Prime Time Propaganda

Who doesn’t love electronic music? From its experimental beginnings in the 1970s to its global domination of the pop chart, all things electric have become the mainstay of popular culture; as important to today’s musical landscape as the guitar was to rock & roll.
Greatest Ever Electric presents 3CDs of electronic music, not just from the ’80s when it went overground, but from the ’70s, ’90s and ’00s too, providing an overview of its origins and its current state. So sit back (or stand up) and let everyone from Giorgio Moroder and John Foxx to Hot Chip and Soulwax take you on a fantastical journey through electric. Just mind the static.

"Images tell stories, we tell the stories of images." Mysteries in the archives, ten investigations into ten events of the twentieth century that have marked our memory and our imagination. In the French series, we learn about the historical events of the 20th century by closely investigating archive films. Who is in the picture, who is missing? Why was the camera pointed right here? Who is sitting next to whom?

A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war.