Vier zivilisationsmüde Großstädter starten das Abenteuer ihres Lebens. Sie fordern etwas heraus, das an ihre Männlichkeit, Tatkraft und Urinstinkte appelliert: den Chattooga, dessen Stromschnellen keiner je lebend überwunden hat. Ihre einzige Sicherheit sind zwei unsinkbare Aluminium-Kanus. Dennoch paddeln sie geradewegs in die Katastrophe. Aus dem Wochenend-Ausflug wird ein Höllentrip.
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
Dignity. Poise. Mystery. We expect nothing less from the great turn-of-the-century magician, Presto. But when Presto neglects to feed his rabbit one too many times, the magician finds he isn't the only one with a few tricks up his sleeve!
When a globe-trotting, workaholic father trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she’s disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend, still nursing a broken heart, to help him find her over the course of one increasingly crazy night.
"If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But can his newfound wealth buy happiness?
A documentary film detailing Glen Campbell's final tour and his struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string.
Fronted by one of the most accomplished banjo players of his time, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones are captured live in concert on Live at the Quick. The versatile band performs just over a dozen songs including such radically different compositions as "Amazing Grace," "Big Country," "Hoedown," and the prelude from a Bach violin concerto.
The Ingenues perform "Tiger Rag," "Changes," "Mighty Lak' a Rose," "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon," and "Shaking the Blues Away."
The life and times of The Carter Family, one of the earliest and most-influential group in American country and roots music.
A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.
David Holt teaches old-time clawhammer banjo, teaching basic techniques as well as tunes.