This educational program explores the history and culture of 1950s America using archival footage, rare interviews and period music. The program explores how television helped to change the American culture landscape, and looks at how this one decade affected the rest of the century. The program highlights important cultural figures from the decade, including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Jackie Gleason, Lucille...

Uses archival footage and reenactments to capture the full of emotion of 13 historic events.

A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier

Two episodes of the Red Skelton Show and one of The Red Skelton Hour, originally produced for television 1956-1962

Entertainment legends are presented in this anthology of the funniest routines by some of the greatest comedians of stage and screen. All star cast includes Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Princess Diana, George Bush, Richard Nixon, Carol Burnett, Abbott & Costello, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mel Brooks, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle and many more

Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quietly fulfilled

Embark on a journey most people only dream about. Africa's wildebeest migration, Kenya's wild savannah, and Victoria Falls; India's Nilgiris Mountains, a rare Bengal tiger encounter in Bajasthan; the Buddhist festival at Gasa Dzong; The Great Wall and Beijing in China. New Year's Eve in Paris; Lapland's stunning Northern Lights; carnival in Venice; Egypt's tombs; Easter morning in Jerusalem; the Lost City of Petra. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia;...

A musical based on the life of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: Showboat.