TED Talks
TED: How to find humor in life's absurdity | Maira Kalman
With levity and profound insight, artist Maira Kalman reflects on life, death, dinner parties, not knowing the right answers, the joys of eating a hot dog from a street vendor and more. This talk, interwoven with her delightful...
Crash Course
Realism Gets Even More Real: Crash Course Theater #32
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, theater was evolving rapidly in Europe. Impresarios like Georg II, Duke of the Duchy of Saxe Meinengen (in what is now Germany), were pushing theater troupes to new heights of realism. New...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue
"War and Peace." A tome. A slog. The sort of book you shouldn't read in bed because if you fall asleep it could give you a concussion. Right? Only partly. "War and Peace" is a long book, sure, but it's also a thrilling examination of...
PBS
Are LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
We've all seen and shared a few LOLCats and Internet Memes in our time, but is it possible that these images and videos are actually a new form of art? Idea Channel takes a closer look at how memes function in our new interconnected...
Crash Course
Nonviolence and Peace Movements: Crash Course World History 228
In which John Green teaches you about nonviolence and peace movements in the 20th century. What is nonviolence? What is a peace movement? Well. traditionally, humans often resort to violence when they come into conflict. In the 20th...
Curated Video
Historia De Rusia - Parte 4
La historia de Rusia continúa con el acceso del emperador Nicolás I en 1825, quien sobrevive a la revuelta de diciembre para adoptar una doctrina de "ortodoxia, autocracia y nacionalidad". Rusia es victoriosa contra Persia (1828) y el...
Tarver Academy
Be Happy by Leo Tolstoy
In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About How to Be Happy by Leo Tolstoy
PBS
War and Peace and Everything Else (Feat. Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes)
According to Tolstoy himself, War and Peace was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle." And in this day and age of publishing, where word count, “readability”, and topical relevance are the lifeline...
Curated Video
Why Did They Make Me Read This in High School? (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)
Literary critics, writers, philosophers, bloggers--all have tried to tackle where and why and how an author may strike such lightning in a bottle that their works enter the pantheon of “Classical Literature”. Why this book is required...
Getty Images
INTERVIEW: Alicia Vikander on playing Tolstoy's film at A Royal Affair Interview: 62nd International Berlin Film Festival 2012 at Berlinale Palace on February 17, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images Entertainment Video)
INTERVIEW: Alicia Vikander on playing Tolstoy's film at A Royal Affair Interview: 62nd International Berlin Film Festival 2012 at Berlinale Palace on February 17, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images...
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The Last Station Premiere
INTERVIEW James McAvoy on how it's the story about Tolstoy and his family and collaborators at the time after War and Peace, on how it's funny and daft in places, on playing someone so overexcitable and sensitive and open, on how people...
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The Last Station Premiere
INTERVIEW Helen Mirren on her father being Russian and how he was in the same class as the characters in the film, on how she felt when she first came onto the set she was walking into an old family photograph, on how much she knows...
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The Last Station Premiere
INTERVIEW James McAvoy avoiding question about the announcement about his partner's pregnancy, on how he loved playing a character that was in love with his idol and getting to meet with him, on how it's quite similar to him and Helen...
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The Last Station Premiere
INTERVIEW James McAvoy on the great actors in the movie, on how he signed up to do this four and half years ago based purely on the script, on how it's not as scary as you think when you finally get to set, on not reading up on Tolstoy,...
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The Last Station Premiere
INTERVIEW Michael Hoffman on how most people perceive Tolstoy, on how the movie is more about love and marriage, on how unapologetic and big the performances are to create the tone and style, on how a period movie is like a science...
Curated Video
Recent File of Actor Anthony Quinn, who has died
Washington, DC - October 3, 2000
1. Wide shot of press conference at the Organization of American States (OAS)
2. Medium shot of Anthony Quinn
3. Medium shot of audience
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anthony Quinn, Actor:
"Because it has...
Curated Video
ENTERTAINMENT DAILY: ENT2- ANTHONY QUINN
Eng/Spanish/Nat
Oscar winner ANTHONY QUINN is taking on a new role at the grand age of 85 in a Brazilian film, "ORIUNDI".
Quinn appeared at the Latin American Film Festival 2000 to support the film, which sees him in the part of the...
BBC
Bbc Radio 4: In Our Time: Leo Tolstoy
Audio of the BBC Radio 4 program "In Our Time." This forty-three minute episode is about Leo Tolstoy. Experts discuss the impact and meaning of his live and work. Listening requires RealPlayer.