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- The first "Twentieth Century" shot and broadcast in color explores the scenic beauty of the Hudson River Valley, and contrasts it with commercial development and sources of pollution along its length. Sites seen include the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
- Tomasz Piechocki is a young doctor who is looking for his own flat. And one day his dream comes true, he gets an assignment for an apartment. But to get it, he must first get married. Tomasz begins a frantic search for his wife. He has only 30 days for it. I do not want his friend to be indifferent to him. After the initial failures, he meets this one, the only one.
- A CBS Reports broadcast on the eve of President Nixon's historic meeting with Mao Zedong in Beijing, February 1972, this film examines US-China relations as influenced and reflected in American popular culture and politics. It documents attitudes, perceptions, and misperceptions as disseminated in Hollywood films, newsreels, historical footage, and the popular press. This film has become a staple of China studies in America.
- This Landmark documentary traces the African origin of Middle-Eastern Dance from the Neolithic period, to a distinct group of people identified as Bovidians. This documentary premiered on KCET, in Los Angeles, California, and was also the only cultural film featured in the Rotterdam International Film Festival in Europe.
- A story about the inhabitants of Warsaw's Praga from the late 1970s. There are representatives of the social margin among them, but there are also a collector of works of art, an ex-peasant who keeps raising peacocks, an old woman collecting dolls. This extremely colorful company lives in old, demolished tenement houses.
- "Standing Alone" is the story of how Kim, a Christian wanting God's best for her life, struggles with the demands for conformity to the world. It examines the life changing effects of commitment to God, especially the irreversible consequences that follow true decision.
- The tempestuous life and artistic career of tenor/movie idol Mario Lanza, told through interviews with his friends, his children, his co-stars; and illustrated with television show and newsreel clips and feature film excerpts. ("The Toast of New Orleans", "The Great Caruso", "Because You're Mine", "The Student Prince", "The Seven Hills of Rome", etc.) Hosted by Placido Domingo.
- Zack is the story of a private investigator who, like many Christians, never considered the importance of a commitment to his own church. But Zack takes on an insurance investigation and in the process discovers a lot more than just the solution to the case.
- A teenager is faced with an identity problem. Puzzled by her mixed race parentage she escapes into her private fantasy world by losing herself in her music.
- Video Beat was a popular syndicated music video show that aired on American television from 1984 to 1986. Created and produced by Richard Blade and Peter Facer, Video Beat uniquely captured the excitement and eccentricity of the 1980's British new wave invasion of the United States. Hosted by Richard Blade, Video Beat was very much a show about the moment. Many bands and artists of the day, both British and American were featured in an exciting and vibrant mix of interviews, world premiere music videos and live performances. Duran Duran, Culture Club, Adam Ant, Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode, Wham!, Tears For Fears, Billy Idol, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Sting, Bon Jovi, RUN DMC and A-Ha all appeared on Video Beat through interviews and also as co-hosts.
- Shows the endangered whooping crane's perilous migratory path.
- In a3520 FOR PIANO SOLO: a film by Tony De Nonno you will experience Matthias Kriesberg performing his piano composition "a3520," a work The New Yorker called "exhilarating," in the dark resonant interior of a 19th century Gothic cathedral in New York City, see the dynamic images award-winning filmmaker Tony De Nonno has created to move in harmony with the composition. Matthias Kriesberg, one of the leading composers of his generation, treats piano in startling new ways keeping the entire keyboard in motion at once. De Nonno's lyrical camera angles and dramatic lighting creates an atmosphere in sync with the explosive psychological power and subtlety of Kriesberg's "new tonality." This contemporary music video offers insight into a new performance technique and aesthetic vision that will inspire composers and performers in their own personal expression.
- Scripted documentary on the career of the creative team Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein: Interviews with members of their families, and with theater and film professionals who worked with them, actors as well as directors Reuben Mamoulian, Josh Logan, Robert Wise and choreographer Agnes de Mille. Excerpts from stage, film and television productions of their works, including "Oklahoma!", "South Pacific", "Carousel", "The King and I', "Flower Drum Song", "The Sound of Music", etc.
- This Program was screened daily on the ABC in Australia to excite regional, rural and remote communities about the arrival of new Satellite Television and Radio services. It also explained some of the installation choices available for consumers.
- Kendall Ross Bean, concert pianist and composer, was the featured performer in Kendall Ross Bean - Chopin Polonaise in A Flat. It was a Classical Music Video broadcast on Arts and Entertainment Network on July 23, 1986 at the time when MTV was just becoming popular. It received media attention on both the east and west coast and was featured in excerpt on prime-time local television news. It was nominated for an ACE Award for Outstanding Programming Achievement in 1988 by the National Academy of Cable Programing in the Ninth Annual System Awards for Cable Excellence.
- The life and work of the great composer Irving Berlin, tracking his work against the history of 20th century America, its ups and downs, in war and peace, progress and sentiments. Interviews with many of the people who worked with him and knew him best. And appearances in many film and television excerpts of the leading performance artists of our time, including Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Harry Richman, Rudy Vallee, Fred Astaire, Kate Smith, Jack Benny, John Raitt, Betty Hutton, Ethel Merman, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Linda Ronstadt and many others.
- Observes the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States. Shows how the region's main industry, crabbing, shapes lives.
- One of the major American architectural minds of the twentieth century, Philip Johnson has played an enormous role in both understanding and creating the urban skylines of the country.
- Hosted by President and Mrs. Reagan, this concert in the PBS series "In Performance at the White House" featured performances by five great ladies of the theater. It included a tribute to Mary Martin's 50th anniversary in show business. Haerd here are "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", "And I Am Telling You", "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina", and "Memory" and other selections.
- Profile of the Broadway team Alan Jay Lerner and Fritz Loewe, whose credits included the hit shows "Brigadoon", "Paint Your Wagon," "Gigi," "Camelot," and "My Fair Lady." Their story is told through interviews with the artists with whom they worked, and feature film and television excerpts.
- Presented on the South Lawn of the White House, hosted by President and Mrs. Reagan, this concert in the PBS series "In Performance at the White House" featured Broadway show tunes. Included are "Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat" from "Guys and Dolls", "If I Loved You" from "Carousel", "Till There Was You" from "The Music Man", "Nothing Like a Dame" from "South Pacific" and the title song from "Oklahoma!"
- Latest Technology Reviews, Consumer related news, entertainment stories and movie reviews are the topics NewsWatch TV reviews each week on their consumer oriented show.
- Videotaped in the East Room of the White House, this concert, hosted by President and Mrs. Bush, presented a variety of music selections, including "O Mio Babbino Caro" from Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi", "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" from Kurt Weill's musical "Lost in the Stars", the jazz tune "I've Got the World on a String", and others. It also included readings from "American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It."
- In the PBS series produced at the White House and hosted by President and Mrs. Bush, this hour concert featured John Denver, Barry Bostwick, Simon Estes, Judy Kaye and Joshua Rifkin in a mix of show tunes, ragtime, opera and American folk music.
- MURDER EAST - MURDER WEST, mini-series produced by John Goldschmidt for ITV and ARD on location in Berlin during the days following the opening of the Berlin Wall: This superbly made dramatic thriller, tells the passionate story of three people caught in a murderous web of deceit and revenge on both sides of the former Germany. Edgar Rutchinski, who has made a living smuggling refugees, finds his past catching up with him in the shape of the ex-girlfriend he thought was dead. Starring JEROEN KRABBE, SUZANNA HAMILTON, JOANNA PEARCE and ALEXANDRA PIGG.
- This is the story of Navy squadron VF-17, the amazing Jolly Rogers. Flying their beloved "Hogs," the F4U-1 Corsair, they cleared the skies of 154 Japanese planes in 76 days of combat over the Solomon Islands. While never losing a bomber to enemy attack, Fighting 17 destroyed the heart of Japanese fighter command over Bougainville and Rabaul paving the way for the Allied advance in the Pacific. As related by the squadron's skipper, Tom Blackburn, and four of his men, the events of 1943-44 are enhanced by splendid film footage, personal photographs, and the memories of those who were there. This is the true story, the excitement, the agony, humor and sadness of a legendary tour of duty that will never be forgotten as long as pilots take to the air in combat.
- General Info: "El Show" as the staff called it, was the first national, bilingual talk and sketch-comedy show. Opening with a monologue, Paul went on to interview a cross-section of English and Spanish-speaking luminaries from Cesar Chavez to Jack Lemmon. Sketch comedy was interwoven into many shows. "The Father of Chicano Music", the legendary Lalo Guerrero, served as Paul's co-host for the final season. (Lalo's oldest son, Dan Guerrero, also served as the show's head producer.) The show was canceled at the peak of its popularity when the station realized it could import a show from Latin America at a fraction of the cost of producing in the U.S. The entire bilingual staff loved working on "El Show". Paul proved himself to be a generous and kind person, a marvelous talk show host and talented sketch comedy character actor.
- This is the story of five soldiers, members of the 681st Glider Field Artillery Battalion of the 17th Airborne, five young men who went to war because there was a job to do. They represent hundreds of thousands of anonymous GI's who answered the call and fought and struggled and suffered and survived. They confronted the grim reality of ground combat, the sickening fear, the loss of buddies, and death. Thrown into combat during the Battle of the Bulge on Christmas Day 1944 and then in March 1945 were dropped over the Rhine in gliders as part of Operation Varsity, these young men fought their way across Germany, tree to tree, farmhouse to farmhouse, foot by foot, right to the end of the war. They were a true Band of Brothers. Soldiers interviewed were Capt. Robert Harrsch, Sgt. Walter Byrd, Jack Fisher, Carl Arend, and Stanley Polniak.
- The 25th Anniversary Special of "Tomorrow's World" broadcast in the UK on May 3, 1990 was an ambitious live special made up of prerecorded stories and live field reports from science shows around the world. The show was fraught with challenges and failures as technological capabilities from some of the contributing shows were not all state-of-the-art.
- Life and work of American composer Richard Rodgers, whose work, in collaboration with Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, and others, gave the world dozens of the greatest musical theater successes. motion picture soundtracks and songs of the 20th century. Interviews with family and friends, artists who worked with him, home movies. Excerpts from many film and television productions featuring his work, including "Oklahoma!', "South Pacific", "The Sound of Music", "The King and I", "Carousel", "Pal Joey", "Cinderella", "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum", "Love Me Tonight", "I Married an Angel", "Babes in Arms".
- The men of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment describe the ferocious battle for the Island of Peleliu, "an island on fire." In conditions that tested the sanity of each man, 9,000 Marines attacked 10,000 battle hardened Japanese soldiers dug into hundred of fortified and reinforced coral and limestone caves. Twenty-eight days of unrelenting battle with no quarter being given or taken. Brutal, harrowing, but heart-rending, the stories of these soldiers truly speak to the horror of war. This remarkable documentary features interviews with Eugene "Sledgehammer" Sledge (author of "With the Old Breed") , R. V. Bergin (author of "Islands of the Damned"), William Leyden, Jay de L'eau, and Roy Kelly. Sledge, Bergin Leyden, and de L'eau were characterized in the HBO series "The Pacific."
- The life of prolific Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev is portrayed through biographical, on-location flashbacks from his birth place intermingled with live concert performances from the historical Kirov (Mariinsky) Symphony Orchestra, St.Petersburg, conducted by internationally acclaimed maestro Valeriy Gergiev. These unique musical sequences give the dramatized episodes from Profifiev's life a time-transcending significance and actuality in todays ever-changing Russia.
- Five crew members of the B-17, Betty Boop/Pistol Packin' Mama, tell what it was like in the grim early days of daylight bombing beginning in July 1943. As members of the 390th Bomb Group flying out of Framlingham, England, they often led their squadron, their group, and sometimes the entire 8th Air Force into action. The life of a bomber crewman is described as never before . . . the strain and cold, the fear, the sense of death and loss, the bond of camaraderie. Enhanced by stunning footage and personal photos, this is how it was battling fighters and flak over Hitler's Germany. After surviving 25 missions, the crew was reassigned, some to return home, some to take on other missions. The plane itself was shot down shortly after a new crew took over. Airmen interviewed were Pilot James Geary, Co-Pilot Richard Perry, navigator Gus Mencow, engineer Shirl Hoffman, and ball-turret gunner Clifford Puckett.
- After more than three centuries, the family industry of Hudson River commercial fishing has been brought to the brink of extinction by toxic contamination. The Last Rivermen is the story of the fishermen whose lives, families and culture were ruined by government and corporate neglect.
- It is a TV special that was produced and aired in Canada in the 1990s. It highlighted the beautiful collection of poems and prose by the author and actress, Corinne Copnick, who appeared in the TV special, which starred Shelley Lynne Spiegel. It aired in Canada on Vision TV and its affiliate channels over 5 years in the 1990s. Credits appeared in various local TV guides during that time. VisionTV no longer keeps records of airing dates from that period, however, original video copies exist.
- In the very distant future, humans have lost the ability to continue procreation when the world's cloning centers are sabotaged. A group of reluctant heroes volunteer to be shrunk to a subatomic scale and voyage through the body of the last fertile human to restore the genetic link necessary for continuation of the species.
- Music Works is a popular CBC Television music series featuring some of Canada's best bands and artists. It also showcases some of Canada's new artists on the music scene. The bands play live in a music warehouse studio. It is hosted by popular celebrity Pat Mastroianni.
- Biography of Will Rogers, who, during the generation before World War Two, was one of America's best known journalists, movie actors, stage performers and international ambassadors of good will. The story is told through interviews, photographs, newsreel clips and excerpts from feature films in which he starred. Narrated by Edwin Newman.
- Passover (1995) : A flamenco passion play set in Andalucia, Passover is a close collaboration between director Jamil Dehlavi and celebrated flamenco guitarist Paco Peña, inspired by the legend that the gypsies forged the nails used to crucify Jesus Christ and were thereafter condemned to wander the earth forever.
- Get ready for a wild ride through the construction of a brand new house. Your host, Super Hammer-- played by Magician/Illusionist Bob Borgia-- takes you through the process of building an entire new neighborhood-- from architects drawing the plans, through landscapers installing a new lawn.
- Alchemy in Light is a multiple award winning film that combines music and cinematography for a sensual and vicarious experience about creation. The film examines the ancient craft of glass blowing from the perspective of three modern artists--a woman and two men. Beginning with sand and fire, we watch them labor at Vulcan's forge to transform the 2,000 degree honey-like material into art glass. Each artist has their unique style and technique; the life they breath into the glass is their own, and their art reflects their personality. As they work the material, the artists talk about the craft of glass blowing and working with the molten glass.
- Known to the U.S. Navy as the "Gibraltar of the Pacific" since the late 1930's, the Japanese had occupied this coral atoll since after WW I. This was very strategic to the Japanese to their build up of the Pacific military and other resources. This coral atoll was called, Truk Lagoon. Truk Lagoon (now known as Chuuk, FSM, South West of Guam) was known as the revenge of Pearl Harbour for Japan. The US Naval Task Force 58.1 launched early morning attacks and the first ever night attacks over February 17th & 18th, 1944, by the time it was all over, the US bombs & torpedoes had sent at lease forty sufficient ships to the bottom of the lagoon, and over 200 aircraft had been destroyed. The documentary, "The Legacy of Truk Lagoon" takes you back to Feburary 1944 were the defenders fought bravely but were overwhelmed by the by the air barrage, code-named "Operation Hailstone." Also rare footage that shows, years later, when the Japanese were allowed to finally bury their dead. Trukese survivors,Japanese and American veterans share their own stories of hell throughout this production. Stunning underwater footage of the wrecks and a search for the only ship that was never found, is part of this great documentary shot for the A&E's, "The History Channel."
- This one hour documentary chronicling the lives and careers of African-Americans who've made their mark on entertainment industry.The film document how these entertainers got their start in the business, their struggles in the primarily-white world of the time, their bodies of work, and the impact they've had on African-Americans and others.
- Burnt Eden is story of Ivan, a young man in his late twenties caught in a familiar.
- This is a film about the insides of the famous Amsterdam Red Light District, the "Walletjes". Juan de Graaf interviewed the people who live, work, visit and patrol the area daily. He then edited a revealing soundtrack, to which he added his own animated characters. Resulting in a very personal view of filmmaker Juan e Graaf.
- This award-winning video shows how 3D animation technology is advancing numerous industries: Space Science at NASA/JPL, Product Design at BMW USA, Character Animation at Digital Domain, plus Architecture, Facilities Design, Commercial Animation, and Virtual Reality.
- Have you ever let fear take over? Causing you to act in a way you thought you never would? Have you ever let other people's thoughts become you own? Meet Roger. His dreams became tarnished by those around him, causing him to become what he feared. Nevertheless, his innocence lends a humorous twist.
- Six teenagers go up to an old cabin in the woods for a vacation get-away. When they get there, strange things start happening. The cabin was used as a torture/execution site in medieval times. A young man named Jared, who was convicted of killing his wife, was tortured to death. Only thing was, he was innocent, and his soul is now trapped in that very cabin. His soul can't be released until the cabin is destroyed. Jared placed a spell on Earth, in the year 1998 AD, to make Earth devoid of light and life. One by one, the kids are turned into bloodthirsty, merciless zombie-deadites, as Jared possesses their very bodies, in an attempt to make them destroy the cabin. The helpless kids fight for their very lives against what used to be friends and lovers.
- The story of 3 people who were imprisoned as children in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II told through interviews, diaries and drawings.The survivors and their families question the need to talk about the past and explore the effect of the Holocaust on their lives. 1999 Emmy Award
- Filmed on September 14, 1998, at the Manhattan Center in New York, Natalie Merchant's episode of VH1 Storytellers demonstrates everything this series had intended to be, an intimate performance and insightful conversation about music and inspiration with a rare and talented artist.