"Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including...

Actress Julia Sweeney, best known as "Pat" on Saturday Night Live, shares the year in her life when her younger brother Mike, their parents, and siblings moved into Julia's new home to be near Mike as he died from lymph cancer, and Julia herself was diagnosed with cervical cancer weeks before Mike's death.

The legendary George Takei has blazed his own trail while conquering new frontiers with a beaming trademark grin. Take a hilarious, entertaining, and moving look at the many roles played by eclectic 77-year-old actor/activist George Takei. The film offers unprecedented access to the daily life of George and chronicles his fascinating personal journey from Japanese American internment camp to his iconic and groundbreaking role as Sulu on Star Trek,...

"With exclusive access to personal archive, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and extraordinary life away from the stage and screen; the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective. There are no interviewers, no talking heads, just Marlon guiding us in this creative odyssey into the mind and motivation of an enigma." --...

"At the height of his remarkable career, John Barrymore was the most celebrated entertainer of his generation. The reigning king of both Broadway and Hollywood, his decline and fall from grace was the tragic result of a self-destructive spiral into vice and excess. And now, with his career in tatters, he makes one final attempt to reclaim his former glory on the stage in this powerful, heartbreaking, humorous and compassionate portrait of a tortured...

"To those whose only exposure to acting are the films of Hollywood, Zoe Caldwell remains a secret. To those of us, however, who have seen her on the stage - whether in London, Toronto, or New York - she is the essence of theater, her presence so transfixing that the memory of having seen her is emblazoned in the mind forever." "The daughter of a plumber and a taxi dancer born in Australia at the height of the Great Depression, Caldwell first demonstrated...

Tom Hanks: Actor profiles one of today's most widely known and respected actors. From his humble beginnings on a television sitcom to his back-to-back Oscar wins for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks has continually demonstrated his charm and talent. Building on his success as a performer, Hanks has also turned to producing, specializing in programs such as From the Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers that portray great moments in American...

Feature-length documentary film exploring the life and legacy of actor Paul Walker, the Southern California native who cut his teeth as a child actor before breaking out in the blockbuster Fast and Furious movie franchise.

"The son of a former slave, Paul Robeson (1898-1976) rose to become an All-American athlete, a Phi Beta Kappa student, an internationally celebrated singer and actor, and a champion of racial equality. Yet despite his courage and many accomplishments, he could not overcome the combined effects of racism and McCarthyism. He was forced to live his last years in internal exile under FBI surveillance, without the respect he deserved."--Jacket.

"Maitland Ward joined the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful as a teenager and found fame as the loveable, sexy (but not too sexy) co-ed Rachel McGuire in the later seasons of the beloved ABC sitcom Boy Meets World. Forced into the "good girl" role time and again, she was denied the darker, meatier roles she truly wanted to sink her teeth into. And so she turned away from Disney gold, and eventually established herself as one of the most-respected...