Kcet Movies

The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, how it was made, and why it has endured.

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering...

Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation,...

A young paraplegic wants to escape the bonds of gravity by going into outer space.

With his parents about to celebrate their wedding anniversary, a middle-aged husband agrees to renew his vows to his longtime wife. But as they...

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably,...

An anthology film consisting of four shorts with the central theme being life in the United States.

Portrays the Chicano experience, from its roots in pre-Columbian history to the present, by dramatically recreating key events in Mexican history and...

A man denigrates every conceivable group, including “niggers”, whites, women, children and the elderly.

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a...

Short documentary about the great American '50s highway

In WWII, many men who were professional athletes went to war. The women filled in on the baseball field like they did in the factories. See the ten...

Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan. In Queens she...

A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.

a vivid look at the teenage subculture of South Bronx.

Conducted by Leonard Bernstein, this is an historic performance marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. Performed on Christmas Day 1989 in the former...

Curley Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah.

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...