Thelma Schoonmaker

Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants, musicians, choreographers, and such music-world superstars as Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Cee Lo Green and Mariah Carey.

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

Im Sommer 1969 ist ein mehrtägiges Rock- und Folkkonzert in der amerikanischen Kleinstadt Bethel im Staat New York geplant. Durch den unerwarteten Ansturm von Besuchern sehen sich die Veranstalter gezwungen, die eigentlich kommerzielle Veranstaltung zum kostenlosen Festival zu machen, bei dem etwa 400.000 Besucher für drei Tage mit Musik, Drogen, Liebe und Regen feiern. Unter den auftretenden Musikern und Bands sind Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Ten Years After, Santana und Joan Baez.