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Pakistan's faltering film industry

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Pakistani films used to provide an escape of sorts for those trying to forget about the troubles of the day, but now Pakistan's home grown cinema is struggling to survive.
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The Inventor of the Klingon Language

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Linguist Marc Okrand talks about the process of creating a language for Hollywood.
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Warp Speed Ahead!

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"Star Trek" isn't just a summer blockbuster -- some of it is real science, like warp speed and the flip phone.
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How to fake it as a cellist

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Ben Hong taught Jamie Foxx how to play for the new film "The Soloist," and describes the challenges of teaching a movie star how to fake it as a cellist.
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"Sugar" a different kind of baseball story

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Feature film "Sugar" traces the path of Dominican baseball players -- like Sammy Sosa -- from South America to the Major Leagues in the US.
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Japanese film reflects economic crisis

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The film "Tokyo Sonata" centers on a middle-class Japanese man who gets laid off from his job, then tries to hide it from his family.
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"Watchmen:" too late as a film?

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The graphic novel "Watchmen" wowed a generation of readers in 1986; twenty-three years later, it's making its big-screen debut -- but is it too late to save itself?
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French film "The Class" up for Oscar

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Nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category, "The Class" looks so real, some might think it's a documentary.
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Cambodian film up for Oscar

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The documentary "The Conscience of Nhem En" is up for an Oscar this year; it is about a young soldier during the Khmer Rouge who took photos of thousands of people before they were tortured and killed.
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A film of intelligent design & evolution

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Olson explains why his film "Flock of Dodos" ridicules the arrogance of scientists and the many contradictions of the intelligent design movement.
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