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The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.

During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were interviewed by art critic Willoughby Sharp. Burden articulates the process of creating The Big Wheel, a 6,000-pound, spinning cast-iron flywheel that is initially powered by a motorcycle, and discusses its relation to his earlier performance pieces and sculptural works. Addressing his motivations and the meaning of this potentially dangerous mechanical art object, Burden discusses such topics as the role of the artist in the industrial world, "personal insanity and mass insanity," and "man's propensity towards violence."

Designed for toddlers age 2-5, Wheels on the Bus: Mango's Big Dog Parade uses a combination of cartoon characters and puppets in order to tell a story about how the bus must stop at different places as it travels to the title event. Each stop along the way offers a different activity of lesson for the young viewer.

Children of long distance lorry drivers, travelling with their fathers, become involved in attempted hijacking.

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A documentary about a de-segregation bussing program in 1979 between two Los Angeles Schools. Features interviews and footage from students, parents, and educators at Marquez School (Pacific Palisades), a predominatly white upper-class school and Coliseum School (Crenshaw), a predominantely Black and Asian working-class school.

Singing! Dancing! Light-duty multi-use vehicles!

Two men fueled by alcohol and rage force a mechanic into giving their car a last minute inspection. As the process continues, shifts in power start to emerge and tensions start to run dangerously high.

After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Wheel Meets Friction uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how the invention of the ball bearing reinvented the wheel.

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.