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Compiled by author, teacher, and curriculum advisor Ben Walsh, this program features 11 extracts on the Cuban missile crisis from various film archive sources. Clip selections and Walsh's commentary are organized around the following three topics: the build-up to the crisis, the actions and decisions of President John F. Kennedy in confronting the threat, and the outcome of the conflict in geopolitical terms. Specific film sources include One Week...
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Innovative and often addictive, apps are changing the way we work and live-helping us shop online, conduct business, or even play computer games while waiting for the bus. Not surprisingly, they are immensely profitable. This CNBC Original documentary introduces some of the creative minds behind apps and considers their implications for the business world. Looking back at the Apple iPhone's original offering of just 11 apps, the program shows how...
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This is the popular complete 2006 staging of Aristophanes' shocking comic masterpiece that was excerpted in the PBS documentary with Jane Fonda — Lysistrata: Female Power and Democracy. The staging features Iris McQuillan-Grace in the title role and a talented ensemble cast and shows why sexual politics are timelessly funny. Originally produced in 2006 and remastered in HD in 2016.
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Berlioz' "Fantastic Symphony" is widely regarded as one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period. Leonard Bernstein once called it "the first musical expedition into psychedelia" because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature. German musicologist Wulf Konold describes the idea behind and the realization of this fascinating work. Mariss Jansons conducts the Berlin Philharmonic.
7) MicroPlanet
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Microscopic insect photography brings to life a vibrant world within our own, teaming with diversity and all around us but never seen. From the multi-colored snouted snail to the ghost shrimp, this documentary beautifully depicts how little things live.
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As a playwright, George Bernard Shaw created many unforgettable characters, but the most intriguing was his own. Shaw claimed to be a philosopher, novelist, socialist, statesman, dramatist, theologian, vegetarian, fanatic, and fluent liar. This Perspectives documentary sets the facts straight.
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The Red and Blue chair by the Dutch Gerrit Rietveld, made in 1918 and painted in 1923, has dramatically changed the language of furniture as well as that of architecture. This documentary considers the ideas behind that chair, a manifesto of the avant garde De Stijl movement.
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Tune into this interview with Chris Landreth, a pioneering animator and director of the Oscar-winning animated short, Ryan.
Chris Landreth broke out with his Oscar-winning animated short, Ryan. Now he conducts research on facial expressions and body language and helps a brand-new generation of animators make the connection between technical prowess, insight, and artistry. In this interview, he answers question about his current projects, his research,...
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What do modern art, a symphony, and a documentary film have in common? They all require aesthetic considerations. This program presents the ideas of key figures in the shaping and understanding of aesthetics-from Plato, Francis Hutcheson, and Kant to Leon Battista Alberti, Stendhal, and Tolstoy-and addresses pivotal writings, including Aristotle's Poetics and Morris Weitz's "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics." Columbia University's Arthur Danto and...
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Filmed inside Indiana's Lake County Juvenile Justice Complex, this documentary is one in a series of programs exploring where juvenile crime begins, how it evolves, and what's at stake for kids, families, and professionals in the system. Featured in this episode (the first of two parts) are the stories of Aaron, a self-proclaimed car thief and charmer who finds himself at a legally perplexing place at the crossroads between juvenile status and adulthood;...
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It has been written that "science fiction is the true literature of the 20th century, showing us the present through an image of the future. This documentary looks at classic films and novels, pulp fiction, B movies, and the special-effects wizardry of science fiction adventure epics. Interviews with key writers and filmmakers of the genre, such as Arthur C. Clarke and Paul Verhoeven, map out the history of science fiction. By juxtaposing newsreels...
15) The Nobel Literature Prize Documentary 2009: Writing Against Terror-The Literature of Herta Muller
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Her father was an ex-Nazi and alcoholic who clung to his fascist beliefs. For much of her life, she struggled against Nicolae Ceausescu's dehumanizing regime. But no matter how prolonged or alienating her hardships, they never crippled Herta Muller's spirit-and have, in fact, shaped and amplified her astonishing literary output. Commissioned by the Nobel Foundation, this program features revealing interviews with the 2009 Laureate, location footage...
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In this engaging 1989 documentary, Maria Beatty explores the insights and influences of the American Beat poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through candid interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Diane di Prima, among others. Designed as a tribute to the poets and to their spirit of artistic freedom, Gang of Souls also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne...
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The Alpine Symphony is one of Strauss' largest non-operatic conceptions, and the composer considered it his best work in terms of its orchestration. Despite its title, it is not a symphony in the generally accepted sense of the word. It is a 'tone poem', a musical form which Strauss specialized in for 20 years of his life. German author and Strauss specialist Habakuk Traber explains the work's concept as an allegory for human life with its joy, fear...
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Insider's Guide to Puerto Rico is a travel documentary featuring the island's best destinations. Native islander Karenlie Riddering leads viewers beyond the usual tourist attractions typically visited by more than 1.4 million tourists who enter Puerto Rico each year on cruise ships alone. Insider's Guide to Puerto Rico captures some of the most amazing and best-kept secrets of the island into a film that allows visitors and locals to discover and...
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In an endless landscape of garbage, hundreds of people fight with crows over the edible contents of the trash. Hungry children stare from the door of a shack. A man labors under the weight of a bucket of water on a muddy street lined by low, crowded dwellings. What are the human stories behind these images of the Fourth World? Traveling to Nairobi, Guatemala City, and Manila, this documentary brings viewers inside the world's shantytowns, exploring...