Jazz: Disc 1 (Episodes 1-3)
(2002) [E]

Episodes 1-3 in the twelve episode series. Episode One – Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917: Jazz begins in New Orleans, a city with a richly diverse musical culture. Here in the 1890s, African-American musicians create a new music by mixing ragtime syncopations and the soulful feeling of the blues....  More

Jazz: Disc 2 (Episodes 4-6)
(2001) [E]

Episodes 4-6 in the twelve episode series. Episode Four – The True Welcome, 1929 – 1934: In 1929 the stock market collapses and the Great Depression begins. New York is now America’s jazz capital. On Broadway, Louis Armstrong revolutionises the popular song and his flair for...  More

Jazz: Disc 3 (Episodes 7-9)
(2001) [E]

Episodes 7-9 in the twelve episode series. Episode Seven – Swinging with Change, 1940 – 1942: As the 40s begin, jazz is changing. A small band of young musicians, led by the trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie and the brilliant saxophonist, Charlie Parker, have discovered a new way of...  More

Hello Dolly
(1968) [G]

Barbra Streisand is a knockout as Dolly Levi, the woman "who arranges things... like furniture and daffodils and lives." The famed plot concerns Dolly, a young widow and professional matchmaker who sets her sights on conquering tight-fisted Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder, beautifully played...  More

The Glenn Miller Story
(1953) [G]

It was a time that changed the world. And one man put it to music. Glen Miller is playing his terrific big band hits again in this stunning musical biography. The great Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson star in this vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Miller's rise...  More

Jazz On A Summer's Day
(1960) [G]

Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.  More

The Five Pennies
(1959) [G]

Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as...  More

Paris Blues
(1961) [M]

Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie...  More