In LEARN GENRE FILM SECRETS Part One readers will learn what Genre is, how each of 11 genres work then how film intensifies and satisfies aficionado expectations. They will discover all stories need Mystery... Science Fiction plays with possibility... Fantasy triggers imagination... Comedy lightens darkness... Juvenile stories teach... Horror's nightmares can comfort... Romance connects... Western rebels want security... Historicals create relevance......

Orville Nix: The Missing JFK Assassination Film is not the typical JFK Assassination book. This book does not attempt to answer "who" killed JFK but why we should question the actions of the time and why the truth was withheld from the people. Written in a narrative style, the book shares the story of Orville Nix and how he was intimidated yet remained adamant to what he witnessed that horrific day. His camera original film that shows the grassy knoll...

Continue your whirlwind tour of Iceland with stops along the eastern and southeastern parts of the island. This stage of your journey includes a fascinating art installation of egg sculptures, the largest ice cap in Europe, a dangerous beach with unpredictable waves, and the only waterfall where you're virtually guaranteed to see a rainbow.

Valentino wants to keep The Oracle, his beloved run-down movie palace, from being condemned before it even reopens, but murder keeps intruding into his otherwise quiet life. At a gala party held in memory of screen legend Greta Garbo, he's having fun until the host, a hotshot developer named Matthew Rankin, tells Valentino about a certain letter from Garbo to his late wife. She and Garbo had been...close. Such a letter is of great interest to a film...

Meet the best-known and most influential occultist of the 20th century, Aleister Crowley, the self-proclaimed Great Beast 666.

After molten bronze is poured into a huge mold, Gears is surprised to learn bells can be fine-tuned to sound perfect.

Now, focus on the race to the South Pole and the bitter rivalries surrounding it. Witness how Norwegian Roald Amundsen outdistanced his rival, English explorer Captain Robert Scott, whose return voyage took a tragic turn. Then, follow the hardships of British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, whose expedition to cross the punishing Antarctic also met disaster.

The 20th century can be seen as the "mass" century - mass production, mass market, and mass destruction. Add to the list mass entertainment, exemplified by the rise of Hollywood and the film industry. Track the development of motion pictures - and the inventions that made them possible.

After losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he sees a clip from a lost film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to study the works of this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929. Presumed dead for sixty years, Hector Mann was...