Rare musical performances: Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in Jazz hot (1939), Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra featured in Black and tan (1929), Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, 1934, and a 1929 performance from the Utica Jubilee Singers.

Pure Country Pure Heart (2017) : Ada and Piper never got to know their father. The girls go on a quest to discover who he really was. Filled with new songs and an appearance by Willie Nelson. Pure Country (1992) : A country music superstar ditches his beard, ponytail-- and temporarily, his career-- to reclaim his down-home country roots and to find the kind of love he'd only sung about.

Eleven films designed to influence, including a vintage promotional film of a French-dubbed Laurel & Hardy, theatrical advertisements featuring Michel Simon and Jacques Tati, a 1938 George Pal puppet animation, three WW-II era musical shorts, two political campaign films, and the National Film registry selection Master Hands, a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet automobile.

One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail...

In Victorian England, a pupil at an exclusive boarding school is demoted to working in the scullery when reports of her father's death are received. Never losing hope, she insists on seeking him repeatedly in the military hospital nearby.

After a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation.

The beautiful and young Cinderella finds her life of drudgery at the hands of her stepmother and two wicked stepsisters changed forever in one evening, thanks to a fairy godmother and a handsome prince.

Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1950s, exploring how the post-war years were alive with bold experimentation. Later in the decade, rock & roll became the musical of choice for the younger generation and movie musicals followed suit. Highlights include films based on Broadway musicals like "The king and I," "Oklahoma!," "Carousel," and "South Pacific," and stars including Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Esther...

Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1920s, including Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer, Eddie Cantor, The Marx Brothers, Rudy Vallee, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Florenz Ziegfeld, The Desert Song, Rio Rita, Broadway Melody, and more.