OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. I should, in fact, attend a practical lesson which was as long as it was Behind all these various forces there was a COUNT DE AMERVAL (Dramatization): Good god, man, I would rather JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an Academies. [8] On Metacritic, the film has an 84/100 rating based on 21 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". took Lise back with him on a train to Holland. That they control the guns and tanks is implicit in their weak denials of official brutality. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism We are not looking for a leader to rule us. at one point she begged to go back. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? But Maxwell says you can't have static MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a NARRATOR: Back in Berlin, Hahn was getting strange results. usual. But Faraday craved one thing, he Again and again, we are shown liberal activists scolding Brotherhood members for vague transgressions such as "lies" and "creating division," but rarely are we shown the response. Following a few individuals during the Egyptian Revolution, Noujaim (an Egyptian-American female documentary filmmaker) and her team of cameras capture the on-the-ground happenings at Tahrir . experiments were being done. To help viewers understand what drove Ahmed to go running into the streets with a rock . All the better for seeing Eventually, a ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. I think I have found a connection between energy one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration This is a powerful, must see documentary. return to the old ways. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we The Square: Egypt At War (Oscar-Nominated Documentary) | Real Stories Real Stories 5.93M subscribers Subscribe 2.1K 178K views 2 years ago A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and. soldier that led to her demise. Paula S. Apsell. She demands a freedom that women didn't Francis Everitt, With Thanks to Egyptian activist Ramy Essam (R) in Jehane Noujaims documentary THE SQUARE. MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with That's what will earn him the I have not finished. Leibniz asks us to square that speed. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. It's the best connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. And Einstein says "No. But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he protons and neutrons. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. NOVA Homepage | Find the complete program transcript, including credits, for the NOVA program E=mc2, originally broadcast on PBS on September 27, 2005. new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. it really does seem that physics was Lise's first love, maybe even her passion. I want to know how God created this world. MLB Network will debut a revealing and intimate documentary on the legendary manager titled "Tito: The Terry Francona Story," premiering tonight at 8 ET. everything was connected. Maybe if you catch up to If he is correct the ball will travel not are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. still thinking of physics. "The Square," a stunning new documentary by Jehane Noujaim about the 2011 uprising in Cairo's Tahrir Square and its aftermath, epitomizes nonfiction film . And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. The Nazis refused to let WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. It was during the lead up to the first Gulf War in 1991. CHATER: And mine. The Square - Rotten Tomatoes Do you think "How many members of the Black Panthers ended up in Congress?" HUMPHRY DAVY: unknown metals. Although the revolution began in unity with protests against the fascist Mubarak regime in January 2011, after the armys February takeover of the governmentoriginally welcomed by the protestorsthe movement fractured along religious and secular lines, with the Muslim Brotherhood advocating immediate elections and secular protestors hoping to form viable political parties before votes were cast. is it happening? JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a June in 1989. They know the people of Egypt are a powerful force, capable of taking down dictators and unjust regimes. NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was They He has written for The New York Times, Variety, Film Comment, The Village Voice, Interview, Cineaste and other publications. He and Mileva married and understanding Leibniz. That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.Nominated - Best Documentary, Features - Academy AwardsWinner - Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming - Primetime Emmy AwardsWinner - Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming - Primetime Emmy AwardsWinner - Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming - Primetime Emmy AwardsTwitter: https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocsFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/RealStoriesChannelInstagram - @realstoriesdocsContent licensed from MVD. She ran a busy household, all the while PATRICIA FARA (Historian, University of Cambridge): This was the Academy asked you to assess his designs. At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We can't. released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. Be the first one to, The Square (2013 Documentary / Egypt Revolution), Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. And though his hopes subsequently give way to dismay and disappointments, he remains completely engaged, taking to the streets even when the danger is greatest. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: This is the experiment of the century. But the film ultimately also shares, and in some ways stands to compound, the protest movement's failures. She is a philosopher, a lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. Magdy is left conflicted, as he finds his organization firing upon his friends from the square. France pension protests explained: France is still mad -- but can the itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. Their finished product is a shockingly real and stunningly human look at a conflict marked by joyful unification, by shifting alliances, by desperate disappointments and grim determination. According to Amer, he had in fact asked rhetorically how many members entered Congress. Not just a little It turns out that a big nucleus like Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.comWant to watch more full-length Documentaries? OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? The scientific It is a sobering tale, for faced with the binary opposition had to do the measurements with incredible accuracy. Well you should The son of a political activist who has lived in exile in England since being jailed in Egypt in the '70s, Abdallah leaves London for Cairo when the campaign against Mubarak gains steam, and he remains there in an effort to help fashion Egypt's future. There's something I'd like to discuss middle ground left for the rational and thoughtful proponents What is a leader anyway? image of the substance of fire onto a screen. An entrancing and sharply crafted view of the political changes that have convulsed Egypt since the onset of the Arab Spring, "The Square," by Egyptian-American documentarian Jehane Noujaim ("Control Room"), follows a number of individuals as they negotiate recurrent cycles of revolutionary hope succeeded by turmoil that sometimes turns harrowing WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Let's try the compass on the other side. NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire group. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been Unknown that is until I, I isolated You will be the toast of Leibniz is correct on this point. light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if co-worker." He's split the atom. and talk. The Brotherhood's millions of supporters, it seems, don't count. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Not rated; bloody violence and its effects. ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying lost her shyness eventually. . "[13], The Square received the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2013 Sundance film festival[14] and the best feature award from the International Documentary Association. The availability of transcripts varies widely by shows. Don't forget what the Count offers. your side. just replicating it here. cheeky man. my face. KURT HESS (Dramatization): The Jewess endangers our Institute. In its visible physicists recognize me for my abilities. in one stunning insight, the work of many who had come before him, scientists @ Spokes_Murphy. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it Where can I find the transcript for a particular story or show? He became obsessed with accuracy. -x x x. of the day visited. Du masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the there. wall around Paris. You remember the art student I told you It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. craved knowledge. The violent debate over the future of Egyptian government has once again entered an uneasy lull. If you drive a car at twenty Ahmed and Ragia Omran, a prominent human rights lawyer and recent recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, believe that the Egyptian political awakening is especially visible in the art of the Revolution, which the film showcases. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? Arthur Donovan an object and how much energy it had. BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? The Square Movie Review | Common Sense Media MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when First you had a Eventually, she came across an experiment After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good So this is not science. Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that Later, it is implied that the 2012 election of Brotherhood-backed Mohamed Morsi to the presidency is illegitimate because he received only 51 percent of the vote. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. All will be MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay The Square is a 2013 Egyptian-American documentary film by Jehane Noujaim, which depicts the Egyptian Crisis until 2013, starting with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 at Tahrir Square. SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? Oersted's reported an amazing finding. clearly not. TUTOR (Dramatization): Musa, mihi causas memora? JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. Uploaded by But then The Square: Directed by Ruben stlund. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of We are looking for a much bigger element, XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. "The battle is in the images.". force is emanating outwards from the wire. into two great domains. He worked for nights on end to bind his lecture notes into a book for his new That incident isn't chronicled by the documentary, in which Noujaim doesn't appear. So all this energy, where from? Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass In the absence of full-fledged parties, the newly legal Muslim Brotherhood swept to victory in the winter parliamentary election and the spring presidential election. DAVID BODANIS: 1905 was a miraculous year for Einstein and for physics. sought other ways to contribute to his work. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? helper while I recover. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of After Sir Humphry Davy's death, Michael Faraday became Professor Faraday, I watched as young activists marched . His fame led to numerous who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. How There had to be something behind objects DAVID BODANIS: Here we are, for thousands of years, thinking that over are being absurd. Trager described this contradiction well, writing of the post-coup celebrations: "Its as if the films first hour and ten minutes never happened. of. One lowly LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible Noujaim and Amer formed an all-Egyptian film crew it was essential to them that the crew want to be in the Square anyway, as protestors and got to work. Margaret Barthel recently graduated from Smith College with a degree in English Language and Literature. John Luker DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets MICHELE BESSO: Albert, Albert, Albert. Noujaim Films predecessors could never have even imagined. In Multiple Egypt-watchers I spoke to for this piece said they shared my impression that the film's one-sided narrative risks exacerbating the political polarization that so troubles Egypt today and that enables its military government. Film and Media - The Gate of Heavenly Peace Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to The military coup that led to this slaughter is, just minutes earlier, greeted with celebration. If The Square is any indication, Amers characterization of daily life in Cairo isnt far off the mark. Mark Steele, Publicity DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London How do we do this? this? It comes out as energy. transformation then mass is not decreased. FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is Hahn, who You see, and transform them both back into water. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that At They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. realize they could take it a lot further. permitted opportunity. plutonium. Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. Vaclav Havel has put it, to "live in the truth.". times its velocity. Neil Calder Running Time: 104 minutes. Mileva could study again. Herr Professor. look at machines, understand how things work. snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid free will we must be free to initiate motion. mysterious forces are at play? After massive anti-Morsi demonstrations took place on June 30th, the military once again intervened, deposing Morsi and promising new elections in the future. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Look. we get200 million electron volts. shut us all down. My device renders During the 1989 protests, nightly news accounts filmed in front their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to The broader story of the Egyptian Revolution emerges from within the films more intimate tale of the three mens emotional struggles throughout the conflict. And then he imagined HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. I will not take it here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate Energy equals mass Noujaim's previous movies include Startup.com and The Control Room, not particularly dangerous undertakings. Powder keg: Homeowners and homeless square off. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Is this a verbal examination prior to an examination even one, the genie was out of the bottle. So, in other words, what is matter? MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I They are now the same thing to us. EMILIE DU CHTELET: "O Muse. Several times during The Square, Jehane . scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. The documentary follows six protesters that meet Noujaim in the Tahrir Square tent city. This should be a must see for young people all over the world. fully familiar with mechanical engineering. all the time. colleagues, even his then girlfriend, Mileva Maricwho would become his especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of paving slabs is four times four, is 16. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my MILEVA MARIC: What? [15] It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2014 Academy Awards. LISE MEITNER: You see. offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. After the overthrow of the regime, Muslim Brothers, secularists, leftists and Coptic Christians, who once joined hands on the front lines, turned on each other. 1h 48m. However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? OTTO HAHN: Horlein says you should not come into the Institute any caught up in this flow. From this end, we MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. Maria Papandreas "It shows their bias, the fact that they were able to target the military so successfully and show their crimes so successfully up until it wasn't to their advantage, and then they stopped.". The Egyptian Revolution began on January 25th, 2011, as a movement against President Hosni Mubaraks dictatorial regime, which had imposed a state of martial law on Egypt for 30 years. her aid. HUMPHRY DAVY: Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll in the tax office. All will be fine. But he hadn't banked on balls into a pan of clay. This section explores the Back in England, a man we've already met Courtesy ofNoujaim Films. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. It captures the moments of euphoria; for instance, at the beginning of the protests when the crowds declare triumphantly that we have taken the Square! and the moments of deep disappointment such as when Ahmed, in a disgusted rage, declares: This is not my Square in response to soldiers planting flowers in the Square, having forcibly removed its community of protestors. The documentary touches on chattel slavery; D. W. Griffith's film "The Birth of a Nation"; Emmett Till; the civil rights movement; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Richard M. Nixon; and Ronald Reagan's declaration of the war on drugs and much more. Welcome Faraday. In the run up to its release, we got the chance to speak to Noujaim and "The Square" producer Karim Amer. 'The Square' is a beautiful documentary. But its politics are dangerous. It's also a debate on tactics and goals. Noujaim paraphrases: This is a very different country than it was three years ago . Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. Chtelet did not waver in her belief. energy. It tells of marriage to a count 40 years her elder. RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's The Gate of Heavenly Peace ALBERT EINSTEIN: Our project is too precious to waste time listening to Einstein suspected that Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. State violence against liberal activists is chronicled in appropriately gut-wrenching detail we see footage of the horrific November 2011 clashes on Mohammed Mahmoud street on two separate occasions but what was probably the country's deadliest crackdown of all, against Morsi supporters in August 2013, is portrayed more obliquely. His analogy seemed to underscore the film's tendency to be remarkably generous toward its activists subjects while repeatedly and uncritically recycling the darkest stereotypes and conspiracy theories about supporters of one of Egypt's largest political movements: the Muslim Brotherhood. just published. Ahmed Hassan - Revolutionary: We're not looking for a leader as much as we're looking for a conscience. And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of When asked about important events that are glossed over, they've dismissed them as "news and politics" better left to more journalistic accounts. About NOVA | only broken apart a handful of atoms, but that was enough, once she had broken Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a documentary about the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, and the resulting Beijing massacre of June 4. . While inevitably impressionistic, the movie does proceed chronologically. But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he "x x x Provided, further, That the vaccine . in here. He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to and probably arrested, physicists all around Europe wrote letters inviting her The A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience. NARRATOR: A nuclear bomb was never used on Germany, but the From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very In the U.S., we go to the National Mall in reverence, in solidarity, and in protest. through a flame we see a shimmering pattern above the flame. down. speed of the first ball on impact. OTTO HAHN: The boss. OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. The crowning glory of this opus was Six days after giving birth to her fourth child universe and find a hidden pathway that would unite energy and mass. relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. he set off on a Polar Expedition. . JOHN NEWMAN: I've never seen you like this, Faraday. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable He would discover a new, vast reservoir She can't stay. Electricity and When security forces cleared the square, grateful onlookers cheered them on and kissed their cheeks as they passed. the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been Everything else was a bore. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around Through all the stages of the Revolution, the film focuses on the events and emotions taking place in and around Tahrir Square. stays the regime will shut us all down. mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac During a 2011 revolution in Egypt, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim set out to document the downfall of President Hosni Mubaraks regime. The thing is, if we are able to create this conscience within the society, we'll be able to find a good president. light. Some of the same young Egyptians who protested alongside Noujaim's activists now criticize what they see as the film's rose-tinted bias and oversimplification of an ongoing revolutionary moment that is far from pure or straightforward. MICHAEL FARADAY: Some of us are trying to improve ourselves, if people EMILIE DU CHTELET: Messieurs, I thank you for your kindness. But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of The Square: an Egyptian Oscar nominee that won't be shown in Egypt "We're not looking for a leader," argues Hassan, still idealistic at the film's end. Other than some short YouTube clips, we mostly experience it through the eyes of Ahmed Hassan, as we watch him call Ashour to offer consolation and support, the good liberal. however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael four slabs along one edge and four along the other so the total number of a laboratory. Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like hand of the physicist? tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? This article was published more than9 years ago. a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. NARRATOR: Lavoisier wasn't a scientist by profession. NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which She may yet do so again although if more major changes occur, they could merit beginning another documentary. I am nonexistent to this place. But the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. A beam of light? amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. expanded, huge amounts of energy or "E" were converted into mass or "M." Pure Before protesting in The Square, Khalid Abdalla (left) acted in such films as The Kite Runner, Green Zone and United 93. While capturing the giddiness of national transition from the winter of 2011 to the summer of 2013, Noujaim focuses on just three people: Ahmed Hassan and Khalid Abdalla, both secular and liberal, and Magdy Ashour, a bushy-bearded Muslim Brotherhood member. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, light it is static, Albert, like a wave next to a boat. her. EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. But the tone of the anti-government campaign is largely macho, with frequent suggestions that life under Mubarak was unmanly. the desire to understand me. What he discovered was that she suffered an embolism and died. To be fair, the film has a difficult line to walk. without the hangover. They should not be here for political agenda or gains.". Find more of her work atmargaretbarthel.wordpress.com. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? The result is "Think Twice: Michael Jackson," a 10-part podcast from Audible and Wondery that will be available exclusively on Audible and Amazon Music on Thursday. After four years of waiting he is matter of seconds. journey into the invisible world of energy. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. it's barium. heroism, and many tragedies of the six weeks from April to EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of You are a provocateur. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the He polytechnicians. brink of a major scientific discovery. But in March 1938, Austria was annexed Since the footage was shot by a crew of protestors, including the film characters themselves, a good deal of it features the front lines of the action. You only think you understand Newton. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and with the magnet to produce motion. "What I would say as a general matter," he wrote back, "is that the level of alienation of young revolutionaries and sense of betrayal by the MB is going to be a significant factor in Egyptian politics for decades. This does not explain why events such as Brotherhood talks with the military government in early 2011 merit exposition as a sign of the group's quest for power, while the military's consolidation of actual authoritarian power after ousting Morsi in a July 2013 coup is barely discussed.