A wounded soldier dreams of his mother whose framed miniature deflects a bullet from his heart.

Paul Wellard is leaving home for the city. He goes to say good-bye to his mother and finds her at the organ singing her favorite hymn. For a while he prospers very well in the city, but finally gets in bad company, gambles, steals and loses his position. Unable to secure another position he becomes desperate and seeing the opportunity, he enters a house and is filling his pockets with valuable jewelry when he hears someone coming.

This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fortune” six years later, his proud mother can’t wait to welcome him home for Thanksgiving. Robert, however, intends to stay in the city to enjoy a holiday feast with his society friends and beautiful fiancée. When Mom decides to pay a surprise visit on Thanksgiving Day, she is saddened to find that her son is so ashamed of her that he relegates her to an upstairs room, out of sight and out of mind.

Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.

想象一下与备受赞誉却风格独特的爱尔兰作家科尔姆·托宾（Colm Toibin）交谈的场景。托宾本人热情开朗、健谈，但他笔下的故事却充满了悲伤与悄然心碎的情节，他反复回溯自己童年的黑暗往事，以及母子间复杂的关系。在这一年，他的畅销小说《布鲁克林》（Brooklyn）被改编成电影，而《……》

A combination of story, melodrama and ballet sets the stage for some of Stravinsky's most brilliant music.

On December 26, 1996, six year old JonBenet Ramsey was reported missing by her mother Patsy Ramsey after she found a ransom note. Later that day, her husband John discovered Jonbenet's lifeless body in the basement of their mansion in Boulder, Colorado.

A true story, with multiple small stories that show human rights violations and economic exploitation within religious and governmental institutions.

A true story, with multiple short stories that show human rights violations and economic exploitation within religious and government institutions.

Returning to the island where their mother lives alone, four siblings discover that the elderly woman suffers from dementia.