It's true. Pittsburgh is seldom the city you expect. And in the first season of It's Pittsburgh & A Lot of Other Stuff, producer Rick Sebak and his collaborators celebrated some surprising people, places and donuts in the Pittsburgh area. So we've gathered some of the program's best stories to help answer unexpected questions: Can you ride your bike up the most treacherous streets in Pittsburgh? How early do you have to get up to get donuts at the little shop on Steuben Street? Do you leave your holiday lights up all year? You'll find out here.
Antonia is a single mother who works as a hotel maid in Berlin. A normal hot summer day takes a dramatic turn when she crosses paths with a particular guest of the hotel, famous blind portrait painter Julius Pass.
A young aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks before a major competition.
Since the 1960's, journalists, scholars and filmmakers have been examining the Rastafarian movement in an attempt to explain its origins and its core beliefs.
The 'Hidden Faith of Our Founding Fathers' is perhaps the first and only documentary to go where no film has ever gone before: into the hidden faith of America's founding fathers.
To win the celebrity and self-made wealth he craves, an aimless, twenty-something Manhattan playboy devises a film based on his party-boy, club-going lifestyle, and hires a self-destructive aspiring playwright to ghost the feature script.
This provocative and insightful film is the first in a series of documentaries that will reveal the secret knowledge embedded in the work of the greatest filmmaker of all time: Stanley Kubrick.
