Media, politics and pop-culture. PROGRAMMING THE NATION? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all forms of mass-media including Hollywood filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock and William Friedkin. Even our modern military has been accused of [...]
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Programming The Nation
Media, politics and pop-culture. PROGRAMMING THE NATION? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all forms of mass-media including Hollywood filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock and William Friedkin. Even our modern military has been accused of [...]
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
After a much-publicized departure from hosting NBC’s Tonight Show – and the severing of a 22-year relationship with the network – O’Brien hit the road with a 32-city music-and-comedy show to exercise his performing chops and exorcise a few demons. The “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour” was O’Brien’s answer to a contractual [...]
Make Believe
In Make Believe, director J. Clay Tweel follows six adolescent outsiders who all share an extraordinary passion: the art of magic. Armed with great skill and a dazzling array of illusions, these teenagers embark from the varied hometowns of Malibu, California; Chicago, Illinois; Capetown, South Africa; Littleton, Colorado; and Kitayama, Japan to attend the annual [...]
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That’s Impossible
A series examining seemingly impossible stories and inventions from history, and the technology that could turn science fiction into reality. Each episode has a to do list, which means that if this technology were to be perfected, it would have to do certain things on the list. That’s Impossible also mentions previous attempts or possible accomplishments of [...]
Cosmos: Carl Sagan
When Cosmos was first broadcast in 1980, our world and the context of Carl Sagan’s eloquent “personal journey” was a different place. The late Dr. Sagan would be pleased to witness the cooling of the Cold War, the continued exploration of space, and ongoing efforts to curb our destructive dependence on fossil fuels. For Sagan’s [...]
The Genius of Charles Darwin
Awarded Best TV Documentary Series at the British Broadcast Awards! In this fascinating Channel Four series Richard Dawkins, best selling author of The God Delusion, explains the theory of evolution and its contribution to our understanding of life on Earth. Charles Darwin’s insight into how life evolved, published in 1859 as the ‘Origin of Species’, [...]
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Psywar
Here in the United States, we’re often brought up and told we don’t have propaganda. That we have a hard-charging investigative crass, we have this educated, skeptical, even cynical citizenry and that if there were powerful interests trying to manage and manipulate public opinion, they would be exposed. The reality actually is just the opposite. [...]
Human Resources
Give me a baby and I can make any kind of man.’ These are the words of John B. Watson, the founder of behaviorism. According to this world view, the behavior of organisms, including human beings, is predictable and therefore controllable. In 1920, at John Hopkins University, Watson experimented on several babies ranging in age [...]
Gashole
What caused America to go from being a leading exporter of oil to the world’s largest importer? What are the economic and sociological forces that have contributed to that change and impede its solution? GAS HOLE is an eye-opening documentary about the history of oil prices and sheds light on a secret that the big [...]
Secret Files of the Inquisition
The Inquisition was used to enforce Catholic Orthodoxy around the world for hundreds of years. The meticulously kept records of the Inquisitors were locked away for centuries. Finally in 1998 the Vatican opened the archive of the Holy Office of the Inquisition on a limited basis. Based on these previously unreleased secret documents, The Secret [...]
