Peter Coyote
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Explore the history of a uniquely American art form: country music. From its deep and tangled roots in ballads, blues and hymns performed in small settings, to its worldwide popularity, learn how country music evolved over the course of the 20th century, as it eventually emerged to become America’s music. COUNTRY MUSIC features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more than 80 country music artists. The eight-part series...
49) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Documents the history of the Prohibition, from 1920, when, after a century of debate, the United States outlaws the manufacture and sale of alcohol, to the early 1930s when the amendment is repealed.
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Embracing the spirit of the counterculture revolution during the Summer of Love, wealthy Marin County businessman Don McCoy transforms his life from conservative entrepreneur to beneficent hippie dropout, using his family inheritance to lease Rancho Olompali, a 700-acre estate north of San Francisco, to start a commune. He invites a couple dozen like-minded friends and families to join him in his dream of creating a community where they can live without...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Follow a classically-trained composer as he mounts Zane Grey’s frontier novel for the operatic stage. The composer and librettist, along with a team of designers, musicians, singers, and fine art painter Ed Mell, translate America's cowboy culture and sprawling beauty of the West into the realm of Puccini and Verdi.