The Pied Piper (1986)
The Pied Piper is a 1986 Czechoslovakian animated dark fantasy film directed by Jiří Barta. Its original Czech title is Krysař, which means "The rat catcher". The story is an…
Faerie Tale Theatre – The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Faerie Tale Theatre - S4 E3 - The Pied Piper Of Hamelin In a small German village, a mysterious flute-playing piper offers to rid the village of the rodent infestation…
Circus of Books
Circus of Books is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Rachel Mason, written by Rachel Mason and Kathryn Robson and starring Karen Mason, Barry Mason and Rachel Mason. The…
Living in Britain in 1984 | Forty Minutes: Voices in a City | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
In 1948, George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, an imaginary account of what life in Britain might be like in that year. Of his book, Orwell said: 'I do…
How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America
Margaret Grace Myers on the Grim Legacy of Ronald Reagan
SON OF A CRITCH
Based on Mark Critch's award-winning, best-selling memoir, SON OF A CRITCH is the hilarious and very real story of 11-year-old Mark coming of age in St. John’s, Newfoundland in the…
Street of Crocodiles
Street of Crocodiles is a 21-minute-long British stop-motion animation short subject directed and produced by the Brothers Quay and released in 1986. "The Street of Crocodiles" was originally a short…
Lady Pink on Being a Rare Woman in the ’80s Graffiti, Working with Jenny Holzer, and Ancient Caves
In 1971, a seven-year-old Sandra Fabara moved with her family from a city nestled in an Ecuadorian rainforest to the dense brick landscape of Brooklyn. By the time she was…
What’s Fair Is Fair: Why ‘The Legend of Billie Jean’ Is Still Invincible, 40 Years Later
Stars Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, and Yeardley Smith, plus director Matthew Robbins and super-fan Emily V. Gordon tell IndieWire why a film that notoriously bombed in theaters has emerged as…
The Smurfs (s01e24) The Purple Smurfs
A purple fly bites Lazy and he turns purple, causing him to say "GNAP GNAP!" and bite the other Smurfs, turning them into nasty, evil, angry purple smurfs as well.