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All six remastered Peanuts TV Specials from the 1960's—A Charlie Brown Christmas; Charlie Brown's All-Stars; It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown; You're in Love, Charlie Brown; He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown; and It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown—available together for the first time.

During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion of artistic energy produced Pop Art, Minimalism, color-field painting, and hard-edged abstraction. Sculptors and painters on both coasts explored new methods and new subject matter. American Art in the Sixties examines the key figures of that decade including Rauschenberg and Johns, two crucial transitional figures between Abstract Expressionism and the sensibilities of the new decade. The art of that time mirrors the optimism and the affluence, and the technology and the vulgarity of those boom years.

Four young activists interview elder gay, lesbian and trans-gender activists who came out in the 1960s. They explore how the perfect storm of 1960s activism -- the anti-war, civil rights, and the women's movements -- inspired young LGBT people of the time to fight for their personal freedoms These were the years that led up to the Stonewall Riots in 1969, and the elders explain what the underground LGBT community looked like pre-Stonewall, and how the actions of young, angry activists boiled over and ultimately lead gave way to a national modern LGBT movement.

British documentary.

Documentary looking at the history of Hollywood musicals in the 1960s. This decade saw independent film companies becoming more prominent as the bigger Hollywood studios, who produced the mainstream musicals, experienced a decline. This brought the emergence of more realistic story lines and the use of contemporary music like rock 'n' roll. This programme features songs from the musicals 'West Side Story' (1961), 'The Music Man' (1962), 'Mary Poppins' (1964), 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' (1964), 'Funny Girl' (1968), 'Oliver!' (1968) and 'Sweet Charity' (1969).

Drawing inspiration from the sounds, instruments, style, texture, mixing and record back spinning of 1960s pop music, modern sampling methods is used to re-present, synthesize and “musicify” the content of Ya Si’s poems. It also references the line from Bob Dylan’s 1960s classic Blowin’ In The Wind, “The answer is blowin’ in the wind”, to correspond to the line in Ya Si’s poem that pays tribute to the song. This is recited in a recording by singer-songwriter Jing Wong. 借鑒六十年代流行音樂的聲音、樂器、質感、混音特色、倒播處理等，再嘗試以現今電子音樂拼貼方法重新展現、組合，並「音樂化」也斯在詩中提到的內容，當中亦借用了卜戴倫在六十年代紅極一時的經典歌曲《Blowin’ In The Wind》的一句歌詞「The answer is blowin’ in the wind」回應和延伸也斯詩中的「答案啊，我的朋友是在風中飄動」，由同樣是唱作人的本地創作歌手黃靖錄音朗讀。

A nostalgic, naughty trip into the glory days of sexploitation, Naughty Nudes of the 1960s compiles twelve vintage nudie loops comprised of the most erotic and endearing of the 16mm nudie loops that were once the mainstay of 42nd street and ran in peep shows around the country at that time.

After the Beatles captured the American public imagination in the early 1960s with "Love Me Do," a steady flow of bands from across the pond -- dubbed "the British invasion" -- started making their way into the hearts of U.S. music fans. This compilation rounds up a series of memorable performances from some of the best British bands of the era, including the Rolling Stones, the Zombies, Herman's Hermits and more.

Loden’s WANDA had a latent feminist sensibility, if not an overtly expressed feminist politics. While some feminist audiences of the film saw little of an affirmative model within it, WANDA also was exhibited in early women’s film festivals of the 1970-80s, where it was often programmed alongside the films here assembled. In a contemporaneous, parallel track of women’s filmmaking, women on the cusp of the feminist movement’s second wave began to analyze the problems they faced in their daily lives. Across non-fiction and avant-garde modes, these films embodied an emergent collective feminist voice using distinct strategies: collage, disruption, self-narration. Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley SCHMEERGUNTZ 1965, 25 min, 16mm Newsreel (Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith, and Ellen Sorren) THE WOMAN’S FILM 1970, 40 min, 16mm Newsreel (Geri Ashur, Peter Barton, Marilyn Mulford, and Stephanie Palewski) JANIE’S JANIE 1971, 25 min, 16mm-to-DCP. With Janie Geise.

This Black and White newsreel footage is a designer's archaeological dig.

A banana-loving gorilla - Magilla's the name - leaves his pet-shop home and stirs up lots of ape-roarious trouble. A tiny ant provides colossal-size heroics. A horse short on horse sense enforces the law. (Of course, no one knows he's a horse because he wears a bandana. And a cowboy hat.) Must be the '60s. Have a blast with Volume 2 of the blasts from the past that made Saturday your favorite day of the week. From do-you-remember rarities (The Space Kidettes) to time-honored favorites (The Bugs Bunny Show), from a pig (Porky!) to a Potamus (Peter!), hours and hours of up-and-at-'em, cereal-crunching, don't-touch-that-dial cartoon fun await you on these two discs. Check your calendar - it's Saturday!

The British Railways modernisation programme of the 1960s radically changed the rail network, and the British Transport Films unit and the TV news were there to capture it. Compiled here is never before released colour footage of Southern steam at Waterloo (with Nine Elms depot), all the major London stations, The Blue Pullman and early diesels, The Golden Arrow and Night Ferry service, goods and mail, steam on the Metropolitan Railway and building the Victoria Line.

Narrated by Fr. Finbarr Hayes, OP, this video presents St. Albert Priory and the formation of young Dominicans of the Western Dominican Province as it was in the early 1960's.

A joyful look at Canadian music from the 60s, that traces the evolution of a young industry with stories from such artists as Buffy Sainte-Marie, Lighthouse, Steppenwolf and the Guess Who, in harmony with a younger generation of stars.

Here's the most detailed, informative, fascinating Zappa & the Mothers doc yet! Their restless experimentation and agitated social satire come into sharper focus as music journalists and Zappa biographers chime in with Zappa's bandmates and as you watch rare '60s performances and interviews.

Documentary made with archival footage exploring the Beatles' LSD use.

With a folk singing Janis Joplin, the 13th Floor Elevators, peyote, LSD and the first psychedelic music venue in Texas, Austin was a fertile ground for the emerging counter culture of the 1960s. Seen as nonconformists, Beatnik inspired students were drawn together by folk, country and Blues music while dabbling with peyote and later exploring with LSD. Traditional values became challenged as they sought a lifestyle outside of the system. Civil Rights and the war in Vietnam were galvanizing factors in 1960s American society, but the advent of psychedelics made it electrified! This is how Austin became groovy.

A compilation of homemade horror movies

In 2024 Katie Trainor, MoMA’s film collections manager, and Greg Pierce, the Andy Warhol Museum’s then-director of film and video, worked together with Colorlab to process more than eighty 100-foot rolls of unprocessed black-and-white and color film left untouched by Warhol and his associates from the early days of Andy Warhol’s Factory filmmaking. Some 60 years after the rolls were exposed to light, what they uncovered was beautifully grainy raw footage from material shot for Sleep, Kiss, Batman Dracula, and Couch, as well as five unseen Screen Test portraits featuring Factory regulars. As an added bonus, five film rolls shot by Factory cinematographer Danny Williams showcasing Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Edie Sedgwick, the Velvet Underground, and Andy Warhol will also be seen for the first time. Silent.

When you were a kid, each day stood for something different. Tuesday meant sloppy joes in the cafeteria. Friday was spelling-test day. Saturday was best: the day for the best morning cartoons! Sit back with favorites from Saturdays past - or share them with someone who never imagined you were once a kid- with this cool 33-'toon (5+ hours!) set. The hep-cat craziness of Tom Cat; the unbridled fun of Quick Draw McGraw and El Kabong; the nuttiness of Agent 000, Secret Squirrel; the porcine parade of looniness hosted by Porky Pig. You'll find these, Peer Potamus, Breezly and Sneezly, Yippee, Yappee, Yahooey, The Flintstones, Marine Boy, Herculoids, Magilla Gorilla, Punkin' Puss, Ricochet Rabbit and more reasons to 'toon in. And here are the two biggest reasons of all: They're still great fun. And you're still a kid at heart.

The story of Michael Jackson, one of the most influential artists the world has ever known, and his life beyond the music. His journey from the discovery of his extraordinary talent as the lead of the Jackson Five, to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fueled a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world, highlighting both his life off-stage and some of the most iconic performances from his early solo career.

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

Against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel's First Family is forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, while defending Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.

Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.