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- Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
- The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.
- M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
- An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.
- After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.
- Harvard in the 60's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students bond together, challenge the system, and begin to lose their ideals.
- Each episode of Extreme Engineering features a major construction and engineering project. Some projects are completed ones, like the new Hong Kong airport. Other projects are those under construction like the Gotthard Base Tunnel under the Alps. Still other episodes showcase futuristic projects that may never be built, like the Transatlantic Tunnel. Most episodes examine possible disaster scenarios that could threaten the projects.
- A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
- In this Pete Smith Specialty, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and a the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.
- Two of the most venerable figures on the American Left--Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky--converse with Sasha Lilley about their lives and political philosophies, looking back at eight decades of struggle and theoretical debate.
- Noam Chomsky spoke at MIT Wong Auditorium on November 18, 2013. The event was sponsored by the Boston Review. This event was based on the topic of Noam Chomsky new volume, On Anarchism. This is the first part of his lecture where he spoke on the event subject. It is missing the Q&A section that merited being on its own separate and distinct video. Noam Chomsky a world-renowned public intellectual and MIT Professor emeritus discussed the reasoning behind his fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. Noam Chomsky anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. It is an evolving tradition which emphasizes the power of collective. Noam Chomsky critiques of capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression and government propaganda are often topics of his lectures and numerous publications he has written.
- Known for his landmark performances in such films as 'Wargames' and 'Hot to Trot,' 80's actor Dabney Coleman goes from obscurity to epidemic in 'Dabney Coleman Fever' - the film which redefined 'genre-bending.' Never before have fan club hysteria and international politics reached such groundbreaking levels. Truly an epic of B-list proportions.
- In this very timely presentation after the collapse of the US brokered Palestine-Israeli peace talks on April 29, 2014, Noam Chomsky spoke at MIT on May 6, 2014 on the future Prospects for Palestine. The speech was sponsored by the Palestine@MIT group. Noam Chomsky spoke for the first 46 minutes about why the American-brokered Middle East peace negotiations failed, including the history and political situations that lead up to this event. The main speech is then followed by a 22 minute question and answer period. As is often the case, Noam's answers are extremely thought provoking while he further elaborates on the Palestine Peace Process. Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political commentator and activist
- Two strangers, a guitarist and an introspective young woman, cross paths at an empty concrete bench and, with the help of eight additional strangers, discover that they have something special in common.
- 2010– 1hTV-PG7.6 (21)TV EpisodeDon examines the death case of Siamese Twins Cheng & Eng and unlocks their medical mystery. He studies an umbrella that played a role in a Cold War assassination. And, he visits a jail cell that holds a secret about Al Capone.