This week’s Reel 13 short films featured a young boy in peril, a soldier’s broken marriage, and a quest to visit historic NYC towers. You voted, now find out which film won.

This film opens in select theaters over the July 4th weekend. Charlie Rose sat down with director Alex Gibney and two of Thompson’s closest colleagues: magazine editors Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone) and Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair) to talk about the film and Thompson’s life story.

A new movement of architects are looking to solve humanitarian problems with their designs. At the forefront is Architecture for Humanity (whose motto is above), and Frontline/World visits some of their projects in India. Watch video…

This morning, Danish artist Olafur Eliasson opened the spigot on his public art installation, “The New York City Waterfalls.” The artist, in association with the Public Art Fund, erected four 90- to 120-foot-tall waterfalls in the New York Harbor, situated in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Governor’s Island.

Each season, Ballet Hispanico performs a program of newly commissioned ballets and previous repertory to illustrate the range and richness of Hispanic culture in today’s world. Watch a rehearsal for Palladium Nights

A clever mix of animation, archival footage and KING CORN clips made Kylee Darcy’s short film on the politics of food the winner of Independent Lens’ video mashup contest. Watch video here.

Watch step by step as an artist creates a replica of a famous van Gogh painting. Can you tell the genuine article from the forgery?

Funny Ha Ha, Andrew Bujalski’s 16mm sleeper hit about a college grad adrift in her early twenties, airs on Reel 13 this Saturday, June 28th at 10pm. Watch the trailer.

The documentary on this gifted artist, from his glamorous work in Hollywood of the ’40s to his large-scale architectural projects of the ’50s, airs tonight at 10pm, part of June’s “Out” programming. Unusually, Norman spent his life not in the closet, and is a working sculptor at 90.
See Norman’s site for galleries of his [...]

Stand-up comic, social commentator, and pundit of the profane, George Carlin died on Sunday, June 22 at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. His publicist said the cause of death was heart failure. Watch an interview he did a few years ago and read more about his work.