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"Fight Club." "American Beauty." "The Matrix." 1999 was a blockbuster year for movies. But was it the best ever year in film?

On an icy night in 1984, a commuter plane crashed in the wilderness. Six passengers died, but four survived: the pilot, a politician, a policeman and a prisoner. Carol Shaben's Into the Abyss describes their fight to make it through that frigid night alive.

If current trends continue, there will be more than one job opening for every unemployed person in the U.S. We'll look behind the numbers.

In Sybil Exposed, Debbie Nathan explores the life of Shirley Mason — the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book and 1976 TV movie. Mason later admitted to her psychiatrist that she'd made the whole thing up — but not before the story manufactured a psychiatric phenomenon.

In the past, we’ve looked at various types of songs found in musicals such as the “I want” songs where a character lets the audience know his or her reasons for doing things. In this week’s Dress Circle (7/14 7:00 p.m.), we’re going to be looking at ‘story songs” which are, oddly enough, songs that tell stories. Sometimes, those stories are life-histories, but many times, they act as allegories.

In its series on holiday season traditions, A Tempo (12/20) features a conversation about the Metropolitan Opera's family-friendly production of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

What happens when a “hometown” commissions an opera about their best known resident? A bit of historical fiction, quite a bit actually, will result, and the output is on this week’s Sunday Opera (1/4 3:00 p.m.) in Alberto Franchetti’s homage to Christopher Columbus to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Columbus’ voyage and the unification of Italy.

This broadcast Friday (3/24 at 8 pm) pairs music of JS Bach with poetry by Dryden Ensemble oboist and founder Jane McKinley to tell the story of Anna Magadalena Bach, the second wife of JS Bach.

We're continuing our look at musicals written for television with four more - two from 1957 "The Adventures of Marco Polo" which adapted music by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" which used themes by Edvard Grieg, one from 1958, "Little Women" by Richard Adler, and a version of "Pinocchio" entitled "Geppetto" featuring music by Stephen Schwartz.

This is the second show in our series dedicated to the works of Stephen Sondheim. This time, we'll be looking at some of our favorite duets.