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Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Levar Burton introduces young viewers to illustrated readings of children's literature and explores their related subjects.

A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

A couple of creative losers accidently become big shots in the video music industry.

Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu's films.

The crew is running out of money to finish their film.

A 13-year-old girl changes a pleasant life in the countryside for a troubled life in the city.

A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover. His eye soon rests on Dimmesdale, a young overwrought pastor. Enmity grows between the two men; Chillingworth applies psychological pressure, and the pastor begins to crack. A ship stops in Salem, and Hester sees it as a providential refuge for her daughter, herself, and her lover. But will Dimmesdale flee with her?

A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

American feature-length adaptation of Heidi (1974), Japanese anime series produced by Zuiyo Eizo (now Nippon Animation) based on the Swiss novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880), and directed by Isao Takahata.

Wim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.

"Mysterious World" was a 1980 series of investigation of unexplained phenomena and mysteries around the world.

A collection of comedy skits and music videos, such as a game-show spoof called "Name That Drug", a visit to the office of the Clandestine Typing Service, and a man providing a skewed translation of a Mexican serenade for his girlfriend.

Playboy Video Magazine was literally a video version of the publication. It included candid celebrity interviews, video editorials, the trademark playmate pictorials, interwoven with commercial parodies and short comedy sketches. The series also covered trends in media; sex, politics, culture, and pop culture.

A montage of sketch comedy and music videos.

Two musicians and a roadie take money that is owed to them from a job. One flees to Mexico, and everyone has questions.

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

A history of space flight.

A series of skits feature the Finley Quality Network and its many quality TV shows.

Eric Bogosian's solo performance "Funhouse".

Lisa Law's documentary on the Woodstock-era, based on her photographic book of the same title.

"Yesterday's Witness: A Tribute to the American Newsreel" is a historic homage to the rise of journalism, media and entertainment news. At the very start of film history the newsreel was a staple of widespread media. Often shown before films in American movie theaters, the short clips would offer the latest reports on World War 2 and the state of the nation. Though these tidbits of information had potential to spur false notions and misinformation, they were some of the firsts ventures into photojournalism and the moving image, industries that continued to grow and improve in decades to come. A collaboration between director Christian Blackwood and his consultant, historian Dr. Raymond Fielding, gives way to a fascinating insight into the lost long medium.