Garrison Keillor

Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past (2017)

Bandleader Vince Giordano keeps the Jazz Age alive with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, vintage musical instruments, and a collection of more than 60,000 original arrangements from the 1920s and '30s. ...

Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure (2013)

Tom And Jerry are among the last animals living in Storybook Town, a fairy tale-inspired theme park "where dreams come true, if you believe. ...

A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD! (2010)

Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes (2009)

Americas foremost humorist and commentator, Garrison Keillor, takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across the country in his traveling radio show, spinning his stories into American gold. This free form, intimate look at the private man in the p ...

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court. ...

Afraid So (2006)

A film about fear and anxiety. ...

A Prairie Home Companion 30th Broadcast Season Celebration (2004)

After 30 years of live radio broadcasts of "A Prairie Home Companion," the popular show comes to DVD for the first time, offering a rare inside look at one of radio´s most beloved shows. Taped before live audiences at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, ...

Voices in Wartime (2004)

Voices in Wartime is a 2004 documentary that explores the human experience of war through poetry. Combining interviews with soldiers, journalists, and historians, it reveals how war affects individuals and societies across time and place. The film features ...

The Main Stream (2002)

Humorist Roy Blount Jr. takes viewers on a journey down the Mississippi River, showcasing everything from areas with spectacularly beautiful scenery to ugly and dangerously polluted stretches bordered by industrial development. ...

The Haunted History of Halloween (1997)

The origins of Halloween are explored in this engrossing program on the subject. A ghoulish array of costumes, make up, and decoration descend on communities every year on October 31st, but few people are aware of how the celebration came to exist. Harry S ...

The Big One (1997)

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and woul ...

Redux Riding Hood (1997)

Years after failing to catch Little Red Riding Hood, the obsessed Wolf tries again. ...

The Wright Stuff (1996)

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine flight: a smooth take-off banking into a couple of tight circles, ending in a perfect landing. The flight took less than two minutes, but it left spectator ...

The Dakota Conflict (1993)

In 1862, when Minnesota was still a young state, the people of the Eastern Dakota Nation had been relegated to a reservation on a narrow strip of land along the Minnesota River. Times were hard and Dakota families went hungry. When the U.S. government brok ...

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first "mass medium." In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invent ...

Rabbit Ears - Johnny Appleseed (1991)

This is the touching story of the benevolent naturalist who roamed the Ohio valley in the early 1800's, planting apple orchards, making friends, and spreading goodwill along his way. Known to early settlers as a gentle soul with a reverence for all life, J ...

Rabbit Ears - Parables That Jesus Told (1991)

Here the parables of The Sower, The Good Samaritan and The Prodigal Son come to life against the backdrop of Jesus journeys through Galilee and Judea. The parables are put into a context that makes their simple truths resonate with meaning for young audien ...

The Congress (1989)

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, thoughtful and often touching portrait, Ken Burns explores the history and promise of this unique American institutio ...

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration (1988)

The life, career, and music of Irving Berlin are celebrated live on stage with musical performances. ...

A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD! (2010)

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court. ...

The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)

The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom, Wisconsin. The Greens share musical aspirations, but daughter Rachel (Madeline Zima), a talented violini ...