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| Voyage of the Snark |
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Who was Jack London? Most people know Jack through his
wolf novels -- "Call of the Wild," and "White
Fang" -- or Jack, the adventurer, who trod the
rough paths of the Klondike in search of gold and adventure.
But there's a lot more to the story, and as the famed
literary critic, Alfred Kazin, once remarked,
"The greatest story Jack London
ever wrote
is the story he lived."
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thirteen-part Series |
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Based on Pacific Street’s successful two-hour
broadcast special, MARTIAL ARTS: THE REAL STORIES,
will take the viewer further into the little known
world of secret martial techniques – and their
practitioners.
The series, drawing upon Pacific Street’s
extensive martial arts archive, will be a compelling
visual and visceral examination of the secret techniques
of martial arts where results are more important than
showmanship -- and where a deadly blow can be landed
with astonishing swiftness by a 200 pound practitioner.
Our martial artists, drawn from cultures around the
world, have reached the highest levels of their art,
and are the "best of the best."
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| Black
Colleges in America |
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From the mid-nineteenth century onward the historically
black colleges and universities - collectively known
as HBCUs - were the primary educational institutions
that afforded African Americans a higher education.
Looking Forward, Reaching Back: Black Colleges in America
will explore the compelling stories behind the establishment
of many of these institutions, from the ante bellum
founding of the first black college in the nineteenth
century through the reconstructions and post-reconstruction
era.
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The Fabulous Story of Han van Meegeren, the Greatest
Art Forger of the 20th Century |
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Facing the hangman for selling an authenticated Vermeer
that he painted to Nazi Field Marshall Hermann Göring,
Han van Meegeren, the greatest forger of the 20th century,
saved his life by creating another Vermeer “masterpiece”
for the court.
What drives a person to forgery, to challenging the
entire establishment in the most public arena of art?
How does one pull the wool over the professional eyes
of museum curators, collectors and auction house experts?
What is the perilous journey of bilking the connoisseurs?
How did Han van Meegeren become the master forger
of the 20th century who, in a sense, sold the equivalent
of the Brooklyn Bridge many times over to the same
suckers and for more than $100 million? THE VERMEER
MAN explores the psychology of van Meegeren and the
glamorous cut-throat art world then and now —
the curators, collectors, authenticators, forgers
and all the other players who inhabit it . Through
extensive interviews, archival newsreel clips, observing
a contemporary forger at work, visiting the “scenes
of the crime” and contemporary auctions, this
documentary film reveals why the best forgeries are
the ones no one’s discovered.
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