Traces the history of baseball in the United States, discussing players, such as Sandy Koufax, Satchel Paige, and Pete Rose, coaches, controversies, significant moments, and other related topics.
A nightclub owner in World War II Morocco remains aloof from the intrigue going on around him until a former lover shows up to ask that he help her husband escape from the Nazis.
Narration, interviews, computer graphics, live action, and archival footage are used to explore the origin, history of interpretation by courts, and future implications of the United States constitutional amendment that guarantees freedom of speech and establishes separation of church and state.
Nova takes viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of pioneering mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. Their remarkable findings are deepening our understanding of nature and stimulating a new wave of scientific, medical and artistic innovation, stretching from the ecology of the rainforest to fashion design.
Offers insights in the the lives and work of various novelists and thinkers such as George Orwell, Susan Songtag, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, and others with original voice recordings and archival documentary footage.
Examines the life of John Nash, the American mathematician who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and who later won the Nobel Prize in economics.
Discusses lobotomies, a medical procedure for helping mentally ill patients initially considered to be groundbreaking when first proposed and performed by Walter Freeman and later decried as a major lapse in morality, and contains interviews with medical historians, former patients, and others.
