The Mars Underground (Updated Edition/Director’s Cut)
Leading aerospace engineer and Mars Society President Dr. Robert Zubrin has a dream. He wants to get humans to the planet Mars in the next ten years.
Month: March 2015
Cropsey
Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the legend of ‘Cropsey.’ For the kids in their neighborhood, Cropsey was the escaped mental patient who lived in the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution, who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets. Sometimes Cropsey had a hook for…
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
‘Friends and family recall an idealist’: Aaron Swartz, the subject of The Internet’s Own Boy. Photograph: Noah Berger Noah Berger/PR by Mark Kermode This engagingly constructed (if somewhat hagiographic) documentary offers a very moving account of the life and death of “hacktivist” Aaron Swartz, who killed himself in January 2013 while facing jail time for downloading academic journals.…
Newton: The Dark Heretic
Delve into a frighteningly brilliant but deeply troubled mind…
This documentary reveals a very different Isaac Newton from that of popular myth – a much more fascinating and complex man than the powder-wigged puritan of the history books.