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A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory.

The First part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.

In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and meeting people who still carried on the fading customs that Richie had observed. Interspersed with surprising detours-a visit to a Frank Sinatra-loving monk, a leper colony, an ersatz temple of plywood and plaster-and woven together by Richie's narration as well as a score by celebrated composer Toru Takemitsu, The Inland Sea is an eye-opening voyage and a profound meditation on what it means to be a foreigner.

Four kids witness an arsonist start a fire, but no one believes them.

Takes a critical look at the institutionalization of childbirth practices in Western society. Filmed from the point of view of the mother and baby, commentary by Dr. R.D. Laing raises questions as to the immediate and long-term effects of many of the detached, routine procedures that are so often out of tune with the feelings of mothers and babies at a time of their greatest vulnerability.

A documentary portrait of a young man's middle class childhood and his struggle with drugs and his reasons to live.

Ominous reality of Ellis Island at the turn of the century when it was, for thousands of future Americans, their first glimpse of their new country.

A thirty year old, unhappy with his life, gets together with his two best friends he hasn't seen since school for a reunion dinner. He is shocked to discover that one friend is hugely overweight. By discovering that his friend found his true self and became a circus clown he decides to do what he always wanted and becomes a cocktail pianist.

A documentary following the lives of several students involved in an experimental "school without walls" program at a Long Island high school. The film shows various students learning self reliance and empowerment in various jobs outside of the school system.

A young soldier goes home to attend his mother's funeral just before being shipped out to serve in World War II.

A documentary on the famed painter and sculptor of Western Americana, Frederic Remington.

Esther, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.