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A six-part documentary about the Broadway musical

A comprehensive history of the superhero comic book fantasy genre and its influence on American culture.

A star-studded roster of interviewees (including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal) pay tribute to the legendary, multi-talented song-and-dance man.

Engaging, humorous, and provocative, Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy examines the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical. The film showcases the work of legends such as Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim. Interviews with songwriters and luminaries including Sheldon Harnick, Stephen Schwartz, Harold Prince, Arthur Laurents, Charles Strouse, and Mel Brooks provide insight, alongside standout performances and archival footage.

Melding performance, biography and history, this features interviews with over 90 comedians, writers, producers, and historians.

Something evil lurks beneath the dark and murky waters of Lake Sinister and its about to be unleashed.

Highlights include newly-restored color footage of The Ziegfeld Follies and footage of Fanny Brice singing "My Man."

Highlights include never-before-broadcast footage of Jerome Robbins' choreography for On the Town, and the first American broadcast of 1950 footage of the original Guys and Dolls cast performing in London.

Highlights include home movies of Jonathan Larson working as a waiter before leaving his job to create Rent, and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of Wicked in rehearsal and opening on Broadway.

Highlights include rare performance footage of composer Eubie Blake and a specially animated sequence of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 hit "Thou Swell" from A Connecticut Yankee.

Highlights include rare footage of Ethel Merman rehearsing for Gypsy and home movies from the original stage production of Chicago.

Highlights include rarely seen home movies of the Gershwin brothers from the 1930s, and 1950s TV footage of the incomparable Ethel Waters singing Irving Berlin's "Suppertime."

Comedy's nerds, jerks and oddballs are given the spotlight.

The fantasy genre's beginnings in 1930s comic books, its rise in the 1940s until its decline during the popular blacklash against the medium in the 1950s.

With Cold War America finding its self-identity challenged, the superhero genre is reinvented with more complex characters and storytelling artistry.