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- The Emmy Award winning JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE tells an epic story of cosmic, Earth and human transformation from The Big Bang to today. Evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and Yale historian of religions Mary Evelyn Tucker have crafted an elegant narrative that both illuminates and celebrates the profound role humans play in the flourishing of the Earth.
- Keeping Score investigates the compelling stories behind and intertwined with classical music. Regardless of your musical background, the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas are ready to conduct you through the fascinating history and modern interpretations of these masterworks.
- John Clease cruises around Santa Barbara and nearby wine country and channelling knowledge of wine to the viewer. IMO as this is an informational movie it is no spoiler to tell you he concludes, after exposing us to what it is that makes a wine both delicious and "good" with a well developed palate, with fermented grapes much as mist things..... you like what you like. It is subjective. This film is "rad" to use my socal surf vernacular. It is no flying circus but a great pleasure to see Mr Cleese as a whine professor.......Would make a nice skit white wine whining. Bacus rock us. Follow this with the amazing documentary about one wine forgery mastercon titled Sour Grapes. Wowzers! Salud!
- THE BOOK MAKERS profiles an eclectic group of people who have dedicated their lives to answering the question: what should books become in the digital age?
- Explores the pressures on female adolescents in the Third World through the stories of four young Kenyan women growing up in a time of cultural upheaval. Female circumcision, polygamy, AIDS, reproductive choice, equal access to education, and other issues are discussed with candor.
- How close are we to building a real HAL-9000 computer?
- Pulling Out All the Stops honors the pipe organ in America. From New York's Fifth Avenue to Harlem, from Hollywood to a small town in North Carolina, this film shows how the pipe organ plays a role in people's lives today. Special highlights include: a Halloween concert; an evening of silent film comedy brought to life with the "Mighty Wurlitzer"; the moving story of a congregation's nine-year dream - and the factory that made that dream come true; and a special tour for young people inside a three-story tall organ. Most of all, Pulling Out All the Stops celebrates the widely differing communities of people who love and cherish this instrument.
- In May 1937, Amelia Earhart embarked on the most ambitious and dangerous flight of her career: an attempt to fly around the world at the equator. Six weeks later, she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared without a trace in the South Pacific. In "The Final Hours", we take a journey around the world in a vintage Lockheed Electra, recreating Amelia's flight and reliving the adventure through her diaries and logbooks. Through interviews with aviation experts and historians we discover a possible solution to the mystery of her disappearance.
- For much of its history, the word "America" has stood for the brightest ideas, the most resourceful solutions and the most provocative insights. Is this still true today, and if not, what can we do? The film explores the importance of creativity in education by highlighting four schools in Oklahoma and assessing how the state's teachers are attempting to teach and promote creativity: Educare Preschool in Tulsa, OK: serving a low-income, at-risk community; Flower Mound Elementary School in Lawton, OK: integrating the arts into the entire curriculum with the A+ Schools initiative; Odyssey of the Mind, a creative problem-solving competition at Piedmont Middle School; Santa Fe South Charter High School in Oklahoma City: helping students overcome the challenges of poverty and the high drop-out rate in America's urban high schools. The program asks teachers, parents and national experts: what appear to be the most effective ways to promote creativity, while still teaching the three Rs, and even improving test scores?
- In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit. Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web's biggest names - including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and the web's inventor - she explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise.