A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah ...
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The ...
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bot...
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...
Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton...
An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of B...
Senagaki Isaku will be a first-year high school student starting in spring. Her grandfather is the t...
In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too yo...
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for somet...
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district a...
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of ...
A young girl, from a civilization that resides in deep underground tunnels, finds herself trapped in...
It’s been widely reported that Detroit is making a comeback, but long-term residents of Detroit’s mo...