Breakfast Special 2: Revenge of the Omelets

To Market To Market To Buy A Fat Pig

August 2007 •English

A celebration of market houses, market places and farmers' markets across the United States. Rick Sebak checks out crab cakes in Baltimore's Lexington Market, shops with a chef in Pittsburgh's East Liberty Farmers' Market and attends a tomato tasting in Asheville, North Carolina. This program looks at the joys of talking to people who grow our food and the fresh opportunities that are found in markets.

Breakfast Special

July 2010 •English

This documentary from PBS travels throughout America in search of the best breakfast places the country has to offer. Along the way, the patrons, employees, and owners of such establishments give their take on what makes for great breakfast fare, and what keeps a customer coming back for more.

Breakfast

November 2024 •English

A quiet morning unfolds as I prepare an andouille for breakfast. Simple and serene, “Breakfast” captures the start of the day in its most peaceful moments.

The District Nurse

December 1942 •English

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.

Glasses

September 2007 •Japanese

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local inhabitants.

The Breakfast

January 1998 •English

Curly Mulligan is the pupil who brings the headmaster a full fry-up every morning. When the head finds a hair in his breakfast, all hell breaks loose.

Herbstromanze

March 1981 •German

A short vacation should let the 17-year-old, deaf-mute Veronika forget the death of her beloved father, so the plan of her mother Christina. The place of recreation, however, is not chosen happily, due to lack of money: Gut Vorwald in the Sauerland region belongs to the mature nobleman Benno von Caldern, to whom Christina once pledged herself in her youth before meeting her future husband and renouncing Benno. Under the golden roof of autumnal oak crowns, the feelings of the past return, not without dramatic consequences.

Halb Zehn

August 2024 •German

At a Babelsberg studio, two German actors try to outdo each other with their Hollywood experiences. At a chic Düsseldorf café, two expatriate French women envy each other’s respective life. At a construction site somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia, a foreman informs the supervising archaeologist that he as ordered the concrete without her approval. In a trendy Café in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, a recently departed meets a friend of his ex to obtain a box with things he’d left behind. A Dutch business consultant desperately tries to sell his inflated services to a Bulgarian arms contractor at Brussels Airport. On a rooftop in the Belgian Eifel, the owner and the future heir of a family workshop quietly discuss the recent passing of the family’s grandfather.

Eggs for Breakfast

June 2006 •Spanish

After a romantic night, even the simple things like cooking breakfast can highlight impending difficulties.

Morning Routine

Invalid date •English

A woman wakes up and makes breakfast.

The Widow

August 1990 •Danish

A gothic allegory reinventing horror movie conventions while exploring the cyclical nature of life expressed through the romantic relationship between a lonely widow and her restless husband.

Three for Breakfast

November 1948 •English

Donald Duck gets into a lot of trouble while he's cooking pancakes for breakfast - Chip and Dale are up to their mischief. Donald tries a number of plans to get rid of them, but they repeatedly foil Donald's plans.

Tempo

September 2002 •Swedish

A different family breakfast. He spills milk, she picks it in the air. She catches the roasted bread as it jumps up from the toaster...

Blondie's

August 2024 •English

A man with a strange occupation kidnaps a woman he met at a party and tries to convince her to fall in love with him.

Cooking

August 2019 •English

An egg gets boiled

Stranger In My House

February 1982 •Arabic

A single mother and a football player from the countryside find themselves fighting over the same apartment after its deceitful owner gave them duplicate contracts.

unfinished

May 2021 •English

A family faces a difficult farewell after breakfast one morning.

Café da Manhã

December 2023 •Portuguese

Pussy's Breakfast

April 1905 •French

A young girl is given her breakfast of milk and a biscuit by an elderly woman. When her beribboned cat comes up, she shares the meal with her. Later, the cat sticks her paw into a glass of milk and licks it off.

Photographic Memory

July 2012 •English

A young man attempts to have a nice breakfast but his attention keeps being drawn to something on the wall in front of him. He decides to take action in order to remedy the situation.