Poster of Cast and Crew in Independent Lens - Season 10 - Episode 7 - Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic"

Independent Lens - Season 10 - Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic" (Episode 7)

Plot: 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
Episode Aired On:
Tuesday, December 16 2008
16 years ago