Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus

The untold story of the world's longest running video show, Video Music Box. Host Ralph McDaniels' vast footage archive reveals the show's importance to numerous big-name musicians, as well as to the kids that grew up watching.

THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for, and finds meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone. It recounts the even more remarkable saga of how African Americans have retained links with their African past through the horrors of the middle passage, slavery and segregation. The film dramatically demonstrates the contribution of contemporary scholarship to restoring what narrator Vertamae Grosvenor calls the "non-history" imposed on African Americans: "This is a story of memory, how the memory of a family was pieced together through a song with legendary powers to connect those who sang it with their roots."

A documentary on the evolution of the Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips.

Confronted with racism and attacked by an audience seeded with neo-Nazi sympathizers, Crack of Dawn survived it all and made history by way of a recording contract with Columbia Records in 1975. Crossing over the racial boundaries, they paved the way for the future of Canadian R&B and reggae musicians.

David Attenborough chooses seven of the most remarkable songs found in nature.

South African journalist Rian Malan searches for the original writers of the legendary song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."