Bette Midler

Family Jewels

Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn

Three women are forced to spend Christmas together, along with their children and grandchildren, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store.

A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request

Lawrence Jordan

Barry Manilow, Cyndi Lauper

The internationally renowned superstar Barry Manilow takes requests for Christmas songs and performs live with a band, an orchestra, and special guests including Cyndi Lauper. And in a rare holiday treat, old friends Barry and Bette Midler join together, via media magic, in a duet that each taped separately. Mr. Manilow also hosts this 2-hour festive songfest.

Bette Midler: Art or Bust

Thomas Schlamme

Bette Midler, Jenifer Lewis

The Divine Miss M is featured in a concert filmed at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, at the culmination of her most recent cross-country tour which was known as "De Tour". This live recording was a combination of footage from both September 10 and 11, 1983. Set against a Renaissance art background and outfitted in a rainbow array of costumes, Midler sings and performs her uninhibited stage antics.

The Bette Midler Show: The Depression Tour

Tom Trbovich

Bette Midler, Charlotte Crossley

The Bette Midler Show is a HBO Video special of one of Bette Midler's tours entitled 'The Depression Tour', The video is of her show at the Cleveland Music Hall during February 1976. the show features many of Bette's popular songs, such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Friends", "In The Mood", "Hello In There", and "Lullaby of Broadway" As well as dazzling the audience with her spontaneous wit with her 'Wonderful Sophie Tucker Jokes' and her special 'The Vicki Eydie Show'

Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas

Marty Callner

Bette Midler, Lynn Mabry

Diva Las Vegas was a show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas starring Bette Midler performing as singer and comedian. The one-time performance was filmed for television; HBO released it as a TV special originally broadcast on January 18, 1997 and repeated on February 2, 1997. Midler won the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for the special. Among the songs performed were The Rose, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, From A Distance, Friends, Wind Beneath My Wings, Stay With Me and Do You Want To Dance?. Bette's daughter Sophie von Haselberg appeared for a short time during the song "Ukulele Lady". She sat with the rest of the cast and musicians on stage playing a ukulele and singing the words.

Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook

Steven Lippman

Bette Midler, Peggy Lee

Bette Midler performs four songs from her recording "Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook". Selections include "I'm A Woman," "He's A Tramp," "Fever," and an alternate take version of "Is That All There Is?" The program also includes interviews with Bette, along with Nicki Lee Foster and Holly Foster Wells (Peggy Lee's daughter and granddaughter.) along with never before seen vintage home movies from the Peggy Lee estate. A highlight is a home movie montage scored to Bette's recording of "Folks That Live on the Hill." This program was created as the exclusive DVD content for the Dual Disc release of Bette's Peggy Lee tribute.

Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back

Dwight Hemion

Bette Midler, Dustin Hoffman

In 1977, Bette Midler's first television special premiered, featuring guest stars Dustin Hoffman and Emmett Kelly. It went on to win Bette her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Special — Comedy-Variety or Music. To make the show palatable to home viewers, the special featured heavily cleaned up versions of the material Midler was performing at that time on stage. The title of the show, Ol' Red Hair is Back, was a takeoff on the title of Frank Sinatra's recent album Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back.

Live Aid

Vincent Scarza

Bob Dylan, David Bowie

Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United States. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: watched live by an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations. "It's twelve noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for Live Aid...!"

From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans

Elton John, Lenny Kravitz

Elton John, Lenny Kravitz, Bette Midler, Cindy Lauper, Elvis Costello and more perform a live concert in Madison Square Gardens to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims.

Bette Midler - Inside The Actors Studio

Jeff Wurtz

Bette Midler, James Lipton

Bette Midler talks about her childhood in Honolulu, her transformation in high school, her singing career and her breakout role in “The Rose.” Midler also dances and discusses her sassy Divine Miss M persona. Clips include “The Rose,” “Big Business” and “Beaches.” Interviewer: James Lipton. Have a box of Kleenex tissues handy, as Bette will definitely make you cry.

Bette Midler: One Night Only

Bette Midler, Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley hosts Bette Midler: One Night Only to celebrate 50 years of a divine career of The Divine Miss M, talking about her upcoming tour and her new album and perform her favourite songs she has recorded for over 50 years.

Live at Mister Kelly's

Theodore Bogosian, Ted Bogosian

Bill Kurtis, Лили Томлин

The iconic Mister Kelly’s bedazzled the country by launching superstars like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, and Steve Martin. It smashed color and gender barriers to put controversial voices on stage and transformed entertainment in America in the '50s, '60s, and ’70s.

The Divine Bette Midler

John Scheinfeld

Bette Midler, Barry Manilow

Follow the career of the Divine Miss M -- singer and actress Bette Midler -- from the bathhouses to Broadway to starring film roles. This A&E biography tells the story of the Emmy, Grammy and Golden Globe winner through interviews with friends, family, colleagues and the superstar herself. See clips from stage performances and films, and learn how the star of such films as The Rose, Beaches, and Down and Out in Beverly Hills has stayed on top.

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

Tom Trbovich

Jane Fonda, Quincy Jones

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song is a documentary which examines how the song was written, how producer Quincy Jones and songwriters Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie persuaded some of the most popular performers in America to donate their services to the project, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the marathon recording session that produced the single.

Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built

Susan Steinberg

Bette Midler, Ahmet Ertegün

This American Masters episode showcases the wonderful influence of Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records. Since the label's founding in 1947, some of the most popular Rhythm and Blues and Rock 'n' Roll artists have worked for Atlantic. Among them: first artist Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner, Ray Charles, Bobby Darin, The Coasters, Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Phil Collins and many more. Also covered are many of the Atlantic crew like engineer Tom Dowd, producer Jerry Wexler, and songwriters Mike Lieber and Jerry Stoller.

Six by Sondheim

James Lapine, Todd Haynes

Audra McDonald, Darren Criss

This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.