Terry Benes

This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.

Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use familiar language to help today's audience understand firsthand the forces that shaped this country two hundred years ago. The argument, characters, passions and debating points are historically accurate, but the language and the medium of the debate is modern in form. Present day newscasters and commentators play themselves, reporting on the events of the 1780s as though they were occurring now.

The 178 women who anonymously created many popular standards of radio, film and stage in the Tin Pan Alley era (1920 to 1949) are celebrated in this American Masters production, which focuses on four of them: Dorothy Fields, Kay Swift, Dana Suesse and Ann Ronell. Betty Buckley hosts and performs three classic numbers: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," "The Way You Look Tonight" and "I Feel a Song Coming on."

A young girl chronicles her divorced mother's relationship with a new boyfriend who has just moved into the house.

In this documentary, the director follows the day-to-day activities of his intellectually disabled, middle-aged cousin Philly over a three-year period.