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Bigger, Stronger, Faster

Bigger, Stronger, FasterIn America, people define themselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? Director Christopher Bell explores America's win-at-all-cost culture by examining how his two brothers became members of the...

The Black Hole War

The Black Hole WarThe Black Hole War: My battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics is Susskind's second popular science book, published in 2008. The book is his most famous work and explains what he thinks would happen to the information and matter stored in a black hole when it evaporates. The book sparked...

Secrets Of The Mind

Secrets Of The MindThey're not common, but there are people in this world who have profoundly different experiences of reality than you and I have. People who are technically blind but who can see anyway, who can feel pain in amputated limbs, who believe they are God and that they have created heaven and hell, and even people who think...

Download: The True Story of the Internet

Download: The True Story of the InternetDownload: The True Story of the Internet is about a revolution -- the technological, cultural, commercial and social revolution that has radically changed our lives. And for the first time on television, we hear how it happened from the men and women who made it possible. From the founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon,...

America: From Freedom to Fascism

America: From Freedom to FascismDetermined to find the law that requries American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo set out on a journey to find the evidence. Neither left nor right-wing, this startling examination of government exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was...

Egypt Unwrapped

Egypt UnwrappedIn this documentary we take a look at the treasures of ancient Egypt and redefine the way we look at their culture. Today, Egyptologists are still trying to unravel its many mysteries. Who is this unknown man entombed with Egypt's greatest pharaohs, his face contorted as if screaming? Who was the Scorpion King? Who built...

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