The World of Sholom Aleichem

This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.

1959-12-14 | en

Rope

A remake of the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock classic about two longtime friends who attempt to prove that they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party with the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

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Happy Days

An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's absurdist drama. An ordinary woman lives her humdrum life half-buried in a pile of dirt; her husband is partially visible behind her. She goes through her daily routines, ever hopeful that this is going to be a happy day.

2000-08-31 | en

The Fence

Over the course of one night near a construction site in Senegal, a group of workers are confronted by a man seeking justice for his brother's death at the site.

2025-09-10 | fr

The Long and the Short and the Tall

Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface

1961-02-28 | en

The Seagull

Based on the play of the same name by Anton Chekhov. About the searches and doubts of the Russian intelligentsia at the end of the 19th century. Events unfold on the estate of Pyotr Sorin, which brought together representatives of secular society - actress Irina Arkadina, the host's sister and her lover, the famous writer Trigorin. Sorin’s nephew, Konstantin Treplev, in love with a neighbor girl Nina Zarechnaya, who dreams of becoming an actress, writes for her a play that she plays in the scenery of Sorin’s garden.

1972-02-14 | ru

Moonlight and Valentino

A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

1995-09-29 | en

Paco and the Magical Book

Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness.

2008-09-13 | ja

Black Terror

Fifty years after Richard Wesley's original production of Black Terror, Richard Lawson directs a bi-coastal cast of revolutionaries on a daunting mission to free their people. As the Black Comrades Keusi, M'Balia, Geronimo, and Ahmed fight on the edge of life and death, the divide between them intensifies and widens.

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The Crucible

Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.

1967-05-04 | en

Three Wishes

The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a small apartment in Žižkov with his wife and grandparents, desperately struggling with the lack of money. One day he offers an old man a seat on a crowded trolley bus and is generously rewarded for his good deed, for the unknown old man is a fabulous grandfather. He gives Peter a magic bell and the opportunity to make three wishes, but the first two slip through his fingers. For the third, the astonished man must take time to think...

1963-06-21 | cs

Florence Nightingale

Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale

2008-06-01 | en

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.

1982-11-12 | en

Dievčatko z predmestia

1982-01-01 | sk

The Rose Tattoo

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

1955-12-12 | en

Streamers

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.

1983-09-05 | en

Tea and Sympathy

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards with him was his housemaster's wife.

1956-09-27 | en

The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet

An outrageously bawdy, sexed-up version of the world's most famous love story.

1969-03-15 | en

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.

2001-05-08 | en

Love! Valour! Compassion!

A group of gay friends spend summer weekends together at a lakeside house in upstate New York. As the season progresses and secrets begin to surface, the complex relationships within the group are sometimes strained and sometimes strengthened.

1997-05-16 | en