Facing the Music

American Experience presents Summer of Love, a striking picture of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district during the summer of 1967 -- from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos, unsanitary conditions, and widespread drug use that ultimately signaled the end. Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Gail Dolgin...

Runtime

1h

Director

Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco

Cast

Martine Algier, Edward Beggs, Peter Coyote

A portrait of Ron "Stray Dog" Hall, an aging biker and RV park manager from southern Missouri. A man who has been permanently altered by his tours of duty in Vietnam, who has come to terms with himself and acquired a rare wisdom and patience in the process, and who is now dedicated to helping his friends, his loved ones, and his fellow...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Debra Granik

Cast

Ronnie Hall

Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways when she begins to question her role in life, her relationships with her career and men and what it all means. As the layers to her everyday experiences fall away insertions in the story ...

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

William Arntz, Betsy Chasse

Cast

Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie

When twenty-six-year-olds Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn quit their Hollywood jobs, packed up a borrowed car and hit the road, it was with the deeply felt conviction that somewhere, shrouded in the din of talk shows and tabloid headlines, they'd discover the real America, alive and well in all of its regions and demographics.

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Shainee Gabel, Kristin Hahn

Cast

Douglas Brinkley, George Stephanopoulos, Andrea Buchanan

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Lars von Trier, Barbara Albert

Cast

Alan Rees, Safia Aggoune, Abel Alves