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Nessrine a passé cinq ans en Syrie au coeur de Daech. Jamais une Française de retour de l’Etat islamique n’a parlé aussi librement et avec autant de lucidité de ce qu’elle a vécu et des motifs de son embrigadement. Une série documentaire d'Édith Bouvier et Céline Martelet, toutes deux grandes reporters et spécialistes du Moyen Orient. "Je m’appelle Nessrine, j’ai 29 ans et deux enfants. J’ai passé cinq ans en Syrie dans le territoire de Daech. Je suis en liberté conditionnelle et j’attends l’ouverture de mon procès." La voix de la jeune Française paraît d’autant...

Brimming with previously untold stories and insights, How Coppola Became Cage both revels in and demystifies Cage's onscreen eccentricities. No other modern actor has explored such profound creative extremes while bending the boundaries of good taste. Here is the origin story of an actor who truly is wild at heart and weird on top.

When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge and an opportunity. Pushing 40, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the street and join up. The other part is terrified.

The heartbreaking, iconic true story of an abandoned little boy’s horrific journey through the American foster care system. On a misty evening in Brooklyn, Jennings Michael Burch’s mother, too sick to care for him, left her eight-year-old son at an orphanage with the words, “I’ll be...

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Actor Nicholas Cage on this edition of Fresh Air. He's starring in the new film Windtalkers. A group of Navajo soldiers developed an unbreakable code based on their language for use during World War II. The film is set in the South Pacific. Cage plays Joe Enders, a marine guard assigned to protect the Native American code talkers. Cage won an Academy Award for his role in the film Leaving Las Vegas.

Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself - and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. "Remarkably researched, exquisitely written", Where the Heart Beats weaves together "a great many threads of cultural history" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s.

Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Nicolas Cage on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Philip Seymour Hoffman's one of the stars of Punch Drunk Love. Hoffman also had parts in the films Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Happiness, and Next Stop Wonderland.

Nicolas Cage: leading man or character actor? Action hero or goofball comedian? Internet joke or one of the greatest actors of his generation? Beyond the gif bait and easy punchline, Nicolas Cage continually frustrates easy categorization or understanding. In National Treasure, pop culture writer Lindsay Gibb studies Nicolas Cage’s acting style and makes sense of the trajectory of his eclectic career. In the process, Gibb debunks the common claim that Cage makes bad choices.