On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Chaos on the Bridge (2014)

Chaos on the Bridge

Documentary directed and written by William Shatner.

Released in the United States on August 25, 2014.

Music by Catalin Marin.

Cast: William Shatner, D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold, Maurice Hurley, Rick Berman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Richard Arnold, Jeffrey M. Hayes, John Pike, Susan Sackett, John de Lancie, Denise Crosby, Patrick Stewart, Ronald D. Moore, David Livingston, Herman F. Zimmerman, Michael Okuda, Brannon Braga, Jonathan Frakes, Tracy Tormé, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Lolita Fatjo, Gates McFadden, Diana Muldaur, Leslie Moonves, Ira Steven Behr, Michael Dorn.

On this day in music history - Verismo, by Renée Fleming and Marco Armiliato (2009):

Verismo

Album by Renée Fleming and Marco Armiliato,
released August 25, 2009.

Track list:

Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1 - “Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì”; Leoncavallo: La bohème / Act 1 - Musette svaria sulla bocca viva; Leoncavallo: La bohème / Act 4 - Mimi Pinson la biondinetta; Puccini: La Bohème / Act 3 - Addio! Che vai?...Donde lieta uscì; Leoncavallo: Zazà - Edited Renzo Bianchi (1947 Version) / Act 3 - Angioletto, il tuo nome?; Puccini: Manon Lescaut - Revised by Roger Parker / Act 4 - Sola, perduta, abbandonata; Zandonai: Conchita / Act 1 - Ier dalla fabbrica a Triana; Cilea: Gloria / Act 2 - O mia cuna fiorita; Giordano: Fedora / Act 3 - Tutto tramonta; Puccini: Turandot / Act 3 - “Tu che di gel sei cinta”; Giordano: Siberia - Nel so amore; Puccini: La Rondine / Act 2 - “Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso”.

On this day in movie history - Smog (1962):

Smog

directed by Franco Rossi,

written by Franco Brusati, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa and Ugo Guerra,

based on a story by Pier Maria Pasinetti, Franco Rossi and Gian Domenico Giagni,

was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, on August 25, 1962.
Music by Piero Umiliani.

Cast:

Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Susan Spafford, Isabella Albonico, Joan Houseman, Len Lesser, Howard Koch, Fred Catania, Max Showalter, Peter Opp, Graziella Granata, Loredana Nusciak, M. Brigham, Billie Scheibner, R.E. Brigham, Helen Pallack, Bernard Judge, Dennis Diggin, Peggy Moffitt, Suzanne Reynolds, Jerry Ray, John Phillip Law.

On this day in movie history - Madame Bovary (1949):

Madame Bovary

directed by Vincente Minnelli,

written by Robert Ardrey,

based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert,

was released in the United States on August 25, 1949.
Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby, Gladys Cooper, John Abbott, Harry Morgan, George Zucco, Ellen Corby, Eduard Franz, Henri Letondal, Esther Somers, Frederic Tozere, Paul Cavanagh, Vernon Steele, Dawn Kinney.

On this day in movie history - The Dragon Murder Case (1934):

The Dragon Murder Case

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone,

written by F. Hugh Herbert, Robert N. Lee and Rian James,

based on the novel by S. S. Van Dine,

was released in the United States on August 25, 1934.
Music by Bernhard Kaun.

Cast:

Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Eugene Pallette, Helen Lowell, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Dorothy Tree, George E. Stone, Etienne Girardot, George Meeker, Robert Warwick, William B. Davidson, Arthur Aylesworth, Charles C. Wilson.

Born on this day – Halima Gadji:

Halima Gadji

Actress

Model

August 25, 1989 – January 25, 2026

Credits:

Bété Bété (2024); Cas Communautaire (2020); Je m'en souviens (2019); La profanation (2017); Le futur est à nous (2022); Maîtresse d'un homme marié (2019); Nanas (2025); Renaissance (2019–2020); Sakho & Mangane (2019); Xalé Bu Rérr (2017).

Born on this day – Tom E. Lewis:

Tom E. Lewis

Actor

Musician

Artistic director

August 25, 1958 – May 10, 2018

Credits:

Albums:

Beneath the Sun (2013); Sunshine After Rain (2005).

Stage:

Bullie's House; Dead Heart; Doing the Block; Lift 'Em Up Socks; Muyngarnbi: Songs from Walking with Spirits; Othello; Our Country's Good; Shakespeare and the Songmen of Arnhem Land; Signs of Life; The Head of Mary; The Old Familiar Juice; The Recruiting Officer; The Shadow King; Thumbul; Up the Ladder.

Movies and television:

A Town Like Alice (1981); And Though the Music Ended, We Danced on Through the Night (2017); Australian Story (1996); Australia's Great Wild North (2018); Bad Habits (2005); Carols in the Domain (1997); Carson's Law (1983); Celluloid Gypsies: Making 'The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith' (2018); Century of Cinema (1996); Cleverman (2016); Correlli (1995); Crocodile Dreaming (2007); Double Trouble (2008); Finding Mawiranga (2017); Glenview High (1977); Goldstone (2016); Gulpilil: Man of Two Worlds (1979); Kangaroo Palace (1997); Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers (1997–1998); On Location with 'Robbery Under Arms' (1985); One River, All Rivers (2008); R.F.D.S. (1993); Ratbag Hero (1991); Red Hill (2010); Red Hill: 24 Days of Adrenaline (2011); Red Hill: Deleted Scenes (2011); Red Hill: Interviews with the Cast and Crew (2010); Red Hill: Storyboard Comparisons (2011); Robbery Under Arms (1985); Rose Against the Odds (1991); September (2007); Silent Reach (1983); Slate, Wyn & Me (1987); Spear (2007); The Celluloid Heroes (1995); The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978); The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: Making Us Blacksmiths (2018); The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: Melbourne Premiere from 'Willesee at Seven', June 1978 (1978); The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: The Chant of Tom Lewis (2018); The Circuit (2010); The City's Edge (1983); The Curse (2007); The Don Lane Show (1982); The Flying Doctors (1988–1991); The Life of Harry Dare (1995); The Micallef Program (1998); The Mike Walsh Show (1978); The Naked Country (1985); The Nun and the Bandit (1992); The Postman's Privilege (2007); The Proposition (2005); The Skin of Others (2020); They Live in Forests, They Are Extremely Shy (2016); Touch the Sun: Top Enders (1988); Yellow Fella (2005); Wrong Kind of Black (2018); Vacant Possession (1995); Wolf Creek (2017); We of the Never Never (1982); Warrk Warrk (2007); Waiting for Rain (2016).