Fame! “Success doesn’t change you, Fame does.” Rare footage of lost 1960s icons and a candid interview with a legendary pop deity.
The Electronic Revolution. The bands that brought the synthesizer out of the avant-garde and into the pop stratosphere.
Art Pop and Rock Muses. A seductive take on pop music and the cosmopolitan lovers that inspired it.
Rock On The Road. Guitar tips from a master of the art and tour footage with a powerhouse vocalist and her conflicted partner.
Tony Palmer's series studies Tin Pan Alley, the publishers and songwriters who turned music into big business by making records to order.
Unquestionably American, pop music has a profound debt to blues. This episode explores the tumultuous history of blues from its New Orleans origins to its current state.
With footage of Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, Tony Palmer's epic series reveals New Orleans may have pinched the limelight when it comes to the origins of jazz.
Maligned by the rock and pop industries, country music nonetheless command a place in the history of popular music. From the settlement of the west to the powerhouse of Nashville, this episode ...Read More
The raw honesty and danceable beats of rhythm and blues drew executives by the flock. During segregation in America, this form has a fascinating and intensely influential relationship with whit...Read More
Christopher Munch’s boldly original debut, THE HOURS AND TIMES (1992), is a fictional account of what might have happened in April 1963, when John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein trave...Read More
"Aimed at the hardcore rap fan...it delivers." - The Source In this final episode of Slammin' Rap Video Magazine: From local hustler to "New Jack Hustler," Ice T unravels a life story steeped i...Read More
Here's Vol. 3 of Rap's #1 VHS Video Magazine, created by Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro. Street-wise rappers Eric B. & Rakim dig into their bag of tricks, Big Daddy Kane on his two favo...Read More
Slammin' back for more def jammin' with Volume 2 of the VHS Video Magazine created by Stuart S. Shapiro: Funk Master George Clinton reigns supreme, Chillin' with Ice Cube on the set of his late...Read More
Silas Crow (Ryan Black) and Frank Fencepost (Adam Beach) are two average 18 year olds who live on a reservation in Northern Ontario. They hope to get into a Toronto mechanic's school, but must ...Read More
Thomas Fox (Fred Williamson) thought he was onto the best job of his life when he was hired to find a girl who goes missing in Europe. For $1000 a day plus expenses he could put up with the occ...Read More
Zarnoff plans to remove stolen documents from a bell under the waters of the Norton Dam. Steve and Tracy surprise Zarnoff’s men and recover the documents. Robal wounds Steve as he is bringing T...Read More
Violence and armed conflict provides the background. Boris Karloff is great as the criminal, Gruesome, who can hold people in suspended animation with his nerve gas.
Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro talks to the writer, producer and director of Liquid Sky, Slava Tsukerman. Originally aired at the Roxy Theatre in NYC for Night Flight's screening on Jun...Read More
American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late 80s, ...Read More
RIP Stuart Samuels (March 8, 1940 - August 2, 2024), senior writer of the original Night Flight series. "A Poem for Stuart Samuels" is Night Flight creator Stuart Shapiro's tribute to his frien...Read More