The Merchants of Cool

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial cu...

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials ar...

Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remain...

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typefa...

This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news, and provides an i...

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant e...

Two decades after the initial exposé of the corporation, this follow-up unveils a world now fully remade in its image and perilously close to fascism.

Advertising surrounds us. It is part of our lives, our memory and our culture: it is a pure reflection of our society. However, those who think and cr...

Year after year hundreds of thousands of fans line the route of the Tour de France, cheering on their heroes and willing them to victory, while millio...

PBS Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have dev...

Recording of Maroon 5 live performance in Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada in 2011.

Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking to see. In order to make it onto the screen, they m...

Pitch People is a documentary film that focuses on the role the art of the "pitch" has played in society. It was produced in 1999 and includes intervi...

Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on...