Control Room with Mekki Leeper

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Albert Brooks

Cast

Dick Haynes, Charles Grodin, Joseph Schaffler

College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.

Runtime

1h 23m

Director

Frederick de Cordova

Cast

Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak

How independent are we in our judgments? How do other people influence us? Being like everyone else is a natural desire of a child. He often succumbs to suggestion and passes out someone else's opinion for his own. But for an adult, this is a loss of personality, adaptability, conformism, which forms the psychology of a slave.

Runtime

54m

In 1960s Egypt, a humble flower seller from Alexandria is drawn into a journalist's social experiment: to impersonate a millionaire’s daughter and spend a week living among Cairo’s elite, exposing the stark divide between classes in a rapidly modernizing society.

Runtime

2h

Cast

Nagat Al-Saghera, Hassan Youssef, Amin Elheneidy

The profound story of Lucy Temerlin, a female chimpanzee raised as human from birth in a domestic environment, and Janis Carter, the woman who took on the seemingly impossible task of giving her a new life in the wild.

Runtime

1h 19m

Cast

Janis Carter, Lucy Temerlin, Lorna Nickson Brown