Movies: Christopher Sykes

  • 1987
    Getting to Dylan

    Getting to Dylan (1987)

    Getting to Dylan

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    In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in the conversation....

    Getting to Dylan
  • 1988
    The Quest for Tannu Tuva

    The Quest for Tannu Tuva (1988)

    The Quest for Tannu Tuva

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    The story of physicist Richard Feynman's fascination with - and efforts to visit - a remote country in the center of Asia, called Tannu Tuva, "the land where the reindeer meets the camel"....

    The Quest for Tannu Tuva
  • 2015
    Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema

    Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema (2015)

    Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema

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    The final documentary in Christopher Sykes’ trilogy about legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, and studio mogul Menahem Golan looks back to the prolific filmmaker’s great Hollywood days, then forward to reveal a man who, in hi...

    Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema
  • 1987
    Letters from an Indian Clerk

    Letters from an Indian Clerk (1987)

    Letters from an Indian Clerk

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    The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work with the great British pure mathematician GH Hardy....

    Letters from an Indian Clerk
  • 2003
    To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion

    To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion (2003)

    To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion

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    Top scientists want to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and the planets....

    To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion
  • 1993
    No Ordinary Genius

    No Ordinary Genius (1993)

    No Ordinary Genius

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    An intimate, moving, and funny account of the remarkable life and times of Richard Feynman—the most extraordinary scientist of his age....

    No Ordinary Genius
  • 1998
    Shooting Versace

    Shooting Versace (1998)

    Shooting Versace

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    Can Menahem Golan and Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?...

    Shooting Versace
  • 2004
    Dear Mr. Tzabar,

    Dear Mr. Tzabar, (2004)

    Dear Mr. Tzabar,

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    A short film about the late, celebrated Israeli journalist, poet, artist and satirist SHIMON TZABAR, and his last public protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, made shortly before his death in 2007 after forty years of self...

    Dear Mr. Tzabar,
  • 1982
    Before the Massacre

    Before the Massacre (1982)

    Before the Massacre

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    A BBC documentary about medical volunteers and their patients at the Gaza Hospital in West Beirut in the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the siege and bombardment of West Beirut, home to the PLO and the Palestinian refugee camps...

    Before the Massacre
  • 1983
    After the Massacre

    After the Massacre (1983)

    After the Massacre

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    97 British soldiers are sent to Beirut as part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force in the wake of the September 1982 Sabra-Chatilla massacre....

    After the Massacre
  • 1988
    Exiles: Edward Said

    Exiles: Edward Said (1988)

    Exiles: Edward Said

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    Edward Said, critic, tells his story and the story of Palestine....

    Exiles: Edward Said
  • 1992
    The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing

    The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing (1992)

    The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing

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    A biographical account of the life and work of mathematician, codebreaker and computer visionary, Alan Turing....

    The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing
  • 1989
    Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life

    Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life (1989)

    Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life

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    The life and work of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein....

    Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life
  • 1981
    The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1981)

    The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

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    Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichotomy is just one of the characteristics that made him a fascinating subject. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out exposes us to many more of these intrigu...

    The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
  • 1986
    The Last Moguls

    The Last Moguls (1986)

    The Last Moguls

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    Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!...

    The Last Moguls