Violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin performs Mendelssohn's "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor" in this 1947 concert recorded at the Charlie Chaplin Studios in Hollywood. Accompanied by pianist Adolph Baller, conductor and pianist Antal Dorati and the Symphony Orchestra of Hollywood, Menuhin also performs encore pieces by Brahms, Sarasate and Bazzini. Two bonus films feature Menuhin and Humphrey Burton in 1997 discussing the concert.
The single mother Leonie has great worries: Since her ex-boyfriend left her a huge debt mountain, knows the young cosmetics saleswoman hardly how to make a living.
In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although scoffed at and ultimately banned by the medical establishment, by the 1950s, Hoxsey's formula had been used to treat thousands of patients, who testified to its efficacy.
Lisa is a middle-class white woman from Toronto, Canada. She's also addicted to crack cocaine. To maintain her habit, she works as a prostitute while living in a hotel room.
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
"The Prodigy" tells the story of small-time enforcer Truman Fisher's vicious conflict with a sadistic assassin who has chosen the unwilling Truman to be his successor.
The Art of Henry Moore aims to rediscover the artist by returning to the works themselves – his sculptures, drawings and graphics – and to Moore’s own thoughts about them.
