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The AIDS Show

Documentary · History

THE AIDS SHOW combines excerpts from a collaborative piece of theatre written in an unprecedented health crisis with interviews from the show's creators and performers, producing a powerful hybrid of documentary and drama about the community most affected by the disease – gay men.

Damaged Goods

Drama

Eugène Brieux’s play Les Avaries endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it. Later adapted by Upton Sinclair into the novel Damaged Goods, the story became the backbone of countless sex hygiene films, in which a young couple’s happiness is …

Daytime Revolution

Music Documentaries · Documentary · Music

Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five …

Flannel Pajamas

Romance

Fearlessly shining a light into both the joyous, sexual, giddy high of love’s beginning, and on into the gradual but inevitable intrusion of the corrosive grind of everyday life, FLANNEL PAJAMAS dares to feature characters than can be as endearing and messy as those that inhabit our real lives…

The Half-Breed

Western · Silent

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by Allan Dwan.

Obit.

Documentary · RT Certified Fresh

Every day, editorial obituary writers deposit the details of a handful of extraordinary lives into the cultural memory. Obit. explores their world, inviting essential questions about life, history, and the inevitable passage of time.