Movies: Stanley Ackerman

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion....

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films....

In this sequel to Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," a boy recalls his life with an elderly cousin in rural Alabama in the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school....

The zany crew of a New York cable TV station accidentally bounce a signal off the moon, bringing them worldwide attention....

In 1969, The Department of City Planning in New York City developed a new city-wide plan. This documentary, produced and written by John Peer Nugent and narrated by notable urbanist William H. Whyte, was released on public television to provide a beh...