At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen par...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

A research worker Robespier Galabov (Yakovlev) lives with his family in a small communal flat with s...

The life and times of Tommy Cooper

Three couples and a lonely friend visit an isolated escape room in the middle of the desert run by a...

The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after hi...

The legendary Elfkins (Heinzelmännchen) of Cologne were gnomes secretly helping craftsmen at night u...

Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to cr...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by ...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...