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- 4. Sessions Jun 1, 2017
- Contemporary artists use equipment from the 1920s to record music.
- 3. Out of the Many, the One May 30, 2017
- America's diverse cultures contribute to its musical styles; Mississippi John Hurt.
- 2. Blood and Soil May 23, 2017
- Charley Patton and Elder Burch record Delta blues, gospel music and protest songs in the South.
Sep 2, 2024 · This is an exciting new vision of the American epic film, which will no doubt cast a long shadow over cinema for years to come. "The Brutalist" premiered at the Venice Film Festival on...
2 days ago · Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
3 days ago · 1. After the Wave. Flaming Star Films. After the Wave is about the massive earthquake that hit Sumatra’s western coast in Indonesia on Boxing Day in 2004, triggering a tsunami that caused colossal waves to hit southern Thailand and the coast of Sri Lanka, claiming the lives of nearly 230,000 people.
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Sep 6, 2024 · Some of the documentaries on this list have gone on to become critical darlings — including 13th, American Factory, and Crip Camp — while others, like Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond and The...
Sep 2, 2024 · 1. Let There Be Light. US Army. Filmmaker John Huston created some of the most enduring, stone-cold classics of American cinema, like The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, The Night of the Iguana, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. But it took decades for one of his lesser-known films to get released.
Sep 3, 2024 · Gone with the Wind, American epic film, released in 1939, that was one of the best known and most successful films of all time. It enjoyed a more-than-30-year reign as the all-time Hollywood box office champion, and it won eight Academy Awards (in addition to two honorary awards).
Sep 10, 2024 · Saving Private Ryan, American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat, set in 1944 during World War II in France. The film follows a group of American soldiers dispatched to locate Pvt. James Ryan so he can return home after his three brothers have been killed in.