1904-

A biography of the Chinese leader who lost all his offices during the Chinese Cultural Revolution but later returned to power and recently retired from the Central Committee to the Communist Party.

Presents a children's story based upon Salvador Dali's most famous motifs and takes the child Salvi through a world of melting clocks, long-legged elephants, and magical chests of drawers.

Biography of Chinese escader Deng Xiaoping discussing his life and political career as well as how China was reformed in his lifetime.

Chronicles the events surrounding the World War II experiment involving thirty-six conscientious objectors who volunteered to undergo a controlled starvation in an effort to understand how best to help feed the starving European population after the war.

Explores the dual life of Graham Greene, an acclaimed fiction writer who was also a spy. Draws from Greene's correspondence with his mistresses, documents from his M16/Secret Service file, and interviews with friends and acquaintances.

A fictionalized account of the adventurous 1909 journey of nine-year-old Bud Abernathy and his five-year-old brother, Temp, who traveled alone, mostly on horseback, from their home in Oklahoma to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and back again, crossing the vast, desertlike no-man's-land in the Texas Panhandle known as the caprock.

Traces the life and career of the Chinese Communist leader who brought reforms and international trade to China in the 1980s.

Introduces children to the art of Salvador Dali, providing a discussion of his life, and an overview of his dream-like paintings.

Conversations between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, a television journalist, discussing mythology and our ties to the past.

Chronicles the life of artist Willem de Kooning, focusing on how his work helped him become a key figure in the American movement of abstract expressionism.