William Farnum

Jack and the Beanstalk -- Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.

Jack and the Beanstalk -- This 1952 musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale stars Lou Costello and Bud Abbott.

In 16th-century Italy, Duke Alfonso d'Este (John Lund) goes to extraordinary lengths to convince the corrupt Cesare Borgia (Macdonald Carey) that he is not a threat, even as he secretly builds a massive cannon to defend his town, Ferrara, against Borgia's invading troops. Borgia lies to his sister, Lucretia (Paulette Goddard), telling her Alfonso murdered her husband, but Alfonso's sincerity makes her question her scheme to poison him in revenge.

In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan's second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline. Free of stereotypes about America's "heartland," GOD'S COUNTRY, commissioned for American public television, is a stunning work of emotional and political clarity.