Country: United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Israel, Cambodia
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
Nicholas Winton an Englishman today 102 years old organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton now 102 years old did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife fifty years later hadnt found a suitcase in the attic full of documents and...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director Oliver Stones exploration of former president Richard Nixons strict Quaker upbringing his nascent political strivings in law school and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and...
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Genre: Documentary, Biography
NOVA investigates the furious scientific debate raging over what Hobbit bones...
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Genre: Documentary, Biography
Charles Darwin is taken aback when he receives a manuscript from a colleague Alfred Wallace which contains many of the same conclusions as he on evolution and the development of various species. Darwins theory was developed over a great many years and in flashbacks the manner in which it developed is shown. He had many supporters and likely more critics. He knew that his ideas were radical...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
In a 1950s mining town called Coalwood Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957 everything changes when the first artificial satellite Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event Homer becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With his friends and the local nerd Homer sets to do just that by trial and a...
Country: United States, Hong Kong
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography, Drama, History
On a rooftop high above the bustling streets of Hong Kong a woman practices the ancient art of tai chi as her daughter watches from the shadows. Invisible from below they share their hidden promontory with 30 other families. All live in shanties perched precariously on top of a nine-story building. This film is a porthole to an intimate view of life in these illegal rooftop tenements that exist...
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