He is considered to be the Samurai Warrior of Silicon Valley, due to way in which he goes to battle with any competition. Larry Ellison started Oracle Software over 30 years ago and it has made him the highest paid executive of the last decade with a total compensation of 1.84 billion dollars.He will do whatever it takes to win and because of this his companies technology has become the backbo
Across Asia car ownership is soaring, but so to is the number of people dying on the roads. In this 101 East episode we see Al Jazeera correspondent Drew Ambrose travel to Laos, a poor mountainous nation that has one of the regions worst road fatalities per capita. In the capital, Vientiane, an ambulance service run by a French paramedic and his band of volunteers is the only hope for crash surviv
Lanfranchi's Memorial Discotheque was Sydney's favourite artist-run space, situated on the second level of an inner city warehouse. Lanfranchi's doubled as a residence and unauthorised performance venue for five years, growing from unlikely beginnings to become what director Neil Armfield (Candy, Belvoir St Theatre) described as a 'major strand of our city's cultural DNA'. The decaying warehouse h
Landscapes at the World's Ends is a non-verbal, visual journey to the polar regions of our planet portrayed through a triptych montage of photography and video. Landscapes at the World's Ends is a multi-dimensional canvas of imagery recorded above the Arctic Circle and below the Antarctic Convergence.Filmed during several artist residencies onboard three expedition vessels, New Zealand nature
The raging bull of Lamborghini has been the symbol of extreme car design and engineering for nearly 50 years, but today as a new age of supercar dawns the Italian manufacturer has set itself one of the most ambitious goals yet, to blow it's competitors out of the water by creating the greatest super sports car the world has ever seen. This is a game changing vehicle that will alter the scope of su
What does it take to build a car that can go from zero to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds and hit a top speed of 211 mph?National Geographic heads to the small farming community in Italy that is home to the main factory for the Lamborghini Murcielago SV to find out.See how a workforce of 130 people makes the Murcielago’s lightweight carbon fiber frame and a 640-horsepower V-12 engine.Much of the work
A history of abortion rights in the United States, this remarkably balanced film examines one of the great divisive issues in this country.Kayes graphic black-and-white film is a perfect metaphor for the most polemic issue in America. The film is extremely comprehensive and shot in a confrontational, intimate style. Kaye, who made the critically praised, provocative indie feature American His
Laguna Negra is a film that explores the core values of a campesino community in Huancabamba (Peru), the way the fabric of this society has been threatened by large scale mining and the destructive outcome of imposing a capital intensive model of development on a society based on traditional values.
Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen paints an informal portrait of the legendary Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter both onstage and off.