Soundtrack: Virgil Thomson

Direction Robert J. Flaherty

Cast Joseph Boudreaux · Lionel Le Blanc · Frank Hardy · E. Bienvenu

Synopsis A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays, fishes and hunts, worrying only about the alligators which infest its waters. The boy's innocent routine changes forever when his father...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Kim Stanley · Lloyd Bridges · Steven Hill · Betty Lou Holland

Synopsis Loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, the story of a young woman destined from childhood on to be adored by millions but unhappy in her own life. Patty Duke plays Emily Ann Faulkner as a young, friendless, fatherless...

Direction Pare Lorentz

Synopsis This documentary short film looks at the devastating and costly problems, including seasonal flooding and erosion of precious topsoil, associated with the Mississippi River system and promotes more Federal projects to remedy the situation.

Direction Andrew McCullough

Cast Orson Welles · Natasha Parry · Arnold Moss · Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis Based on Shakespeare's play: King Lear of Britain has decided to divide his kingdom into three parts, and to hand over the responsibilities of ruling to his three daughters. The two oldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter their father insincerely,...

Direction Pare Lorentz

Synopsis This documentary is about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States when a combination of farming practices and environmental factors led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Direction Arnaud des Pallieres

Cast Micheline Dax · Michael Lonsdale · Bernard Rapp

Synopsis Since its tomb, with the Lachaise Father, the voice of Gertrude Stein tells her American childhood and its adolescence, then its arrival in Paris, in 1904, at the 30 years age. Alice Toklas, her partner of a whole life, continues...

Direction Andrew McCullough · Lionel Rogosin · Norman Lloyd · Charles S. Dubin

Cast Alistair Cooke · Leonard Bernstein · Helen Hayes · Royal Dano