The first Iraq war saw many tragedies and acts of heroism. This is the story seen through the eyes of the men and women involved.

Through the patience of Al Khansa, the fierce justice of Al Shanfara, and the unbreakable resilience of Zubaiba, this drama unearths the untold stories that shaped pre-Islamic Arabia.

A story about the choices of people who either believe money is everything or believe that it’s not.

Howe Gelb is a musician with a philosophy: Music must evolve. So he never plays his own music the same.

Beautifully filmed story set in a remote village, somewhere ‘to the south of the desert’ in Patagonia; a 13 year old boy starts to take a different view of the world around him and runs away from his parental home. Does he embark on a real journey or is this the (symbolic) point of departure to another, new life?

A mother hires an ex-C.I.A. man to find and bring back her son, who has been abducted by his father and taken to Morocco, where his grandfather, the ruler of a desert tribe, wants him to become his successor.

Who am I? What is real? How to live in the madness of the world? These are questions posed by six people who have had psychosis and speak openly about their experience. They have in common that they think deeply, and that at particular moments in their lives, they were under intense personal and social pressure. 　　The Desert of the Real draws the viewer into their lives before the pivotal events, the psychosis itself, the intensive treatment and the road to recovery, in full awareness that what has occurred cannot be undone. The unguarded and emotional interviews, conducted in their familiar surroundings, are interspersed with staged situations that evoke the interviewees’ experiences of being in a reality that is manipulated, as if in a movie. 　　The film offers a clear perspective on what it’s like to have psychosis, while also raising questions about how we, as a society, treat one another. One the six offers their view on psychosis as “A normal response to a completely crazy and disturbed society.”

In this 2007 documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection, actors Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Tobey Maguire, Chrstina Ricci, Sigourney Weaver, and Elijah Wood reflect on the making of the film and how it affected their careers. (taken from the info on The Ice Storm Criterion disc)

A deadly virus outbreak puts a hospital in total lockdown, and various people trapped in the crisis must confront a deluge of agonizing choices.

When a blizzard hits an isolated island town it brings with it a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing the people for a sinister purpose.