An insanely jealous boxer murders his manager when he finds him alone with his fiancee, but she is the one charged with the crime by the police.
When an artist discovers his wife is having an affair with their jungle guide, he lures them into posing for him in a radioactive jungle river.
A gym owner’s daughter takes the responsibility to coach an up-and-coming boxer. Things go out of hand when success goes to his head.
Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking.
The appearance of an unknown “missile-like” object in nearby space leads a European nation to fire a rocket at it. Though the rocket intercepts the unidentified object, the explosion only diverts the missile into an orbit around the Earth. Racing five miles above the earth, its passage causes widespread devastation of the land below.
This compilation documentary was produced for HBO with the association of the American Film Institute as part of the worldwide salute to the 100th anniversary of motion pictures. The film uses extensive historical and new interviews, from D.W. Griffith and Lillian Gish to important actors and directors of today, and hundreds of clips from well-known films to effectively tell the story of the American film.
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
