In 1969, 14-year-old Beatle fanatic Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room and convinced him to do an interview. Thirty eight years later this animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack won the 2009 Emmy for 'New Approaches.' For more of Lennon's vision, see the official video of Imagine.
The official video of the most popular song of John Lennon's solo career. Its simple language and graceful harmonies proclaim a powerful vision of all humankind organizing itself around moral principles. See also this Emmy-winning animation based on a brief interview of Lennon by a 14-year-old fan.
This is an excerpt from "Always/Never: The Quest for Nuclear Safety, Control, and Survivability," a documentary made by the Sandia National Laboratories in 2010, categorized as OFFICIAL USE ONLY, and never released to the public. The film was produced, directed, and edited by Dan Curry.
In this sequence, Sandia weapon designers discuss how a 4 megaton hydrogen bomb almost detonated in North Carolina on January 23, 1961, when a B-52 bomber broke apart midair, three days after the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
A single switch---the arm/safe switch in the cockpit--prevented a nuclear detonation that would have destroyed much of North Carolina and blanketed the east coast with lethal radioactive fallout. But as the Sandia engineers note in the film, that type of switch failed on numerous occasions and was subsequently replaced. What they don't say in the film is that stray electricity from loose wires in the airplane, as it broke apart, could also have fully armed the hydrogen bomb and detonated it.
The details of this nuclear weapon accident and of many others can be found in the book, Command and Control, by Eric Schlosser.
An Indian-American wins the Miss America crown, and Aasif Mandvi explains what this means for the rest of the country.
Why the United States spends so much more on health care than any other country in the world, including spending more tax dollars on health care than Canada, the UK, or Australia.
The NRA is finally putting guns into the hands of those who need them most.
After Tiller explores third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, who risk their lives in the name of commitment to their patients.
The Copenhagen Philharmonic surprises the passengers in the Copenhagen Metro in a flash performance of Grieg's Peer Gynt.
The NFL presides over America's indisputable national pastime -- and an epidemic of long-term brain injuries. What did the NFL know, and when did it know it? A special two-hour investigation reveals the hidden story. Oct 8 on PBS.
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