Movies: Lucy Walker

Blind people are given a new app that detects smiles and vibrates, allowing them to “feel every smile”....

“I remember seeing the ‘Galloping Gertie’ Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in a Physics class in high school,” Lucy told The Atlantic, “and the surprising image of something as sturdy and robust-looking as a mighty bridge twisting and twirling like rop...

Directed by Lucy Walker, Make Haste Slowly: The Kikkoman Creed explores an almost 400-year-old Japanese company, the impact it had on a small farming community in Middle America and the art of naturally brewing soy sauce. Founded by a woman in feudal...

Illinois-based Paralympian Anjali Forber-Pratt was adopted from India as an infant and became paralyzed shorty after arriving in the US. Despite daunting obstacles - told by teachers she couldn't go to college, having to sue her school district - Anj...

A story of how technology can improve lives when American Mick Ebeling tracks down Daniel, an amputee he read about in a news story, and 3-D-prints prosthetic arms for him and for all visits and those in his South Sudan community who have lost limbs ...

A celebration of summertime in NYC....

Ailson Eraclito Da Silva is the best rower in Brazilian history, the Michael Phelps of his sport. Growing up in a leper colony on the banks of the Amazon river, he's constantly discriminated against. But his dream to win Gold for Brazil at the Olympi...

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Vodou Priestess Katy calls on the spirits at a traditional Haitian Vodou ceremony of the Dead. Attend her first ceremony since being displaced after the 2010 earthquake. Broadly travels to the heart of Port-au-Prince, Haiti to join Priestess Katy as ...

72% of girls feel that society limits them, by dictating what they should and shouldn’t do. Sometimes, these limiting messages can be found in unexpected and subtle places – like on your phone. They may seem small, but emojis are more than just funny...

Biologists spent ten years trying to map the structure of the elusive Mason Pfizer Monkey Virus, a problem that could unlock the cure for AIDS. The Contenders solved it in three weeks. Using the online puzzle game Fold It, scientists are enlisting vi...

Humans demonstrate and passionately argue that plants have as much by way of brainpower as they do beauty. And what if they were actually communicating with us? And if they were, what do they have to tell us?...

It's Blue's birthday and you're invited to the party! Your pre-schooler will help Steve with all the preparations, and will play Blue's Clues to help Steve figure out just what Blue wants for her birthday present. In "never before-shown-scenes," kids...