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Season 10 Episode 7: Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic"

Filmmaker Immy Humes presents a portrait of her father, the legendary forgotten novelist and counterculture icon Harold Louis "Doc" Humes. Doc’s friends and family—including Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Timothy Leary, William Stryon, Peter Matthiessen, Paul Auster, and Jonas Mekas—weaving together a story of politics, literature, protest and mental illness, shedding light on an original mind as well as the cultural history of postwar America.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

28

Episodes:

543

Actor:

Stanley Tucci

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1999

IMDb:

6.6