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- This film explores Calloway's musical beginnings and milestones in the context of the Harlem Renaissance and segregationist America. Leading one of the most popular African American big bands during the jazz and swing eras of the 1930s-40s
- 1985– 3h 12mNot Rated7.7 (5.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert B. WeideStarsWoody AllenLetty AronsonMarshall BrickmanA documentary on Woody Allen that trails him on his movie sets and follows him back to Brooklyn as he visits his childhood haunts.
- DirectorTom DiCilloStarsJohnny DeppJohn DensmoreRobby KriegerA look at the late '60s and early '70s rock band The Doors, including rare exclusive footage.
- 1985– 4hTV-147.8 (423)TV Episode86MetascoreDirectorRic BurnsStarsLaurie AndersonIrving BlumDeVeren BookwalterRic Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol.
- 1985– 1h 30mTV-146.1 (120)TV EpisodeDirectorDeWitt SageStarsKate BurtonJames NaughtonHemingway was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and sportsman. His economical and understated style-which he termed "the iceberg theory" had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction.
- DirectorRobert GordonMorgan NevilleStarsChuck DB.B. KingBonnie RaittMuddy Waters is the archetypal blues-man. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he assembled established the electric blues sound.
- DirectorTimothy Greenfield-SandersStarsLou ReedDavid BowieDavid ByrneAbout the musician, poet and composer Lou Reed. The rebel who made rock and roll into avant garde.
- 1985– TV-147.2 (206)TV EpisodeDirectorJane PaleyLarry PriceStarsJoseph CampbellKate CapshawFrancis Ford CoppolaAn examination of the life and career of director George Lucas, including interviews with colleagues, cast and crew members from his films.
- DirectorRichard KroehlingStarsWilliam HurtAlbert EinsteinDocumentary on physicist Albert Einstein which chronicles the experiences that led him to become a great advocate for world peace.
- DirectorTerry CarterConsidered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time, Duke Ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music of the late 20th century. Today his recordings remain among the most popular jazz of the big-band era.