Documentaries Tagged “pbs”
Private Warriors
Private Warriors
What’s a little suprising is that the army corp doesn’t rely on soldiers for protection; they’ve outsourced the job. The security company, the army corp hired, is not even American. The company, Arenas was founded by ex-members of British Special Forces and hires an assortment of ex-soldiers and retired policemen from South Africa, Ame...
Spying on the Home Front
Spying on the Home Front
9/11 has indelibly altered America in ways that people are now starting to earnestly question: not only perpetual orange alerts, barricades and body frisks at the airport, but greater government scrutiny of people’s records and electronic surveillance of their communications. The watershed, officials tell FRONTLINE, was the government’...
The Wisdom of the Dream
The Wisdom of the Dream
First in a three-part series of films produced by PBS, on the life and works of the great thinker and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. Part one provides an overview of the major contributions made by Jung in his long career. Born on July 26, 1875, in Switzerland, Jung became interested in psychiatry during his medical studies.
He saw ...
Empires: Napoleon
Empires: Napoleon
For nearly two decades he strode the world stage like a colossus – loved and despised, venerated and feared.
From his birth on the rugged island of Corsica to his final exile on the godforsaken island of St. Helena, Napoleon brings this extraordinary figure to life.
Napoleon bears passionate witness to a man whose charisma swayed...
Riddle of the Sphinx
Riddle of the Sphinx
At 57m long, 6m wide and 20m high, the Great Sphinx at Giza is the largest single-stone sculpture in the world. But who built it? Dr Vassil Dobrev, from the French Institute in Cairo, is on the verge of cracking the riddle of the Sphinx!
In Ancient Egyptian mythology, a sphinx is a zoomorphic figure, usually depicted as a recumbent ...
A Brilliant Madness: John Nash
A Brilliant Madness: John Nash
A Brilliant Madness is the story of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by a descent into madness. At the age of 30, John Nash, a stunningly original and famously eccentric MIT mathematician, suddenly began claiming that aliens were communicating with him and that he was a special messenger.
Diagnosed with paranoid schi...