This week on Film Music Friday we'll sample music from movies about real people - the "biopic".  Among the films included are Lawrence of Arabia, Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The Aviator, Catch Me If You Can, My Left Foot and others.

Some movies are disasters...and some are disaster movies. This week on Film Music Friday, it's a deep dive into themes from some of Hollywood's most famous disaster epics. We'll hear music from The Poseidon Adventure, Titanic, The High and the Mighty, Apollo 13, Airport and more.

Many film composers also create music for the concert hall. This week on Film Music Friday we'll listen to examples of concert music by Miklos Rozsa, Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and others.

This week's Film Music Friday explores the use of jazz in the movies. Several factors, including the demise of the big band era, rising costs and the emergence of film noir led to increasing use of jazz in film scoring in the 1950's. We'll hear some examples, including music from A Streetcar Named Desire, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Wild One, Anatomy of a Murder, Bullitt and Whiplash.

The business of film music is notoriously male-dominated.  Female composers worked on barely more than 1% of the 100 top-grossing films for each of the last 12 years.  On this week's Film Music Friday we'll hear from some of the leading women film composers, including Oscar winners Rachel Portman and Anne Dudley; pioneers Doreen Carwithen, Wendy Carlos and Shirley Walker; and relative newcomers like Hildur Guðnadóttir and Pinar Toprak.  The music tonight is drawn from The Shining, The Cider House Rules, Poldark, True Lies, Manchester by the Sea, Joker,