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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…
By Gregory Crofton I’m no fan of ballet. I saw one performance in London years ago, but this film made me a believer. Oh Tanny! Such a natural. Her physicality inspired the best choreographers to do their most challenging work.…
A look back at the inception and production of “RoboCop,” the classic 1987 film by Paul Verhoeven.
