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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Fifty years ago, a documentary came out that shook up the media. Titicut Follies depicted life in a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane. It launched filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's Oscar-winning career. Now, it's back as
By Melinda Smith Wahington, D.C. 23 August 2006 watch Vaccine report In a perfect world, overweight people could take a pill to stay slim and continue to eat whatever they want. But this is reality and for years health experts have delivered the sam
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We hear music by performers at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas Answer a listener question about the documentary film Sharkwater And report about
THIS IS AMERICA - Musical Legend Chuck Berry Still Reeling and Rocking on Stage at 86 Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. This week on our program -- the music of Chuck Berry. The man often called the father of rock a
BBC Filming on North Korea Trip Sparks Anger Three BBC journalists entered North Korea, posing as students on a university trip organized by the London School of Economics. In secretly filmed footage, BBC reporter John Sweeney is seen walking in the
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, Ailsa, it's Friday. It's almost the weekend. I mean, I feel like we should just turn up some music. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Yes. I am so ready for this. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GREENE: Now, this song is really important because
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: This next story is about an attempt to break one of the most famous barriers in sports, running a marathon in less than two hours. Now that means running a 4-minute, 34-second mile and then maintaining that pace for 26.2 mile
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Now we are going to remember the filmmaker who first showed us what it is like to set off in search of the perfect wave. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, THE ENDLESS SUMMER) BRUCE BROWN: Many surfers ride summer and winter, but the ult
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When The Exorcist, based on the novel by William Blatty, came to theaters in 1973, it captured the public's imagination or, more accurately, our nightmares. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE EXORCIST) MAX VON SYDOW: (As Father Merrin
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Reservoir Dogs, Memento, The Blair Witch Project and the Coen brothers' debut film, Blood Simple, all have one thing in common. They premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. My co-host Kelly McEvers has more. KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Filmmaker Raoul Peck's documentary I Am Not Your Negro is nominated for an Oscar. It features the work of the late James Baldwin, American writer, poet and social critic. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO) JAMES BALD
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So if you haven't heard of the self-described dirty trickster Roger Stone, you might be missing out. And it is not just Stone who says so. MORGAN PEHME: We thought that Roger being a pot-smoking bodybuilding dandy and that he and
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So a lot of what we take for granted in today's culture of glamour and bling can be traced back to Bad Boy Records and its founder Sean Puff Daddy Combs. A new documentary that opens tomorrow tells the label's story around a conce
New Documentary Paints A Picture Of The Contemporary Art Market Run Amok MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Even if you don't follow the art scene, you might've heard of a wild scene at a London auction a few weeks ago. The anonymous street artist Banksy was selli
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, this is one of those conversations that's going to be so obvious to some people that they might wonder why we're having it. And here, I'm talking about the 40 million Americans who currently participate in some form of onlin
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By Kane Farabaugh New York 20 September 2007 Government corruption and control of the diamond industry fueled the civil war that erupted in Sierra Leone in 1991. By the end of the decade, fighting had spread throughout the African country and includ
By Amra Alirejsovic Washington 11 November 2009 Award-winning filmmaker and producer Mark Johnson is a founder of one of the most far flung musical groups in the world. For the past four years, he has brought together musicians who live thousands of
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The author of a famed relationship book is rethinking his own advice. Joshua Harris wrote the book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye. More than 20 years ago, it became a bestselling text of the evangelical purity movement. That movement p
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