In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.

They come from all walks of life and have lived for almost a century. They have lived through the up...

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American p...
A musical, and also a reflection on watching, on trying to escape an anthropocentric gaze and also o...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg's endearing movie released in 1982, achieved the tripl...

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own pers...

Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this short collection; A stunning compilation of wo...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring...

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

A documentary covering 3 decades of Clerks films

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lan...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid durin...