Christopher Sykes

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Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!

Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist, enjoys thinking aloud about the adventures science can offer. Here he uses physics to explain how the everyday world works, such as why rubber bands are stretchy, why tennis balls can't bounce forever, and what you're really seeing when you look in the mirror.

In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in the conversation.

A series featuring six major artists and writers who live and work in exile.

Can Menahem Golan and Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?

Top scientists want to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and the planets.

The final documentary in Christopher Sykes’ trilogy about legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, and studio mogul Menahem Golan looks back to the prolific filmmaker’s great Hollywood days, then forward to reveal a man who, in his eighties, still buzzes with energy, talking lovingly about what inspires him as he anticipates making a new blockbuster and receiving the Oscar he’s always wanted. - Denver Film Society

An intimate, moving, and funny account of the remarkable life and times of Richard Feynman—the most extraordinary scientist of his age.

A short film about the late, celebrated Israeli journalist, poet, artist and satirist SHIMON TZABAR, and his last public protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, made shortly before his death in 2007 after forty years of self-imposed exile in London.

A look at the decline of the 200-year-old slate roofing tile industry in North Wales, which once supported thousands of workers and their families and since dwindled to just a few working quarries.

Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichotomy is just one of the characteristics that made him a fascinating subject. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out exposes us to many more of these intriguing attributes by featuring an extensive conversation with the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. During the course of the interview, which was conducted in 1981, Feynman uses the undeniable power of the personal to convey otherwise challenging scientific theories. His colorful and lucid stories make abstract concepts tangible, and his warm presence is sure to inspire interest and awe from even the most reluctant student of science. His insights are profound, but his delivery is anything but dry and ostentatious.

The story of physicist Richard Feynman's fascination with - and efforts to visit - a remote country in the center of Asia, called Tannu Tuva, "the land where the reindeer meets the camel".

Edward Said, critic, tells his story and the story of Palestine.

The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work with the great British pure mathematician GH Hardy.

97 British soldiers are sent to Beirut as part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force in the wake of the September 1982 Sabra-Chatilla massacre.

A BBC documentary about medical volunteers and their patients at the Gaza Hospital in West Beirut in the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the siege and bombardment of West Beirut, home to the PLO and the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila. The filming took place in the days immediately before the infamous Sabra-Chatila massacre, carried out by Lebanese Phalangist troops inside an area under Israeli military control.

The life and work of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.