Tag: Arts & Tradition

Black Market Boom | The Dark Web Ep2 | Documentary

This film is only available in North America and the UK because of territorial licensing. Drugs, guns, counterfeit documents, and much more are sold on dark web marketplaces that run on anonymous browsers and use cryptocurrency. AlphaBay was the biggest marketplace, transacting over $800,000 in a day. …


Illuminating Austria, Hope, and Good Cheer

Austrian painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller held nature in high esteem. “Nature must be the only source and sum total of our study; there alone can be found the eternal truth and beauty, the expression of which must be the artist’s highest aim in every branch of the plastic arts,” he wrote in 1846.  “Self-Portrait at…


Athena’s Challenge to Modern Mantras

Today, it seems that we are in a world where facts and truth are no longer important; how we feel seems to be the key criterion for establishing whether something is true or not. So we hear the expression “my truth” everywhere, meaning that it is irrefutable because it is “my truth,” no matter what…


The Candyman | The Dark Web Ep1 | Documentary

This film is only available in North America and the UK because of territorial licensing. It was one of 640 million closed groups on Facebook. Hiding behind anonymity, the creator of child pornography group Loli Candy and its 7,000 members hid their activities on Facebook and Whatsapp—the dissemination of horrifying images of abuse. …


The Raggedy Boys’ Bard: Horatio Alger and the American Dream

For 50 years, his name was a household word. Horatio Alger Jr. (1832–1899) was the creator and chief proponent of the “rags to riches” story. Once his writing career took off, he put out over a hundred novels, most of them aimed at adolescents. They were tales of street urchins and poor young men who…


The Power of Our Inner Righteousness: Satan Concedes to Heaven’s Might

Evil things are frightening to many of us unless we are experiencing them from a distance. Sometimes it can be difficult to have the confidence to turn toward and confront evil. How might we truly identify evil and confront it with confidence? Deceptive Satan Inspires Discord In the last article of this series, we followed…


Beyond Valentine’s Day: Examples of Love and Devotion From History

Who can explain it, who can tell you why? Fools can’t explain it, wise men never try. Those lines from “Some Enchanted Evening,” one of the numbers in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical “South Pacific,” are speaking of love, particularly love at first sight. But are they accurate? Can love not be explained? Let’s imagine that…


Tomcat: Top Gun 2 Resurrecting the F-14 | Documentary

A unique behind-the-scenes perspective of the U.S. Navy’s support in making the Top Gun sequel. Two senior naval officers are sent by the Navy to advise the director and producers of “Top Gun: Maverick,” ensuring naval aviation is portrayed correctly. …


Discovering the Ancient Colors of Yucatan | Documentary

This film is unavailable in Switzerland, San Marino, Italy, and Holy See (Vatican City State) because of territorial licensing. A trip to the Yucatan Peninsula, amid Caribbean colors and history—that part of Mexico is dedicated to tourism, inhabited by the Maya, and with amazing seabeds where turtles and whale sharks come to breed. …


Love at First Shot: Photographer Ansel Adams and Yosemite

Ansel Adams captured the American landscape like no other photographer before him. He owed much of his success to his beloved Yosemite National Park—where he snapped photos with his first camera, honed his observational and photography skills, and where his family scattered his ashes. At 14 years old, Adams (1902–1984) first traveled to Yosemite with…