Movies

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discovery, from anonymity to stardom: the painful birth...

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love...

Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along...

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton....

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Short documentary about Jean Harlow's life and career. Episode of A&E's Biography series.

A short review hosted by Cliff Edward. Clarence Muse sings a song about the Congo, we see various Hollywood stars at a horse race in Mexico, and then...

A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...

An examination of "The Public Enemy" (1931) by film historians and critics.

After prizefighter Kid Mason loses his opening fight, his wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around, Mason trains and starts winning....

A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...