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

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong...

On Wednesday 27th January 1999, Whiskas Singles made advertising history. The first-ever commercial for cats was shown on British TV. The results?...

A porn-loving, Charles Manson-befriending, Mississippi Republican runs to become the next sheriff.

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

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

In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was...

Set to a bebop jazz beat, this documentary brings to life the extraordinary work of graphic designer Saul Bass, whose groundbreaking title sequences...

BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".

A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.

Programming the Nation? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late...