Television History Movies

The true story of the wildly popular television show created by Aaron Spelling and Darren Star during the 1990's.

The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.

A special highlighting fifty years in the history of television. Includes tributes to Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Walter Cronkite, Jackie Gleason,...

Shari Lewis was a dancer, singer, and magician but is best known as the ventriloquist behind sock puppets Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and, of course,...

Flexible, powerful, and naive. The fates of three men intersect at the launch of Czechoslovak television broadcasting. Ambitious actor...

Familiar radio voice Ben Grauer leads the viewer on a behind the scenes tour of the National Broadcasting Company studios -- both radio and...

A brief look at the history of "Homicide: Life on the Street", one of the best shows on television and its ratings history as well as some of the...

A documentary celebrating 20 years of the work of Kaleidoscope, an organisation devoted to the preservation of archive television.

In this feature-length documentary from 1976, Leslie Mitchell and special guests recall the birth of BBC Television forty years before.

TV presenter Dallas Campbell, engineer Professor Danielle George and engineer Dr Hugh Hunt re-create the opening of the BBC's television service on 2...

Revisiting the Omnibus series from the "golden age" of television. This live 90-minute weekly program hosted by Alastair Cooke brought an...

This ABC/PEOPLE television special highlights the impact of the soap opera. In today's shifting television landscape, "The Story of Soaps" traces how...

imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the showrunner of Doctor Who – with two Doctors...

The documentary film follows the life and career of Milen Tsvetkov against the backdrop of historical events in Bulgaria that have transformed...

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

A loving tribute to a forgotten pioneer of the golden age of television. Starting out as a Runyonesque character actor, Sheldon Leonard went on to...

Even though her program was only seen in four Midwestern cities, Ruth Lyons presided over America's highest-rated daytime TV talk show for nearly two...

A look-behind-the-scenes at a television development that could be in everyone's home in just a few years' time. Reporter Angela Rippon tells the...