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- Traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.
- For decades, Sea-Monkeys won the hearts of children everywhere and quickly transformed into cultural phenomena thanks to inventor, marketing genius, and complicated eccentric Harold von Braunhut.
- When fairy homes mysteriously appear in a suburban forest, four women, driven by unquelled curiosity about the origin of this whimsy, find that believing in magic is the medicine they need to overcome their personal struggles and tragedies.
- Great Big Story teams up with The Weather Channel to bring you stories of humans in the great outdoors, testing their limits against the elements. You won't find these heart-pounding and inspiring tales anywhere else.
- For almost 10 years, Amaryllis Fox worked as a CIA operative in the Middle East fighting the war on terror. Now, Fox is a peace activist determined to return to the region without any government affiliations. Her goal is to make headway in ending the conflict there for good. Risking her life with every peace mission to Iraq, she leaves behind an 8-year-old daughter when she travels. For Fox, creating a safer world for her daughter to inherit may come with the ultimate sacrifice. This Great Big Film was made by Peter Berg's Film 45 and presented by CNN Films.
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- This Emmy-nominated seven-part docuseries features the incredible and untold stories behind the most legendary video games. Meet the people who were on the front line and reveal the unique moments that shaped the world of gaming.
- By day, Kevin Martin runs on coffee and the promise of 5 p.m. But by night, it's bright lights, shiny boots and steel guitars. Together with his friend, Brendan Malone, they makeup "The Cowpokes," a two-step band playing 1950s country-western tunes wherever and whenever they can. On Tuesdays, they play at the American Legion Post 82, a community center turned cinder block honky tonk where the floor, and the bar, stay packed. The Tuesday nights have become an intergenerational to-do, making dance partners out of tattooed young Nashvillians and graying veterans. Kevin and Brendan eat, sleep and breathe music, reviving honky tonk's golden age with every show they play.
- In this short documentary, we follow the inspiring group of fiercely supportive Mormon mothers with queer children known as the Mama Dragons.
- Beauty is more than how we look and what we do, it's how we reveal ourselves to the world. This series follows women who build community and celebrate identity through beauty.
- A team of NASA scientists are on a mission to track Greenland's ice melt and understand how the melting glaciers impact extreme weather across the globe. This short film is presented by Great Big Story.
- Great Big Story presents an Emmy-nominated collection of cinematic shorts for the intellectually curious. The Great Big Show intrigues and excites with stories from more than 80 countries around the world.
- A film about the moments, the slightest details of life, that matter. Music by Keith Kenniff and Helios. Screened in competition New York Independent Film Festival. Broadcast CNN's Great Big Story. Selected Vimeo's Documentary and People channels.
- A new documentary examining the history, culture and community of Sligo Rovers FC. This feature takes an in-depth look at the essence of the Bit O'Red club and the people who have helped shape it over the years.
- This short film musical focuses on an affluent African American female who is going through an identity crisis.
- When Michael Chanak took a job at Procter and Gamble in the mid 1980s, the AIDS epidemic was rampant. The company had found a niche with Peridex-a prescription mouthwash used to treat thrush in people suffering from HIV/AIDS. But despite selling to the LGBT community, P&G had no language protecting these individuals within the company. Chanak, who'd become a vocal gay rights activist, wanted to change that. With years of work and help from a small but determined group of colleagues, in 1992, P&G became one of the first Fortune 500 companies to add sexual orientation to its equal employment opportunity (EEO) statement of diversity. Twenty-five years later, that legacy lives on. This is the story of one man's efforts to hold a corporation responsible and ultimately improve the lives of LGBT workers across the country.
- Lisa Frank's signature aesthetic-rainbows, unicorns, puppies-defined childhood for kids in the '90s. But as her empire grew, Lisa Frank withdrew. Until now. See what life is like as Queen of the Rainbows.
- Remember laser tag? The sweaty, pizza and soda-fueled birthday parties. The fog-filled, dark room with flashing lights. Since its birth in 1984 with the release of the Photon toy, laser tag evolved into an iconic game. Meet its inventor.
- Remember the childhood hours of fun spent blasting your friends with neon-tinged water cannons? You can thank a NASA scientist for that. In 1982, Lonnie Johnson designed the Super Soaker. But that wasn't Johnson's only invention. The award-winning scientist came up with everything from the Nerf gun to a thermoelectric energy converter, and now he's got even bigger aims.
- If you're a child of the '90s, chances are you know R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps" books. You remember-the spooky young adult novels that made you check under your bed before lights out. Well, get this: before Stine was scaring innocent children, he cut his teeth on bizarre comics and funny stories. Find out how he went from jokes to jitters.
- If you logged onto the internet circa 1997, chances are you heard this guy, Elwood Edwards, greet you with a warm "Welcome! You've got mail." Edwards scored his place in internet history back in 1989, after submitting a handful of recorded phrases to a company that would soon be known as America Online. Thirty years and hundreds of millions of logins later, the rest is history.
- Mike Gray knows a bit about the tween psyche: Among his greatest games are "Mall Madness" and "Dream Phone." We caught up with Gray to get the story on the first crushes of your youth.
- You know Mario-who could forget the cheery "woo-hoos!" of Nintendo's most beloved video game character? Now meet Charles Martinet, the voice behind the iconic mustachioed man. It turns out, Martinet not only voiced Mario, he also created the voices for Wario, Luigi and even Donkey Kong!
- In 1999, Billy Mitchell was the first person to achieve a perfect score in "Pac-Man." His ability to reach the end of the game even stumped "Pac-Man's" creators and designers, who named him the "video game player of the century." Here's what he had to do to beat the game.
- The video game "E.T, The Extraterrestrial" for Atari 2600 is considered one of the biggest flops in gaming history. Yet the game's designer, Howard Scott Warshaw, says he couldn't be prouder of that honor. This is the story of an awesomely bad video game.
- Steve Ritchie is something of a video game legend. For most, he's the prolific pinball designer responsible for creating more machines than anyone else in history. But for those in the know, he's also the godlike voice of the announcer in the classic game, "Mortal Kombat II."
- Video game designer Warren Robinett was a pioneer of his craft. He conceptualized and programmed the groundbreaking video game "Adventure" for the Atari 2600. A huge commercial success, the game sold over one million cartridges. But "Adventure" did more than delight consumers; Robinett hid something within the game that altered the landscape of video games forever.
- Meet "Darbian," a master "SpeedRunner" with the credentials to prove it. A dedicated Nintendo video game whiz, he sprints through classic releases with the goal of establishing time records. It only took him 6,607 tries to set the record in Super Mario Bros.
- Space Invaders and Pac-Man lead an arcade craze, while Atari's cartridge system dominates home gaming until high-profile failure sparks a downfall.
- A Japanese playing card company called Nintendo enters gaming and hits it big with Donkey Kong, then later takes over home gaming with the NES.
- Inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, adventure and role-playing computer games introduce unprecedented levels of choice and complexity to players.
- Sega's Genesis console and its speedy character, Sonic, hit the market. Electronic Arts kicks off a partnership with football legend John Madden.
- Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat give rise to head-to-head fighting genre, but the increasing graphic violence in games brings controversy.
- Nintendo goes 3D with Star Fox. Wolfenstein 3D popularizes the first-person shooter format, while Doom ups the ante with networked gaming.
- Mei Lum never envisioned herself running a retail business in New York City's Chinatown. But when Lum learned her grandparents were planning to sell Wing On Wo and Co., the porcelain wares shop her great-great-grandfather started in 1890, she couldn't bear for it to disappear. So the 29-year-old took over the oldest store in the neighborhood and expanded its mission. With the W.O.W. Project, Mei hopes to reclaim ownership over Chinatown's future by connecting communities and fostering creativity. More than a retail space, the shop now hosts arts and activist events, providing a place for another generation of young Chinese and Asian Americans to learn about and celebrate their culture.
- Humanity has launched satellites into outer space and submarines to the ocean floor, but the ground below Earth's surface remains shrouded in mystery. Are there profound secrets buried beneath layers of rock, or hidden in vast caves? Can the subterranean world below shed light on humanity's past, or even its future?
- 2017–TV EpisodeThere was an obscure video game in the '80s called The Hobbit. It was a game that changed people's lives. But the creator had no idea she made a hit.
- 2017–TV EpisodeMad Dog McCree: a game so bad, it's good. 25 years later, the actors reunite on the New Mexico ranch where this hit live-action video game was filmed.
- 2017–TV EpisodeGamer or not, everyone knows Mario. He's the most iconic video game character of all time. But do you know what inspired his creation?
- 2017–TV EpisodeIn the '90s, Street Fighter II ruled the arcades. One particular LA teen was unbeatable: the legendary Tomo Ohira. Then one day, he disappeared.
- 2017–TV EpisodeNolan Bushnell is known as "the father of the video game industry." You probably know him as a founder of Atari. But one of his creations lives on.
- 2017–TV EpisodeLegend has it there's an arcade game called Polybius, a top-secret US govt. project that gave players seizures and night terrors. Could it be real?