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- In this mini-series of six 30-minute programs in documentary format, host Bill Moyers shows junior high and high school students how the Constitution is designed to adapt dynamically to change, the system of checks and balances it embodies, and the urgency that young people become civically active.
- Follow-up interviews with the original child chess prodigies, nearly 20 years later.
- Film exploring the sensitive issue of disclosing child sexual and physical abuse through the depiction of peer and trusted adult relationships.
- Messages, All The Time, All The Time is an experimental riff on Gertrude's Stein's poetic lament about time past and present. Hamrick explores the dream state of a woman leaving a marriage in a limbo landscape using parallel editing techniques and shifting visual realities.
- Intimate cinema-verite study of a local theater group, the Berkeley Stage Company as it goes through the month-long rehearsal process of a new play Baby, by Drury Pifer. Follows the actors from the first day of rehearsal to the preview performance. Emphasis is placed on the role of the director, Angela Paton (formerly a leading lady with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco), as she works with the actors and discusses her method of directing.
- Explores some of the causes of suicidal feelings, such as reactions of others, fears, and addressed various support methods. Strongly encourages an understanding of the thoughts and feelings behind threats of suicide and offers measures to help prevent suicide.
- A wry look at Madison Avenue featuring a pre-teen who fantasizes herself to be with the Virginia Slims Lady and on horseback outings with the Marlboro Man. Though 12 year-old Rene is an ambitious runner, even rising in pre-dawn hours to practice, she is tempted to give it all up for the popularity she believes is associated with smoking cigarettes. Surrounded by smokers in her family and pressured by her best friend to stop being immature, Rene tries to emulate the sophisticated look of the Virginia Slims lady. It is only when she is caught with cigarettes at school and disqualified from the state track meet that she questions the appeal of smoking. Starring Kimberly Boglin as Rene and Maria Jones as Carol.
- Portrayal of a man's sexual desire for a nun. Cinematic rather than explicit, the man's fantasy is effectively conveyed by means of atmosphere, suggestion and quick-editing.