Friday A/V Club: Too Hot for Sesame Street
Happy 45th birthday, Big Bird.
Friday A/V Club
Friday A/V Club: A Haunted-House Triple Feature for Halloween
Au Secours!, There It Is, and The Live Ghost.
Friday A/V Club: That Time Jane Jacobs and Marshall McLuhan Made a Movie Together
Killing the Spadina Expressway
Friday A/V Club: A Soviet Filmmaker Adapts a Post-Apocalyptic Ray Bradbury Story
Forget The Day After. This is the great nuclear-war movie of the early '80s.
Friday A/V Club: Buster Keaton vs. the Los Angeles Police Department
The classic comedy Cops.
Friday A/V Club: Watch This Old Movie About Stranger Danger and Marvel at How Unsupervised Kids Used to Be
This film's fears can't conceal just how level-headed people were about allowing children a little autonomy.
Friday A/V Club: Hollywood Explains These New-Fangled Computer Thingies
For the filmmakers of the '80s, computers were magic and hackers were wizards.
Friday A/V Club: Freehand Fireworks for Independence Day
Norman McLaren's 1940 cartoon Stars and Stripes
Friday A/V Club: Philip Marlowe in the French Revolution
Anthony Mann's gloriously weird movie The Black Book
Friday A/V Club: The Writer, the Serial Killer, and the Goddess of Chaos
A bizarre moment on Court TV
Friday A/V Club: Jerry Brown and Francis Ford Coppola's 'Transmission From Some Clandestine Place on Mars'
One of the strangest live political broadcasts of all time.
Friday A/V Club: Our Friendly Government Explains Why These Concentration Camps Are in Everyone's Best Interests
A propaganda film defends the internment of Japanese Americans.
Friday A/V Club: Joe Lieberman Battles Digital Demons
When the Senate studied video games
Friday A/V Club: When Satire, Slapstick, and Surrealism Collide
The long-suppressed Soviet satire My Grandmother, plus a tribute to Bob Hoskins.
Friday A/V Club: The Legend of Action Park
It was the '80s. It was New Jersey. It was another place and time.
Friday A/V Club: Let These Marionettes Demonstrate How to Save Your Cows in the Event of a Nuclear Attack
Some strange old civil defense spots
Friday A/V Club: Who Better Than a Frail Old Junkie to Sell Athletic Footwear?
William Burroughs, Thomas Frank, and some shoes
Friday A/V Club: Footage from the Communist Mirror-Universe
A weird pop relic from the end of the Soviet era
Friday A/V Club: A Nightmare Vision of a World Without Congress
The 1947 "instructional" film The Powers of Congress
Friday A/V Club: That Time Thomas the Tank Engine Was a Scab
The most right-wing project any Beatle was ever involved with
Friday A/V Club: Fascism, Anarchy, and Democracy in After-School Clubs
Kurt Lewin's experiment in leadership styles: the movie
