Simon Cowell: The Next Act
Simon Cowell wants to discover the next great boy band. Can he balance the dreams of young hopefuls with the harsh realities of the music industry?
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Songs of U.S.
Salt Lick Session presents: " Songs of U.S. ", a new performance and conversation series bringing together artists from across the American musical landscape to reinterpret songs that have shaped the country's cultural identity — and to ask what belongs in the American songbook today.
Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers
Spymasters: The Great Spy Writers explores the lives, works, and secrets of some of the most brilliant spy authors in literature. They have shaped what has become a hugely popular genre, weaving intricate plots, clandestine operations, and intense suspense into their novels, and sometimes exploring political issues and international relations with unsettling and often cynical insight. Successful film and television franchises have been built around spies, while spy novels sell in great numbers. Lying behind recurring plots based on the successful negotiation of risk and betrayal safely…
Take That
The meteoric rise to fame. The break-up that broke hearts. The comeback that changed everything. How did five lads from Manchester rewrite pop history?
The End of an Era
An unprecedented backstage pass alongside Taylor Swift as her record-breaking tour comes to an end.
The Man Will Burn
Since its beginning in 1986, Burning Man has grown from its anarchic counterculture roots in San Francisco to a globally recognized spectacle. Each year, 80,000 self-styled "Burners" congregate in the Nevada desert to create music, art, and connection, raise temples, join a spiritual movement centered on community, and take part in a modern American cultural experiment. Following the organization through several years of unprecedented turmoil, The Man Will Burn follows a movement pushed to its limits as it strives to stay operational while staying true to its core values.
When The War Is Over
Across five episodes, Rachel explores the game-changing songs, iconic paintings, blockbuster films, best-selling books, jaw-dropping artworks and spine-tingling performances that have helped transform Australians' understanding of our five major wars: World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan and the Australian Wars. A descendent of WWI veterans at Gallipoli, Rachel visits key battlegrounds across the globe – in Türkiye, Vietnam and Thailand. Back in Australia, she meets artists, veterans, curators and historians, exploring the unheralded role of art in war, both in the midst of…
Музыка судьбы. Жизнь и кино Исаака Шварца
Isaac Schwartz is a composer whose melodies are more widely known to the general public than the identity of their creator. Yet Schwartz's music is closely tied to his life story. Time and again, when faced with pressure from circumstances — be it exile, war, creative challenges, or a cultural revolution — the composer found unconventional solutions and turned difficulties to his advantage. This series is a retrospective of Isaac Schwartz's life and work. It covers all stages of the composer's career, from his early works in theatre and cinema to his life's work — the concert "Yellow…