This documentary, part biography, part tribute, is a look back at Edward Abbey's life as remembered by 16 of his closest friends and family members. Rare film clips and interviews with Abbey, combined with over 120 rare and largely unpublished photographs, offer an insightful look into the personal life and philosophy of this iconoclastic writer.

Chronicles the life of Sonora Webster, an orphan girl working at Doc Carver's traveling circus and her dream to dive horses off a forty-foot tower into a tank of water.

Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.

In January 1931 a young LA artist hitch-hiked to Arizona, bought a burro and walked into the vast canyon country of the Southwest, alone. Three years and a thousand miles later, Everett Ruess mysteriously vanished. His final message to the world was strange : the word NEMO (no one) scratched on a redrock wall.

Investigates the personal history and creative process of Jack Kerouac, father of the Beat Generation, author of "On the road", and a pivotal figure of the fifties countercultural revolution. Shows what happened when fame and notoriety were thrust upon an essentially reticent man.

Story of a woman with autism who accomplished a lot more than others even though it was not easy.

In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold Blood." He arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners,...

Uses archival sources, home movies, and interviews to examine the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...

Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to...