Gezien z'n hoge score op het landelijk examen, en het feit dat hij een geweldige basketbalspeler is, wordt Jamal Wallace naar een prestigieuze school in Manhattan gestuurd. Hij raakt bevriend met de schrijver William Forrester. Samen overwinnen ze enkele problemen, zoals het racisme tegen Jamal door een leraar, en de straatvrees van William.

Atlanta, 1948. De oude 72-jarige miss Daisy is een gevaar op de weg geworden wanneer ze plaats neemt achter het stuur van haar auto. Haar zoon Boolie, directeur van een florissante fabriek, probeert haar tevergeefs een chauffeur aan te praten.

Roland Joffé's drama vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van de vriendschap tussen New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg en de Cambodjaanse journalist en tolk Dith Pran, in het door burgeroorlog verscheurde Cambodja.

Een gerenommeerd schrijfster vertrekt met enkele vrienden op reis in een poging enkele oude wonden te helen. Ook haar neef komt mee, niet in het minst om de vrouwen in toom te houden. Hij voelt zich al snel verbonden met een jong literair agent.

An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

The Pulitzer at 100, by Oscar and Emmy winning director Kirk Simon, is a ninety-minute independent documentary released in conjunction with the Pulitzer Centennial in April 2016. This film is told through the riveting stories of the artists that have won the prestigious prize. With Pulitzer work read by Helen Mirren, Natalie Portman, Liev Schreiber, John Lithgow and Yara Shahidi; journalists include Carl Bernstein, Nick Kristof, Thomas Friedman, and David Remnick; authors include Toni Morrison, Michael Chabon, Junot Díaz, Tony Kushner, and Ayad Akhtar; and musicians Wynton Marsalis, David Crosby, and John Adams also share their stories.

Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.

This first cinematic version of the classic book is a part-talkie, although the only surviving print is silent (housed in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY). It is a straight-forward telling of the intermingled lives of a group of strangers doomed to die in a collapsing bridge accident. The Art Direction, paltry and unremarkable, surprisingly won an Oscar over the far more remarkable work nominated in THE IRON MASK. The special effect scene of the lovers plummeting with the bridge into the chasm is unforgettable and remarkably done.

Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.

In 1953, Horace Carter earned a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for his reporting on the Ku Klux Klan. Carter persevered in the face of death threats, including those against his family, and used the editorial authority of North Carolina's TABOR CITY TRIBUNE to protest the Klan's racist rhetoric and vigilantism. Carter's bold reporting and the unwavering integrity of his editorials helped lead to the first federal intervention in the south during that era and to the arrest and conviction of nearly 100 klansmen.

Een ongeëvenaard portret van Arthur Miller (1915-2005), een grote schrijver die een onuitwisbare stempel op de wereld heeft gedrukt. Millers leven is nauw verbonden met de grote thema's die de 20e eeuw kenmerkten. Glamour, roem, maatschappijkritiek en Marilyn Monroe.

Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs, hosted by Sam Waterston, tells the compelling stories behind some of the world's most memorable photographs. Returning to the scene of the action, each photographer describes, in a gripping first-hand account, how they took their prize-winning photographs. The moments they captured forged history and changed lives - including the photographers own. The stories of these unforgettable photographs' own. The stories of these unforgettable photographs - many of them shown here for the first time - are as compelling and long lasting as the images themselves.

The life story of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Kennedy Toole as told by friends and colleagues. Legacy format production, representational photography and an original music score combine to bring the author's life into focus. His personal triumphs, his untimely death and the publication of the novel, 'A Confederacy of Dunces,' years after his suicide are all explored in this darkly beautiful first person narrative.