Vince Giordano

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Mark Hunt, Scott Eyman

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.

Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past

Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards

Vince Giordano, Garrison Keillor

Bandleader Vince Giordano keeps the Jazz Age alive with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, vintage musical instruments, and a collection of more than 60,000 original arrangements from the 1920s and '30s.

The Aviator

Martin Scorsese

Леонардо ДиКаприо, Cate Blanchett

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Finding Forrester

Gus Van Sant

Sean Connery, Rob Brown

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

Sweet and Lowdown

Woody Allen

Sean Penn, Samantha Morton

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Woody Allen

Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt

CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.