Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies. First appearing in 1941, these three minute black-and-white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, The Mills Brothers, Les Paul, Cab Calloway, and Fats Waller. The Soundies helped launch the careers of Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Liberace, and Dorothy Dandridge, among others. Viewed for a dime through a special machine called a Panoram, a movie jukebox, these forerunners to the music video could be seen in nightclubs, roadhouses, restaurants and other public venues across the U.S. These classic films remain as glorious time capsules of music, social history, popular culture, and tell the story of a crossroads in our country, when the uncertainties of war, race relations, and emerging technologies combined to write one of the most influential chapters in our nation¹s history.

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.

A biologist in an insemination clinic unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited trapeze artist and the idea of fathering her child. A hilarious romantic comedy about love at first sight, with complications to follow...and more laughs than you could possibly conceive!

National CPC History Knowledge Competition for College Students is planned and initiated by CCTV, and launched in conjunction with the Party History and Documentation Research Institute of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the National Language Work Committee, the Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Youth League, and the National Federation of Students' Secretariat. It is hosted by Long Yang, has a total of 10 episodes. In the program, in the real and moving stories, you can feel the suffering and glory; in the intense competition, you can learn the knowledge of party history; in the interpretation of authoritative experts, you can feel the power of faith.

The history behind America's most popular foods.

"Magyarország története" (The History of Hungary) is a documentary TV series created by Nagy György. It chronicles the history of the Hungarian people and nation; starting with the exodus from ancient Magna Hungaria (in today's Russia), via numerous occupations and wars, ending with the present day nation state.

Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."

Learn incredible facts and stats about the game of hockey and its history with this sports show in the know.

After surviving poisoning by a Novichok nerve agent, Alexey Navalny made his most important film. Putin's Palace: History of World's Largest Bribe is about the palace near Gelendzhik that presumably belongs to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It also shows vineyards, corruption schemes and more.

Dashing authors, the first porn sites and the last bastards. How the Russian Internet appeared and how it changed: from complete freedom to the appearance of censorship and the law on isolation.

In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.

Zombies: are they real? Every culture creates its own version of a zombie. There have been diseases in history that have mimicked behavior of a zombie virus. The plausibility is there. You would never be up against one zombie.you would be up against thousands or millions of zombies. How would you survive?

History of Turkish Horror Cinema tries to take the first step in explaining how horror cinema started in Turkey, what prejudices it strives to break, and how film directors, producers and screenwriters see horror cinema.

Short stories dealing with extreme punishment towards promiscuous women.

This outrageous comedy stages a soap opera of epic proportions, as one corrupt property developer faces trial for Mexico's violent history. The fourth feature from Santiago Mohar Volkow, Una historia de amor y guerra centres on real estate baron Pepe Sánchez-Campo, whose mega-mall development brings him into conflict with local guerrillas. For once, bribery and a call to Daddy might not be enough to save Pepe – a character more grotesque than the telenovela unfolding around him. Trying to sabotage Pepe's marriage to Constanza, her cousin and lover Teo records Pepe cheating. The resulting chaos precipitates in a burlesque bloodbath involving treachery, talking animals, colonial history and bartering in the afterlife.

Norwegian black metal is beloved by fans worldwide, but is also known for it's shocking story. Now the musicians who created the grim genre, tells how it all came to be.

Great Battles in History are film documentaries that show historical battlefields presented in an animated environment.

Nakajima invested all his money in stocks. However, these shares turned out to be just waste paper. Nakajima, who urgently needs 200,000 in a week, is determined to return it, but...

CNBC examines the history of the video game industry from the first tennis game developed for an oscilloscope to the Atari and video arcade game boom of the early 1980s. It looks at the history of electronic game all the way up to the current Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox game systems.