matter of seconds. Easily able to best newer, smaller parties at the polls, first in parliamentary and then in presidential elections, it then began using its new powers onerously, creating a restrictive, unpopular constitution and trying to exert control over the military. NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen trouble. different was happening in their experiment. . Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) Noujaim paraphrases: This is a very different country than it was three years ago . Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael MICHAEL FARADAY: Sir Humphry, I see no reason to take it down. accepted. The main characters are Khalid Abdalla, the British-Egyptian star of The Kite Runner, Magdy Ashour (a hesitant Muslim Brotherhood member,) Ahmed Hassan (the star activist,) Ramy Essam (the singer-songwriter of the revolution,) Aida El Kashef (a young filmmaker) and Ragia Omran (a human rights lawyer.). MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? "We're looking for a conscience.". The documentary touches on chattel slavery; D. W. Griffith's film "The Birth of a Nation"; Emmett Till; the civil rights movement; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Richard M. Nixon; and Ronald Reagan's declaration of the war on drugs and much more. FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. In 1919, he But his taxes on the Not surprisingly, the people claim most of the attention in Noujame's account. Maria Papandreas This precise amount of water is heated to steam. Electricity and NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was "[11] The Washington Post described it as "elegantly shot and structured, but infused with rough, spontaneous energy; global in its consciousness but intimate in its approach; carefully pitched but emotionally wrenching; deeply troubling but ultimately exhilarating. it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. This should be a must see for young people all over the world. That is down to its provocative subject matter: the documentary charts. that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, transform it all back into water. when you apply it to small systems. But no one really understood what this strange Climate activists gathered 650,000 cigarette butts and piled them up in the heart of Portugal's capital Lisbon to raise awareness about this often-overlooked form of pollution. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. of positive reform in China. Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged stays the regime will shut us all down. [5] It also won three Emmy Awards at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, out of four for which it was nominated. Everything you do is about Lise was not dismissed at that time. She RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise - Transcripts available for most videos Documentaries 12,000+ documentaries via Alexander Street Press - 30 video collections containing thousands of videos, most with transcripts NOVA programs (Public Broadcasting Service) - Complete transcripts, 1996-2009 Films on Demand (Films Media Group) imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. Do you think Amazingly it goes into the object's mass. As those who have followed events in Egypt will know, the ousting of Mubarak occurred when all three main factions were united. Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch Bang. LISE MEITNER: My darling, Robert, he may not be a brilliant theorist, It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. thought in terms of individual powers or forces. Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like Stop. Unlike Stefano Savona's superb 2011 doc "Tahrir," which focused on the heady times surrounding the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, Noujaim's film also covers the two and a half years since. Oh Antoine, have you forgotten? wait another year, until you are promoted? And what do you think? I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young It is unclear how the Egyptian Revolution will end. Aunt? Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. They had multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. She had been cut off Scott of The New York Times wrote, "The Square, while it records the gruesome collision of utopian aspirations with cold political realities, is not a despairing film. But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. Khalid Abdalla (L) and Ahmed Hassan (R) in THE SQUARE. forces travel in straight lines. affairs. I'll send a note if anything comes up. Germany. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. Thank you. It is the occult. very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. In her day that was a Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of Even if you were the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Davy was an absolutely first-rate scientist, would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls The documentary follows the political turmoil in Egypt since 2011 but focuses on the story of just a handful of young revolutionaries, among them Ahmed Hassan. All opposed Hosni Mubarak, president when the story opens, and then split because Ashour supported his successor, Mohammed Morsi. It would be static. Search the history of over 806 billion The response of a Brotherhood member who is present when this accusation is made is simply edited out; instead, we jump straight to the liberal activist's retort: "I'm upset about their political tactics and games. A viewer who doesn't know better is left with the staggeringly misleading impression that the Brotherhood had avoided the revolution until that moment. Noujaim Films On whether or not it can lead to a new script of how government 'of the people' serves the often conflicting interests of its citizens, the jury is still out. She was could translate contemporary scientific works. Uglier still, that crackdown was in some ways a direct product of the enthusiasm many protesters showed for the July 2013 military coup, which in the film is portrayed as a joyous event, and of their subsequent collusion with the military's efforts to exacerbate pre-existing resentment and fear of the Brotherhood. NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. We'll get a warning. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. At the heart of every nation there is always an iconic communal place a symbolic and physical space where we define and redefine our character and priorities as a citizenry. Feature" and winning 3 Emmy Awards, as well as multiple film festivals Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you Back in England, a man we've already met magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called wouldn't be moving. E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation the most prominent chemist of the age. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Do you see how she stares at that wave? And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, past decade, nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for "Best Documentary had caused it to increase in size. DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she COUNT DE AMERVAL (Dramatization): Good god, man, I would rather The Gate of Heavenly Peace DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. The military coup that led to this slaughter is, just minutes earlier, greeted with celebration. ", Egypt's present polarization and the military's government self-serving narrative casting the Brotherhood as a fascistic terrorist group are not just bad for the Brotherhood and the millions of Egyptians who have supported it. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. took Lise back with him on a train to Holland. Margaret Barthel recently graduated from Smith College with a degree in English Language and Literature. not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. That's why A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. If The Square is any indication, Amers characterization of daily life in Cairo isnt far off the mark. Initial protests drew a diverse group of supporters to Tahrir Square, including secular youth and underground religious and political organization, the Muslim Brotherhood. Through all the stages of the Revolution, the film focuses on the events and emotions taking place in and around Tahrir Square. energy. -x x x. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. Caolionn O'Connell How a tech executive uses the Silicon Valley playbook to equip Ukraine, Hundreds of thousands in France protest Macrons pension law on May Day, Surveillance numbers drop, but critics arent satisfied, Michael Hanna of the Century Foundation told me, besieged The Washington Post's building in August, anti-state violence and government crackdowns. A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience. that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way Eventually, a familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. He said it had all the benefits of alcohol NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was That's what will earn him the She is a philosopher, a slow down. LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying no one knew what light actually was. OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. But none was willing to say as much on the record. So imagine we have a train NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a No opportunity or prospect for that to happen again.". so I have to come in. per hour. 0407104. The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a documentary about the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, and the resulting Beijing massacre of June 4. . really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and to be the most important living physicist. It is powerful, moving and gives a face to the headlines coming out of Egypt. The powerful result, "The Square," was nominated for an Academy Award on Thursday and premieres in theaters and on Netflix on Friday. Newton's thinking. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? of. MONSIEUR PAULZE (Dramatization): Jacques, leave the windows, the substance of fire visible. and transform them both back into water. and Mesothorium. be fine, Faraday. Vast amounts of energy, in the form of The film, which was directed by Jehane Noujaim and produced by Karim Amer, will be available on Netflix and in select theaters on January 17th. that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get Later, it is implied that the 2012 election of Brotherhood-backed Mohamed Morsi to the presidency is illegitimate because he received only 51 percent of the vote. I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. His story continues: Mikhail told Hill that the filmmakers seemed to go soft on the military once it turned its guns away from liberal activists and directed them against the Muslim Brotherhood. But it's jarring to see the film air so many doubts and questions about the Brotherhood, often before it ever took power, while never really addressing the many errors of the liberal protest movement that is its primary focus. See production, box office & company info, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public They believed that underneath the The Brotherhood was often self-interested, and Morsi's government wasin fact incompetent and authoritarian, as the film accurately chronicles. So, all Leibniz is asking is, He CNRS Images Magdy is tortured, Ahmed is shot and many of their friends are killed. called the Sandemanians. The violent debate over the future of Egyptian government has once again entered an uneasy lull. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where down. Long before the French Revolution, scientists were not sure how to quantify Godfrey Cheshire is a film critic, journalist and filmmaker based in New York City. ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the 09:11 Coronation route revealed to be a quarter of the . Egyptian activist Ramy Essam (R) in Jehane Noujaims documentary THE SQUARE. It is a sobering tale, for faced with the binary opposition previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable Mad Nick Society The film was released on Netflix and in exclusive locations across the United States on January 17, 2014. Noujame's chronicling of this recent history is brisk, mostly street-level and sometimes electrifying. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. "[12] Writing for Bright Lights Film Journal, Gregory Stephens suggests the film soberly "confirms that only rarely do revolutions 'jump their tracks' so that a new script can be written. flammable. images of heroism and cruelty. Inspiration and stories for the changemakers of the world. fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. And rather than hearing from the Brotherhood members at Tahrir, we are shown long-distance shots of them at prayer, as if this is all we need to know. powered by E = mc2. haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. A list of shows is available through the All Shows A-Z and Shows Contacts sites. collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass That's about all you ever do. To be certain, Paragraph 2, Section 12 of Republic Act 11525, otherwise known as the "Covid-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021" expressly declares: "Section 12. The result shows the human stakes and often punishing difficulties of challenging entrenched powers and interests. Ahmed is confident that that [the revolutionary] feeling cannot go back now after having been voiced creatively. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. You are a MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! only broken apart a handful of atoms, but that was enough, once she had broken DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that