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Thursday, April 22, 2010

H.H. Holmes America's First Serial Killer




Depicts the entire life of Herman Mudgett, AKA Holmes, and his castle of horrors. Also known as the torture doctor, Holmes designed his own building, complete with torture chambers, where he rented rooms to unsuspecting victims visiting the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Focuses on Dr. Holmes' entire life of crime and villainy (1861-1896).

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Lord of the Ants




Naturalist E.O. Wilson's fascination with little creatures has led him to some very big ideas.

At age 78, E.O. Wilson is still going through his "little savage" phase of boyhood exploration of the natural world. In "Lord of the Ants," NOVA profiles this soft-spoken Southerner and Harvard professor, who is an acclaimed advocate for ants, biological diversity, and the controversial extension of Darwinian ideas to human society.

War Dance



"War Dance," a feature-length documentary, tells the story of three children from the Patongo displacement camp in northern Uganda:

  • Dominic, a former abductee and child soldier of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)
  • Rose, who witnessed the gruesome murder of her parents by the rebels
  • Nancy, who kept herself and two younger siblings alive in the bush for a month after the LRA killed their father and abducted their mother