As the bidders arrive at Walt's Longview auction, they notice one major problem. There's a 100-buyer swarm--all of whom are geared up to spend. Ricky and Lesa duke it out for a power tool bonanza.

"Life in the big city is one big adventure for Arnold. Living with his grandparents, who run the Sunset Arms boarding house, Arnold shares a roof with a diverse and unusual menagerie of characters. But as any fourth grader knows, some of the most memorable people you'll ever meet are in school."--Container.

Portrays contemporary life in Russia through the story of Masha, a 19 year-old girl who is a member of Nashi, a political youth organization connected with the Kremlin. Extremely ambitious, the young Masha quickly rises to the top of Nashi, but begins to question her involvement when a dissident journalist whom she has befriended is savagely attacked.

"Charles Bukowski didn't like to do live poetry readings. He was very blunt about this; but audiences thought he was joking. He did readings for the money; usually only a few hundred dollars. But by 1980, his book royalties, advances for film rights, and other income provided him with the means to be able to stop doing poetry readings. His performances were legendary; cultivating anarchy, he'd goad the audience to mutiny, and usually challenge somebody--or...

"After a decade living in the United States, [filmmaker Asori] Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood--a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba survived after the collapse of the Soviet Union."--

Docudrama recounts the remarkable legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Rob and Harriet Todd discuss The Panama Canal, a Journey Between the Seas, a travelogue of their time there.

In June 1900, Major Walter Reed, Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, led a medical team to Cuba on a mission to investigate yellow fever. For more than two hundred years the disease had terrorized the United States, killing an estimated 100,000 people in the 19th century alone. Shortly after Reed and his team arrived in Havana they began testing the radical theories of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, who believed that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. This...

The Dodgers have managed to win six World Series championships through their 115 years or so of existence. Appearing in seven Series before winning their first in 1955, after moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958, they managed to appear in four from 1959 to 1966, and won three, going on to win again in 1981 and 1988. The film spends some time on various memorable individuals in the organization, notably Sandy Koufax and the inimitable Tommy...