A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.

As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.

A teacher of philosophy encounters a complicated pupil; a seventeen year old girl who possesses quite a cynical view of the world. He attempts to help her focus on her studies, but soon becomes fascinated by her. They fall passion...

Two determined mothers­, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their chi...

An expert in "kenpo" karate avenges his Koreatown friend, slain by a mobster in Los Angeles.

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.

Jack (Andrew McCarthy) is an executive in a financial brokerage firm trying to impress the firms president, Drew Clayton (Chris Gillett), in hopes of a promotion. However, Jack is dating the fabulously rich and elegant Demi Clayto...

A mysterious man, Suba, gets himself a job at a fencing academy, and as he learns the way of the students, the school, and its maestro, they learn that there's more to him than meets the eye. He gains (or regains?) his fencing ski...

A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.

At Phoenix Progressive School, where everyone tries to outdo each other with creative self-expression, 16-year-old Molly Maxwell (Lola Tash) would rather be invisible than risk revealing herself as completely ordinary. When her yo...

When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.

With only seventy-two hours to keep his future from being a bleak one, Joey pulls out all the stops to win back his ex-wife before she remarries.

In 1974 Pittsburgh, a high-school history teacher seeking closure tells his class about his experiences as teenager in England during WWII.

Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.

South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.

An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.

A young mouse, mole and hedgehog risk their lives to find a cure for their badger friend, who's been poisoned by men.

An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.

Ex-Special Forces soldier Louis Stevens returns to Miami to find his former high school overrun by drugs and violence. A master of the Brazilian martial art, capoeira, Stevens pledges to straighten out a dozen of the school's wors...

A documentary of the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran it.

A failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training.

At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.

A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own, and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana.

Wayne's an actor with money problems. He finally accepts his parents' advice of teaching in high school (temp). He makes Shakespeare seem fun. He meets and likes Amy, a colleague. However, he's still looking for parts as actor.

In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.

An Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.

A high school teacher in Austin, Texas takes sexual advantage over one of her students. Her life begins to unravel as the details of the relationship are exposed.

Simon Bolivar fought over 100 battles against the Spanish Empire in South America. He rode over 70,000 miles on horseback. His military campaigns covered twice the territory of Alexander the Great. His army never conquered -- it l...

Four women in the Miller family: teen daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older half-sister Anna, work their way through the chaos called love. The result is a roller coaster ride of first crushes, lust, affairs, bab...

An ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school.

A veteran police detective becomes a criminal justice teacher and baseball coach at a local high school, leading him to the most important investigation of his life. Inspired by true events.

The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II