What made more money than the entire American movie industry through the 50s and 60s? Pinball. Special When Lit rediscovers the lure of a lost pop icon. A product of the mechanical and electrical age, the American invention swept the world and defined cool. Now it is relegated to a nostalgic footnote deserving a better fate. Joining the fans, collectors, designers and champion players from across the globe who share a world many of us didn't know still existed.
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
Celebrates the stories of eight female vocalists in the heavy metal genre. Through personal intervie...
In 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the Screenwriters Union, hit an impasse in their contract neg...
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady ...
Edward Said, Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was a prominent l...
Three years in the making in conjunction with the BBC. Using never seen before home movies, photos a...
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USS...
A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host ...
In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together ...
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day c...
The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...
In 2021, a Pentagon report revealed what the US government had denied for decades -- UFOs are real a...
James Franco interviews three experts on the poet Hart Crane, whose life was the subject of his feat...
A documentary about the third series of Red Dwarf (1988).
Horst Wendlandt tells the story of his cinematic work since the sixties. The dialogue between the "o...
This timely, bold set of one-on-one interviews presents two of the most venerable figures from the A...
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in...
Documentary on the films of Dario Argento from his debut "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" up unti...