Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios across town were busily destroying their nitrate inventories. With hard chairs, phonograph-record accompaniments, and mostly original vintage prints, the dingy mom-and-pop operation was nonetheless a palace to the fanatical few who became its loyal audience.
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Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomi...
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The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and u...
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CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
A look a the life of 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.
Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of pho...
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher a...
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Ra...
Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as h...
Takamine is a biopic about Dr. Jokichi Takamine, the late biochemist known for successfully crystall...
An in-depth portrait of British composer, pianist and singer Elton John, pop star and myth of modern...
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...