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...
Country: United States, Netherlands
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980s thru the 1990s a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig a party organizer whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend roommate and drug dealer Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana Alig moved to New York and came to be an underground...
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