"Can great art be produced in a police state? Josif Stalin ran one of the most oppressive regimes in world history. Nevertheless, Stalinist Russia produced an outpouring of artistic works of immense power--from the poems of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam to the opera Peter and the Wolf, the film Alexander Nevsky, and the novels The Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago. More than a dozen great artists were visible enough for Stalin to take an...

An entire subculture of end-of-the-world themes has been producing radically unique films with startling perspectives of humanity facing the end of all things. Moore provides a frame of reference on how the characters in these films behaved when their worlds were on the brink of desolation. From I am Legend to Hunger Games, as well as smaller, more obscure films, you'll find an alphabetical chronicle of humanity's struggles through nuclear war, global...

A two-part examination of the life and works of Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, whose career spanned over 60 years. This second program traces the second half of his career. Commentary from Hitchcock, actors, and production specialists help chronicle the making of such classics as The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho. Also looks at Hitchcock's ambivalence toward the popular TV show that brought him into millions of living rooms. Features...

In his most achingly personal film to date, legendary Italian Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio uses the occasion of a family reunion in his hometown of Piacenza to excavate and discuss a traumatic event: the death of his twin brother Camillo, who committed suicide in the late '60s at age 29. Through detailed conversations with his siblings, archival footage providing context about 20th-century Italian leftist politics, and occasional clips from his films,...

"On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the alleged Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hollywood was ordered to "clean its own house," and ten witnesses who had refused to answer questions about their membership in the Screen Writers Guild and the Communist party eventually received contempt citations. By 1950 the Hollywood Ten, as they quickly became known, were...

Cobra: A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans. Masters of the universe: A prince turned warrior named He-Man battles against the dark lord Skeletor on the planet Eternia. He-Man and his comrades arrive on Earth and discover two teenage lovers to find the magical Cosmic Key. Over the top: Lincoln Hawk is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra...

Filmmaker Petra Costa presents a medidation on her sister Elena Andrada, who moved to New York from Brazil when Costa was seven to become an actress, where she fell into a state of depression and ended her own life, a mystery that Costa reconstructs with home movies, newspaper clippings, diary entries, and letters.

"In 1919, Florence Deshon-tall, radical, and charismatic-was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to remain romantically involved with the well-known writer and socialist Max Eastman. By 1922, she was found dead in a New York apartment, rumored to have committed suicide. Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin uses...

"En 2017, una investigación rutinaria para la televisión llevó a Ronan Farrow a una historia de la que hasta entonces solo había rumores: uno de los productores más poderosos de Hollywood era un depredador sexual, protegido por miedo, dinero y por una conspiración de silencio. A medida que Farrow se iba acercando a la verdad, desde abogados hasta espías expertos en guerras montaron una campaña secreta de intimidación para amenazar su carrera...