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Film

10 May 2008: Pangea Day

When she was awarded the 2006 TED Prize, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim expressed a wish: a global acceptance of diversity, mediated through the p...

Sep 14, 2007
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Culture

Scenes from "The War Tapes": Deborah Scranton on TED.com

The director of the award-winning documentary The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton makes films that help people tell their own stories. She talks...

Sep 13, 2007
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Business

Making films to make change: Jeff Skoll on TED.com

Jeff Skoll made his fortune as the first president of eBay. Now he’s spending it at the movies. His company, Participant Productions, ...

Aug 23, 2007
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Environment

Ed Burtynsky’s beautifully monstrous "Manufactured landscapes"

If you are planning (you should) to go see Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary “Manufactured landscapes“, which opened last week in ...

Jul 29, 2007
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Film

A taste of TED, or two

Watch here a new "taste of TED" video documentary shot at this year’s conference, in March. In 7 minutes it gives a great se...

Jun 14, 2007
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Film

TED's Media Specialist laughs at Americans

TED’s Media Production Specialist, Michael Glass, is in Toronto this week premiering his film “Little Gold Men” at the Wor...

Jun 14, 2007
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Education

Something Important to Encounter

Encounter Point, an incredible documentary that follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a...

Nov 16, 2006
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Biology

Tokyo is under attack!

At the University of Chicago, Professor Michael C. LaBarbera has prepared a comprehensive analysis of the Biology of B-Movie Monsters. In it...

Sep 1, 2006
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Entertainment

TEDPrize winner Jehane Noujaim on TEDTalks

TEDPrize winner Jehane Noujaim is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, responsible for Startup.com and the gutsy, controversial documenta...

Jul 25, 2006
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