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Musical Special featuring Shirley MacLaine in her tribute to chorus dancers, colloquially known as "gypsies." Produced by Cy Coleman and Fred Ebb, the special uses a self-referential show business plot in which the star rehearses for her television special about the life of a dancer. MacLaine performed a wide range of songs including "Lucy's Back in Town," during which Lucille Ball made a "surprise" appearance. The program won Outstanding Special: Comedy-Variety or Music at that year's Emmys as well as awards for writing (Ebb), music composition (Coleman), and choreography (Tony Charmoli).

After the Civil War ends, a rich horse rancher out West hires the Bannisters, a married Southern couple who lost everything in the war, to help run his ranch. What the Bannisters don't know is that their new boss has more on his mind than breeding horses, and his plans include the pretty Mrs. Bannister.

A daughter pushes at the bounds of her relationship with her mother as she unpicks the psychological consequences of the violence she suffered.

Suppose you could take a peek into the mind of Chonda Pierce - comedy's "Queen of Clean!" Chances are you'd get a glimpse of the stuff most other women think about too - shopping, dieting, raising kids, breastfeeding and menopause! If you think you can handle it, Chonda is ready and willing to give you a piece of her mind.

There are many memories of childhood that have slipped through the cracks. Most that I can recollect were of the differences in myself in comparison to the others around. Taken away at one week of age from my Indian community and given to a white foster family, my experience of the authentic Indian and where my placement is, within this dream of authenticity, comes from an infected locale.

An assumption kills a brief love affair.

An inspiring journey of a husband’s love for his wife.

An essay and a documentary examining the failure of society to accept feminist ideologies to a point where feminism could have an appreciable, lasting or functional effect on the lives of ordinary women as a class. This video represents a deeply personal expression of liberation as well as frustration, and draws conclusions about feminism, love, and sex from personal experience.

Comedian and actor Frank "The Big Guy" Payne lends his body to science to show viewers what's going on inside his obese body. Doctor and scientists use the latest medical advances to reveal the shocking truth of what more than 100 pounds of excess fat does to the body's heart, liver, bones, and joints. This film is the story of a man determined to fix his habits and his ill health. RIP, Frank!

Wounded from his past, Sam is a self-doubting dreamer who discovers a rare and intense attraction to a stranger on a bus. He fantasizes about different scenarios of approaching the girl but never finds the courage to actually do so. Conflicted, Sam takes the audience into his own mind, where he confronts his long-time ex-girlfriend, Marie, face to face.

Just when he thought there was only a darkness left in his life, Ray encounters a persistent electrical anomaly at his old lighting shop.

An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and adolescence. Following the migration of the family to Australia from Holland in the difficult postwar years they had to grapple with problems of housing, social injustice and adjustment made more difficult by the father's mental illness. For the filmmaker 'the sentiment had to be uncompromisingly true' although he became aware that 'all film is fiction'. National Film and Video Lending Service Catalogue, ACMI.

As a result of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, 22-year Liza moves to Canada to study. Being far from family isn't easy, but even more difficult is seeing that people around her aren't aware of the troubles in her country.

Courtney is a lonely girl who talks to her dolls and has a crush on Lauren, the local delivery girl who barely knows Courtney's name, but that's all about to change.

Stories of Filipino men and women, and other living things passing through similar objects, familiar spaces, non-linear time and dreams alike–all connected from the lens and experience of a stranger, an Alien whose language is disconnected and demands an interaction from the viewer to reconnect these stories to find their own meaning.

When he was a child, Junya promised his maternal grandfather that as the eldest grandson, he would take over the family Shinto shrine. However, this did not come to pass as Junya did not share the same family name and he grew estranged from his family over time. To escape this tension, Junya ventured overseas to pursue other dreams and distanced himself from the hometown where he grew up. One day, while working in an izakaya, he meets a foreigner with the same birthday researching a new dance piece for a film. His fateful encounter leads him to confront a family history that he has left behind and gives the dancer inspiration for her work. Together in the midst of winter, they revisit Junya's hometown to reconnect with his childhood and let go of a promise he cannot fulfil.

Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley

Intoxicated by My Illness (in which images photographed by several people are extensively superimposed) loosely and dreamily tracks a phase in Dwoskin's recent life that took him from medical examination to intensive care.

A Documentary by Mohsen Hadi

Each year, John anticipates the day he will accompany his father on the search for the perfect draft horse to bring home to their farm. When this year's frosty morning finally arrives, the pair eagerly sets out to find what is sure to be a wonderful addition to their stable. But when his father picks the meanest, wildest mare John has ever seen, the boy is baffled. Of all the horses his father could have selected, why choose such an imperfect one? As Christmas approaches, John learns lessons of faith, redemption, and the very real power of love as reflected by the Master of the season.