Movies: John Lithgow

A kaleidoscopic collection of musical genres, Myths and Hymns explores the nature of faith and longing in a secular world, with 23 short musical films illuminating the search for answers through Flight, Work, Love, and Faith....

High-spirited model Hazel decides that she should settle down in this stage play based on a Dorothy Parker short story. But her marriage to traveling salesman Herbie Morse fails to satisfy her due to his alcoholism and frequent absences. Dispirited a...

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings....

A Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Boston to Berkeley, California....

Divorced for two years, Nancy Caruthers, asks her new lover, Paul Adams, a medical student, to move in. She has custody of her two daughters, but this new living arrangement prompts her ex-husband, Richard to sue for custody, based on moral grounds. ...

Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office....

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos interweaves Emily Levine’s live performance with animation, appearances by scientists, and animated characters. The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics – the story of our valu...

This behind-the-scenes documentary follows Team Salkind as they set out to bring Santa's "true" story to the screen. Dudley Moore (Patch) hosts; David Huddleston intros in character as Santa....

Jud Crandall recounts the chilling story of Tim Baterman, who was returned dead from Vietnam, and then returned from the dead......

A live reading of passages from the Mueller report for “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts,” Robert Schenkkan’s stage adaptation of the Mueller Report. Robert Schenkkan is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning screenwriter and pl...

A spirited young girl disobeys her parents and runs off to the wood for the afternoon where she rudely invades the home of a family of bears, taking advantage of all its comforts and thoughtlessly wrecking things. When caught, she learns important le...

Where do dogs in all their amazing diversity come from? Tradition says that thousands of years ago someone tamed a wolf pup, thus creating the first of our best friends. But many scientists disagree. On "Dogs and More Dogs," NOVA goes to the dogs—and...

A documentary found on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Special Edition DVD....

This promotional short for 2010 (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were created. This includes makeup for Keir Dullea's character, how the astronauts float in space, and the construction of the spaceship in which the astron...

Bob the alligator has an ingenious idea to attract birds for his dinner. He creates a restaurant on his nose, and the birds come from all over. But when the time is right, will Bob make the right choice?...

An IMAX production that explores the ground-breaking special effects portrayed in Hollywood films from the very originals to the breathtaking special effects in movies today. Takes the audience on a "behind the scenes" look into what goes on during t...

A lonely pig named Pearl dawdles long enough in a field of dandelions to meet a bone who speaks to her....

As the cat explores its surroundings, viewers gain insight into both the cat and each new animal it encounters. As the cat walks through the world, it uses its whiskers, ears, and paws to develop a perspective of the world. The many lives of one cat ...

This is a story about a Police Officer who tries to get children to stay safe. No-one listens to him, but then he gets a police dog who listens to him....

An interview with actor John Lithgow talking about his experience with Brian De Palma's film Raising Cain...