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Family
All About Families
Helps viewers understand the concept of families and that whether families are large or small, traditional or nontraditional, they all have things in common. Families have needs, need rules, and have similarities, no matter what part of the world they come from
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963
The Outsiders
Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the youths involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's classic novel "Pride and Prejudice" about the courtship of the independent Elizabeth Bennet and the handsome bachelor, Mr. Darcy
The Moffats
Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut
The Rolling Stones
Though it doesn't seem likely for twins to have the same middle name, it's clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "trouble" in that spot on their birth certificates. But anyone who's met their grandmother Hazel will know they came by it honestly. Join the Stone twins for a laugh-filled ride as they connive, cajole, and bamboozle their way across the Solar System in the company of the most high-spirited and hilarious family in all of science fiction. This light-hearted tale has some of Heinlein's sassiest dialogue.
The Glass Menagerie
In this semi-autobiographical play the domineering matriarch of the Wingfield family tries to find a "gentleman caller" for her fragile daughter
A Death in the Family
On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. From this situation, Agee weaves a story of the complex ways that people deal with life, love, and loss
