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Ted Williams: "The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived"

Ted Williams: “The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived” explores not only the Baseball Hall of Famer’s remarkable on-field accomplishments but also his complicated relationships with family, teammates, press, fans and himself. The film is narrated by Emmy-winning actor Jon Hamm and includes never-before-seen archival footage and in-depth interviews with those who knew and studied Williams, including his daughter Claudia Williams, author/journalist Ben Bradlee, Jr., veteran baseball writer Roger Angell and award-winning broadcasters Bob Costas and the late Dick Enberg. The program demonstrates the power of the heroic myth-making culture in which Williams flourished. Lesser-known topics explored in the film include Williams’ Mexican-American background, his experiences serving during World War II and the Korean War, and his deep rage over his mother’s virtual abandonment of him and his younger brother.

Ted Williams: "The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived"

NR 2018
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) | October 11, 2017

http://KEXP.ORG presents King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 11, 2017. Songs: Welcome to an Altered Future Digital Black Han-Tyumi The Confused Cyborg The Lord of Lightning Altered Beast I Alter Me I Altered Beast II Alter Me II Altered Beast III Alter Me III Altered Beast IV Host: Cheryl Waters Audio Engineer: Jackson Long Audio Mixer: Stu Mackenzie Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Alaia D'Alessandro, Scott Holpainen, Luke Knecht & Justin Wilmore Editor: Scott Holpainen

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) | October 11, 2017

NR 2018
Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein was once one of the most successful producers in Hollywood history, but beneath the glitz and glamour, there was a dark story of threats, bullying and allegations of sexual assault. As Hollywood prepares to celebrate the 90th Academy Awards, Panorama investigates Weinstein's spectacular fall from grace and the extraordinary efforts he made to silence his accusers. This one-hour special, co-produced with PBS Frontline, examines the complex web of lawyers, journalists and private detectives deployed to keep Weinstein's secrets hidden.

Weinstein

6.5 2018
Up and Vanished

Payne Lindsey and team have headed back to Ocilla, Georgia to pick up where the first season of his smash hit true crime podcast left off, and it will all be documented in a one night television special for Oxygen Media. Their investigation lead to the arrest of two men who plead not guilty and are still awaiting trial for the disappearance and murder of Tara Grinstead, but the suspects' legal maneuvering so far proves there are still many questions left unanswered. For the first time, fans of the podcast will get a look at Payne and crew as they show the audience all of the evidence they already found and fit it together with the new pieces emerging from pre-trial transcripts and interviews.

Up and Vanished

5.0 2018
Puccini: Turandot

Rebeka Lokar is a "commanding Turandot" (Bachtrack) and Jorge de Leon as the Priness' suitor a "true giant" (Corriere delle Sera) with his perfect rendition of "Nessun dorma". Grammy Award nominee Gianandrea Noseda impressively conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio "as modern as you have rarely experienced it. Chapeau! (Operalounge) Stage director Stefano Poda dedicates himself to bring Puccini's Ancient Chinese setting to life. To achieve an aesthetic and conceptual unity, his work also emcompasses setand costume design as well as lighting and choreography. "Extraordinary Turandot" (La Republica). "Unanimous applause at the end!" (La Stampa). "The icy Turandot inflames the Teatro Regio! (Coriere della Sera)

Puccini: Turandot

NR 2018
The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View

The original Gotthard railway tunnel through the Swiss Alps, took ten years to build and cost 147 lives. It was a mammoth undertaking and required the construction of long ramps on either side totalling 85 miles. Dozens of tunnels, viaducts and bridges were necessary. The ruling gradient of 1 in 37 was deemed to be just about the maximum that the original steam locomotives could handle, even then, trains were usually double-headed and even had banking engines attached at the rear! In order even to keep to this severe gradient, the engineers had to construct a number of additional spiral tunnels to gain height, hewn out of solid rock…

The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View

NR 2018
For the Love of Halloween

The full feature-length documentary about filmmaker Adam Green / ArieScope Pictures' (HATCHET, FROZEN, "Jack Chop") 20 year tradition of making Halloween short films just for fun in between the real feature films and television shows. In October of 1998 Adam Green and Will Barratt threw together a short film called "Columbus Day Weekend" to screen at a Halloween party. Little did they know that it would give birth to an annual tradition that would span two decades and spawn a feature film and television production studio that would become a leader of the indie horror scene. FOR THE LOVE OF HALLOWEEN is a walk down memory lane with all of your favorite key players from the ArieScope family as they share the candid stories behind 20 years of Halloween shorts.

For the Love of Halloween

NR 2018
The Passion of Scrooge

Is this a film about Scrooge? About a composer’s life? An opera within an opera? The Passion of Scrooge blurs these lines between performance, documentary, and fiction, into a cinematic concert experience that’s seasoned with magical reality. Composer Jon Deak has adapted Charles Dickens’ timeless tale into a contemporary opera that melts the heart, but doesn’t avoid the darkness in Scrooge that’s still resonant with the material concerns of our time. Using neither period costumes, nor set pieces to reconstruct old England, the film invites you to experience A Christmas Carol with the imaginative possibilities of a radio play. And then, to meet those visions in your head, filmmaker H. Paul Moon‘s floating camera intimately captures musicians performing the score as characters themselves, in this ageless haunted redemption story about “us, every one.”

The Passion of Scrooge

NR 2018