
- George Lucas discusses how Joseph Campbell and his concept of the Monomyth (aka the Hero's Journey) and other concepts from mythology and religion shaped the Star Wars saga.
- A couple waits for their son to recover from a car accident.
- Driver education film depicting the dangers of teen-age drunk driving, wherein a prom date ends tragically.
- The National Theatre's production of the medieval English mystery plays, filmed in the midst of the audience, telling the Bible story from the creation to the last judgement.
- A travel by the wonders of the universe as brief as unforgettable.
- On a journey from the plains of historic La Mancha to the high-tech companies of Silicon Valley, Stanford Professor James March pursues the characteristics that define a leader: imagination, commitment, and joy. He argues that too much reliance on the logic of consequences can impede leadership. By not losing sight of who they are, what they value, and what they want to achieve, leaders affirm their commitment to the promise of something greater than what currently exists.
- In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a feminist delegation composed of author Nawal Saadawi and other renowned activists from the Middle East and North Africa gathers at the UN, on college campuses, and in church basements to speak out about deterioration of women's rights in the Arab states in an effort to heighten awareness of the Arab feminist struggle for equality--and the effects of U.S. foreign policy on their efforts.
- Traces the life of award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry from childhood to her early death at the age of 34 utilizing excerpts from her plays.
- An abridged presentation in English of Pirandello's play in which six characters seek to exchange their fixed, frozen form in art for the uncertainty of life.
- A wry and humorous computer expert shows viewers how to (and how not to) bring a personal computer into the home. His advice and instruction are interwoven with the story of a family that decides to purchase a PC.
- This gripping program describes the massive human rights abuses that have been escalating since the withdrawal of the Soviet forces, as seen through the eyes of women who have survived years of rampant gender and religious intolerance.
- Explores the private world of Latin American writer Jorge Luis Borges. Discusses the violence and surrealism found in his work.
- Discusses the life, work and significance of Russian poet, dramatist and artist Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). Includes samplings of his writings, paintings, drawings and advertising works during the Russian Revolution.
- Three men, in various stages of rehabilitation in the Los Angeles Drug Court system, try to make it through the court system and regain the trust of their families.
- Shows how simple and logical the process was by which the Nazis came to power in Germany, from the bitter defeat of World War I, through the ensuing economic crisis and seductive Nazi promises.
- "A Social History of the State of Missouri," from days of the pioneer world to the rise of the modern city, as shown by Thomas Hart Benton's murals in the House Lounge of the State Capitol in Jefferson City, completed in December 1936.
- Through the prism of the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge Massachusetts, this program explores the organizational and creative challenges facing today's theater community and describes the flexibility and resilience arts groups must have to survive in today's cultural climate. Two time Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones narrates.
- Teenage girl struggles with her mother's illness from breast cancer.
- Louise dreams of traveling the world, but her weak heart and husband Brently's overbearing concern keep her from doing so. However, news of a train accident changes everything.
- "Anne Lister, an outwardly conventional gentlewoman living in Halifax at the beginning of the last century, had a secret life that would have shocked local society. Her diaries, written in such a complex code that they were not deciphered until the 1980s, reveal that she was really a lesbian Don Juan." (Radio Times, 30/4-6/5/1994).
- "The remarkable story of two women who became the subjects of experiments by men. Dr James Barry was born a girl but lived most of her life disguised as a man. And Hannah Cullwick, a working class woman turned into a high-class lady". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994).
- "The drama documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parks founded the first newspaper run by women for women. Fifty years later, Emilie Peacocke became one of the first women reporters to work in Fleet Street". (Radio Times, 7/5-13/5/1994).
- "Seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi has been remembered more for being a loose woman than a talented artist. At the age of 17, she was raped, and the record of the trial reveals how her reputation as a woman and a painter was ruined." (Radio Times, 14/5-20/5/1994).
- "The only two British women to write first-hand accounts of slavery: Mary Prince, who was born into slavery in 1788 and left her owners after moving to London, and Lady Maria Nugent, the wife of a slave owner in Jamaica in 1801'. (BBC Active, video synopsis, 2005).
- "In 1912 Sarah Benett, aged 52, and 54-year-old composer Ethel Smyth shared neighbouring cells in Holloway Prison. Their crime was breaking windows - a tactic used by suffragettes to draw attention to their fight to win votes for all women. Sarah Benett's recently discovered diary sheds light on their remarkable tale". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994)