Robert Stone – MRQE

“Taken Hostage”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Unfolding like a political thriller, Taken Hostage tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the United States received a daily barrage of humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been one of our closest allies. Told through the candid, personal testimony of those whose lives were upended by the action, the crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.

Pandora’s Promise

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The atomic bomb, the specter of a global nuclear holocaust, and disasters like Fukushima have made nuclear energy synonymous with the darkest nightmares of the modern world. But what if everyone has nuclear power wrong? What if people knew that there are reactors that are self-sustaining and fully controllable and ones that require no waste disposal? What if nuclear power is the only energy source that has the ability to stop climate change?

Earth Days

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of our growing awareness and understanding of the environmental crisis and emergence, during the 1960s and ’70s, of popular movement to confront it.

Oswald’s Ghost

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of tragedy as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks did for Generation Y – not only for the effect that it had on the nation’s morale but for the conspiracy theories that would follow in its wake as well. In the aftermath of the assassination,

Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A documentary on the curious American domestic terrorist group, infamous for the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst.

Radio Bikini

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy Sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout. One interviewed sailor suffered grotesquely swollen limbs and he is shown being interviewed with enormous left arm and hand.

American Babylon

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Filmmaker Robert Stone follows a narcotics detective who avoided a life of crime and became a born-again Christian.