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Michele Norris talks with British actress Emily Mortimer, who stars in the film Dear Frankie. Mortimer plays a single mother who manufactures an invented correspondence with her deaf son as his absentee father.

In The Thin Blue Line, director Errol Morris' uncovers evidence he believes could save a man's life. Following the release of the movie, Randall Dale Adams, convicted of murder, was freed from a life's sentence. This story was originally broadcast on Aug. 19, 1988.

He is the creator, executive producer and head writer of the HBO series Deadwood, a Western drama set in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Deadwood began its second season this week.

For the first time, the 120-foot-long scroll manuscript for Jack Kerouac's On the Road has gone on display unrolled. The giant scroll can be seen from end to end at the University of Iowa Museum of Art -- though its ending is missing, reportedly chewed by a dog.

A Kurdish movie honored at a variety of international film festivals opens in New York and Los Angeles. Turtles Can Fly is set in the days just before the U.S. invasion which toppled Saddam Hussein. It's a portrait of a village -- and especially of children -- on the brink of change.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the German and Turkish film Head-On, a love story that begins with attempted suicides from both protagonists.

Melissa Block talks with John Beatty, who teaches a course on Shakespeare's Macbeth at Brooklyn College, about his efforts to rehabilitate the Scottish king's image. Macbeth is portrayed in Shakespeare's play as bloodthirsty, but Beatty says history suggests he was a respected king.

Day to Day TV critic Andrew Wallenstein speaks with actress Glenn Close about her choice to join the cast of the FX police drama, The Shield.

Writer Mark Jordan Legan looks at what the critics are saying about this weekend's major movie releases: Constantine, Son of the Mask and Because of Winn-Dixie.

Cicely Tyson starred in movies like The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots, and was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the classic movie Sounder. After a lengthy hiatus she returns to the big screen in two movies: Because of Winn-Dixie and Diary of A Mad Black Woman. In part two of Ed Gordon's interview, he talks to Tyson about her extraordinary film career.