...third installment in a series that has recorded the same subjects at ages 7 and 14 and now turns its focus on what it is to be 21 in America today. It provides a provocative and engaging case study of the impact race and class may have on hopes for the future...
College professor Paul Rivers and his wife Mary find their union precariously balanced between life and death. He is mortally ill and awaiting a heart transplant, while she hopes to become pregnant
Ben Campbell is a shy, brilliant M.I.T. student who--needing to pay school tuition--finds the answers in the cards. He is recruited to join a group of the school's most gifted students that heads to
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
During the Vietnam conflict, an American officer is forced to parachute into a North Vietnamese jungle and fend for himself until a rescue operation can be carried out.