Laurie Heineman
In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled America's schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade public school classroom. Through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play, Cullum championed an unorthodox educational philosophy that spoke directly to his students' needs. Many of Cullum's projects were recorded on film by then novice filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. Weaving stunning black and white footage and rare archival television broadcasts together with interviews of Cullum and his former students, this is a portrait of a maverick teacher who transformed a generation of young people by enabling them to discover their own inner greatness.
1930's set film that tells the crime story of Polly Franklin, a poor farmer's daughter who leaves for Chicago, where she is sent to prison, serves as a prostitute, falls in love with the gangster known as John Dillinger and attempts a bank robbery.
Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s.
A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.
A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.
