Say Yes

Starring Dan O Herlihy as Mark Twain, this PBS special was created by renowned Twain scholars.

The film discusses a family's approach to openly talking about sex with their children, emphasizing the importance of communication and honesty. Parents Jim and Beth explain sexual topics to their kids, Sarah and Paul, using straightforward language and addressing their curiosity without shame. They establish rules about privacy and public behavior while discussing bodily changes, reproduction, and relationships. The narrative highlights the challenges of discussing sex as the children grow, the need for ongoing dialogue, and the parents' desire to equip their children with knowledge to make informed decisions.

Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as part of a ritual to ensure a good harvest.

When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.

Two Philadelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.

A French girl is kidnapped and sold as slave to the sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

A visually experimental adaptation of the classic Frank Stockton short story.

Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a scrivener in a 1969 film production of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.

Dr. Heidegger invites four of his respected friends to try out the elixir of youth.