Wandering through his Albany, Oregon, “Castle of Chaos,” he demonstrates his incredible inventions (like the Tri-Zonal Space Warper), and waxes philosophic on the subjects of reason, perception, God and what he calls “the curse of contentment.”

The video also reflects not only his creative genius, but also his principled lifestyle and profound involvement with the problems of human existence, A Thing of Wonder pays tribute to a man devoted equally to the science and magic of wonder.

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Produced and stars by George Hamilton, this appealing bio-pic includes familiar drive-in movie faces like Vic Tayback, Sue Lyon, Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith, and Dub Taylor, and much of it was filmed on location in Knievel’s hometown of Butte, Montana. Though Hamilton is quite good in the lead, most fans prefer the real thing — Knievel portraying himself in the later Viva Knievel! (1978).

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Trapped in Borneo during the Japanese invasion, Mrs. Keith and her British husband (Patric Knowles) are penned up in a prison camp along with several other subjects. Despite the humanitarian views of camp commander Col. Suga (Sessue Hayakawa), Mrs. Keith is subject to torture, starvation, and humiliation at the hands of the guards, with Suga helpless to intervene lest he incur the wrath of his own superiors.

It contains several unforgettable moments, including a comic interlude between the male and female prisoners that ends abruptly with a barrage of Japanese bullets, and the heartwrenching scene wherein Suga learns that his family has been killed in a bombing raid.

This film stars Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Keith.

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Mai gets the chance of a lifetime—to study in the United States. Expecting Hollywood, she instead lands in rural Mississippi. Nothing in her wildest imagination prepares Mai for her crash landing in rural Mississippi …where her relationships with white Pentecostal and black Baptist host-families, self-proclaimed red-necks, transvestites, and South Vietnamese immigrants challenge her long-held ideas about America , about herself, about freedom, and even about Vietnam.

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Produced by Westbrook van Voorhis, this 1950′s television documentary special attempts to summarize Hitler’s (secret) life including WWII in only 52 minutes.

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It is a visual feast celebrating the ability of food to capture a culture’s tradition and to comfort its generations.

Collaborators Kwan and Iger combine fantasy and documentary by mixing food-as-metaphor with humorous family footage, animation, puppetry, history, and performance.

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The Loss of Nameless Things is a documentary filmed by Bill Rose. It features Grinder’s Stand scribe and the son of famed novelist Oakley Hall.

Bill Rose examines the tragic fall from grace of the playwright whom many critics believed to be the next great voice in American theater.

Hall III first began to garner attention as the co-founder and artistic director of the Lexington Conservatory Theater in upstate New York. The year was 1978, and Hall III’s work had recently been optioned by Joseph Papp of the renowned Public Theater in New York. The playwright has just completed his verse play, a drama titled Grinder’s Stand that was based on the events surrounding the bizarre death of American explorer Merriweather Lewis, when he suffered extensive head injuries in a fall from a bridge not far from the Lexington Conservatory Theater. Both his life and career were irreparably altered by that fateful fall, leaving many to wonder what would become of the man whom critics often singed out as an enfant terrible with an incredibly bright future. Flash forward twenty-five years, and Hall III was hired as a playwright and consultant by a Northern California theater troupe determined to stage the play that he was writing the night that his life was forever changed, providing filmmaker Rose with the ideal opportunity to bring his remarkable story to the screen for the very first time.

This program first aired on PBS last February 28, 2006.

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The Jackie Robinson Story is also considered as one of the best and most convincing baseball biopics ever filmed despite the fact of low production values and box-office “names.”

The film features Jackie Robinson. It talks about his career from his college days, when he excelled as a track star at Pasadena College and as UCLA’s All-Sports record holder. Upon his graduation, Robinson tries to get a coaching, but this is the 1940s, and most doors are closed to black athletes. After serving in the army, Robinson plays with the Negro Baseball League, where his uncanny skills attract the attention of Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The story continues…

Jackie Robinson Story is surprisingly frank in its detailing of the racial tensions of its own era. It falters only in a couple of silly vignettes involving comic-relief ballplayer Ben Lessey. The cast is uniformly fine, including Louise Beavers as Robinson’s mother, Ruby Dee as his wife Rae (Dee would later play Robinson’s mother in the 1990 TV movie The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson), Joel Fluellen as his brother Mac, Minor Watson.

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The Flute Player is a documentary film featuring Arn Chorn Pond. He is a survivor of Cambodia’s genocide, an internationally recognized human rights leader and a talented musician.

After surviving its Killing Fields as a boy, a musician now champions Cambodia’s traditional music.

The documentary is a heroic story of one man’s fight against the devastating effects of war. It is a film about sorrow and pain, dignity and freedom, and the will to survive.

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A Summer In The Cage is a feature-length documentary filmed by Ben Selkow. It talks about the battle of his friend Sam with a bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness.

The film features a compassionate yet painfully honest depiction of one man’s suffering, charting the impact of his delusional manic episodes, paralyzing depressions, and his struggle to come to terms with the legacy of his father. It also shows Sam tremendous talent for photography, his clear intelligence and supportive family – the film talks to us all about the importance of enduring hope and familial love.

This film is a tremendous achievement that deserves a wide audience.

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