S1.E2 ∙ Antarctic Conquest

Ndogboyosui takes its name from a trickster spirit in Mende folklore that represents the dangerous deceptions of the Sierra Leonean forest. This experimental ethnographic documentary offers the voices of local residents as they recount stories of dangerous encounters on the road, from ghost stories to memories of war to tales of traffic accidents. The video uses images of the very same locations taken from the backs of the motorbike taxis that now race across this region, reversing and slowing down their progress in order to encourage a lingering gaze upon a landscape that might otherwise be overlooked.

Feeling deprived of his status and confronted with a fear of his own disappearance, a man tries to renew links with his vital forces and lost faith, through the incantation of a parallel heroic tale.

Pole weapons expert Matt Easton rates nine spear fight scenes in movies and TV, such as "Troy" and "Aquaman," for realism.

When the Cold War ended, worry about nuclear weapons receded. But has the nuclear threat really diminished? Join Bud Ryan on a personal and global journey to discover what the bomber can learn from the bombed, and what our prospects look like for finally living in a nuclear-free world. Features interviews with bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, authors Gar Alperovitz and Jonathan Schell, and many more.

This is a film about the biggest weapons of mass destruction ever created. It is about the people who use them, more importantly it is about the people who fight them.