Storyline: Soundies A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein 2007 Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies First appearing in 1941, these three minute black and white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, The Mills Brothers, Les Paul, Cab Calloway, and Fats Waller The Soundies helped launch the careers of Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Liberace, and Dorothy Dandridge, among others Viewed for a dime through a special machine called a Panoram, a movie jukebox, these forerunners to the music video could be seen in nightclubs, roadhouses, restaurants and other public venues across the U S These classic films remain as glorious time capsules of music, social history, popular culture, and tell the story of a crossroads in our country, when the uncertainties of war, race relations, and emerging technologies combined to write one of the most influential chapters in our nations history
Countdown (2019)
When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs
Get Paid (2022)
A street love story about a broken woman who copes with life by getting paid and falls in love only to find out things arent always what they seem
Silent Waters (2003)
1979 A village in Pakistan A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants It brings her past back
Last Resort (1986)
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with Club Sand, a shoddy and untrustworthy company On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accommodation and undesirable holiday maker
The Secret of the Whistler (1946)
An artist married to a wealthy but ill woman begins an affair with one of his models, who is after him solely for his money His wife discovers the affair and threatens to cut him out of her will In order to be able to keep both
High Finance Woman (1990)
An unscrupulous female stockbroker who uses her feminine wiles to get valuable information lands in hot water when she has an affair with a father and his son
Giving Thanks (2023)
A widowed mother wants to reunite her family for Thanksgiving but is it the best idea
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home
Echoes of Silence (1965)
Peter Emmanuel Goldmans rarely screened debut, an underappreciated landmark of the New American Cinema, chronicles the lives of twenty somethings adrift in New York City, finding tremendous pathos in the smallest moments a furti
Manhattan (1979)
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friends mistress
Sounds of Silence (1989)
Living the good life in Southern California Photographer Peter, his fiance Sara and her mute son Dennis travels to Sweden Next to Peterss inherited Mansion is an old Haunted Orphanage that no one in the small village wants to talk
Me Facing Life 2: Cyntoias Fight for Freedom (2019)
After 16 year old Cyntoia Brown is sentenced to life in prison, questions about her past, physiology and the law itself call her guilt into question
Apparition (2019)
A group of young people, guided by an app which connects living with the dead, find themselves at an abandoned castle A place with a horrific history tied to each of them, for reasons theyll soon discover
Night Shift (1982)
A morgue attendant is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there However, the pimps killers dont look too kindly on this new business, nor does the morgues owner
Io sto bene (2020)
Antonio has spent his whole life away from Italy, his home country He crosses paths with Leo, a young Italian artist who is trying to make it abroad The old man and the young womans destinies mirror each other Memories from th