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Jane Alexander, an attractive, athletic San Francisco woman, is enjoying a comfortable life in Pacific Heights with the man she loves, handsome, charismatic Tom O'Donnell. Jane's idyllic life is shattered when her beloved Aunt Gertrude McCabe is brutally murdered in San Jose. Jane's heartbreak turns...

Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible....

What happens when a world-renowned scientist, crushed by the loss of his eldest daughter, formulates a theory in conflict with religious dogma? This is the story of Charles Darwin and his master-work "The Origin of Species". It tells of a global revolution played out the confines of a small English ...

Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the plant world — seen from the plants' point of view. Narrated by Frances McDormand, the program shows how four familiar species — the app...

On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger & Me, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest o...

These are phone call made from people in the twin towers to their loved ones in what was one of the world's greatest tragedies to ever befall an american public....

The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people....

At the foot of the mountain, a small boy sits wriggling in his father's arms, giggling at the strange figure dancing before him. Wearing a deer-skin coat hung with ribbons, pieces of antler, arcane... At the foot of the mountain, a small boy sits wriggling in his father's arms, giggling at the stra...

So much has been said about the turbulent life and phenomenal career of Michael Jackson that is has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth....

Chris Matthews, "Hardball" host and longtime Kennedy observer, takes a not entirely uncritical look at the political dynasty that began with Joe Sr., and came to a generational end with Teddy Kennedy, who died late Tuesday night after battling cancer. Matthews covers vast and well-trod territory , ...