Barry Gordon

Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.

In the spring of 1984, a strange new comic book sat beside cash registers in select shops, too big to fit in the racks, and too weird to ignore. Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles presented a completely original breed of super hero. It was too bizarre, too crazy. It broke all the rules and should never have worked. Until it sold out. Again and again and again. For 30 years. Now, peek under the shell and see how this so-called "happy accident" defied every naysayer to become one of the most popular and beloved franchises in the world.

Spanning 10 epic seasons, multiple dimensions, and formidable foes, the shell-busting TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES were always ready with their green machine justice! Relive 10 classic fan favorite episodes, featuring Raphael, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo as they battle arch enemies from this dimension and beyond in their continued mission to keep the world safe. Grab a slice of "Cowabunga" and travel back to the sewers of this mutant-packed series!

American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.

A young, beautiful girl awaits the day she will be killed after having asked for a most humble gift.

Shredder and Krang discover a Dinosaur reserve at the earth's core and plot to steal their life source, an energy crystal, to repower the Technodrome, drill to the surface, and comence w/ world domina.. blah blah yada yada and of course the turtles are ready to stop 'em. In the next episode the Ratking makes his debut and plots to control Splinter and make him a part of his rat army.

The Ninja Turtles fight against Gridlock, a supervillain determined to 'derail' the unleashing of a new transport system in LA.

Katja and Johann are two teenagers who are the best of friends. They spend most of their time in a ruined fort, fantasizing about an ideal world. Their relationship becomes threatened when Johann is taken ill with leukemia, and Katja's mother is undecided on whether to stay with her husband or leave with her lover.

After scoring tops in his correspondence school class, whiz kid Donatello is invited to receive his degree in person--er, in turtle. But at Sopho University, he and Irma run afoul of the seriously bogus Professor Sopho, who plans to use a giant magneto-oscillator to speed up the Earth's rotation and make himself Supreme Ruler! Now, only Donatello and his hard-punchin' pals can keep the planet from being plunged into a dangerously gnarly spin cycle!

Just as the Turtles are preparing for a totally eggs-cellent Easter, Shredder scrambles their plans with a way-bogus ray - that makes everyone timid as terrified bunnies! To find a solution, the intrepid Turtles travel to "The Fairy Tale" dimension, where they meet a cast of storybook superstars and join forces with a heroic hare named Hokum. Now, if they can just get back to their home planet before the Easter deadline egg-spires! Then, good buddy Hokum Hare once again teams up with the fightin' green Teens as Shredder tries to conquer the future! It's a tubuloso adventure that finds the Turtles journeying years ahead in time, when they come face-to-shell with themselves: the over-the-hill Mutant Ninja Turtles!

They're awesome, green...and they're back in head-to-shell mischief with the sinister Shredder. Shredder's latest dastardly scheme is to rule the city with the use of a mind controlling mesmerizer. When his bumbling sidekicks, Bebop and Rocksteady, goof up the job, he makes superpowerful cybernetic clones out of them, programmed to stop the Turtles. It's up to our heroes to save the city, but can these party animals fight off clones SUPER ROCKSTEADY AND MIGHTY BEBOP? Watch and find out if the evil Shredder is reduced to a shell of a man.

Dialing for dough gets dangerous when Shredder opens up a Pizza to Go. Forget about pepperoni - this devious dude wants his pizza with turtle meat! All he has to do is wait for the pizza-gobbling green teens to call. There's only one problem with Shredder's pizza-rific plan: he doesn't know his delivery boy is Michaelangelo in disguise. Share PIZZA BY THE SHRED, then stick around for a second helping of awesome adventure with RETURN OF THE FLY.

Will the real Michaelangelo please stand up? This surfer dude's got a double! It seems that Shredder and that oversized brain Krang have created a hologram of the hero turtle--in a diabolical attempt to infiltrate the sewer. But the green teens get hip to the Foot Clan's scheme and must try to distinguish illusion from reality. Then, sit tight for more multidimensional excitement with NEW YORK'S SHINIEST.

The Ninja Turtles are going out of this world. Way out! Their arch villain Shredder has concocted two new mutants and a gigantic robot to destroy the turtles. But also, a mysterious, two foot fifth turtle is following the four around. His name is Kerma and he's from Shellrelah, a turtle world. Well while the turtles are called on to help the turtle world in distress, Shredder is left to do his worst on the city. Can the green teens help their fellow alien turtles and save the city?

In the mood for Turtles, dude? In ATTACK OF THE BIG MACC, a Time Portal drops Macc in our midst--from 400 years in the future! All the peace-loving robot wants is to hang out and soak up data, but Shredder slaps the dreaded Docilator on him--and the laser-wielding Macc runs amuck. Only our lean green fighting teens can stop him and prevent Shredder from raising an army of invincible robots. And don't miss the second awesome adventure in THE OLD SWITCHEROO.

After a long space journey, an astronaut returns home to his family only to discover that he has somehow gone through a "time warp" and is now one year into the future, rendering him invisible to all those around him.

To fight evil, a young rabbit can transform into a star spangled superhero.

M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.

The first TMNT direct-to-video movie! Meet Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo, the Renaissance turtles who are fighting evil for truth, justice and a larger slice of pizza. Heroes in a half shell... Turtle Power!

Pac-Man and friends try to help Santa fix his sleigh and save Christmas!

Depicts one woman's struggle with the responsibility of juggling two jobs at one time as both a garage mechanic and God's chosen messiah. She faces a rather difficult career decision as her true passion is in the first job while her effectiveness in the second job grows more questionable.

Join the colorful, happy Snorks in the magical world of Snorkland, deep beneath the sea. The Snorks will entertain and delight you as they snorkel through eight waterful episodes on this videocassette.

A psychic investigates the disappearance of a space-shuttle crew and discovers an alien force present in the craft.

Hey, Turtle fans--are you ready for a "fabuloso" feature-length adventure? Then try this on for size! Shredder's shenanigans have shrunk the fearless green teens down to thimble-sized turtles. The only thing that hasn't been diminished is their appetite for pizza. Now, even a trickle from a storm pipe spells a tidal wave of trouble for these minimutants. Will our six-inch-high heroes grow out of this mess? Or might they end up as more morsels for some sewer shark? One thing's for sure--this is no tall tale!

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE fever has struck the nation! They're weird, they're wacky, and, man, are they ever hip! These HEROES IN A HALF SHELL are the latest rage among kids, teenagers, and ultra cool adults. Once common hosehold pets, they were transformed into mutants by radioactive green slime. Now, this noble foursome spreads their message of truth, justice, and a larger slice of pizza for all! Join Raphael, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo in their very first video adventure filled with laughter, lunacy, and unbeatable fun for everyone.

Hey, Turtle Fans... are you ready for one radical far-out tale? The ultra-nasty master Shredder has joined forces with a mad, bad brain--called Krang. The two plan to import their own evil armies to cripple the world. But wait! Speeding on the scene arrive HOT RODDING TEENAGERS FROM DIMENSION X warning our fabulous foursome of green teens about the wicked duo's mean schemes. The Turtles unite with these visiting party animals to battle the villains. PLUS--more shell-shocking excitement with A THING ABOUT RATS!

An alien king sends two of his most loyal--and, as it turns out, stupidest--subjects to Earth to find him a queen to help rule his planet.

Wichita policeman, Evan Stark, goes to Las Vegas in search of his missing sister, Laura.

Ready for a large charge, Turtle fans? This time, the evil Shredder has devised one of his scariest scenarios. It's THE CASE OF THE KILLER PIZZAS, in which monster meatballs threaten to devour the city. But hold the anchovies! Our lean green gang of teen turtles aren't going to take this taste-less attack without a food fight. Tune in as "Turtlemania" continues to spread across the land. And stay tuned for the second radioactive adventure: ENTER THE FLY.

"In life you have to work fo what you want," Shando's wise old teacher tells him. Shando wants to become a music ant but first he must earn the kabump that all working adult ants have. However, Shando spends his time daydreaming and instead of earning his kabump, he acquires a fake one. He soon learns that true success comes only with hard work and honesty.

Sequel to the original movie about a hard-boiled Kansas City cop finds him tracking a colleague's killer to Las Vegas.

Dracula and Renfield relocate to '70s era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may be in love with Cindy too.

When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.

Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.

A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.

An introverted nerd and a violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.