The Hollywood icon best known for her role in "Star Wars" shares interconnected essays exploring her life as the child of Hollywood royalty, adventures on the sets of "Star Wars," and struggles with bipolar disorder.

A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently...

An episodic look at growing up in the innocence of America before the Vietnam War, focusing on a group of teens spend their time cruising and meeting at the drive-in.

Four teenagers come of age in 1962 on the last summer night before they go off to college, jobs, or the army.

Uses over 30 film clips and interviews to illustrate the aspects of the film noir genre. Jeffrey Wells discusses The big sleep, Touch of evil, Kiss me deadly, D.O.A., Out of the past, Against all odds, Laura, and Kiss of death.

It tells the true story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line.

In February 2012, Marie Colvin crossed into Syria on the back of a motorcycle. A veteran war correspondent known for her fearlessness, outspokenness, and signature eye patch, she was defying a government decree preventing journalists from entering the country. Accompanied by photographer Paul Conroy, she was determined to report on the Syrian civil war, adding to a long list of conflicts she had covered, including those in Egypt, Chechnya, Kosovo,...