Photo Essays
LIFE Goes to a College Joust, 1952
It lasted roughly one thousand years (give or take a few centuries). It generated mind-boggling advances in science, technology and medicine. It saw magnificent...
Remembering Jonathan Winters (1925–2013)
Jonathan Winters, known to some as the king of ad-lib comedy, died April 11, 2013, at the age of 87. Famous for his improvisational offbeat humor and quick wit,...
LIFE With Rock Stars … and Their Parents
They had fame, reams of money and fans willing to do wild, unmentionable things just to breathe the same air — but in its September 24, 1971 issue, LIFE magazine...
Being 007: LIFE Behind the Scenes at James Bond Auditions
In the early 1960s, movie producers adapting Ian Fleming’s novels about a suave British spy named James Bond plucked a relative unknown, Sean Connery, from...
LIFE on the Set of Classic TV Westerns
The writer and essayist Gerald Early once asserted that “two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the...
LIFE Watches TV
Television gets a bad rap. As early as 1961, President Kennedy’s FCC chairman, Newton Minow, famously characterized most programming as a “vast wasteland.”...
Stars Behind Bars: LIFE With the Prisonaires
For much of the 20th century and well into the 21st, much of popular music — rock and roll, R&B, hip hop — has banked on the appeal of the rebel, the outsider...
LIFE With Zsa Zsa: Rare Photos of ‘Another Gabor,’ 1951
Anyone who has lived to be almost 100 likely has a few outlandish tales to tell. At least, one hopes they have tales to tell; it’s simply too awful to think of...
LIFE Rides With the Hells Angels, 1965
From Jesse James and Butch Cassidy to Scarface and Tony Soprano, outlaws have always held a singularly ambiguous place in America’s popular imagination: we fear...
Afghanistan's TV Election
A mock race for the presidency dazzles audiences across the country
Top 10 Reality TV Shows
A look at the best unscripted programs on television
The Kennedy-Nixon Debates: Game Changers
It’s been five long decades since the first televised presidential debates in American history, but the four TV showdowns between Richard Nixon and John F...
A Brief History of Sex on TV
Racy teen drama Skins is far from the first show to cause a stir about what's appropriate for television. TIME takes a look at the boob tube's long, delicate...
LIFE Behind the Picture: The Photo That Changed the Face of AIDS
In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man named David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world...
Who Wants to Be a Star? Photos from a Reality TV Convention
Billed as "the ultimate reality-TV fan experience," the Reality Rocks Expo allowed aficionados to get up close and personal with their favorite...
Behind the Scenes on the ‘Batman’ TV Show
On the eve of The Dark Knight Rises, LIFE.com offers some rare photos (most of them never published in LIFE) from the set of the classic old Batman show, in fond...
Love and Marriage in Prime Time
TIME looks back at some of TV's greatest real-life newlyweds. Because, as the ol' saying goes, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes an 8 p.m. time...
Sarah Palin's Reality-TV Show
"Sarah Palin's Alaska", all about the Mama Grizzly in Chief, mixes nature, family and politics Photographs by Gilles Mingasson / TLC / Getty Images for Mark...
Leo Through the Years
TIME looks back at the TV and film career of Leonardo DiCaprio
Linda Christian: The Real ‘First Bond Girl’
As the latest Bond film, Skyfall, bows in the U.S. — after setting box-office records overseas — media everywhere are looking back at 007 movies and celebrating...
