August Macke: Radiant Genius Lost in the Trenches
In April 1914 a young artist is basking in the exotic light of Tunisia, painting canvases that practically sing with color. A few months later the colors vanish, replaced by a gloomy, prophetic piece ...
23 Jun 19min
Augusto Boal: The Theater That Became Law
Imagine an audience that does not just clap politely, but jumps onto the stage, rewrites the ending of the play, and then sees that new ending drafted into legally binding city law. It sounds like sci...
23 Jun 23min
Shoeless Joe Jackson: The Black Sox Scandal Reexamined
He set a World Series record with 12 hits, hit .375, fielded flawlessly, and clubbed the only home run of the entire series — then was banned from baseball for life and branded a traitor. The numbers ...
23 Jun 18min
Ben Stiller: From Zoolander to the Architect of Severance
How does the man who gave us Derek Zoolander become the visionary director behind the clinical, dread-soaked precision of Severance? The bright, manic energy of his comedies and the oppressive slow-bu...
23 Jun 18min
Betty White: The Subversive Genius Behind the Sweet Smile
America's sweetest television grandmother was actually one of its most subversive operators. She defied racist network executives in the Jim Crow South, produced her own shows in her 20s while living ...
23 Jun 20min
Bill Bailey: The Classically Trained Mind Behind the Chaos
Picture a musician with perfect pitch playing an arts festival to an audience of exactly one person — so discouraged he nearly quit comedy for a telesales job. That same man became a titan of British ...
23 Jun 20min
Bill Burr: From Warehouse Forklift to Broadway Stage
Camden, New Jersey, 2006: a hostile arena crowd boos a relatively unknown comic before he says a word. Instead of begging for patience, he launches a 12-minute improvised tirade, dismantles the city, ...
23 Jun 19min
Bo Burnham: Mapping the Internet's Toll on the Human Soul
He won Emmys, a Grammy, and platinum songs while perfectly capturing the psychological state of an entire planet — all without ever unlocking the door to his guesthouse. Bo Burnham conquered the world...
23 Jun 17min
