"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...

This documentary on Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, traces the development of his art and political philosophy. Seuss's early work as a political cartoonist for PM newspaper and as a film propagandist with Frank Capra ultimately evolved into a career as a children's writer concerned with nurturing both literacy and social awareness.

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.

Tells the extraordinary, controversial story of the 38-year romance between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Heming.

Through film clips, home movies, behind the scenes footage and interviews with the directors and actors who worked with him, the documentary explores the life and work of Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist.

A corporate defense attorney decides to take on a lawsuit against a chemical company accused of a history of pollution.

When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.

A biography of the television chef Julia Child.

When Benjamin Steed and his family move to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help, Joseph Smith, turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution.