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Laura Poitras talks about “CITIZENFOUR,” her documentary about Edward Snowden, the NSA, and surveillance, during a Q&A at the 52nd New York Film Festival.
Ten years ago, the town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was traumatized when a local church’s secret Satan worship, ritualized child molestation, and animal sacrifices came to light. Rust Cohle may be a fictional character, and time may not really be a…
PBS’ Nova looks at the Sun and solar physics. Just one stunning fact from the show: More than one million Earths could fit inside the Sun. The Sun is not liquid or solid, it’s plasma with a core full of…
By Gregory Crofton The documentary “40 Years on the Farm” is about something rare — a successful commune. This one was located in Tennessee and features an interview with Stephen Gaskin, its founder, who died in 2014 at the age…
This is the story of Jesse Snodgrass, a kid with Aspergers Syndrome who was entrapped by an undercover cop posing as a student at Jesse’s high school.
The beginning of a three-part documentary on coffee. It starts where coffee came from: Ethiopia, the place a goat herder named Kaldi discovered it. It moves on to the Arab world, then Turkey before it’s smuggled to India and finds…
