S2.E8 ∙ A Shelby Surprise

A unique documentary film that takes the viewer on a musical journey in exploring the life and times of the late legendary drummer, Randy Castillo.

This movie is the story of documentary filmmaker team who travel to South Africa to document the funeral of Nelson Mandela.On the way to the funeral, they join the South African ministers on their airplane and start filming where no media is present. They have to leave the ceremony to return to the airport after being arrested by police while the funeral is about to start. A series of unexpected events changes their trip plan.

Olivia is a twenty-something reporter assigned to the religion beat for the London Times. She is on deadline to write a feature story about cosmology and the meaning of existence on the 100th anniversary of Einstein's proposing the special theory of relativity. Olivia is scheduled to interview the "rock star" of cosmologists, Stephen Hawking. A skeptic when it comes to scientific facts, she firmly believes science holds no meaning for the Big Questions of life. The interview with Stephen Hawking leads to more than Olivia bargained for-a whirlwind journey through time and space, where deep space images explode onto the big screen and where the "Big Questions" are answered for Olivia and the audience with ease and whimsy.

Interviews with friends of the late Jim Morrison and several people involved with the making of the film, The Doors (1991), delve into what Morrison meant to everyone including themselves. The film really only touched the surface of what Jim actually did, several other things he did are told here. This is not an actual look into the movie, but rather a look at Jim's career and friends.

Never a Neverland documents the reality of a kingdom moving towards extinction and the hope of a people working to ensure that Swaziland never becomes a 'Neverland'.

'Osman Aga of Temesvar' is a docudrama adapted from the memoirs of a spahi written in Istanbul, 1724. The audience accompanies the journey of Osman, a prisoner of war in the Habsburg Empire and then who becomes an Ottoman ambassador.