Fast & Furious

This week the Adventure Show is live from Pinkston Watersports for a host of dramatic action. There is the fast and furious wildwater kayaking and the highly competitive canoe polo, where boat and paddle handling skills are paramount. Expect thrills and spills during the extreme kayaking competition, where three paddlers race head to head down the course. And watch out for the incredible feats of the freestyle athletes.

Jacopo Tintoretto changed the face of Venetian painting. His fast and furious brushwork was likened to a thunderbolt. Combining the rich colors of Titian with the dramatic muscularity of Michelangelo’s figures, Tintoretto covered the walls of his native city with pictures that astounded his contemporaries; Vasari declared him “the most extraordinary brain that the art of painting has ever produced.” This documentary examines Tintoretto’s career with original footage of his works in the churches and palaces of Venice.

Narrated by Paul Walker of the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, the film takes you into Northern Nevada’s Valley of Speed to experience, from inside the cockpit, the intensity and high-speed thrills of an air show and sports event like no other.

In this witty romp, Jean Harlow plays an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband (Robert Williams) into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He …

The dream of flight was finally realized on a North Carolina beach in 1903. In the century since then, innovations have come fast and furious, and the skies have filled with extraordinary creations.

n September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran's religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumours spread that she had been beaten on arrest. Furious citizens took to the streets in their thousands. In a country with no freedom of speech or free reporting, they filmed themselves. This documentary reveals what has been happening across Iran, revealing a regime under huge pressure, resorting to extreme cruelty to control its citizens.

McKellen: Playing the Part is a great documentary that runs about 92 minutes long and showcases the work and life of the X-Men and Lord of the Rings star Ian McKellen.

Abraham Lincoln. Adolf Hitler. The birth of Christ. The death of Joan of Arc. We know that these seminal people and events helped shape our history, and we know their stories well…or do we? Much of our information about the last 2,000 years is based on unreliable sources, old technology, and antiquated theories. Not anymore. Take a journey around the world as modern historians, scientists and scholars investigate ancient artifacts, documents and locales to answer age-old questions about our puzzling past.