Great Themes From Great Foreign Films

The great director Douglas Sirk 's Imitation of Life, a spectacular, sprawling melodrama, follows a widowed aspiring actress ( Lana Turner ) and a homeless single mother ( Juanita Moore ) who raise their daughters together. While the actress's rise to Broadway stardom at the cost of true love gives the first half of the film a romantic arc, the relationship between the two mothers -- one white, one black -- gradually takes center stage. Sirk never compromises the integrity of the genre, steadfastly...

Disc 1: -- The Kid Introduction by David Robinson, Charles Chaplin biographer; "Chaplin Today: The Kid," a documentary by Alain Bergala; "How to Make Movies" (1918), short film in which Chaplin shows the building of his new studio, and how movies are made there; "Jackie Coogan Dances" (1920), Jackie Coogan performs impromptu dance at Chaplin's studios; "My Boy" (1921), a later film, starring Coogan; "Nice and Friendly" (1922), a home movie with Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Jackie Coogan, and Chaplin...

Fox's popular musical comedy, Glee, is American Idol meets The Breakfast Club. Glee 's Season 1 CDs and DVD feature music hits from past to present, and follows an optimistic high school teacher as he tries to refuel his own passion for singing while reinventing the school's glee club.