Peter Barnes

The rooms and furnishings of the White House are featured through the story of Woodrow G. Washingtail, a mouse who is elected President of the United Mice of America and moves into the historic mansion along with the people's president.

After spending much of his life volunteering and holding political office, Gov. Washingtail runs for president of the United Mice of America, making speeches and campaigning until the final election.

"Woodrow, the White House Mouse", about the presidency and the nation's most famous mansion. "House Mouse, Senate Mouse", about Congress and the legislative process. "Marshall, the Courhouse Mouse", about the Supreme Court and the judicial process.

London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...

Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before—intense discussions are taking place in all political and scientific camps. FREE LUNCH SOCIETY provides background information about this idea and searches for explanations, possibilities and experiences regarding its implementation. Featuring internationally renowned social scientist, scholar, and activist Frances...

"Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon she finds...

Patrick Stewart stars as Scrooge in this brilliant presentation of Charles Dickens' holiday classic about the meanest miser in London who is visited one Christmas eve by three spirits who change his life forever.

Lewis Carroll's masterpiece of fantasy. Alice slips down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, where she meets zany characters like the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter and has a series of strange, dream-like adventures.

A mighty wizard is brought forth by the malevolent Mab to keep the Old Ways alive in Britain, but touched by the love of the beautiful Nimue, Merlin allies himself with the young Arthur, pledging his mystic skills to Arthur's visionary cause of peace and justice.