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Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, including a performance at Madison Square Garden and a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where violence broke out between fans and Hell's Angels who were providing security. Includes performances by Ike and Tina Turner, the Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers. This special version also contains never-before-seen performances from the Madison Square...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 50s your parents spurred the biggest story of the 20th century, the rise of the middle class, and millions of Americans left the cities for the suburbs to own a home of their own, a building boom was on. This was the decade where people built Bomb Shelters, if you were born in the early fifties you are a baby Boomer, the most influential and powerful group of Americans ever born.
Last time I saw Paris: Tragedy strikes an American...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 60s, your decade opened with John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States; the cartoon The Flintstones appeared on Television for the first time; Chubby Checker started a new dance craze with the sensational twist; the U.S. men's ice hockey team won gold in the winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California; and Alan Shepard made the first U.S. space fight.
Over-the-Hill Gang: With the help of three "over-the-hill"...
Publisher
Wayne Ewing Films
Pub. Date
2003, 2004.
Language
English
Description
Much of the film examines Thompson's political arrest in Aspen, Colorado, the 25th anniversary celebration of his 1971 book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and obstacles involved with turning this book into a film. Filmed during the 1990s, Ewing captures Thompson's personality through numerous dialogues. Various locations are used: the Viper Club in New York City, Owl Farm, the Lotos Club and the Rolling Stone offices.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Captures the decade's events--the birth of the Free Speech Movement, civil rights marches, anti-Vietnam War protests, the counter-culture, the women's movement, and the rise of the Black Panthers ... [A]rchival footage interwoven with present-day interviews and 18 songs from the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The Band and the Jefferson Airplane ..."--Container.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term, the country was isolationist, American workers got the forty hour work week, Walt Disney Studios released Fantasia and Pinocchio, Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time, and Glen Miller wrote the decade's signature song, In the Mood.
Til the clouds roll by: based on the life and music of Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 70's, you are part of Generation X. Your parents were baby boomers, part of the me generation. Your decade began with Richard Nixon; the Beatles broke up; Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida; Jumbo jets revolutionized commercial flight; the waterbed, Atari's video game Pong, the 8 track tape player; and the disco ball became 70's icons.
That's the way of the world: Saddled with a bubblegum pop band the record industry...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The big bang: At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unsung voices of everyday folk. Blood and soil: America's poor--cotton field slaves, mine workers, sharecroppers--find freedom through music, creating gospel, protest songs, and Delta blues. Out of the many, the one: Exotic cultures spanning America are captured on record for the first time, inventing...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 80s', your parents were the last wave of baby boomers. They, along with everybody else, were embracing the future with the personal computer. It was the decade of remarkable technology. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates became household names. MTV broadcasted the first music video; there was a home-video store in every neighborhood; and Pac-Man, was the best selling arcade game of all time.
Bail out: Three down-on-their-luck bounty...
Series
Publisher
Cinevolve Studios
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"'A galaxy far, far away' features interviews with hundreds of fans, movie executives and high profile celebrities, shedding new light on the [Star Wars] film trilogy that has captivated generations of moviegoers. It takes us to Star Wars conventions, to nationwide premieres, into the homes of devoted fans showing off their treasures and to the box office ticket lines of die-hard fans who wait[ed] eagerly for forty-two days in the spring of 1999 ......
