Rewinding The '80s: Cinema Under the Influence of Music Videos, Action Stars, and a Cold War

Take a trip back to your favorite video store with this in-depth journey through the highs and lows of ’​80s cinema—with profiles of hundreds of films—and how Hollywood studios around the globe reflected a period of cultural change.

The movies were flying blind in 1980. “New Hollywood” was over and the era of auteur-driven, personal films that had defined moviemaking since the late ‘60s came to a symbolic end with Heaven’s Gate (1980), replaced by a new world of multiplex blockbusters suppo...