Recognized as the innovator of the hard-boiled detective novel, Dashiell Hammett succeeded in elevating the pulp genre to the level of fine literature. "American Masters: Dashiell Hammett. Detective. Writer." effectively tells the story of a man who traveled from the gritty American underworld to the pinnacle of literary society and the glamour of Hollywood only to watch it all escape his grasp.

'Chronicles the lives of unusual lives, romance and pop culture trajectory of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson, and the effect their research had on the family and colleagues around them. Their study ignited a sexual revolution and took them from a teaching hospital in St. Louis to the cover of Time magazine."--Container.

Presents the life and achievements of Paul Robeson, an athlete, singer, scholar and champion of the rights of the poor, disenfranchised and people of color.

Features rare TV and movie clips, along with commentary by a stellar group of jazz instrumentalists and singers who knew Billie Holiday well.

A profile of W. Eugene Smith as told through his photographs, interviews and dramatized sequences.

Explore the life and legacy of August Wilson, the playwright some call America's Shakespeare, who chronicled the twentieth-century black experience. Features James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Laurence Fishburne, Viola Davis, new dramatic readings, and rare footage.

A divorced man who creates artificial flavorings is hijacked by a series of random sensory flashes. Psychically linked to an unknown beautiful woman, he suddenly begins to experience all the pain, passion and pleasures of her existence.

On a journey to visit his gravely ill father, a medical student finds shelter in the home of an older man and his seductive young wife who cannot be fulfilled by mortal hungers. Somewhere in the darkness of a nearby necropolis, a defiant necromancer will now summon them all to an orgy of the undead and unleash the ultimate depravity for those who do not heed the warning of 'Haeckel's tale'.

The Highberger House, a place for unpublished writers to work in peace, is haunted by the beautiful Valerie a woman desperate to be saved from a beast that lives within the house's walls.

Videos for five of Donna Summer's greatest hits.