Allan Miller

Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A stellar student, she resisted the pressure to go to college as her sights were firmly set on Broadway. She was determined to become an actress and landed her first role aged 16, but it was two years later, when she started to sing, that her career took off. Subverting stereotypes and breaking glass ceilings, this programme looks at her rise to stardom and the remarkable achievements of her early career.

Tras encontrar un agujero en las normas de los famosos concursos de ortografía escolares tan populares en los Estados Unidos, un cuarentón se presenta a un campeonato.

Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.

A young reporter forces her way into a veteran newswoman's life.

Someone is killing people in Portland, Oregon, and later blackmails the relatives, who profit most from the death, to pay him for this "service". Captain Murtaugh leads the police investigation. When his wife starts feeling stalked, he suspects his current case is related to his last one in Chicago. He never told his wife the whole truth about what happened - now he has to fear for her life.

En 1861 un hombre es condenado a morir en la hoguera, acusado de ser brujo. Una fuerza misteriosa lo arrebata de su celda y sólo Redferne es testigo de su desaparición. Se trata del hombre que le había capturado y que se arroja a la fuerza enigmática, desapareciendo también.Trescientos años después, el brujo aparece en Los Angeles. Gracias a una médium espiritista averigua la misión que se le ha confiado: reunir las tres partes de "El gran Grimoire", libro con el que conseguirá el poder de destruir la Tierra. Redferne emprende una nueva persecución para intentar someter al brujo. Pero los poderes de éste aumentan con los días y la única ayuda que tiene Redferne es una joven hechizada por aquél.

Brewster es un jugador de las ligas menores de béisbol. Aunque no lo conocía, un rico pariente suyo acaba de fallecer y, para probar que Brewster comprende el valor del dinero, le impone en su testamento la prueba de derrochar 30 millones de dólares en cosas inútiles en un mes, sin poder poseer al final de ese tiempo absolutamenta nada de lo que haya gastado. Si tiene éxito, heredará otros 300 millones de dólares.

The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.

The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.

A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of his wife, Barbara, he escaped the prison by disguising himself as a woman. He was the first prisoner to escape Lecumberri since Pancho Villa.

A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint and learns that her father-in-law is trying to prove her an unfit mother.

Un ex campeón de boxeo, que vive con su hijo pequeño, lleva una vida disipada, dedicada por entero a la bebida y al juego. Él desea cambiar, pero no puede. Sin embargo, cuando su mujer vuelve con él, el deseo de rehacer su vida con los suyos lo lleva a reanudar su carrera.

The story of a divorced woman who begins an affair with the college-age son of her best friend, and the effects it has on her relationship with her own son, who is not much younger than her lover.

An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Biografía del famoso general americano Douglas MacArthur, que fue el comandante supremo de los aliados en el Pacífico y, además, comandante de las tropas de las Naciones Unidas en la guerra de Corea (1950-1953). La historia empieza con la derrota americana en la batalla de Corregidor (1942), que supuso la pérdida de las Filipinas, momento en el que pronunció la célebre frase ”Volveré”; y termina cuando es destituido por el presidente Truman por haberse atrevido a desafiar sus órdenes durante la guerra de Corea.

Justo cuando están instalando una costosa piscina en casa, Dick es despedido de su bien pagado trabajo como ejecutivo, pero su mujer Jane, que es ama de casa, no se preocupa demasiado porque piensa que la situación será pasajera. Sin embargo, pronto resulta evidente que la prestación por desempleo de Dick es demasiado exigua, sobre todo porque ella es una manirrota. Así que, cuando Jane roba sin darse cuenta 2.000 dólares, se les ocurre una idea para resolver sus problemas: robar todo el dinero que necesiten. Lo que no habían pensado es que ser ladrón es una profesión realmente dura.

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

Historia del cantante y compositor Woody Guthrie. Ambientada en la época de la Gran Depresión (años 30), presenta al cantante recorriendo América en ferrocarril, gracias a lo cual llega a conocer a muchísima gente afectada por la miseria más extrema.

En Los Ángeles, en la víspera de un importante partido de fútbol americano, un sujeto armado con un rifle de mira telescópica se dirige furtivamente hacia una de las torres del estadio Coliseum. Cuando se detecta al francotirador, se recurre a los equipos SWAT y al director de seguridad del estadio, el capitán Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), cuya misión será detener al individuo antes de que cunda el pánico en un estadio con más de 90.000 personas.

A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.

The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.

A high school girl who needs a ride accepts one from a boy she doesn't know. He then forces her to participate in a robbery, in which a clerk is killed. They are soon caught, and the girl, despite her protestations of innocence, is convicted of first-degree murder and sent to prison. Once she gets there, she finds out that her troubles are just beginning.

Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.

This film, aimed at children of primary school age, presents the principles of good dental care. A narrator explains the basic steps to be followed in order to keep the teeth healthy as, in animation, a family of mother, father, sister, brother, and baby illustrates those steps.