Ghostwriters
From Eric Molinsky | 06:20
Have you ever wondered how that busy politician or celebrity found the time to write a book? They didn't. Ghostwriting an big part of the publishing industry that's kept away from the public -- but ghostwriting is also a booming business, even during a recession. Independent Producer Eric Molinsky went on a ghost busting mission.
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A Bit of Downtime
From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies | 06:01
Woodcarving at Maine State Prison
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The Industries Program Woodshop at Maine State Prison teaches prisoners to become furniture makers and craftsmen. For the Prison, the program, which grosses $1.5 million a year through sales at its showroom on Route 1, is a successful population management tool that keeps prisoners in line. For the prisoners, woodworking offers a different sort of incentive: a bit of downtime from prison life, and a chance to be creative and to earn money for the future after release.
The Great Gatsby: A Big Read Documentary
From National Endowment for the Arts | Part of the The Big Read series | 29:13
Welcome to the Jazz Age. This lyrical portrait of The Great Gatsby features readings by actor Sam Waterston and commentary by Robert Redford, among many others. Period music by Bix Beiderbecke!
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby is a tragic love story, a mystery, and a social commentary on American life. Although it was not a commercial success for Fitzgerald during his lifetime, this lyrical novel has become an acclaimed masterpiece read and taught throughout the world.
Unfolding in nine concise chapters, The Great Gatsby concerns the wasteful lives of four wealthy characters as observed by their acquaintance, narrator Nick Carraway. Like Fitzgerald himself, Nick is from Minnesota, attended an Ivy League university, served in the U.S. Army during World War I, moved to New York after the war, and questions—even while participating in—high society.
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: A Big Read Documentary
From National Endowment for the Arts | Part of the The Big Read series | 22:33
“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –,” “Because I could not stop for Death –”, and “I dwell in Possibility –” are some of most memorable opening lines in American poetry, written by an artist who was virtually unknown during her 55 years of life
Emily Dickinson is not only one of the supreme lyric poets of American literature. She has also come to symbolize the purest kind of artistic vocation. Not merely unrecognized but virtually unpublished in her own lifetime, she developed her genius in the utmost privacy, invisible to all except a small circle of family and friends. Driven only by her own imagination, she created a body of work unsurpassed in its expressive originality, penetrating insight, and dark beauty.