Movies of 1994

The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

A banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.

In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.

Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.

A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.

The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.

A film about the work of the artist most famous for her monuments such as the Vietnam Memorial Wall and the Civil Rights Fountain Memorial.

Deborah Hoffman records and recounts the toll of Alzheimer's disease on her mother, Doris. Hoffman traces the gradual course of the disease and all that she learned as she cared for her mother.

A series showcasing documentaries on American history.

Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961- 64.

The documentary compiles interviews of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine.

A short history of civil rights movements in the US.

Human rights abuses by graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) are chillingly documented at the beginning of the campaign to close the school.

Parents talk about their gay and lesbian children, and how they came to accept their lifestyle.

Upon hitting puberty, a high-school boy realizes he is homosexual and faces prejudice from his parents and friends.

A black city attorney is forced to defend a white cop who's being held hostage by a gang seeking revenge for a young boy's murder.

A man's life changes when he gets a hairpiece.

In a witty homage to Kirk Douglas's films, all three characters ARE Kirk Douglas at various stages of his career. The short action takes place in a news room. A young reporter looking for his big chance pleads with his editor to give him a breaking story.

An obsessed monk goes to extremes to try to catch a fish with a net.

Tension rises when a second woman joins a dancing couple.