Refuge, shelter, or prison? Sharmila Tagore narrates the story of home on screen in the great films of Edith Carlmar, Lynne Ramsay, Mai Zetterling, Liu Jiay-in, Forough Farrokhzad, Antonia Bird and others. Narrator Sharmila Tagore takes us on a global tour of great films about religion. We start in America in the 1910s, go to Sri Lanka in the 70s, and dip into the work of Lucretia Martel, Jessica Hausner and Marjane Satrapi. Work seems too unglamorous for cinema, but as narrator Jane Fonda tells us, in films like AMERICAN HONEY, the silent Russian masterpiece WOMEN OF RYAZAN, Venezuela's ARAYA, Patty Jenkins' MONSTER and Mary Harron's AMERICAN PSYCHO, some of the most engrossing scenes show work.

Another aspect of everyday life. From silent cinema to the 21st Century, movies from the visually astonishing THE ENCHANTED DESNA to DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE to Bigelow's STRANGE DAYS have gained their energy and attack from their politics. We like to be taken by surprise in films. This short chapter, narrated by Sharmila Tagore, looks at such surprises. Is comedy universal? Who have been the great comedy filmmakers around the world? Narrator Sharmila Tagore talks us through scenes from BIG with Tom Hanks, Ida Lupino's THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, the great movies of Elaine May, the classic Norwegian comedy FOOLS ON THE HILL, and more.

A genre as popular as Comedy, but what are some of the great scenes in Melodrama? Sharmila Tagore narrates a story that takes us from the silent American film SHOES, to Kira Muratova's brilliant CHEKOV'S MOTIFS, to Binka Zhelyazkova's visually remarkable WE WERE YOUNG.Kathryn Bigelow, the Wachowski siblings, Patty Jenkins' WONDER WOMAN, Lori Petty's TANK GIRL, the TV version of Margaret Atwood's HANDMAID'S TALE. Our look at sci-fi takes us to unusual places, other realms. Literal, figurative, political, in Deepa Mehta's EARTH, Samira Makhmalbaf's BLACKBOARDS, Jennifer Kent's horror masterpiece THE BABADOOK, Joanna Hogg's squirm-making Archipelago, the Tunisian film THE SILENCES OF THE PALACES, and more.