On this day in music history:

Anima by Cecilia Chailly (2005)

Poèmes de l’Amour by Susan Graham (2005)

American Epic / documentary series (2017)

Sing Like A Siren by Within Temptation & Jerry Heil (2025)

Anima

Album by Cecilia Chailly,

released May 16, 2005.

Track list: A-aha; Small Steps to the Moon; The Graass Harp; Andrea’s blues; Infinito; Rapide stelle; Moto perpetuo; Came Back Smile Blues; Un fiore; Danza di luna; How Are You Dear?; Danza di luna; Beauty’s in the Eye; Magga vagga; A Strange Day; L’ombra dei sentieri; Lonesome Lullaby; Il breve addio; Pioggia.

Poèmes de l’Amour

Album by Susan Graham,

released May 16, 2005.

Track list: Poeme de l’amour et de la mer: I La fleur des eaux; Poeme de l’amour et de la mer: II Interlude; Poeme de l’amour et de la mer: III La mort de l’amour; Sheherazade: I Asie; Sheherazade: II La flute enchantee; Sheherazade: III L’indifferent; 5 Poemes de Charles Baudelaire: I Le balcon; 5 Poemes de Charles Baudelaire: II Harmonie du soir; 5 Poemes de Charles Baudelaire: III Le jet d’eau; 5 Poemes de Charles Baudelaire: IV Receuillement.

American Epic

Documentary series directed by Bernard MacMahon,

written by Duke Erikson, Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Bill Morgan and Elijah Wald,

released in the United States on May 16, 2017.

Music by Bernard MacMahon, Duke Erikson, Allison McGourty and Patrick Ferris.

Narrated by Robert Redford.

Sing Like A Siren

Song by Within Temptation & Jerry Heil,

released May 16, 2025.

On this day in music history - For Birds, Planes & Cello, by Joan Jeanrenaud & Miya Masaoka (2005):

For Birds, Planes & Cello

Album by Joan Jeanrenaud & Miya Masaoka,

was released on May 12, 2005.

On this day in movie history - Brick (2005):

Brick

directed and written by Rian Johnson,

was released in the United States on April 7, 2006.
Music by Nathan Johnson.

Cast:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas, Noah Fleiss, Matt O'Leary, Emilie de Ravin, Noah Segan, Richard Roundtree, Meagan Good, Brian White, Jonathan Cauff, Reedy Gibbs, Lucas Babin, Tracy Bitterolf, Ari Welkom, Cody Lightning, McJoel Hamilton, Lauren Johnson, Dylan Lujano.

On this day in movie history - Sin City (2005):

Sin City

directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino,

written by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller,

based on the graphic novels by Frank Miller,

was released in the United States on April 1, 2005.
Music by John Debney, Graeme Revell and Robert Rodriguez.

Cast:

Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Cara D. Briggs, Jude Ciccolella, Jeff Dashnaw, Rosario Dawson, Jesse De Luna, Benicio Del Toro, Jason Douglas, Michael Clarke Duncan, Tommy Flanagan, Christina Frankenfield, Rick Gomez, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett, Rutger Hauer, David Hickey, Evelyn Hurley, Greg Ingram, Nicky Katt, Jaime King, Helen Kirk, Michael Madsen, Ethan Maniquis, Jason McDonald, John McLeod, Clark Middleton, Frank Miller, Brittany Murphy, Iman Nazemzadeh, Lisa Marie Newmyer, Tommy Nix, Nick Offerman, Clive Owen, Marco Perella, Sam Ray, Randal Reeder, Mickey Rourke, David Alex Ruiz, Ryan Rutledge, Marley Shelton, Jeff Schwan, Korey Simeone, Nick Stahl, Paul T. Taylor, Scott Teeters, Ken Thomas, Rico Torres, Makenzie Vega, Arie Verveen, Patricia Vonne, Shaun Wainwright-Branigan, Chris Warner, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Danny Wynands, J.D. Young, Charissa Allen, Joe Basquez, Sabrina Davi, Jessica Hale, Samantha Inoue Harte, Michael Lambert, Ashley Moore, Amanda Phillips, Lauren-Elaine Powell, Texas Presley, Emmy Robbin, Kelley Robins, Robert Rodriguez, Monika Spruch, Penny Vital, Katherine Willis.

On this day in television history - Kojak (2005):

Kojak

based on Kojak by Abby Mann,

was released in the United States on March 25, 2005,

and ran for one season until May 22, 2005.
Music by Mark Snow.

Cast:

Ving Rhames, Chazz Palminteri, Roselyn Sánchez, Chuck Shamata, Sybil Temtchine and Michael Kelly.

On this day in music history - Heavy on My Heart, by Anastacia (2005):

The song Heavy on My Heart,

by Anastacia,

was released on March 7, 2005.

On this day in movie history - Assault on Precinct 13 (2005):

Assault on Precinct 13

directed by Jean-François Richet,

written by James DeMonaco,

was released in the United States on January 19, 2005.
A remake of Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), directed and written by John Carpenter.
Music by Graeme Revell.

Cast:

Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Maria Bello, Drea de Matteo, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, Ja Rule, Currie Graham, Aisha Hinds, Matt Craven, Fulvio Cecere, Peter Bryant, Kim Coates, Hugh Dillon, Tig Fong, Jasmin Geljo, Jessica Greco, Dorian Harewood, Philip Marshall, Arnold Pinnock, Edward A. Queffelec, Robert Hayley, Courtney Cunningham, Leford Lawes, Roman Podhora, Gilson Lubin, Brian King, Laurent Richet, J.C. Kenny, Sasha Roiz, Ray Kahnert, Dave Tommasini, Jeff Ironi, Melissa Thomson, Darren Frost, Al Vrkljan, Titus Welliver, Tony Burton, DTeflon, Colin Glazer, Derwin Phillips.