Real Life Badasses

A feel good doc about a feel good girl.

The wonderful character actor was one of the first soldiers on the beach at Normandy 70 years ago.

They ran in gangs, they hid in the woods and they beat up Hitler Youth. They were awesome.

Before Snowden there were the Media burglars, who have finally come forward to take credit for exposing COINTELPRO. 

A girl protesting for her reproductive rights in Texas was labeled a whore by internet trolls. Her response is awesome.

He dedicated his life to fighting Nazis, starred in two of the most lasting films of all time and inspired both The Joker and Jaffar. Meet Conrad Veidt.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, James and the Giant Peach... and Roald And The Improved Tube To Drain Brain Fluid.

John Fairfax led a helluva life. And now it's over at age 74.

Giants still walk among us. In this new monthly feature, Lars celebrates a living, breathing colossus. This month: the man who invented rock and roll.

Flashback to 1981 as Ali, celebrating his 70th birthday today, stops a man from jumping to his death.

Twin filmmaking brothers Tarzan and Arab have never left the Gaza Strip or seen a movie on the big screen. This week they're coming to Austin to show their short and see their favorite movie projected for the first time. This is the story of how they got from Gaza to the Drafthouse.

Ernest "Mooney" Warther was perhaps the most productive man of the 20th century and a badass with a knife.