Michael Gibson

Traces the history and discusses the culture of Japan from its first contact with the west in 1853 until the present day.

Describes the life, duties, equipment, and philosophies of a medieval knight. Also discusses the crusading knights and the Military Orders.

Paper Belt on Fire is the unlikely account of how two outsiders with no experience in finance, a charter school principal and defrocked philosopher, start a venture capital fund to short the higher education bubble. Against the contempt of the education establishment, they discover, mentor, and back the leading lights in the next generation of dropout innovators and in the end make their investors millions. Can such a madcap strategy help renew American...

Three interlocking stories set in New York City's legendary Roseland dance palace make up this charming film, the third to be shot by Merchant Ivory Productions in America. In the first segment, The Waltz, Teresa Wright is a widow who comes to the Roseland in order to sustain the memory of her late husband, but meets Stan (Lou Jacobi), a man who offers her an opportunity for happiness in the present. In The Hustle, Christopher Walken stars as a gigolo...