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This week, Oscar-nominated writer Randall Wallace reflects on his iconic and Academy Award-winning film, Braveheart followed by screenwriter, Jeb S...
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 54:00
This week on On Story we’ll hear Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright on his new book God Save Texas and the Hulu mini-series he adapted f...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 54:00
This week on On Story, CHERNOBYL creator Craig Mazin discusses his HBO five part mini-series. The series tells the true story of the world’s worst ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2020
- Length: 54:00
The 67 shots that rang out at Kent State amid a May 4,1970 Vietnam War protest, killing four students and wounding nine, reverberate nearly 50 year...
- Added: Apr 01, 2020
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 29
This week, The Glass Castle co-writer Andrew Lanham discusses adapting the New York Times Best Seller memoir of the same name followed by Life of ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2020
- Length: 54:00
This week on the show: Coronavirus? Don't panic! -
So far, the COVID-19 virus has infected about 200,000 people worldwide. To help contain t...
- Added: Mar 20, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Coronavirus: more than 250 million people in lockdown across the EU. The Italians adjust to life under siege. Criticism ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 59:00
On this week’s On Story we’ll speak with the writers behind Mad Men, Westworld, and 11.22.63 to explore audiences fascination with film and televis...
- Added: Mar 18, 2020
- Length: 53:56
This week on On Story we’ll hear from screenwriter Andrew Lanham and celebrated character actor Tim Blake Nelson on their new film JUST MERCY and l...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 53:59
This week on On Story we’ll hear from screenwriter Andrew Lanham and celebrated character actor Tim Blake Nelson on their new film JUST MERCY and l...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 53:59
I’m a devotee of silent films, which I love and collect, yet even I have to admit that, in many cases, one must make certain allowances in terms of...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 03:58
This week on On Story we’ll hear from some of the writing team behind the first season of the immensely popular Fox drama series EMPIRE and later w...
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 54:00
A woman painter in an age (the 18th century) when such women were rare, is hired to paint a portrait of a countess’s daughter, who is living on a w...
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 04:17
Mycology has been a relatively neglected subject over the years. It’s the study of mycelium, which is a term for the vegetative part of a fungus, c...
- Added: Feb 27, 2020
- Length: 04:00
The central dramatic figure of our time is the migrant, whose shifting, uncertain, and perilous fate reflects that of our world. Atlantics, the fir...
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 04:43
This week, screenwriters discuss adapting novels and comic books for both film and television. First, Bryan Fuller and Michael Green give an inside...
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 53:58
Dark Waters tells the story of Robert Bilott, a corporate lawyer with a Cincinnati firm that specialized in defending big chemical corporations aga...
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: 04:56
In 1935, Hitler had been in power in Germany for two years. The rest of Europe desperately hoped that the disaster that was the Great War of 1914 t...
- Added: Feb 09, 2020
- Length: 04:31
Thinking back on 2019, preparing to put together a list of my favorite films from last year, I was struck more than ever by how my movie experience...
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 04:52
Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African American, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. The EJI provides legal assistance to prisoners ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 04:50
I became a fan of the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, after I saw their previous film from a couple years ago, Good Time, which I reviewed on this...
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- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 1
Highlighting the astounding diversity of locations and settings from a variety of Broadway and movie musicals with your host Shan Oliver. Around ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2020
- Length: 02:39:18
Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women has been adapted into movies quite a few times before now. The book has usually been relegated to th...
- Added: Jan 16, 2020
- Length: 04:46
Over the long career of director Terrence Malick, he’s developed a unique style all his own, featuring extensive voice-over narration accompanied b...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 04:57
This week, AFF Script Competition alum Oren Uziel, the screenwriter behind 22 Jump Street and Freaks of Nature looks back on how he got his start ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 53:57
