Lionel Friedberg
2021Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music
Diana Friedberg
Max Steiner, Leonard Maltin
A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the Wind, to Casablanca and beyond.
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music
Mysteries Underground
Lionel Friedberg
Richard Kiley
Embark on an extraordinary journey into the underground world of caves. Beneath our sunlit world lies an unknown universe of breathtaking caverns, treacherous passages and absolute darkness. Join a National Geographic expedition to document the splendours of the world's most exotic new cave for the first time. Relive the excitement of those cavers who, in 1986, first entered Lechuguilla, New Mexico. Marvel at the pristine beauty of gypsum chandeliers, gnarled calcite columns and jewel-like lakes. Then, join the 1972 expedition that stumbled upon a passage connecting the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, creating the longest cave system in the world. And relive the thrilling discoveries and heartbreaking tragedies of caving history.
Mysteries Underground
Across the Rubicon
Lionel Friedberg
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African female impersonator/caricaturist whose finely-wrought satirical touring show elucidates apartheid while lampooning it. Uys walks a thin line between censorship and arrest as he occasionally steps out of characters that include P.W. Botha, Desmond Tutu and Margaret Thatcher to deliver pointed attacks on apartheid and the South African government. Uys's popularity with both white and black audiences insulates him somewhat from government interference, but he describes his balancing act as being "like doing the tango in front of a firing squad." Across the Rubicon brilliantly portrays the humor and grace with which Uys makes his contribution to the fight against apartheid.
Across the Rubicon