Category: Biography
Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
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Isaac Newton - brilliant rational mathematician or master of the occult? This innovative biography reveals Newton as both a hermit and a tyrant, a heretic and an alchemist. Magical images mix with actors and experts t...
Nikola Tesla: The Greatest Mind Ever?
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Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 - 7 January 1943 - was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best...
Steve Jobs: One Last Thing
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PBS explores the disruptive innovations of Apple founder Steve Jobs and the impact he has made on computers, music, motion pictures and the telephone industry.
The Fatwa: Salman Rushdie Story
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Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, tells for the first time the inside story of how it felt to be condemned to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, and to spend the next decade in hiding. To coincide wi...
Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light
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Aldous Huxley The Gravity of Light traces Huxley's intellectual and spiritual development through a series of re-enactments, montages, archival footage and computer animation. The production design splinters Huxle...
The True Story of Che Guevara
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Argentinian doctor; joined Castro in Mexico in 1954; a leader of the 1956-59 Cuban Revolution. Che served as president of Cuba's national bank and as Cuba's minister of industry in the period immediately following...
A Nation In Waiting: The Story of Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak
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Al-Jazeera tells the story of the rise of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. This film was made before the recent turmoil in Egypt.
Bloomberg Game Changers Profiles Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook
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You may have seen David Fincher's The Social Network and its portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg as an awkward nerd trying to get girls. Well, that's Hollywood and they always put their spin on reality. In the real world...
A Day In The Afterlife: Philip K. Dick Biography
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A Day in the Afterlife focuses on the Philip K. Dick himself, in all his crazy, drug-addled, paranoid glory. The mind behind some of my favorite books is fascinated by the constant bombardment of advertising, the effe...
The Biography of Bill Clinton
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The biography of Bill Clinton follows the former president's life from his college days as a war protester, his years of purported womanizing as governor of Arkansas, his possible connections to drug trafficking and s...