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Music for Prime Time
- A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
- By: Jon Burlingame
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
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Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles. Yet noted composers like John Williams, Henry Mancini, and Jerry Goldsmith learned and/or honed their craft in television before going on to major success in feature films.
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Music for Prime Time
- A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2023
- Language: English
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Shoot Out
- Surviving Fame and (Mis)fortune in Hollywood
- By: Peter Guber, Peter Bart
- Narrated by: Peter Bart, Peter Guber
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Whether it is a director insisting on a final cut, a star demanding a bigger motor home, a producer holding the line on a budget, or a grip with a gripe, it seems that the world of moviemaking is nothing but Sturm und Drang. Shoot Out presents a raucous look at how movies get made and the players involved, from writers, producers, directors, and stars to agents and marketers. For film buffs, aspiring filmmakers, students, and anyone else intrigued by the inner workings of Hollywood, this is the quintessential take on the how, who, what, and why of the film business.
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Shoot Out
- Surviving Fame and (Mis)fortune in Hollywood
- Narrated by: Peter Bart, Peter Guber
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-05-2022
- Language: English
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The Fatal Alliance
- A Century of War on Film
- By: David Thomson
- Narrated by: David Thomson
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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“A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides. Though Thomson is quick to pounce on the hypocrisies and historical omissions of some of these war movies, there is nothing compromised...
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The Fatal Alliance
- A Century of War on Film
- Narrated by: David Thomson
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2023
- Language: English
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Perfect Wave
- More Essays on Art and Democracy
- By: Dave Hickey
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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When Dave Hickey was 12, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out - he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and for us, he survived, and continues to battle, decades into a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture.
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Perfect Wave
- More Essays on Art and Democracy
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2017
- Language: English
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Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition
- By: Bill Nichols
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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This new edition of Bill Nichols' best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, Introduction to Documentary identifies the distinguishing qualities of documentary and teaches the viewer how to read documentary film. Each chapter takes up a discrete question, from "how did documentary filmmaking get started?" to "why are ethical issues central to documentary filmmaking?"
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Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2017
- Language: English
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Trumbo
- A Biography of the Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Who Broke the Hollywood Blacklist
- By: Bruce Cook
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A central figure in the Hollywood Ten and one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, Trumbo epitomized the spirit of American capitalism, yet he went to jail refusing to talk about his membership in the Communist party.
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Trumbo
- A Biography of the Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Who Broke the Hollywood Blacklist
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2015
- Language: English
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Glenn Ford
- A Life
- By: Peter Ford
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Glenn Ford: A Life chronicles the volatile life, relationships, and career of the renowned actor, beginning with his move from Canada to California and his initial discovery of theater. It follows Ford’s career in diverse media - from film to television to radio - and shows how Ford shifted effortlessly between genres, playing major roles in dramas, noir, westerns, and romances. This biography by Glenn Ford’s son, Peter Ford, offers an intimate view of a star’s private and public life.
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Glenn Ford
- A Life
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2013
- Language: English
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Charlie Chan
- The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
- By: Yunte Huang
- Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. Huang finally resurrects the "honorable detective" from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America’s rich cultural diversity. The result is one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year and a "deeply personal...voyage into racial stereotyping and the humanizing force of storytelling" (Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times).
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Charlie Chan
- The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
- Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2013
- Language: English
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Fire Walk with Me: Your Laura Disappeared
- By: Scott Ryan
- Narrated by: Scott Ryan
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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In 1990, David Lynch was on top of the world. Wild at Heart won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Twin Peaks was the hottest show on TV. In 1992, he released Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. It sure is amazing how fast coffee can get cold. The film was not well received, to say the least, by critics or ticket buyers. It seemed like the verdict was in: Twin Peaks was dead and wrapped in plastic. Thirty years later, the film is thought by many to be Lynch’s masterpiece.
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Fire Walk with Me: Your Laura Disappeared
- Narrated by: Scott Ryan
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-10-2025
- Language: English
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How Does It Feel?
- A Life of Musical Misadventures
- By: Mark Kermode
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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How Does It Feel? follows a lifetime of musical misadventures which have seen Mark striking rock star poses in the Sixth Form Common Room, striding around a string of TV shows dressed from head to foot in black leather, getting heckled off stage by a bunch of angry septuagenarians on a boat on the Mersey, showing Timmy Mallet how to build a tea-chest bass - and winning the International Street Entertainers of the Year award as part of a new wave of skiffle. Really.
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How Does It Feel?
- A Life of Musical Misadventures
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2018
- Language: English
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Picturing Peter Bogdanovich
- My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director
- By: Peter Tonguette
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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In 1971, Newsweek heralded The Last Picture Show as "the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane." Indeed, few filmmakers rivaled Peter Bogdanovich's popularity over the next decade. Riding the success of What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Bogdanovich became a bona fide celebrity, making regular appearances in his own movie trailers, occasionally hosting late-night television shows, and publicly advocating for mentors John Ford and Howard Hawks.
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Picturing Peter Bogdanovich
- My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-04-2021
- Language: English
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50 Movie Nights
- Contemporary Stars on Their Favorite Classic Films
- By: Dave Karger
- Length: 8 hrs
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Dave Karger, Turner Classic Movies host and film expert, leads compelling and unexpected discussions with stars such as Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sterling K. Brown, Tom Ford, Carol Burnett, and many more, on their top film recommendations of decades past, comprising a...
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50 Movie Nights
- Contemporary Stars on Their Favorite Classic Films
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 15-09-2026
- Language: English
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Unti9780063481275
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 03-11-2026
- Language: English
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Long Take
- By: Akira Kurosawa, Anne McKnight - translator
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. The memoir he finally started serializing in 1978, Something like an Autobiography, ended with Rashomon, the film that launched him on the world's stage in 1950. Long Take, first published in Japan shortly after Kurosawa's death in 1998, at last tells the story of the rest of his life.
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Long Take
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2026
- Language: English
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The Boys in the Band
- Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
- By: Matt Bell, David A. Gerstner, Amy Villarejo, and others
- Narrated by: Paul R. Tafoya
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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The Boys in the Band's debut was revolutionary for its fictional but frank presentation of a male homosexual subculture in Manhattan. Based on Mart Crowley's hit Off-Broadway play from 1968, the film's two-hour running time approximates real time, unfolding at a birthday party attended by nine men whose language, clothing, and behavior evoke a range of urban gay "types." Although various popular critics, historians, and film scholars over the years have offered cursory acknowledgment of the film's importance, more substantive research and analysis have been woefully lacking. The film's neglect among academics belies a rich and rewarding object of study. The Boys in the Band merits not only the close reading that should accompany such a well-made text but also recognition as a landmark almost ideally situated to orient us amid the highly complex, shifting cultural terrain it occupied upon its release-and has occupied since.
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The Boys in the Band
- Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
- Narrated by: Paul R. Tafoya
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2018
- Language: English
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Movie Freak
- My Life Watching Movies
- By: Owen Gleiberman
- Narrated by: Owen Gleiberman
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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Entertainment Weekly's controversial critic of more than two decades looks back at a life told through the films he loved and loathed. Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's Baby...
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Movie Freak
- My Life Watching Movies
- Narrated by: Owen Gleiberman
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2016
- Language: English
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Woody
- The Biography
- By: David Evanier
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays, and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Judaism, the eternal struggle of head and heart. Woody will be the definitive word on a major American talent as he begins his ninth decade and his sixth decade of making movies.
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Woody
- The Biography
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2015
- Language: English
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Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned from Joss Whedon
- By: Valerie Estelle Frankel
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Joss Whedon has much to teach his fans, as he unfurls epics of sacrifice and heroism for superheroes and ordinary people. Whedon offers lessons to improve the world and our roles within it. This book compares themes, motifs, and archetypes across all his works, teasing out the common threads and the messages within
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Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned from Joss Whedon
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-08-2015
- Language: English
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The World According to Tom Hanks
- The Life, the Obsessions, the Good Deeds of America's Most Decent Guy
- By: Gavin Edwards
- Narrated by: Gavin Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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An entertaining and insightful homage to Tom Hanks, America's favorite movie star, from the New York Times bestselling author of the cult sensation The Tao of Bill Murray. Niceness gets a bad rap these days. Our culture rewards those who troll the hardest and who snark the most. At times it...
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The World According to Tom Hanks
- The Life, the Obsessions, the Good Deeds of America's Most Decent Guy
- Narrated by: Gavin Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2018
- Language: English
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The Avengers
- The Unauthorized History
- By: Tim Simpson
- Narrated by: Phillip Humphries
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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Before it became iconic, it was accidental. Before it was pop art, it was procedure. Before it was remembered, it was thinking. The Avengers was never just a spy show. It was a cultural experiment—one that smuggled philosophy, intelligence culture, fashion, and quiet rebellion into living rooms under the cover of wit and elegance.
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The Avengers
- The Unauthorized History
- Narrated by: Phillip Humphries
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 29-01-2026
- Language: English
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