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Independent Lens Episode 10.07 Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic"
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Independent Lens Episode 10.07 Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic"

Episode Premiere
December 16, 2008
Genre
Documentary
Production Company
ITVS
Official Site
http://pbs.org/show/independent-lens
Episode Premiere
December 16, 2008
Genre
Documentary
Period
1999 -
Production Co
ITVS
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://pbs.org/show/independent-lens
Main Cast
  • Stanley Tucci

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.