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This is a part of the Pop Galerie-series which was broadcasted on ARTE in the year 2000. This Specials is well worth watching and includes lots of rare footage from all over the years in KISS story both with and without make-up. Classic footage from KISS' 1980 German tour can be seen as well as more recent appearances from Detroit Rock City movie premiere. It took the producers almost one year in research and half year in the making.

A Grinch-like thief retreats to her hometown in Connecticut after a con goes bad. There, she gets stuck baby-sitting her niece and nephew until their parents can make it home for Christmas. She spends most of her time devising ways to even the score with her old partner in crime, until the spirit of the holidays help put her priorities back on track.

Barbara Hoffman is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling has to do is prove it.

Eugene de Kock, nicknamed "Prime Evil," was South Africa's most notorious government assassin under the apartheid regime. A highly decorated and powerful man, he led police death squads against enemies of the state; his victims were mainly connected with the ANC. The film includes interviews with torture victims and with friends of de Kock.

Join Rocfish...as they present the story of Daniel Like you've never seen it before. A tale of extraordinary courage where Daniel chooses to stand up for what is right, even though it means being thrown into a den full of lions!

Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.

When rumors start circling that average guy Dre has come into money, everyone starts coming to get their's.

A young Angel’s first assignment is to restore faith and courage to a mother whose son has been kidnapped in Mexico. Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show), Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams), Paz and Armando Silvestre (Wonder Woman) lead an international cast in this delightful action-comedy adventure.

In 1989, a collective of young hip hop artists gathered at a health food café in South Central Los Angeles. Their mandate? To reject gang culture and expand the musical boundaries of hip hop. DuVernay's documentary chronicles the historic legacy of the Good Life Cafe — the open mic nights that became an L.A. institution, the eclectic array of talented young MCs that emerged there, the alternative hip hop movement they developed, and their worldwide influence on the artform.

A group of friends travel to an isolated area of Hawaii to get away from it all and relax for the weekend. The group is relaxing, drinking beer and listening to the radio, when suddenly there is a bright flash in the sky and a meteorite crashes to the ground near their party. While attempting to investigate the explosion, some of the group comes across a small glowing orb floating in the air. One by one the orb enters the friends' bodies and takes control of them, turning them into mindless killers. The group runs for their lives not knowing who has been infected by the orb and who they can trust......

The tensions that arise when a newlywed has her new husband move into the home of her oppressive mother.

Alan Chambers (Townsend) is a lawyer and sick of his job. He corrals his friends into forming a vigilante group. Everyone goes along with it at first, until it turns sour and innocent people start dying, and Alan is the only one left standing.

In a world where nothing seems like it appears, a young man is force to confront the death of his friend which he witnessed.

An attorney is trying to solve her younger brother's mysterious disappearance while simultaneously helping a new friend rid herself of a stalker. As she begins to uncover the truth, it turns out that the seemingly separate situations are actually connected.

After being incarcerated, Pancho Villa returns home to his wife and child. With a crooked parole officer and a boss that tries to frame him for stealing, Villa decides to participate in a robbery to provide for his family. His partners in crime are small town hustlers, D.J, Juice and weapons dealer Chat. Their target: local drug lord Big Pat.

In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.

In the heat of an American desert, Captain Jean Farrell arrives at a secret military installation, run by the enigmatic Doctor Harlan Jessup. Jessup is conducting 'Operation Sandman', an experiment involving a group of soldiers who have volunteered to be injected with 'the Juice', a drug which enables them to function without sleep. The team of soldiers, led by gruff and abusive 'Gunny' Riggins continually takes part in Virtual Reality scenarios whereby they face terrorists, kidnappers, guerrillas and a plethora of other situations that demand split-second timing, and undying obedience in the face of danger.

Detective Emmy Ridgeway and her partner investigate the death of a wealthy and influential woman. All clues lead them to a spa, where health treatments are not the only things on offer.

This surprisingly surreal action-packed adventure features the exploits of the Removers, a superheroic troupe that protects the Earth from its biggest enemy, the energy-sucking Evil Alien Succubi. Agents Silver and Pink lead the Removers in their quest to save the world, but do they really have what it takes to battle such powerful foes determined to leach all the power from the planet?

Desperate for money Rodney and Leon start up a low budget strip club in Rodney s parents basement. The two friends run into a few problems though, from faulty strippers to nasty loan sharks, but their biggest problem might just be keeping the whole operation secret from Mom and Dad.

An FBI agent must negotiate with a woman holding a hospital hostage in order to get her hands on an experimental drug.

Two grim murders in a rural town seem like a run-of-the-mill killing spree, until a local prosecutor discovers a mysterious connection that leads the cops to the prime suspect -- a criminal who died 30 years before. But how can a killer continue his bloodletting from the grave? Directed by Rick Jordan, this entertaining and otherworldly fright fest stars Jeff Marlow, Rick Jordan, Joe Estevez, Roxzane T. Mims and Teresa Castracane.

Between 1993 (with the release of Dr. Dre's The Chronic) and 1996 (when 2Pac dropped both All Eyez on Me and The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory), Death Row Records was the most successful label in hip hop, releasing a string of major hits featuring a distinctively laid-back but funky sound that took gangsta rap to the top of the charts. Death Row Uncut collects videos of 28 tunes that Death Row released during their heyday, including "Dre Day" and "Let Me Ride" by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, "Gin and Juice," "Who Am I (What's My Name)," and "Murder Was the Case" by Snoop Doggy Dogg, "Natural Born Killers" by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, and "To Live and Die in L.A.," "Hit 'Em Up," and "Dear Mama" by 2Pac. Death Row Uncut features unreleased live performance clips and uncensored versions of some videos that were softened for broadcast; it also includes an interview with label CEO Suge Knight, who has few kind things to say about his former co-workers.

The Benny Anderson-Tim Rice-Björn Ulvaeus musical Chess, which began life as a two-LP recording in 1984, was presented at the New Amsterdam Theatre, marking the third benefit concert for the Actors’ Fund. Chess debuted on the London stage with a cast led by Elaine Paige, Tommy Körberg and Murray Head, while the Broadway company featured Judy Kuhn, Philip Casnoff and the late David Carroll. The score includes such tunes as “Nobody’s Side,” “One Night in Bangkok,” “Anthem,” “I Know Him So Well,” “Pity the Child” and “You and I.” The original Broadway cast recording was released on RCA Victor. The Actors' Fund of America, a nonprofit organization founded in 1882, provides for the social welfare of all entertainment professionals. Its headquarters and The Aurora Residence are located in New York City, and its nursing home and assisted living care facility are in Englewood, New Jersey.

Three research students Stephanie, Christy and Jeff study ancient artifacts in an archaeological lab. Working hard, they forget about the time and stay locked in the lab for the night. With no way to leave, the students become bored... When Jeff finds erotic videos of other students spending more time having sex than working, the trio begin to entertain themselves with each other's sexual explorations.

When shy, dorky Linda finds herself alone with her sister's hunky boyfriend Matt, she decides to make the most of situation and convinces him to take his clothes off for money. Little does Matt know that Linda is not as stupid as she looks.

A short film by H. Jon Benjamin and Bill Buckendorff.

A single mother and her 10-year-old son motor around the country as she makes ends meet and enters various relationships that her son has yet to understand.

A woman claims she had an affair with a married neurosurgeon and stands trial for allegedly harassing him.

Spy School is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.

Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Octopussy'. Narrated by Patrick Macnee.

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

Several couples demonstrate 50 positions of lovemaking from the Kama Sutra while an off-screen narrator, a woman with a soft voice, describes each position, provides its name, and notes its pleasures, sensations, intensities, originality, and caveats. The primary set is a large bedroom, with the bed in the center; the walls are yellow, the lighting soft; mirrors sometimes provide additional angles. Music plays. The silent couples move rhythmically and keep their cool.

Stagknight is derived from the uncensored lusty straight-to-Drive-In horrors of the 70's and 80's, I Spit on your Grave, The Beast, Samurai Assisan, movies that spawned the mighty Evil Dead, American Werewolf in London, later Aliens. Set deep in dark mythical English woods Stagknight presents a uniquely stupid look at this genre through the cracked "Weekend Warriors" paintball team. This is mansville not boytown on a blow-out bachelor paintball weekender bender of dirty tricks, hot babes and truly splatter-tastic medieval kills to die for.

A comedy about a wimpy bimbo conflicted about her loyalty to a group of broke environmental Superheroines (The Broom Witch, The Librarian, Mother Nature, The Chocolatier) versus their wealthy villainous counterparts (Virginia Svelte, Cosmetic Chick, Bitch-on-Wheels and The Doucher) who run an advertising agency that promotes carcinogenic products for women.

A large man-eating crocodile terrorizes tourists and locals near Krabi, in Thailand. Michael Madsen plays a hunter stalking the immense reptile, while sub-plots include a rivalry between a foreigner, who owns a crocodile-farm, and a Thai man who plays a part in framing the foreigner for the crocodile's rampage.

A behind-the-scenes look at anti-conspiracy activists and the growing underground anti-globalist movement.

Dark, the debut feature film of up-and-coming Chicago-based indie filmmaker Darryl Bullock, became an official selection at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Urbanworld Film Festival, and American Black Film Festival, and receives its first home video release from Cheeseburger Films. It tells the story of one Dark Freeman (Jason Bonner), a young African American man who finds himself torn between his tough urban roots - living as a resident on the impoverished, crime-ridden south side of Chicago - and his day-to-day life, in the comparatively wealthy and privileged University of Chicago, where he is enrolled as a student. Walking between the two worlds, Freeman must find a way to succeed in both, with the help of lovers, family members, close friends and acquaintances.

Lucy and Paul return to their childhood home for a celebration dinner when their Uncle Stan shows up with inappropriate gifts for all, and a way-too-young fiancée named Candy. Once the gifts are unwrapped, all Hell breaks loose.

A remake of the classic 1947 John Wayne western about an injured gunslinger who falls in with good company in the form of some Quakers.

Nothing is as it seems when four friends agree to cover up a killing. When they begin to doubt who among them is telling the truth, they find that life can be stranger than fiction.

A darkly ironic melodrama of star-crossed lovers Gulshan and Manisha, whose forbidden love yearns to be free from Nana – Manisha’s overbearing lecherous drunk of a husband

A look at one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the United States, professional wrestling.

When a woman loses her baby, her husband abandons her and she starts showing schizophrenic symptoms. She sets her eyes on her elder sister's husband and tries to get close to him.

The owner of a gigantic oil refinery decides to burn the place down for insurance purposes, only to create a giant fireball that endangers the lives of a small town.

The story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves in down the hall.

Retrospective documentary for IFC about the indie classic Swingers featuring director Doug Liman, writer and star John Favreau, and more.

The residents of a small Alaskan town find themselves under attack by a flying reptile known in medieval mythology as a Wyvern. It has thawed from its ancient slumber by melting icecaps caused by global warming.

Fireman Steve and helicopter pilot George rob an armored truck. To hide the evidence and get away, the duo starts a fire that grows into an inferno engulfing a forest. Further complicating matters is the psychopathic Wolf and his gang.

During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed.

Roscoe Rodent is a private detective, in distant future. Denied the opportunity to serve on the Manhattan Empire Police force because of his genetic make-up, he uses his talents for solving crime in a for-hire capacity.

A look at the life of real estate king/media mogul/reality TV star, Donald Trump.

A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.

"Through the Fire" chronicles the journey of Coney Island basketball star, Sebastian Telfair, from famed Lincoln High School straight to the NBA.

Documentary exploring the making of the film, High Noon.

Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.

A featurette about the making of the show, ‘My Name is Earl’, featured on the Season 3 Home Release.

The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.

An ex-treasure hunter's search for his missing brother coincides with a quest for buried Incan gold.