Is it a Documentary or Docudrama or Both. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Roopmati Khandekar. Dr. Roopmati Khandekar, movie and history buff, helps us understand the Alexander series and what it tells us about history in the 3rd Century BC in Macedonia, Egypt and Persia, and how the Boy […]
Otto Skorzeny Documentary (Movies We Can Learn From)
Europe’s Most Dangerous Man: in Spain. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and George Casen. This documentary is reviewed as a sequel to the Jaguar TV series, which we reviewed in a previous episode. The TV series presented a Spanish resistance team, who hunted down and captured a Nazi Doctor, Dr. Death Aribert […]
Otto Skorzeny Documentary (Movies We Can Learn From)
Europe’s Most Dangerous Man: in Spain. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and George Casen. This documentary is reviewed as a sequel to the Jaguar TV series, which we reviewed in a previous episode. The TV series presented a Spanish resistance team, who hunted down and captured a Nazi Doctor, Dr. Death Aribert […]
Shaka, a Story of Aloha (Community Matters)
A Film by Steven Sue. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Steve Sue. After four years of planning and filming across the Hawaiian Islands, a rough cut of the forthcoming documentary ‘Shaka, A Story of Aloha’ has been completed. Now, a six-month sneak-peek series kicks off this week at the […]
Reviewing ‘Intent to Destroy’ (Movies We Can Learn From)
Understanding the Armenian Genocide. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is George Casen. Intent to Destroy chronicles the events of the 1915 Armenian Genocide that annihilated 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, This movie examines how the first major modern genocide, once a well recognized global atrocity, […]
Reviewing the U.S. and the Holocaust (Movies We Can Learn From)
Shocking After all These Years. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and George Casen. Our panel discusses the new PBS Ken Burns documentary on the U.S. and the Holocaust, and the revelations that film provides about American anti-semitism and how the U.S. dealt with Hitler and Hitler’s genocide during the 1930s and 1940s. […]
What the Holocaust Film Tells us About America (Bigotry In America)
An Examination of the Ken Burns Film on PBS. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Manfred Henningsen. Manfred Henningsen, an emertus political science professor from UH Manoa, helps us understand the new PBS Ken Burns documentary on the U.S. and the Holocaust, and what that film tells us about American […]
Review of Mel Brooks’ Documentary ‘The Automat’ (Movies We Can Learn From)
Its History in the Melting Pot of New York. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is George Casen. Our panel reviews and rates Mel Brooks’ movie about the rise, the contribution, and the fall of Horn and Hardart’s Automats in New York, and also Philadelphia. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this […]
Better Tomorrow Means Scaling up in Agriculture (Community Matters)
A New Documentary by Filmmaker Kim Bassford. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Robert Perkinson. Robert Perkinson, an American Studies Professor at UH Manoa, helps us understand the Better Tomorrow series, which includes an event about Kim Bassford’s documentary on agriculture in Hawaii entitled Scaling Up: Hawaii’s Food Future. The […]
The 2013-2014 Maidan Protests in Ukraine (The Movie Show)
The Winter on Fire Documentary Tells the Story. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and George Casen. Our panel discuss the remarkable Winter on Fire documentary made by Ukrainian filmmakers to document the Maidan Protests and the Ukrainian Revolution of 2013-2014. It debuted on Netflix in 2015, received widespread praise, was nominated for […]