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- This documentary, shown on the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable channel, looks at a facet of Hollywood that is little-known outside the motion-picture industry: cooperation with the US Central Intelligence Agency. It focuses on the career of longtime makeup artist John Chambers. In addition to his work in films, he worked on special makeup and prosthetic devices for use in the Vietnam War. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Iranians held U.S. embassy personnel hostage in the embassy compound in Tehran. At the CIA's request, Chambers worked behind the scenes to fashion disguises for several people to escape with the assistance of the Canadian embassy.
- This documentary explores how Muslims in the Middle East view the influence of American popular culture, particularly Hollywood movies, on their lives and their religion. Residents of Cairo, Egypt; Beirut, Lebanon; Doha, Qatar; and Erbl, Kurdistan, are interviewed. Many of them work at local or network television outlets; others are teenagers encountered in video stores. Most of the older interviewees see Hollywood movies as a corrupting influence and an attack on their religion. Younger residents speak openly of their love for American movies.
- Recent paleontological discoveries suggest that T-Rex might not have been the biggest predator of its time. Enter Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus.
- When President Woodrow Wilson appointed Louis Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1916, the blood of the power elite boiled. This film traces the life and career of this important American reformer. The issues Brandeis faced in the early part of the 20th century will ring familiar to any observer of current events. As he fights corporate scandal, political corruption, and abuse of the working poor, he gives us the inspiration to address those problems in our own times.
- Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent by the federal government on abstinence-from-sex-until-marriage education across America. This compelling documentary is a case study of abstinence education coming into one public school system in Albuquerque, N.M. and the firestorm of controversy that ensued. The debate is typical of what is happening in other communities around the country. This documentary gives voice to a diverse spectrum of people; teens, parents, public health officials, and educators, right up the line to state officials and national advocates on both sides of this important issue. Abstinence Comes to Albuquerque objectively examines the landscape of a debate that is emblematic of a divided America.
- Organized crime's involvement in the murders of President John F. Kennedy and labor leader Jimmy Hoffa.
- A look at the phenomenon of the drug ecstasy from its manufacture in secret Dutch labs to its sale in New York City's hottest clubs. Law enforcement officials describe how use of the drug is skyrocketing, and medical experts tell us how dangerous ecstasy really is.