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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Encouraging Flint to Invent
Flint's mother gives Flint encouragement when he's feeling down. She suggests he follow the example of great inventors, such as Nikola Tesla and Alexander Graham Bell, who weren't deterred by what other people thought of them. Flint then gets back to work on new inventions. -
The Profit: Elvis Impersonator Finds Success in Vegas
The Profit visits a successful Elvis impersonator in Vegas. He listens to the ways that this impersonator has built his empire and created a name for himself. -
The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation: The Wright Brothers and the First Airplane
Matt Anderson unfolds the origins of the first airplane and how this invention shaped the future generations of airplanes and their appreciation for science. The Wright Brothers became not just icons but inventors whose contributions have led to major changes in the world today. -
Despicable Me: Steal the Moon
Gru reveals to his minions the plan to steal the moon. In the process, he reveals the evil and ambitious nature of his character. -
Rudy: Fortune's Truth
Has profanityRudy's ambition is to play football for the University of Notre Dame. He loses confidence in himself because he did not make the dress list, but Fortune reminds him to have persistence. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipNewsies: King of New York
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Young newspaper sellers express in song their ambitions in an industrializing, urbanizing America. Some of their desires are for ordinary objects. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipFirst Man (2018): One Small Step for Man
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This scene simulates the moment Neil Armstrong exits the lunar lander on the Apollo 11 mission and steps foot on the moon, a first for human beings. This moment represented the culmination of centuries of mankind's ambitions and scientific understanding. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipKingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites: King Herod and the Romans
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Details the rise of Herod to throne of Judea, acting as an agent of Rome. On one hand Herod pursued Jewish rebels on Rome's behalf but on the other he embarked on ambitious building projects, especially an unprecedented reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipEmpires: Egypt's Golden Empire: Hatshepsut Declares Herself Pharaoh
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Hatshepsut inherits a role as regent of the Egyptian throne when her husband passes away. This is not enough for the ambitious woman, who declares herself Pharaoh and goes on to become the longest serving woman to lead Egypt. In order to legitimize her rule she crafts a careful image and history. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipFeature History: The End of Sino-Japanese War
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The joseon Kingdom would become the empire of korea. Totally independent but all knew this would be short-lived with russian and japanese imperoal interests strongly butting heads on the peninsula war would be inevitable. Japan had refromed and modernized following the example of western imperialism to carry out the ambitions of the empire would require following this example closely and so asia in the 20th century would know war
