Film Finders: Exploring Special Topics

Take a dive into the personal lives of New York City' most fashionable seniors.

Explores the power of youth and beauty in the gay community through interviews with gay men from ages 19 to 77.

This compilation film uses excerpts from four videos to explore the self-images of women as they age in our society.

The film follows a 65-year-old man and his five closest friends as they navigate and reflect on success, conflict, marriage, divorce, fatherhood, children, and dying.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender older people who fought the first battles for equality now face so much fear of discrimination, bullying and abuse in the care setting that many are hiding their lives to survive.

Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever.

Explores the lack of respect for elders in the United States compared to other cultures and examines ways in which Americans can age well despite the youth-oriented culture and lack of societal support.

Explores the problems and challenges associated with the increasing percentage of older people in the United States. Covers topics such as the quality of life that will be experienced by older Americans, the relationship between America's youth-oriented society and its elders, the ability of Medicare and Social Security to meet the needs of the aging baby boomers, the increasing financial burden on younger Americans.

Medical advances have enabled an unprecedented number of Americans to live longer, healthier lives. But for millions of elderly, living longer can also mean a debilitating physical decline that often requires an immense amount of care, just when there are fewer caregivers to provide it.

A personal documentary charting the heart-wrenching process of separating a 92-year-old mother, from her 74-year-old daughter, who has an intellectual disability and has lived at home her entire life.

This documentary, using interviews with women who talk about love, love as they age, and love with younger partners, looks at social attitudes towards relationships between older women and younger men.

This documentary examines the personal and social impact of the impending retirement of America's 77 million Baby Boomers.

As America grays, more and more older persons are living longer than ever before. With their greater longevity, the elderly present increased demands upon those who love and provide care for them.

Explores the lives of nine women aged 67-87 and their feelings about sex and love in later life and the realities of aging.

Georges and Anne are a couple of retired music teachers enjoying life in their eighties. However, Anne suddenly has a stroke at breakfast and their lives are never the same. That incident begins Anne's harrowingly steep physical and mental decline as Georges attempts to care for her at home as she wishes.

When seven cash-strapped seniors decide to 'outsource' their retirement to a resort in far-off India, friendship and romance blossom in the most unexpected ways.

About a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards.

When an independent elderly woman crashes her car, an African American is hired as her chauffeur. The two form a close bond of friendship that transcends racial prejudices and social conventions.

The show features four older single ladies who share a home in Miami, Florida.

After a lifetime of being overlooked and ignored, Doris finds her world turned upside down by a handsome new coworker and a self-help guru that inspires her to take a chance on love. Hello, My Name Is Doris is a late-life coming-of-age story.

Shows the conflicts between three generations of the Thayers. The crotchety old professor and his wife spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's son, while the daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.

Living in a retirement community, estranged from her family a woman decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the attend her granddaughter's wedding.

Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile journey to make amends with his brother Lyle before his brother dies.

Eva is diagnosed with cancer and given a year to live. Her husband of 47 years takes her on a trip across the country to reconnect with their children.

Fleeing the retirement home where his son abandoned him, Abner Meecham sets out to reclaim his beloved Tennessee farmstead.

A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.

Bill Bryson, instead of retiring, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail but the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer.

Two elderly sisters who have spent sixty summers on a Maine island together must finally decide whether to give up their family home, independence and life together.