The Merchants of Cool

The personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of all time and the stories behind their campaigns.

Every year, thousands of commercials are made that never reach our TV screens, deemed too shocking to see. In order to make it onto the screen, they...

Produced in the UK on a zero-budget, the filmmakers spent two years contacting and interviewing journalists, organisers and critics of the corrupt...

Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while...

Tis the season for terrorizing your neighbors. And these classic Beavis and Butt-head episodes have tricks and treats so sweet you'll get a...

The art of the "pitch" and its role in society, as told by many of the pitch industry's greatest salesmen, including Arnold Morris, Sandy Mason,...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...

The painful personal stories of five Palestinian kids, ages 7-17, open a window into the world of Palestinian minors under Israeli occupation -...

Year after year hundreds of thousands of fans line the route of the Tour de France, cheering on their heroes and willing them to victory, while...

Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on...

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...