Documentary

The loss of his five-year-old daughter and the prognosis of his own premature death - this was composer Gustav Mahler's summer of 1907. How to go on? By courageously transforming despair into a redemptive masterpiece: The Song of the Earth. Everywhere...

For the Love of Mahler takes us into the passionate world of Henry-Louis de La Grange, a charismatic 91-year-old music historian who, since first hearing a Mahler symphony in 1945, devoted the rest of his life to researching every detail of the...

As seen on Public Television! The two-time GRAMMY Award winner Sharon Isbin is a trailblazing performer and teacher who broke through numerous barriers to rise to the top of a traditionally male-dominated field. The film Sharon Isbin: Troubadour,...

Starring Moiseyev Dance Company, Igor Moiseyev.

Written and presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.., director of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, this six-hour series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the...

The popular view of the First World War is dominated by clich?. Young soldiers were led to ghastly deaths in muddy wastes on the Western Front by incompetent generals for reasons that were seemingly futile. And although clich?s are not necessarily lies,...

Two outstanding documentary series explore World War II in the Pacific. First up is Crusade in the Pacific (2000/10 hrs.), which breaks down the complete battlefront from Manchuria to Hiroshima, the men, the weapons and the strategy. Then comes Pacific...

Gods And Generals. Victories And Defeats. The True Stories Behind the Greatest Battles. Antietam. Shiloh. Chickamauga. Gettysburg. These were the fields of combat where the armies of North and South fought their most ferocious battles. They remain the...

90th Anniversary Special Edition.

Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself religiously from 1990-1995 with a video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of twenty-eight. His camera was a diary and his closest confidant. In...

OSCILLOSCOPE LABORATORIES presents NO ORDINARY MAN A film by AISLING CHIN-YEE & CHASE JOYNT - American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio...

Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art...