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1985 interview with former Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych about his career and injury. From the Chicago television series “Once a Star.”
Inside the New York Times photo archives, known as the “morgue,” the filmmaker Katerina Cizek and the archivist Jeff Roth discuss the making of “A Short History of the Highrise.”
Duke Riley, a Brooklyn artist, trained 50 homing pigeons to fly from Havana, Cuba, to the Florida Keys carrying cigars and cameras to record the journey.
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner takes his profession to today’s very limit by parachuting out of a capsule high above Earth wearing a spacesuit. This is a 9-minute documentary recorded by cameras attached to Baumgartner during his free fall.
“I think image and music work together. They walk hand-in-hand, especially these days. You need both. I think the whole package is fun, positive Rock ‘n’ Roll to the hilt.” — Robin Zander, lead singer of Cheap Trick
The Agony of Jimmy Quinlan, , provided by the National Film Board of Canada This documentary follows Jimmy Quinlan, one of some 5000 men and women who have abandoned their jobs and families to live in the streets and alleys…