John Scheinfeld
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Director's cut, Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
During his eight-decade career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment: Vaudeville, Broadway, movies, radio, television, popular song and personal appearances, including hosting the Academy Awards a record 19 times and his annual USO Christmas military tours. Includes film, television, and radio clips; readings of excerpts from Hope's writings; and interviews with prominent entertainment industry...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Reexamines the Vietnam War and its impact on America through the prism of interviews conducted by the iconic host of The Dick Cavett Show from 1968-75. Those interviews, combined with archival footage, network news broadcasts, and newly filmed interviews with Cavett and other experts, provide fresh insight and perspective on this controversial chapter of American history.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the late Grammy Award-winning musician, Harry Nilsson, who the Beatles once proclaimed their favorite artist. This retrospective traces Nilsson's rise and his turbulent life as seen by many friends, including Micky Dolenz, Eric Idle, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Richard Perry, Robin Williams, and more.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Artist. Humanitarian. National threat. In 1971, after the breakup of the Beatles, John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to New York, where they became increasingly visible figures on the antiwar left. Lennon and Ono's involvement in a benefit concert for an imprisoned activist in Ann Arbor, Mich. made national news, and drew Lennon and Ono into the orbit of prominent anti-war activists, and of presidential candidate George McGovern. Nixon responded...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This offers a unique opportunity to mark the 40th anniversary of a defining moment in American history. From 1972 to 1974 the Watergate scandal unfolded on The Dick Cavett Show, as Cavett interviewed nearly every major Watergate figure, even non-political guests expressed their opinions. Dick Cavett's Watergate documents the scandal in the words of the people who lived it.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Explores how one extraordinary song has changed people's lives through hope, faith, optimism, and the power of music to inspire and heal. This weaves together unforgettable stories of how Lee Ann Womack's worldwide #1 hit has motivated real people to transform their lives, chase their dreams, overcome obstacles and to persist in the face of the most extreme adversities.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a film Variety called an "elegantly crafted and illuminating portrait of the singular jazz legend," director John Scheinfeld explores the life, spiritual journey and music of John Coltrane, whose recorded works range from deeply expressive ballads to wildly expressive "sheets of sound." Scheinfeld crafts a story that reveals and affirms the impact Trane had on a variety of musicians, politicians, educators and artists - including Kamasi Washington,...
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