American Film

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    • The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
    • By: Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum
    • Narrated by: Luke Daniels
    • Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,063 ratings
    • I Want My MTV tells the story of the first decade of MTV, the golden era when MTV's programming was all videos, all the time, and kids watched religiously to see their favorite bands....

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    • Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
    • By: Anne Helen Peterson
    • Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • Based on Anne Helen Petersen's popular column on the Hairpin, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart....

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    • A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television
    • By: Heather Greene
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • No industry has been as influential at shaping the popular notion of what it means to be a witch quite as much as Hollywood. This book traces the fascinating history of witchcraft and witches in American film and television....

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    • A Journey from Self to Service
    • By: Gary Sinise, Marcus Brotherton
    • Narrated by: Gary Sinise
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,920 ratings
    • Theater icon, award-winning film and television star, and American patriot Gary Sinise shares the never-before-told story of his journey from trouble-making Chicago kid to world-famous actor and tireless advocate for America’s veterans and first responders....

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    • An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
    • By: Daniel De Visé
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Based on original research and dozens of interviews probing the memories of principals from director John Landis and producer Bob Weiss to Aykroyd himself, The Blues Brothers illuminates an American masterpiece while vividly portraying the creative geniuses behind modern comedy....

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    • Race, Class and Sex at the Movies
    • By: Bell Hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Movies matter—that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences, and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues....

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    • The Triumph of the American Imagination
    • By: Neal Gabler
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 33 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,383 ratings
    • Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination, and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi.

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    • Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
    • By: Julie Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies.

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    • Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
    • By: Howard Blum
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air....

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    • The Story of Popular Standards
    • By: John Cousins
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • We have entered an age where we now have instant, unlimited, free access to the history of recorded music. We have the ability to listen across ...

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    • One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
    • By: Wil Haygood
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black movies - from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther - using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture....

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    • American Filmmaker (Jewish Lives Series)
    • By: David Mikics
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Stanley Kubrick revolutionized Hollywood with movies like Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange. David Mikics takes listeners on a deep dive into Kubrick's life and work, illustrating his intense commitment to each of his films....

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    • The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
    • By: Ethan Mordden
    • Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • As author Ethan Mordden looks back at Chicago's various moving parts, we learn how the American theater serves as a kind of alternative news medium, a town crier warning the public about the racy, devious interior contradictions of American society....

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    • The Life of Clint Eastwood
    • By: Marc Eliot
    • Narrated by: Marc Eliot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • The definitive biography of one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful actors, producers, and directors in the history of American motion pictures....

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    • Searching for John Wayne
    • By: Marc Eliot
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • John Wayne's life and career paralleled nearly the entire 20th century, from the Depression through World War II to the upheavals of the 1960s....

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    • A Francis Ford Coppola Story
    • By: Sam Wasson
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he founded in San Francisco years before his gargantuan success, when he was only thirty.

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