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The Electricity Fairy
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- Written by: Alex Mar
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 59 mins
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The inspiring true story of Loïe Fuller, a radical 19th-century art nouveau icon who turned artificial light into performance art and became the incandescent inventor of modern dance, is revealed in this transportive and hypnotic historical narrative.
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The Electricity Fairy
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era
- Length: 59 mins
- Release Date: 28-03-19
- Language: English
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Without Lying Down
- Written by: Cari Beauchamp
- Narrated by: Holly Palance
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
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Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from the early teens through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter - male or female - for almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and remains the only woman to win two Academy Awards for original screenwriting (The Big House and The Champ).
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Without Lying Down
- Narrated by: Holly Palance
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 06-02-19
- Language: English
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Sleeping with Strangers
- How the Movies Shaped Desire
- Written by: David Thomson
- Narrated by: David Thomson
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
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In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies - and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality.
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Sleeping with Strangers
- How the Movies Shaped Desire
- Narrated by: David Thomson
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 29-01-19
- Language: English
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Divorzio all'italiana
- Written by: Piero Di Domenico
- Narrated by: Elena De Bertolis
- Length: 18 mins
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Il film di Germi del 1962 dipinge un'Italia e una Sicilia molto reali, immerse nella povertà del Dopoguerra. Il Barone interpretato da un grande Mastroianni è una delle figure più controverse e brillanti tra gli omicidi della storia del cinema e, allo stesso, tempo uno dei più pasticcioni. Si potrebbe dire che riesce nei suoi intenti nonostante se stesso!
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Divorzio all'italiana
- Narrated by: Elena De Bertolis
- Length: 18 mins
- Release Date: 20-06-16
- Language: italian
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Metropolis
- Audiofilm
- Written by: Piero Di Domenico
- Narrated by: Piero Di Domenico
- Length: 28 mins
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La guida in audio al capolavoro di Fritz LangGli Audiofilm di Area51 Publishing ti aprono gli archivi dei più grandi capolavori della storia del cinema e ti fanno conoscere la loro storia, i dietro le quinte, il valore critico ed estetico, le scene cult. I misteri che tuttora l'avvolgono, a distanza di novant'anni dalla sua prima proiezione a Berlino, hanno reso Metropolis di Fritz Lang un film perennemente ammantato da un alone di leggenda.
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Metropolis
- Audiofilm
- Narrated by: Piero Di Domenico
- Length: 28 mins
- Release Date: 09-06-15
- Language: italian
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Riso amaro
- Written by: Piero Di Domenico
- Narrated by: Elena De Bertolis
- Length: 17 mins
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La guida in audio al capolavoro di Giuseppe De Santis! "Riso amaro" è un capolavoro del neorealismo italiano del dopoguerra. Racconta una storia d'amore dai risvolti oscuri, apparentemente semplice. Una trama lineare fatta di tradimenti, sensualità e lavoro, che però traduce su pellicola molti temi importanti: come la donna eroina, che lotta al pari di un uomo ed è disposta a tutto pur di ottenere quello che vuole, un esempio di grande spregiudicatezza e sensualità nella figura di Silvana Mangano.
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Riso amaro
- Narrated by: Elena De Bertolis
- Length: 17 mins
- Release Date: 04-08-16
- Language: italian
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Ombre Rosse
- Audiofilm. La guida in audio al capolavoro di John Ford
- Written by: Piero Di Domenico
- Narrated by: Piero Di Domenico
- Length: 26 mins
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Ombre Rosse rappresenta nella storia del cinema l'esempio più noto del western classico, in cui si ritrovano tutti gli elementi fondamentali del genere: dai grandi spazi (la Monument Valley viene resa leggendaria proprio da questo film) al tema del viaggio, dal clima di minaccia incombente per la presenza degli indiani all'intervento della cavalleria, dall'eroe ingiustamente accusato che supera una prova impossibile alla punizione dei colpevoli.
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Ombre Rosse
- Audiofilm. La guida in audio al capolavoro di John Ford
- Narrated by: Piero Di Domenico
- Length: 26 mins
- Release Date: 29-09-15
- Language: italian
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Tears of a Clown
- Glenn Beck and the Tea-Bagging of America
- Written by: Dana Milbank
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. In America in 2010, Glenn Beck provides the very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether he's the patriot or the tyrant, he's definitely full of manure.
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Tears of a Clown
- Glenn Beck and the Tea-Bagging of America
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 05-10-10
- Language: English
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Bringing Up Oscar
- The Story of the Men and Women Who Founded the Academy
- Written by: Debra Ann Pawlak
- Narrated by: Dawn Harvey
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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The untold story of the innovative pioneers who helped make movies the preeminent art form of the 20th century by founding the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The founders of the now infamous Academy were a motley crew as individuals, but when they first converged in Hollywood, then just a small town with dirt roads, sparks flew and fueled a common dream: to bring artistic validity to their beloved new medium.
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Bringing Up Oscar
- The Story of the Men and Women Who Founded the Academy
- Narrated by: Dawn Harvey
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 01-04-13
- Language: English
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Sensing the Past
- Hollywood Stars and Historical Vision
- Written by: Jim Cullen
- Narrated by: David Gassaway
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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How do perceptions of the past - not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole - shape our experience of the world? Sensing the Past tackles this question with an unlikely source of historical insight - the work of six major Hollywood stars: Clint Eastwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Jodie Foster. By focusing on the career choices made by these iconic actors, Cullen uncovers a discrete set of historical narratives, revealing the surprising ways historical forces shape our understanding of the world.
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Sensing the Past
- Hollywood Stars and Historical Vision
- Narrated by: David Gassaway
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 17-12-13
- Language: English
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The Place to Be
- Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News
- Written by: Roger Mudd
- Narrated by: Roger Mudd
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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Roger Mudd joined CBS in 1961 and rose to fame as the congressional correspondent, covering the historic Senate filibuster debate over the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Mudd was there to see Dan Rather going toe-to-toe with the Nixon White House, Marvin Kalb deciphering the State Department, Daniel Schorr bird-dogging Watergate, Lesley Stahl and Connie Chung staking out all the president's men, George Herman presiding over Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer covering the Pentagon like a police reporter.
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The Place to Be
- Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News
- Narrated by: Roger Mudd
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release Date: 31-12-08
- Language: English
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Undercover Boss
- Inside the TV Phenomenon That Is Changing Bosses and Employees Everywhere
- Written by: Stephen Lambert, Eli Holzman
- Narrated by: Wes Bleed
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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On February 7, 2010, the CBS television series Undercover Boss premiered to a staggering 38.6 million viewers, the largest post–Super Bowl audience for a new series and the most-watched premiere episode of any reality series in the history of television. Now, for the first time, the bosses and employees featured on Undercover Boss share the lessons they learned as well as the formative experiences that resulted from being on the show.
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Undercover Boss
- Inside the TV Phenomenon That Is Changing Bosses and Employees Everywhere
- Narrated by: Wes Bleed
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 14-01-11
- Language: English
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The Moment of 'Psycho'
- How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder
- Written by: David Thomson
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in 40 minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to that date in American film, punctuated by shrieking strings that seared the national consciousness. Nothing like Psycho had existed before, and the movie industry, even America itself, would never be the same.
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The Moment of 'Psycho'
- How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 01-12-09
- Language: English
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Star Trek and History
- Written by: Nancy Reagin
- Narrated by: Kim McKean
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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For a series set in our future, Star Trek revisits the past constantly. Kirk and Spock battle Nazis, Roman gladiators, and witness the Great Depression. When they're not doubling back on their own earlier timelines, the crew uses the holodeck to spend time in the American Old West or Victorian England. Alien races have their own complex and fascinating histories, too. The Star Trek universe is a sci-fi imagining of a future world that is rooted in our own human history. Gene Roddenberry created a television show with a new world and new rules in order to comment on social and political issues of the 1960s.
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Star Trek and History
- Narrated by: Kim McKean
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 24-06-13
- Language: English
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Charlie Chan
- The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
- Written by: Yunte Huang
- Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. Huang finally resurrects the "honorable detective" from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America’s rich cultural diversity. The result is one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year and a "deeply personal...voyage into racial stereotyping and the humanizing force of storytelling" (Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times).
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Charlie Chan
- The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
- Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 27-06-13
- Language: English
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Red Star over Hollywood
- The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left
- Written by: Ronald Radosh, Allis Radosh
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare and how it victimized political innocents. But Ronald and Allis Radosh tell for the first time the “backstory” behind this myth. They show how the Soviet Comintern targeted the film capital in the late 1920s, taking us inside the cells and discussion groups that Communist Party members formed, the guilds and unions they tried to take over, and the studios they aimed to influence.
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Red Star over Hollywood
- The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 23-07-10
- Language: English
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2001 Odissea nello spazio
- Audiofilm
- Written by: Piero Di Domenico
- Narrated by: Piero Di Domenico
- Length: 26 mins
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Gli Audiofilm di Area51 Publishing ti aprono gli archivi dei più grandi capolavori della storia del cinema e ti fanno conoscere la loro storia, i dietro le quinte, il valore critico ed estetico, le scene cult. 2001: Odissea nello spazio è l'unico film che nella storia del cinema sia stato equiparato a un trattato di filosofia per le sue inquiete e profonde riflessioni sull'umanità e sulla storia. Molte sono le sequenze di questo film che si sono impresse a fuoco nella cultura successiva e sono state capaci di superare un territorio ben più ampio del grande schermo.
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2001 Odissea nello spazio
- Audiofilm
- Narrated by: Piero Di Domenico
- Length: 26 mins
- Release Date: 09-06-15
- Language: italian
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The Songs of Hollywood
- Written by: Philip Furia, Laurie Patterson
- Narrated by: Philip Furia, Laurie Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as High Noon. This delightful book sheds much light on some of Hollywood's best known and loved repertoire, explaining how the film industry made certain songs memorable, and highlighting important moments of film history along the way.
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The Songs of Hollywood
- Narrated by: Philip Furia, Laurie Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 20-05-14
- Language: English
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The Beauty of the Real
- What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
- Written by: Mick LaSalle
- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent - a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personalities. Yet virtually no one this side of the Atlantic even knows about them. Viewers who feel shortchanged by Hollywood will be thrilled to discover The Beauty of the Real.
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The Beauty of the Real
- What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 02-07-13
- Language: English
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Triumph of the Walking Dead
- Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen
- Written by: James Lowder - editor, Joe R Lansdale - foreword, Jonathan Maberry,
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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James Lowder, veteran editor and author in the horror genre and comics field, collects some of the biggest names in the zombie genre, along with other top horror and comics writers, to discuss the series on both page and screen.
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Triumph of the Walking Dead
- Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 17-10-16
- Language: English
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