Film History

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    • The Whole Equation
    • By: Kenneth Turan
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Film critic Kenneth Turan traces the fraught relationship between Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957) and Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) while examining the complicated history of Jewish identity in Hollywood.

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    • An Introduction
    • By: Ed Sikov
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Film Studies is an indispensable introduction to the study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and training the spectator to be an active listener and critic....

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    • From Cult Classics to Modern Horror Icons
    • By: The Practical Atlas
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-25
    • Language: English
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    • The History of Slasher Films: From Cult Classics to Modern Horror Icons is your ultimate guide to one of cinema’s most enduring—and thrilling...

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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 179 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 Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
    • By: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering.

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    • Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
    • By: Thomas Schatz, Steven Bach - preface
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Working from industry documents, Schatz traces the development of house styles, the rise and fall of careers, and the making - and unmaking - of movies, from Frankenstein to Spellbound to Grand Hotel....

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    • By: Sidney Lumet
    • Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 478 ratings
    • One of the greatest directors of all time, Sidney Lumet has made movies that have been nominated for more than 50 Academy Awards....

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    • The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
    • By: Julie Salamon
    • Narrated by: Julie Salamon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were on to something big....

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    • The Lost World of Film Noir
    • By: Eddie Muller
    • Narrated by: Eddie Muller, Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, listeners on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive volume....

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    • Origins, Osbourne, and Onward
    • By: Thomas Winterbottom
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-25
    • Language: English
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    • Thia book is a history of the movie channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) from its founding in 1994 to the present.

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    • The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
    • By: Donald Spoto
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 23 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • Based on interviews with his writers, actors, and longtime associates, and on exhaustive research, The Dark Side of Genius is the definitive biography of Alfred Hitchcock....

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    • The Comedy of Existence
    • By: Lee Siegel
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team the Marx Brothers....

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    • How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
    • By: Chris Poggiali, Grady Hendrix
    • Narrated by: Grady Hendrix
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • When a major Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers on March 21, 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian American audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw....

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    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, and Everything in Between
    • By: James King
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where giants like Spielberg and Coppola rubbed shoulders with baby-faced first-timers, and where future superstars got their big break....

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    • Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
    • By: Emilio Audissino
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • From the triumphant “Main Title” in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores—while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations....

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    • My Life inside 'The Room', the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
    • By: Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
    • Narrated by: Greg Sestero
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,848 ratings
    • The Disaster Artist is Greg Sestero's laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"....

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    • By: Charles Chaplin, David Robinson - introduction
    • Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
    • Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Take an unforgettable journey with the man George Bernard Shaw called "the only genius to come out of the movie industry" as he moves from his impoverished South London childhood to the heights of Hollywood wealth and fame....

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    • A History of America's Favorite Game
    • By: George Vecsey
    • Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Vecsey's Baseball is a concise history filled with details and stories that will appeal to rookie and veteran fans alike....

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    • A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told
    • By: Brad Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The Back to the Future series is a timeless collection that is greatly revered by all audiences. Brad Gilmore discusses these films from a place of passion and so effectively reveals how the history behind the movies is just as engaging as the films themselves....

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