Cyril Cusack

Presents selections from "Ulysses," "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and "Finnegans Wake," with readers including the author himself in a recording remastered from a 1924 gramophone disc.

A fireman is in charge of burning books in a future where reading is a crime.

Through official images, film clips, news coverage trims, and neglected reels, presents an overview of the worldwide political unrest during the 1960s and 1970s from the Vietnam War protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, Fidel Castro, and more.

Martin Sheen stars in this religious drama that pits the protectors of tradition against the emissaries of change. Sheen, on a mission from the Vatican to help adminsister reforms within the Roman Catholic Church, is dispatched to a secluded monastery in Ireland where he meets an Abbot (Trevor Howard) that does not share his views on how to lead his flock.

A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.

Nineteen eighty-four: Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. When he starts an illegal love affair, he becomes the target of a brain-washing compaign to force him to conform. Crime and punishment: A modern version of Dostoyevsky's classic of one man's search for the true meaning of his existance.

Born with cerebral palsy, the 10th of 22 children of a Dublin bricklayer and his wife, Christy Brown was doomed to life as a vegetable by physicians in 1932. His strong-willed mother's love and faith encouraged him to overcome this label. At age seven, he made a mark with chalk grasped between the toes of his left foot, the only limb on his body he could control. With this proof of intelligence, his schooling begins, and aided by his loving family,...