July 15, 1989 • 1h 25m
A heartbreaking yet hopeful portrait of three runaway girls with histories of abuse and neglect. Pinky, a Puerto Rican girl, refus...Read more
July 16, 1989 • 1h
On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Altho...Read more
July 23, 1989 • 1h
The debutante tradition is alive and well. Witness the annual Debutante Cotillion in Washington, DC -- a meticulously planned ritu...Read more
July 23, 1989 • 1h
A stamp dealer from Los Angeles, a former school teacher form Miami, a born again Christian from Las Vegas, and a whiz-kid law stu...Read more
July 30, 1989 • 1h
Home movies and tape recordings collected from 60 different American families comprise a composite lifetime which moves from child...Read more
August 6, 1989 • 1h
Denounced by officials and shunned by broadcasters when it was first released, this exploration of the personal and immediate impa...Read more
August 13, 1989 • 1h
A bold and unconventional film portrait of one of America's leading Social Realist painters doing what he does best: skewering cor...Read more
August 20, 1989 • 1h
On the streets and subways of New York, 101 itinerant performers whirl firesticks, mimic passers-by, imitate Stevie Wonder, tap da...Read more
August 27, 1989 • 1h
The untold story of a handful of Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance against the Nazis in the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna.
September 3, 1989 • 1h
Moved by the growing desperation of thousands of laid-off steel workers, a group of ministers in Pittsburgh begins to confront the...Read more
September 17, 1989 • 1h
Videomaker Lynn Hershman places herself center-screen for an intimate, humorous, and piercing narrative about her efforts to control her weight.
September 17, 1989 • 1h
For more than a hundred years cowboys have written with feeling about the life and land they love. Several contemporary poet laria...Read more
September 17, 1989 • 1h
The inner and outer lives of identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, whose collaborative painting and photographic work is rapidly ga...Read more
September 24, 1989 • 1h
The lives and struggles of a group of homeless people who've been moved into an "urban campground" in Los Angeles.