Oct 24 Inside Nollywood, the booming film industry that makes 1,500 movies a year By Elizabeth Flock Nollywood is now the world’s second largest film industry in terms of number of films produced. Here's how it happened. Continue reading
Oct 24 How a wounded combat veteran and his wife struggled to make a family By William Brangham I met Rachel and Jason Hallett two years ago while reporting a story about how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs wouldn’t cover in-vitro fertilization for wounded veterans. Here's where things stand for the Halletts - and the legislation -… Continue reading
Oct 23 Watch 6:33 Literary heir to 'Dragon Tattoo' aims to deepen the enigma of Lisbeth Salander By PBS News Hour “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” was the beginning of a bestselling series of thrillers, published after author Stieg Larsson’s death. Recently, Swedish journalist and writer David Lagercrantz was tapped to continue the series. Lagercrantz joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss… Continue watching
Oct 23 Watch 5:11 Why this poet couldn't avoid writing about the opioid crisis By PBS News Hour The opioid crisis has plagued poet William Brewer’s hometown in West Virginia. His vivid poems tell the story of the opioid epidemic from different voices and depict the sense of bewilderment people find themselves in as addiction creeps into their… Continue watching
Oct 23 What Tom Hanks has to say about the Weinstein scandal By Elizabeth Flock, Anne Azzi Davenport "The dam has burst here in a big way, and it is not just the halls of places like Harvey Weinstein’s office," he said. Continue reading
Oct 23 'Oh, they're on the pills. We don't really see them anymore.' By Mary Jo Brooks Author William Brewer didn’t want to write a book about the drug crisis decimating his state, but it was a topic he couldn’t avoid. Watching the people around him succumb to addiction, he set out to capture the crisis in… Continue reading
Oct 23 David Letterman receives Mark Twain Prize for humor By Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press Several of the comedians honoring Letterman took shots at President Donald Trump and the general state of the country. More than one comedian quipped that the Kennedy Center's funding was about to be cut off mid-show. Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch Ai Weiwei captures the global refugee crisis in 'Human Flow' By PBS News Hour International artist and political activist Ai Weiwei has long mixed art and protest, gravity and playfulness. Now he's turned his creative powers to the global refugee crisis with a new documentary called "Human Flow," which opens nationwide on Friday. Jeffrey… Continue watching
Oct 20 200 years since 'Frankenstein' and it's still alive. Here are 5 of the best adaptations By Alison Thoet Since the classic 1931 film, “Frankenstein” has been spun off into hundreds of plays, television shows, books and films. Continue reading
Oct 20 California's ban on bikes in swimming pools - and other strange laws on the books By Julia Griffin Photographer Olivia Locher's latest project, “I Fought the Law,” chronicles the bizarre and obscure laws that have made their way into America’s state and local legislation. Continue reading