History, Hobby, and Bio

Stacey Dooley moves into an African big-game hunting lodge to train for two weeks with die-hard trophy hunters. Living and breathing a hunter's life, she finds some surprising people and points of view in this controversial world. She learns how to shoot, track and harvest big game, all the while exposed to her mentors' compelling pro-hunting logic.

Revealing the latter part of the life of Samuel Clemens, this documentary by Ken Burns examines the realities behind the author's enormous popularity: his diminishing success in publishing, his volatile finances, and the tragic losses he experienced as a husband and father. Clemens' darker writings are studied along with his increasingly radical politics, which included a vehemently anti-imperialist stance. Numerous archival photos and materials enliven...

Takes viewers on an exciting and visually stunning journey to the historic places where Christianity was born and grew to its place as the official religion of the Roman Empire. Join author and distinguished history professor Jonathan Phillips as he sets out on a 12,000 mile journey of a lifetime, traveling the ancient roads to the very places where Christianity began.

Andalusia is the territory where Islam and Christianity have entered in merciless combat for centuries. Between the 8th and 15th century, successive conquests enabled Arab and Berber dynasties from the Middle East and from Maghreb to import their culture and know-how to Spain.This territory called "Al Andalus" saw the creation of a new architectural style mixing Visigothic, Roman, Byzantine and Arab elements. These successive eras strongly marked...

Who could believe that one point, Bob Dylan was a nobody whose performances were met with disdain and whose music was chided as insipid and sensational? With a set of drums and an 8mm color home movie camera, Mickey Jones toured the world in 1966 with Bob Dylan and The Band. Recognizing the innovative and prophetic vision of Dylan’s music, he filmed "The tour that changed rock and roll forever": the booing crowds, the scathing editorial reviews,...

Paralyzed by late-stage ALS and reliant on round-the-clock care, Kathryn clings to a mordant wit as she yearns to witness her daughter's wedding. Shot from her fixed point of view, this documentary delivers a brutally frank and darkly humorous portrait of a family grappling with the daily demands of disability and in-home caretaking.

Over the last half century, fast food has become a nearly {20}300 billion dollar staple for Americans on the go. A series of entrepreneurs created some of the biggest innovations not just in fast food, but in the entire history of food. From the invention of the hamburger patty by the eventual founder of White Castle to the McDonald's Speedee system that has been replicated by countless fast food chains to the 30 minutes or less guarantee that started...

Between 1933 and 1941, hundreds of thousands of Jewish children left Europe for the U.S. and Great Britain. Between 1941 and 1945, tens of thousands went back…all grown up, heavily armed, and ready to strike back.This compelling and often touching film tells the largely unknown WWII story of young German-born Jewish men and women who escaped certain death at the hands of the Nazis…and who later returned to fight Hitler and his minions across Europe...

Cybernetics is the study of the structure and behavior of complex systems, as well as their control and communication. It has its origins in the work of mathematicians, engineers, and biologists of the 1940's. Norbert Wiener coined the term in 1948, when he wrote the book, "Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine." This documentary examines the history and development of this interdisciplinary field, outlining the...

Directed by Oscar-nominated, Emmy winning cinematographer, Buddy Squires, this film follows emergency personnel working with refugees in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. The film shines a light on the humanitarian crisis and displacement of migrants that follows in the wake of war and conflict.