An estimated 50 million Americans do crossword puzzles every week. What makes the game so popular? Who are these people? It is certainly an odd passion to those who do not partake in the weekly (or with some people daily) hobby. Director Patrick Creadon’s Worldplay is a love letter to those who play the puzzles, ...
Mention national parks, civil war battlefields, or even World War II and odds are one documentary film-maker’s name will instantly pop into your head: Ken Burns. In 1990 Ken Burn’s “The Civil War” revolutionized the way we think about documentaries-and American history in general. Twenty years later, “The Civil War” remains one of the highest ...
Historian David McCullough is the narrator of this splendid piece on the Congress of the United States. He has the help throughout of interjections by Cokie Roberts, Charles McDowell, David Broder and Alistair Cooke, all experts in their field and in their knowledge of Congress. Congress is the Legislative branch of government consisting of 100 ...
Everybody loves a good feel good sports movie where the team player or team that star sin the movie wins in the end. That isn’t how it always ends in real life though. Sports movies can be a lot of fun but there are a lot of great sports documentaries that look at the realistic ...
Remember the Old West birthday party from “Parenthood” the movie? Didn’t that look like one of the coolest kids’ birthday parties ever? I especially loved how Steve Martin’s character, Gil, improvised when the professional cowboy performer failed to show up. Seeing his son in tears, Gil dressed up in makeshift spurs, bath mat chaps and ...
When it comes to documentaries I have a tendency to loose it if it is something that doesn’t instantly catch my fancy. But there is one documentary that I could watch over and over again without ever getting tired of it. It was so good infact that I invested close to $80 on eBay for ...
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