Explores the life and works of Bach whose compositions represent the height of the Baroque and the beginning of the Modern Age of music. Includes a discussion of Bach's masterpiece the St. Matthew Passion, and performances of the Mass in B minor, Golberg Variations, and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

Actor Robert Powell, star of the TV miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth," is on a journey across the Holy Land to discover the real story of the role he played decades ago. Guided by the Gospels and the latest archaeological and historical research, Powell will travel to Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt. With the help of scholars and theologians, he will examine Jesus's lost adolescent years, the start and growth of his ministry, and his death and believed...

Born in 1838, Queen Lili'uokalani was a talented composer who took the throne after her brother's death in 1891. She dealt with U.S. government revoking her position on the sugar market, was overtaken by U.S. Marines, and lost her throne.

Dr. Howard Gardner sits down with featured guest Yo-Yo Ma during this candid interview. Yo-Yo Ma is a 15-time Grammy Winner, the recipient of the 2010 Medal of Freedom and a world-famous cellist, he is considered to be one of the best classical performers of all time. Ma started his musical career at the age of 5 and began to perform with orchestras around the world by the age of 20.

Follows Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro on a nine-month tour throughout the U.S. and Japan. The documentary was filmed at concert halls, elementary schools, senior care centers, and in Sendai, the small town in Japan that was ravaged by the March 2011 tsunami. Home video footage, family photos, and interviews with family and friends also document Jake's rise to international fame.

J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret initiative - the Manhattan Project. This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America's most influential scientists.

A portrait of the most famous and controversial artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Explores the complete spectrum of Warhol's artistic output, from the late 1940s to his death in 1987.

Follow Obama through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey towards the 2008 Democratic Convention.

From 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, the Mecca for creative talents. On-camera, dramatic and historic moments are recalled by participants in these legendary events e.g. Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, and many more. Traces who came to Paris and why, whom they met, what they made there, and how being in Paris transformed them and their work.

Disc 1 tells the story of rock duo the Everly Brothers, focusing on the heyday of their careers in the 1950s and 1960s, featuring new interviews with Don, archive interviews with Phil, and interviews with musicians inspired by them, including Art Garfunkel, Keith Richards, Graham Nash, Dave Edmunds, Tim Rice, Albert Lee, Waddy Wachtel, and Jake Bugg. Disc 2 is a previously unreleased live performance recorded in 1968 for Australian TV.