MPT Presents

LIFT - Connecting Humanity

LIFT – Connecting Humanity is a documentary celebrating the simple goodness of humankind. Shot in locations across the world, including Malawi, Syria, Afghanistan, Scotland, Cambodia, India, the Philippines, Greece, Nepal, Ghana and the United States, LIFT explores the history of modern philanthropy and profiles stories of people who have devoted their lives to lifting the lives of others.

LIFT - Connecting Humanity

1h 27m

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    Teilhard: Visionary Scientist

    1h 57m

    The life of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French priest-paleontologist-visionary, suppressed by his Jesuit order for advocating evolution is revealed in a drama of personal awakening, a search for meaning, scientific adventure, unresolved conflict with authority, and human love.

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    Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace

    27m 16s

    In 1975, only 30 years after the United States and Japan have been at war, Japan gave 53 priceless bonsai trees to the United States in celebration of the U.S. Bicentennial. Some bonsai were several hundred years old. One had remarkably survived the bombing of Hiroshima. “Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace” chronicles this historic gift, with rare interviews and archival footage.

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    MSG: Mysterious Savory Grains

    12m 42s

    Chef Tim Ma shares his Chinese culture through his food and debunks the negative and unsavory stigma around MSG, better known as monsodium glutamate.

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