Pitch People

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

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one...

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

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

Advertising surrounds us. It is part of our lives, our memory and our culture: it is a pure reflection of our society. However, those who think and...

PBS Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have...

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

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...

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

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

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

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into...