Linda Hunt

Precuela de la saga Star Wars, en la que se conocerán los primeros pasos que dio el personaje de Han Solo, desde joven hasta convertirse en el antihéroe que vimos en "Una nueva esperanza", antes de que se encontrase con Luke y Obi-Wan en la cantina de Mos Eisley.

After bonding over their mutual disinterest in relationships, self-proclaimed loners, Beck and Liam, decide to go away together on a ‘friend’ trip where things get weird. Really, really weird.

Un documental que recorre la historia de los premios de la Academia.

A film that’s been admired, hated and puzzled-over in fairly equal amounts, writer/director David Lynch’s ambitious 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel gets an extensive fanediting treatment in Dune The Alternative Edition Redux. This is the third and final cut of an edit first released in 2008 and again in 2009 by faneditor spicediver. As previously, it draws on the heavily cut Theatrical Version, the controversial Extended “TV” Version and a selection of Deleted Scenes and soundtrack cues.

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. Based in part on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky, Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.

A documentary following the cast and crew as they craft one of the best action adventure games on the PlayStation 2.

Most people don't think about singing when they think about revolutions. But song was the weapon of choice when, between 1986 and 1991, Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. During those years, hundreds of thousands gathered in public to sing forbidden patriotic songs and to rally for independence. "The young people, without any political party, and without any politicians, just came together ... not only tens of thousands but hundreds of thousands ... to gather and to sing and to give this nation a new spirit," remarks Mart Laar, a Singing Revolution leader featured in the film and the first post-Soviet Prime Minister of Estonia. "This was the idea of the Singing Revolution." James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty's "The Singing Revolution" tells the moving story of how the Estonian people peacefully regained their freedom--and helped topple an empire along the way.

NATURE presents Christmas in Yellowstone, a breathtaking look at wintertime deep within America’s first national park. NATURE follows in the snowy footprints of Yellowstone’s red foxes, spies on the predatory warfare of wolves and elk, and climbs into the den of a grizzly bear that gives birth to two cubs while deep in hibernation. In addition to mesmerizing footage of landscapes and wildlife, trail alongside author and photographer Tom Murphy, who has been coming to Yellowstone for the past 26 winters, camping and photographing amid the silence and solitude of the park. And go behind the scenes with filmmaker Shane Moore to find out how he kept up with Murphy during an at times harrowing trek, reminiscent of the legendary John Colter’s first journey into the park nearly two hundred years ago.

Una novelista (Emma Thompson) está intentando acabar su última -y posiblemente mejor- obra. Sólo hay un problema: tiene que encontrar un modo de matar al personaje principal (Will Ferrell). ¿Que cuál es el problema? Pues que el personaje principal no es un ente de ficción.

A story about the life and turbulent times of Lisa Meitner and Otto Hahn, two exceptional scientists whose remarkable collaboration culminated in the discovery of nuclear fission, the division of the atom that changed the future. The show traces the development of nuclear science in the first half of the twentieth century, Meitner's early struggle for education and her quest to gain a foothold in the world of male-dominated physics, Hahn's initial research and independent discoveries, the collaborative discovery of the two scientists, as co-discoverers and the award of the Nobel Prize only to Hahn.

Frank Berdsley (Dennis Quaid) se encuentra por casualidad con Helen North (Rene russo), su novia del instituto, treinta años después. Los dos están divorciados y tienen ocho y diez hijos respectivamente. Cuando deciden casarse, algunos de sus hijos intentarán sabotear sus planes de boda. Además, los hijos de Frank y Helen son tan distintos que no congenian: los Beardsleys son disciplinados y respetan las normas, pero no hay normas para los revoltosos y rebeldes Norths.

El doctor Joe Darrow (Costner), jefe de urgencias del Chicago Memorial Hospital, es un prestigioso traumatólogo que pierde a su mujer (Susanna Thompson) en un trágico accidente de autobús en una carretera de montaña de Venezuela. Seis meses después, el cuerpo de Emily sigue sin aparecer, y Joe no consigue superar el dolor por su pérdida. Entonces empieza a percibir señales que parecen indicar que ella quiere comunicarse con él.

A gifted orator, Woodrow Wilson was supremely confident before crowds, yet uneasy in small groups. An intellectual with inflexible moral principles, he led America into World War I, threatening all that he cherished. This film recalls the transformation of a history professor into one of America's greatest presidents, brought down by his stubborn search for peace and an incapacitating stroke.

Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the Iran hostage crisis, derailed his presidency dramatically. His crowning achievement, the Camp David Accords, created a framework for Middle East peace, inspiring his life since. The film traces his ascent from Plains, Georgia, to the Oval Office and explores the role of religion in his career. This is the first of two parts.

This documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe tells the story of how the discovery of a 9000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington.

A magnificent expedition 300 miles west of Costa Rica spotlights the remote animal sanctuary of Cocos Island. Its amazing underwater world has some of the ocean's most-feared, most-misunderstood predators. Manta rays, barracudas, giant sea turtles, porpoises and hundreds of sharks swim past on the giant IMAX screen.

Pocahontas vive el mayor reto de su vida en su viaje a Inglaterra. Con la ayuda del apuesto John Rolfe, buscará la paz de su pueblo. Mientra se prepara para el baile de la Caceria, abre poco a poco su corazón a Rolfe. Pero la misteriosa aparición de John Smith sumerge a Pocahontas en un dilema... elegir entre dos amores y dos maneras de vivir.

In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan cleric, at the 30-year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, at Henry Gerber's attempt after World War I to establish a gay-rights organization, at Bayard Rustin's role in the civil rights movement, and at Barbara Gittings' taking on of the American Psychiatric Association's position that homosexuality is illness. One person comments, "To create a place for ourselves in the present, we have to find ourselves in the past."

Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was over, the flu would kill more than 600,000 Americans - more than all the combat deaths of this century combined.

Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled to see, alter, and recreate his natural surroundings. His gardens and fountains were transformations meant to bring out the beauty their locations had always possessed.

Cuando un barco que trae valiosos ejemplares para el Museo de Historia Natural de Chicago llega al puerto, aparece lleno de cadáveres horriblemente mutilados. Una bióloga evolucionista que trabaja en el museo (Penelope Ann Miller) y un teniente de policía (Tom Sizemore) intentarán esclarecer las causas de tan atroces muertes.

A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.

The gripping personal accounts of the people and the tragedy. In never-before-seen footage, we journey with historian Charles Haas, as he descends into the depths of the North Atlantic and guides us on a tour of the RMS Titanic. While recounting tales of triumph and struggle, we see among the many sites the doors where all passengers would have entered, peer through the porthole of a first class cabin, see the davits where the too few lifeboats hung and pause by the mail room where the postal workers heroically died. This unique footage coupled with letters, old stills, artifacts and new recreations tells the amazing human stories of this famous ship as never before.

Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette. Born in 1945 to a well-off Massachusetts family, Monette grows up unable to accept his homosexuality, for years hiding it from his loved ones while struggling to develop as a writer. In 1978, Monette publishes his first novel, which allows him to come out to his parents. After losing one lover to AIDS in 1986, he becomes a ferocious advocate for awareness of the disease.

Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vitality and wonder of the rapidly disappearing rain forest.

Pocahontas, la hija del Jefe Powhatan, vigila la llegada de un gran grupo de colonos ingleses, guiados por el ambicioso gobernador Radcliff y el valiente capitán John Smith. Con su juguetón compañero Meeko, un travieso mapache, y con Flit, un alegre pájaro, Pocahontas entabla una fuerte amistad con el Capitán Smith. Pero cuando empiezan a surgir tensiones entre las dos culturas, Pocahontas recurre a la sabiduría de la Abuela Sauce para encontrar una manera de lograr la paz entre su pueblo y los conquistadores.

En el mundo de la moda, el acontecimiento del año es la presentación en París de las colecciones de prêt-à-porter. Allí acuden diseñadores, modelos, fotógrafos, periodistas y famosos, aunque los auténticos protagonistas son las envidias y las rivalidades personales. Este año, el asesinato del jefe de la Chambre Sindical de la moda los ha convertido a todos en sospechosos.

Historia de un billete de veinte dólares desde que es liberado de un cajero autómatico de Minneapolis, y de cómo va pasando de un lado a otro por diferentes manos.

The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a beautiful ghost.

This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, journalists and other key figures discuss Allison's case, they reveal how American society reached this totalitarian state.

This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen Allen.

This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen Allen.

Tells about the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the bestselling Sand County almanac and the first to bring the word 'ecology' into standard usage; Bob Marshall, millionaire socialist and founder of the Wilderness Society; and Howard Zahniser, a bureaucrat with a love of the wild places he seldom saw. Singly and together, these three fought from the 1920s through the 1950s to preserve the natural world. Provides an overview of the roots of the environmental movement, offering a deeper understanding of one of the most important issues facing contemporary civilization.

Un joven norteamericano llamado Michael Corben se dispone a viajar a París con la clase de francés del instituto. Ésta es la última oportunidad que tiene para graduarse. En el mismo avión viaja un individuo llamado como él, que resulta ser un espía. Cuando llegan a París, dos miembros del servicio de inteligencia británico confunden al muchacho con su hombre. Ni sus explicaciones, ni sus protestas sirven de nada. Desde ese momento, Michael se ve involucrado en una red de espionaje e intriga.

Arnold Schwarzenegger protagoniza a un policía encubierto, que se hace pasar por un maestro de guardería para atrapar a un peligroso criminal. Tras haberse ganado el cariño de los niños y el afecto de una preciosa maestra , se prepara para el momento decisivo con la presa deseada en esta comedia de acción tan divertida del director Ivan Reitman.

Ruth y Bob Patchett llevan quince años casados y tienen dos hijos. Ruth, que ha ayudado siempre a su marido en su carrera, se ha resignado a su papel de madre y ama de casa. Una noche, acompaña a Bob a una importante fiesta en la que desentona bastante. Allí conoce a Mary Fisher, una famosa autora de novelas románticas, que intenta seducir a su marido. Como Bob cree que Ruth es una diablesa que sólo intenta privarlo de su libertad, la abandona. Pero, esa misma noche, Ruth se transforma en una auténtica diablesa que se da cuenta de que lo único que puede aliviar sus penas es la venganza. Se propondrá entonces arruinar la relación de su marido con la escritora de novelas rosas.

Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman from a carriage wreck, and soon bodies start turning up with holes in their necks...

A governess is hired to look after two neglected children, who show signs of having been corrupted by the insidious influence of the groom Peter Quint. Quint, although hanged for murder, still makes an appearance among the shadows of the manor house along with Miss Jessel, a previous governess who took her own life.

Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.

Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter - The Dumb Waiter and The Room - each, once again, set in a single location.

A Boston teacher decides to turn her old home into a boarding house to pull in some much-needed extra money. It turns out her tenants help her in more ways than supplementing her income, and ultimately they become instrumental in turning her life around.

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

Eleni es una mujer griega que lucha por mantener unida a su familia pese al clima de confusión que reina en su país desde el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Su tortura y asesinato a manos de guerrilleros rebeldes ha destrozado la vida de su hijo Nick, un periodista del New York Times que decide regresar a su pueblo para descubrir la verdad sobre la muerte de su madre. A partir de algunos recuerdos de su infancia, su obsesiva investigación lo conduce directamente al hombre responsable del crimen. Basada en hechos reales.

Silverado es una vieja ciudad fronteriza del Oeste. En 1880, cuatro vaqueros cabalgan por el polvoriento camino de la ciudad: los hermanos Emmett, el aventurero Paden y un duro vaquero de raza negra. Al llegar encuentran un ambiente hostil que les obliga a tomar decisiones con las que no todos están de acuerdo. Su principal enemigo es el comisario, que se dice salvaguarda de la ley, aunque muy a su manera. Para empezar, regenta una cantina.

Por orden imperial la familia Atreides deberá hacerse cargo de la explotación del desértico planeta de Arrakis, conocido también como Dune, el único planeta donde se encuentra 'la especia', una potente droga que, además, es necesaria para los vuelos espaciales.

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

Yakarta, año 1965. Al inexperto reportero australiano Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) se le presenta la oportunidad de su vida cuando lo mandan como enviado especial a Indonesia. En el turbulento escenario de la insurrección comunista contra el presidente Sukarno, conoce a Billy Kwan (Hunt), un enigmático fotógrafo, y a Jill Bryant (Weawer), una atractiva mujer que trabaja en la embajada inglesa.

Popeye es una película de acción estrenada en 1980, dirigida por Robert Altman y adaptada de las tiras cómicas Thimble Theatre de E. C. Segar. El guión de Jules Feiffer está basado en "Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye the Sailor", una reedición de 1971 en tapa dura de las tiras de Segar publicadas entre 1936 y 1937.

A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film. The results are unexpected.

On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, Muriel. When Richard's messages of poetry to Muriel upset her prudish father, Muriel is forbidden to see him and forced to write a letter saying she wishes no more to do with him. Richard, devastated, sets out to learn the evil ways of the world and put his broken heart behind him.

Includes segments entitled: Mountain in the Sea and Filming Secrets.