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Bringing the early 20th century to life, THE Nearly 15 years after the series debuted ADVENTURES OF YOUNG INDIANA JONES on ABC, Young Indy lives again on DVD, combines breathtaking photography, cutting- accompanied on his journey through history edge production and family-friendly fun with a by 94 all-new companion documentaries, meticulous attention to historical detail. Creator professorial lectures, games and an ’ dream was of a series that could interactive timeline. make history exciting for younger viewers. “Fiction is a great way to spark interest in fact, “I wanted young people to realize that history and these collections should provide a fun way to is really about people more than it’s about get a glimpse into some really fascinating historical events,” said Lucas. “I wanted to show that those events,” said Lucas. “With so much material to people are just like we are, regardless of their enhance the experience, the DVD documentaries impact on philosophy, music, religion and culture. really make the package complete.” And Indy’s childhood was a natural vehicle for The extensive complementary materials were the kinds of stories I had envisioned.” produced by the Lucasfilm documentary unit, Lucas was joined in his ambitious endeavor by headed by CBS News veteran David Schneider, Rick McCallum, who produced the massive, who worked for more than four years on the globe-trotting production with its impressive project. The documentaries enrich the episodes array of international actors, writers and with insights from scholars, historians and directors. Though they were experimenting with luminaries from all disciplines, including exclusive untried new techniques in digital filmmaking, interviews with Gen. Colin Powell, Henry Lucas insisted that all take Kissinger, Gloria Steinem, Martin Scorsese, place on location in over 35 countries. Barbara Boxer, , Sir Martin “It was important to George that audiences Gilbert, Hal David, Deepak Chopra, Frank experience the countries where the actual McCourt, Tony Judt and many more. events took place,” said McCallum. “He “The great thing about this series is that didn’t want the series to have an American Young Indy’s adventures are drawn from the true point of view, so we hired directors from all stories of people and events that are surprisingly over the world. And although the network dramatic,” said Schneider. “History does come objected to subtitles on television, George alive and it’s fascinating to learn how the insisted that young Indy speak the native triumphs and failures of those who came before language of each country he visited. We really us are directly connected to our lives today. It wanted to intrigue young people with the was a privilege to be part of this ambitious notion that the world is made up of all kinds of project and we hope that Young Indy’s different cultures and viewpoints.” adventures and the historical documentaries will But the TV incarnation of George’s vision was entertain and enlighten audiences of all ages for just the beginning. many years to come.”

3 “The TV series is one big, painless, endlessly “Not only does the series look better than compelling history lesson, framed by the extra- anything else on network television, with Carl special effects Lucas does so well, told by a large Schultz, , , and Terry group of splendid actors and filmed in the original Jones…it’s smarter too.” locations with vivid colors and vigorous action and -New York Magazine vibrant involvement.” -Newark Star Ledger “Young Indiana Jones has an irreverent spirit, and no new show this season has more ambition or style.” “They have set a new standard for television -Time Magazine production, raising it to the caliber of theatrical film.” -Wall Street Journal “Young Indiana Jones has intelligence, wit and heart, which doesn’t sound like too much to ask of a show “Young Indy is TV’s answer to archaeology, aimed at kids, but think of how many wretched a sweeping and ambitious depiction of the prime-time kiddiecoms fail to deliver these basics. “These exciting tales are the way to a youngster’s 20th century . It has been shot around the world, George Lucas makes it look easy.” imagination - and his grandfather’s too. History’s against spectacular scenery, by noted international -San Francisco Examiner never been told more vividly on television, or more directors. And it is a triumph for engagingly for young and old alike. Bravo to George George Lucas, who makes his passion for history “By far the most impressively mounted weekly show Lucas and team. And may Young Indy be my absorbing…” -Miami Herald on television.” -New York Times grandson’s companion far into the 21st Century.” -Bill Moyers “Young Indiana Jones is a rich feast of people, “But what I really like about the Jones family places and times—a storyteller’s banquet sure chronicle is that they read books. The 10-year old is a “It’s well-written and wonderfully performed, the kind to tempt the most jaded of palettes.” great role model. He knows the importance of an of action-adventure series that was made for families -Style Weekly Magazine education, how it helps him, whether he’s going on an to watch together.” archaeological dig or a political revolution. Indy at all - “So unique in scope and production value that most ages uses knowledge as well as his fists as weapons.” small-screen offerings—and many big-screen movies— -Newsday “But most important, it has the hands-on attention of pale in comparison.” master George Lucas, an expert in the comedy of -New York Times Syndicate “I am impressed by three aspects of this daring coming-of-age () and adventure venture. First, its identification of historic sagas () who has turned to the small “The globe-trotting production, overflowing with episodes that merit attention by young people. screen to create a uniquely American mix of exotic sights and sounds and a multitude of extras, is Second, the brilliant manner in which the history, romance and hair-raising exploits…” a technical triumph.” -Daily Variety episodes are developed so as to produce both -Vogue entertainment and enlightenment. And third, the meticulous care in getting the facts right. “George Lucas may well have found As one who has tried to accomplish these the answer to educating our ends by means of the printed book, allegedly illiterate young people I can appreciate the hard work who’ve sacrificed reading for and intellectual insight that is the boob tube.” required to do it in the more -Daily News complex field of television. A timely, perceptive and “Young Indiana Jones engaging effort.” could be one of the -James Michener, best TV shows that ever author happened…a superlative series, a stylish adventure in TV programming.” - Chronicle

4 5 Directors: Carl Schultz, René Manzor • Psychology: Charting the Human Mind Writers: Matthew Jacobs, Reg Gadney Guest star: Lukas Haas TRAVELS WITH FATHER Companion Historical A trip to Russia takes Indy from the opulent Documentaries palaces of the aristocracy to the fetid villages • Theodore Roosevelt and the of the peasant class when he runs away from American Century home after an argument with his parents. • Ecology: Pulse of the Planet Joining up with novelist Leo Tolstoy, the two go Volume One • American Dreams: Norman Rockwell on the road, engaging in philosophical (October 23, 2007) and the Saturday Evening Post discussions and clashing with colorful Gypsies • Art Rebellion: The Making of the Modern and ferocious Cossacks. Realizing that there’s MY FIRST ADVENTURE Companion Historical • Edgar Degas: Reluctant Rebel no place like home, Indy rejoins his mom and While on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley Documentaries • Braque + Picasso: A Collaboration Cubed dad and travels with his father to an isolated of the Kings, Indy uncovers an ancient mummy • Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past Greek monastery perched high on the peak of • Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun and a fresh corpse. With the help of T.E. THE PERILS OF CUPID a mountain. The arduous journey, including a Lawrence—the legendary Lawrence of Arabia— • Colonel Lawrence’s War: T.E. Lawrence In beautiful Vienna, Indy falls for the lovely harrowing trip in a tiny cage up a thousand-foot Indy solves an intriguing murder mystery only and Arabia young daughter of soon-to-be assassinated mountainside, brings father and son closer to find himself thrust right back into danger • From Slavery to Freedom Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. But the together. when he is kidnapped by slave-trading brigands. course of true love does Dragged on a terrifying journey across the PASSION FOR LIFE not run smoothly and he burning sands of North Africa to the slave The beautiful Masai Mara game reserve in must seek advice from two markets of Marrakech, Indy finds that he must Kenya is the locale as Indy goes on safari with of the founding fathers of rely on his courage and wits to survive the former President Teddy Roosevelt. When he psychology, Sigmund Freud brutal ordeal. becomes lost in the savage African bush, Indy and Carl Jung. Romantic Directors: Jim O’Brien, Michael Schultz finds that he must fight for his life against all complications of another Writers: , Jule Selbo manner of exotic and dangerous wildlife. kind turn up in Florence, Wildlife of Italy, when Indy and his another kind mother meet the great awaits him in opera composer Giacomo Paris when he Puccini. Dismayed to find accompanies a his lonely mother young Norman succumbing to the Rockwell on a sensuous charms of the rollicking tour charismatic Puccini, Indy through the frantically looks for a way bohemian world to reunite his parents and of Parisian fine rekindle their love before art. Wild parties, it’s too late. wilder women Directors: Bille August, PASSION FOR LIFE and artistic temperaments Writers: Matthew Jacobs, Jule Selbo Directors: Michael Schultz, are on full display Guest Star: Writers: , Matthew Jacobs as Pablo Picasso Companion Historical and Jonathan Hales and Edgar Degas Documentaries Companion Historical clash over their • Giacomo Puccini: Music of the Heart Documentaries contrasting styles • It’s Opera! • Seeking Truth: The Life of Leo Tolstoy of painting, while • The Archduke’s Last Journey: End of an Era • Unquiet Voices: Russian Writers and the State painting the town • Powder Keg: Europe 1900 to 1914 • Aristotle: Creating Foundations MY FIRST ADVENTURE red at a gaudy • Sigmund Freud: Exploring the Unconscious • Ancient Questions: Philosophy and late-night soiree. • Carl Jung and the Journey of Self Discovery Our Search for Meaning

6 7 trouble, Indy is sent to visit his aunt in New Mexico. While there, he is kidnapped by Pancho Villa and swept up into the Mexican Revolution. Chaotic, free-wheeling border towns, a “Wild Bunch” style train robbery and a colorful barroom encounter with a young George Patton make for thrilling entertainment in this action-packed movie. Directors: , Carl Schultz Volume Two Writers: Matthew Jacobs, Jonathan Hales (December 18, 2007) Companion Historical THE TRENCHES OF HELL Directors: René Manzor, Nicolas Roeg Documentaries As a young soldier in the Belgian Army, Indy Writers: Jonathan Hales, • Thomas Alva Edison: Lighting up the World learns first-hand the savagery of warfare while • Invention and Innovation: What’s Behind Companion Historical participating in the Battle of the Somme. SPRING BREAK ADVENTURE a Good Idea? Documentaries Almost succumbing to despair as his life • Marshal Petain’s Fall From Grace • The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer becomes an endless round of artillery barrages, • Flirting With Danger: The Fantasy JOURNEY OF RADIANCE • Wanted: Dead or Alive: Pancho Villa and nerve gas attacks and decaying corpses, Indy of Mata Hari A jaunt through the mystical Far East takes Indy the American Invasion of Mexico fears that death will be his only way out. Then • Into the Furnace: The Battle of Verdun to the Holy City of Benares where he befriends • General John J. Pershing and his American Army he is captured by the Germans and confined to • Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Espionage the lonely and isolated young spiritual leader, • George S. Patton: American Achilles a POW camp where he and fellow prisoner in World War I Jiddu Krishnamurti. Surrounded by supplicants Charles de Gaulle hatch a daring scheme to and hangers-on, Krishnamurti struggles to have LOVE’S SWEET SONG win their freedom in true “Great Escape” style. PHANTOM TRAIN OF DOOM faith in himself and to fulfill the destiny Landing in Ireland right before the Easter Director: Simon Wincer Indy is ordered to locate and destroy a powerful decreed for him by his worshippers. In the Rebellion, Indy mixes romance and Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh German artillery gun that is mysteriously able to process, he shows Indy just how strong the revolutionary politics when he falls for a appear and disappear at will, leaving death and power of faith can be. Indy’s mother also learns beautiful young colleen whose brother is Companion Historical destruction in its wake. Assisting him is a colorful a lesson in faith and trust when she must rely involved in the Irish resistance movement. Documentaries • Siegfried Sassoon: A War on some poor Chinese villagers and their Across the waters in England, he encounters a Poet’s Journey traditional medical techniques to save the life similar problem when his love affair with a • Robert Graves and the of her son, who lies perilously close to death strong-willed young woman is derailed by her White Goddess with typhoid fever. fervent belief in the women’s suffrage • I Am France: The Myth of Directors: Deepa Mehta, Gavin Millar movement and her need for independence. Charles de Gaulle Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh, Rosemary Violent street brawls, a terrifying Zeppelin raid • The Somme: A Storm of Steel Anne Sisson and a seriocomic dinner party with Winston Companion Historical Churchill provide plenty of thrills in this exciting, romantic adventure. DEMONS OF DECEPTION Documentaries Indy addresses the moral • Jiddu Krishnamurti: The Reluctant Messiah Directors: Gillies MacKinnon, Carl Schultz ambiguities of leadership when • Annie Besant: An Unlikely Rebel Writers: Jonathan Hales, Rosemary Anne Sisson confronted with win-at-any-cost • Medicine in the Middle Kingdom Guest Stars: Elizabeth Hurley, military officials who have a • Eastern Spirituality: The Road to Enlightenment Companion Historical callous disregard for the lives of Documentaries the men they command. The SPRING BREAK ADVENTURE • Easter Rising: The Poets’ Rebellion gut-wrenching horror of trench Indy and his girlfriend Nancy Stratemeyer, • The Passions of William Butler Yeats warfare, vividly depicted in whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery • Sean O’Casey vs. Ireland harrowing battles scenes, is series, visit the fascinating laboratory of • Ireland: The Power of the Poets DEMONS OF DECEPTION contrasted when Indy goes on inventor Thomas Edison. The two must • Winston Churchill: The Lion’s Roar leave in Paris and engages in a torrid affair with group of soldiers nicknamed “The Old and the contend with dangerous German spies as they • Demanding the Vote: The Pankhursts infamous spy Mata Hari. She shows him that Bold” because of their old age and reckless struggle to keep Edison’s top secret new and British Suffrage love, like war, can also be fraught with courage. Their mission takes them on a dangerous invention out of the hands of hostile enemy • Fighting for the Vote: Women’s Suffrage deception, disillusionment and heartbreak. journey across the German-held veldt via wagon agents. To keep him from getting into any more in America

8 9 train and hot air balloon. Overcoming all manner faith in humanity restored and his outlook on of obstacles presented by the enemy, his own life forever changed. side and the harsh African terrain, Indy Director: Simon Wincer relentlessly follows the trail of the mega-gun right Writer: Frank Darabont into the bowels of a secret mountain hideout Guest Star: Friedrich von Thun where he plans an explosive end for the phantom Companion Historical train of doom. Documentaries Director: Peter MacDonald • Albert Schweitzer: Reverence for Life Writer: Frank Darabont • Waging Peace: The Rise of Pacifism Companion Historical • Congo: A Curse of Riches Documentaries • Chasing the Phantom: Paul von ATTACK OF THE HAWKMEN Lettow Vorbeck Working with the French Secret Service, Indy • Dreaming of Africa: The Life of joins the legendary Lafayette Escadrille flying Frederick Selous unit and embarks on dangerous airborne • At Home and Abroad: The Two Faces of reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines. A DAREDEVILS OF THE DESERT Jan Smuts run-in with German Ace Manfred von Richthofen leads to a death-defying espionage work once again threatening lives Directors: , Robert Young dogfight that leaves Indy grounded and when he infiltrates a group of young Bolsheviks Writer: hot-in-pursuit of German aircraft and begins to sympathize with their plight. As Guest Star: designer Anthony Fokker. Undercover in the country lurches toward revolution, Indy Companion Historical hostile enemy territory, Indy discovers finds himself torn between loyalty to his friends Documentaries that the Germans possess a remarkable and his military duty. • Impresario: Sergei Diaghilev and the secret weapon that could change the Directors: , Simon Wincer Ballets Russes course of the war. He resolves to bring Writers: Frank Darabont, Gavin Scott • Franz Kafka’s Dark Truth news of it back to the Allies…if he Guest Star: • Ballet: The Art of Dance doesn’t destroy it first. Companion Historical Director: Documentaries DAREDEVILS OF THE DESERT Writers: Matthew Jacobs, Rosemary • Karl: The Last Habsburg Emperor Receiving orders to assist the British in an Anne Sisson and Ben Burtt • V.I. Lenin: History Will Not Forgive Us attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert Guest Star: Anthony Daniels • The Russian Revolution: All Power town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with Companion Historical to the Soviets! a beautiful lady spy. Relying on his wits and her Documentaries tantalizing skills at belly dancing, the daring duo PHANTOM TRAIN OF DOOM • Blood Red: The Life and Death ESPIONAGE ESCAPADES works desperately to defuse the explosives of Manfred von Richthofen Going undercover as a dancer for the Ballets placed in the city’s vital water wells by • Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Russes in Spain, Indy meets an old friend, the occupying Turks. The story culminates in a OGANGA, THE GIVER AND TAKER OF LIFE • Flying High for France: The Lafayette flamboyant Pablo Picasso. Plotting to discredit spectacular cavalry charge by the gallant On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy Escadrille some German diplomats, Indy engages in a series soldiers of the Australian Lighthorsemen comes across a disease-ravaged African • War in the Third Dimension: Aerial Warfare of comic misadventures with a trio of bumbling Regiment whose very survival hinges on the village and is able to rescue one small child in World War I spies before being shipped off to on success of Indy's mission. from certain death. The presence of the child another mission. His assignment is simple: get a Director: Simon Wincer endangers the mission, leaving Indy fighting ADVENTURES IN THE SECRET SERVICE telephone installed in his apartment and wait for Writer: Frank Darabont his conscience, his sense of duty, his own men Indy finds that he must enlist the help of instructions. But he is thwarted at every turn by Guest Stars: , Anthony Daniels and the enemy as he battles his way across Habsburg royalty when he embarks on a apathetic officials, mind-numbing rules and and Catherine Zeta-Jones country. Depressed by the turmoil around dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy- infinite paperwork. Only one man, Franz Kafka, Companion Historical him, Indy reaches his lowest point. Hope held Europe into the palace of Emperor Karl of offers him any assistance. This film is a farcical Documentaries appears in the presence of Albert Schweitzer, Austria. Endangering his life and the lives of his take on the stereotypically suave portrayal of • Col. Lawrence’s War: T.E. Lawrence a profoundly inspiring and committed doctor, royal charges, Indy gambles all in a desperate espionage and also pokes fun at the narrow- and Arabia philosopher and musician. Helping out at attempt to bring the war more quickly to an minded evil of bureaucracy, which weaves its • Lines in the Sand: The Middle East and Schweitzer’s jungle hospital, Indy finds his end. Then, in chaos-ridden Russia, Indy finds his ineffectual web into an absurd straightjacket. the Great War

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TALES OF INNOCENCE • The Secret Life of Edith Wharton In Italy, Indy’s espionage work takes him • Lowell Thomas: American Storyteller behind enemy lines where he embarks on an • The French Foreign Legion: The World’s important propaganda assignment that he Most Legendary Fighting Force

MASKS OF EVIL A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the First World War. Exploring the city’s dark and TREASURE OF THE PEACOCK'S EYE dangerous streets, he is begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying contact with T.E. Lawrence, Prince Faisal of thrust into a web of betrayal words—"The eye of the peacock!"—send him Arabia and Ho Chi Minh. The brutality of and murder when he on a thrilling treasure hunt for one of realpolitik devastates the idealistic young Indy, discovers a vile plot to Alexander the Great’s most treasured and he returns home only to discover the ugly assassinate French possessions. Pursued by a dangerous one- face of bigotry as encountered by his espionage agents. Evil of a eyed man, Indy follows the trail of the boyhood friend, Paul Robeson. more enduring kind awaits diamond from London to Alexandria to the Directors: , Michael Schultz him in Transylvania where he South Seas where he has a run-in with a Writers: Jonathan Hales, Matthew Jacobs engages in mortal combat murderous band of Chinese pirates. The with bloodthirsty Vlad the Companion Historical shipboard battle that ensues is a spectacular Impaler and his horrific army Documentaries display of swords, guns and flying fists. • Woodrow Wilson: American Idealist of the living dead. With his THE SCANDAL OF 1920 Marooned by the pirates on a remote desert • Gertrude Bell: Iraq’s Uncrowned Queen very life at stake, Indy must island, Indy is captured by savage • Ho Chi Minh: The Price of Freedom garner all his strength and wits in order to hopes will bring a swift end to the war. Along headhunters, but before they can turn him • Paul Robeson: Scandalize My Name defeat the fiend and save mankind. the way, he engages in a comic rivalry with into a shrunken head and cannibal stew, he is • Robert Goddard: Mr. Rocket Science Directors: Mike Newell, Dick Maas Ernest Hemingway over the affections of a rescued by anthropologist Bronislaw • The Best Intentions: The Paris Peace Writer: Rosemary Anne Sisson, Jonathan beautiful Italian girl. After being wounded in Malinowski and makes a life-altering decision. Conference and the Treaty of Versailles Hensleigh action, Indy is transferred to North Africa Director: Carl Schultz where he joins the French Foreign Legion. Guest Star: Bob Peck Writer: Jule Selbo THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUES While trying to uncover the identity of a Companion Historical Companion Historical Going to college and working in a seedy traitor in his own ranks, Indy battles hostile Documentaries speakeasy brings Indy into contact with jazz great • For the People Despite the People: Documentaries Berber tribesmen and engages in an innocent • Bronislaw Malinowski: God Professor Sidney Bechet, who teaches him how to play the The Ataturk Revolution flirtation with author Edith Wharton. • Anthropology: Looking at the blues. Unfortunately, he also crosses paths with • The Greedy Heart of Halide Edib Directors: Bille August, Michael Schultz Human Condition up-and-coming thug Al Capone and it’s only with • Dracula: Fact and Fiction Writer: Jonathan Hales • New Guinea: Paradise in Peril the assistance of his dorm roommate, future • The Ottoman Empire: A World of Difference Companion Historical Untouchable Eliot Ness, that Indy is able to solve Documentaries WINDS OF CHANGE a vicious murder and prevent himself from ending • Unhealed Wounds: The Life of TREASURE OF THE PEACOCK’S EYE Working as a translator in Paris brings Indy in up in a pair of cement overshoes. Ernest Hemingway The war in Europe ends but a new adventure

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Director: Carl Schultz Companion Historical • On October 15, 1917, Mata Hari was execut- Writer: Jule Selbo Documentaries YOUNG INDIANA JONES ed by France for being a German spy. Four Guest Stars: Nicholas Turturro and • Tin Pan Alley: Soundtrack of America days later, Georges Ladoux, the French intel- • Broadway: America Center Stage DOCUMENTARIES ligence officer who supervised her and then Companion Historical • Wonderful Nonsense: The Algonquin led the investigation against her, was also Documentaries Roundtable arrested for being a German double agent. • Al “Scarface” Capone: The Original Gangster He was later court-martialed and set free. • The record for the most patents in U.S his- • Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood THE HOLLYWOOD FOLLIES tory is held by Thomas Edison: 1,093 • American author Ernest Hemginway drove • On the Trail of Eliot Ness While working for a Hollywood movie an ambulance on the Italian front during • Louis Armstrong: Ambassador of Jazz studio, Indy finds that he is no match for • The modern state of Iraq is less than 100 World War I and suffered 227 leg wounds • Jazz: Rhythms of Freedom wily, megalomaniacal director Erich von years old; its borders were drawn in 1921 by from an exploding shell. • Prohibition: America on the Rocks Stroheim when the two lock horns over the Gertrude Bell, a middle-aged British woman. • Hellfighters: Harlem’s Heroes of World ever-increasing budget of Stroheim’s film • Archaeologist Howard Carter searched for • In 1917, Vladimir Lenin was smuggled from War One Foolish Wives. Though battered by the film the tomb of Tutankhamun for six years exile in Switzerland to St. Petersburg, industry, Indy decides to give it one more before discovering it in 1922. It took anoth- Russia by Germany. The Germans, then at THE SCANDAL OF 1920 chance and goes on a location shoot with er 10 years to remove and catalogue the war with Russia, hoped Lenin would succeed In New York City, Indy covers a lot of ground as he legendary director John Ford. Ford and his nearly 5,000 artifacts that filled the tomb. in a revolutionary takeover and pull Russia stage-manages a Broadway musical, parties with 5th cronies, including aging gunman Wyatt Earp, out of World War I. He did. • When Germany invaded France in May of Avenue high society, reads poetry with Greenwich help him to see the magic of movies and 1940, Charles de Gaulle, a low-ranking French Village bohemians and trades barbs with the literary moviemaking, and when an actor is • On March 16, 1916, Francisco “Pancho” general, fled to England with his wife and chil- wits of the Algonquin Roundtable. Composer accidentally killed, Indy pitches in to Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico dren. Very few heard or believed de Gaulle’s George Gershwin accompanies Indy in his save the film. and killed 16 Americans. The U.S. declaration on BBC Radio in June that he was adventures as he attempts to ensure that the show Director: Michael Schultz Army’s Punitive Expedition invaded head of France’s government in exile. Four goes on despite temperamental stars, Writers: Jonathan Hales, Matthew Jacobs Mexico and hunted Villa across rugged years later, after Germany was defeated, de malfunctioning props and the fact that he’s dating desert terrain for eleven months. Villa hid Companion Historical Gaulle was named President of France. three very different women at the same time. The Documentaries in caves and escaped capture. film includes wonderful production numbers and a • Erich von Stroheim: The Profligate Genius • On June 28, 1914, Austrian Archduke • Eugene Bullard was America’s first black marvelous musical score. • The World of John Ford Franz Ferdinand survived an assassination aviator, but he never flew for the United Director: Syd Macartney • Irving Thalberg: Hollywood’s Boy Wonder attempt on his visit to Sarajevo when a bomb States. Bullard was a fighter pilot with the Writer: Jonathan Hales • The Rise of the Moguls: The Men Who thrown at his car bounced away before Lafayette Escadrille, a French squadron of Guest Star: Built Hollywood exploding. That afternoon, on his way to a American volunteers during World War I. hospital visit with victims from the morning’s Bullard became one of France’s most deco- attack, the Archduke’s car stalled a few feet rated heroes, but his effort to join the U.S. from Gavrilo Princip, the assassins’ ring- Army as a pilot was ignored. leader. Princip stepped forward and shot • Humanitarian and doctor, Albert and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Schweitzer was also considered one of the Sophie, touching off World War I. world’s leading authorities on Johann • Writer and director Erich von Stroheim was Sebastian Bach. Schweitzer helped raise fired by in 1922 for mak- funds for his African hospital by performing ing films that ran too long, took too long to organ concerts in Europe. make and were grossly over budget. For his • The British army suffered nearly 20,000 next employer, MGM, von Stroheim creat- men killed and twice that many wounded on ed a film called Greed, which took two years just the first day of the battle of the Somme: to make, cost triple its original budget, and July 1, 1916. ran nine and a half hours on screen. • In 1919, Universal Pictures, one of Hollywood’s • Although Prohibiton in America was widely largest studios, put Irving Thalberg in charge of perceived to be a failure, per capita alcohol production. He was 20 years old. consumption following Prohibition’s repeal was half the level it was prior to the ban. THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUES

14 15 16 17 FROM Eschewing the clinical, by-the-numbers helped to color Indy’s childhood included H method of teaching history, creator George impressionist Edgar Degas as well as authors Lucas used Indy’s fictional adventures to put a Franz Kafka, Edward Stratemeyer, Leo Tolstoy, human face on the past. He sought to introduce Siegfried Sassoon, William Butler Yeats, Ernest audiences to real-life people and events Hemingway and Edith Wharton. Also Always in the right place at the right time—or the wrong organically, through the eyes of an identifiable— influencing the impressionable youngster’s and quintessentially human—guide. Pairing him world-view were musical luminaries from widely place at the wrong time, depending on your perspective— with—or pitting him against—notable figures disparate disciplines, such as opera legend from an era that heralded the modern age and Giacomo Puccini, Ballets Russes founder Sergei Indiana Jones came of age during the transformative first I ushered in the 20th century, Indy’s adventures Diaghilev, baritone Paul Robeson, composer introduced audiences firsthand to the George Gershwin and jazz greats Sidney two decades of the 20th century. Along the way, he met architects of history itself. Bechet and Louis Armstrong. His earliest adventure brought the wide-eyed Not all of Indy’s encounters, however, were many of the key historical figures who helped to shape boy to Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where he quite so agreeable. On his journey through the the generations that followed. From ideological leaders to S rubbed elbows with Howard Carter, one of the changing times, the hapless hero had run-ins first archaeologists to gain widespread with some distinctly unsavory individuals, such pioneers in art and science, young Indy saw the rise and attention for a find. His discovery of King Tut’s as WWI German ace fighter pilot, Manfred von Tomb was widely covered by the world’s press, Richthofen—better known by another fearsome fall of some of history’s greatest luminaries and most and the public was hooked by mysterious moniker: The Red Baron. Even Indy’s departure claims of curses plaguing the site. A mere five from Europe did not ensure a quiet life away months after the discovery, Carter’s financial from controversy and danger; while attending fearsome despots. T benefactor suddenly died from an infected college in , the young student crossed mosquito bite. Carter himself was barred from paths with the notorious Al “Scarface” Capone, Lukas Haas (center) the tomb for more than a year… though the then an up-and-coming thug only beginning to plays a young cause was a hot-tempered argument with lay the groundwork for his Prohibition-era Norman Rockwell in Egyptian officials, and not another example of criminal empire. Passion for Life the dreaded “mummy’s curse.” And later in his Encountering scientists, philosophers,

O life, Indy would learn a major life lesson from artists, rogues, villains, icons, politicians and Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, great thinkers, young Indy’s storied whose pioneering fieldwork introduced the introductions also included: deceptively simple concept of functionalism: the notion that cultures behave according to Theodore Roosevelt, T.E. Lawrence, what makes sense for them, regardless of how Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Archduke irrational it may seem to outsiders. Franz Ferdinand, Annie Besant and But Indy’s travels were by no means limited Jiddu Krishnamurti, Thomas Edison, to the profession for which he would become Pancho Villa, John J. Pershing, George R famous; his comprehensive historical immersion S. Patton, Sean O’Casey, Winston included some of the greatest artistic minds of Churchill, Emmeline Parkhurst, Robert the period, as well. As a boy, he became friends Graves, Marshal Petain, Mata Hari, Paul with a young Norman Rockwell, whose iconic, von Lettow Vorbeck, Frederick Selous, slice-of-life American paintings would later Jan Smuts, Albert Schweitzer, Anthony become synonymous with the Saturday Evening Fokker, Karl Habsburg, Count Dracula, Post. He also saw the human—and decadent— Vladimir Lenin, Lowell Thomas, Halide Marc Warren plays Manfred von Y sides to painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Edib, Woodrow Wilson, Gertrude Bell, Richthofen (aka The Red Baron) Braque, who introduced an entirely new Ho Chi Minh, Robert Goddard, Ben in Attack of the Hawkmen perspective on the world through their cubist Hecht, Eliot Ness, John Ford and Erich artistic movement. Other notable artists who von Stroheim.

18 19 Vanessa Redgrave, George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Elizabeth Hurley and Sean Patrick Flanery on the set of Love's Sweet Song

based on his original story and Potter’s acclaimed , an unusual directed by Ron exploration of the creation of Alice in Howard; and Wonderland, which won three BAFTA awards. Tucker: The Man McCallum also established a close working And His Dream, relationship with director Nicolas Roeg, acting as EXECUTIVE PRODUCER directed by producer on such films as Castaway and . Francis Coppola. After their meeting, McCallum went on to George Lucas’ devotion to timeless storytelling Each received produce films with such filmmakers as David Hare and cutting-edge innovation has resulted in some of three Academy (Strapless); and (I Ought the most successful and beloved films of all time. Award® to Be in Pictures) and , whose His passion for both history and educating young nominations. As HBO film On Tidy Endings received four Cable people drove the creation of The Adventures of executive ACE Awards. McCallum also produced the music Young Indiana Jones and its rich combination of producer, Lucas’ video “Undercover” for , which exciting episodes and companion documentaries. films also include MTV named the Best Video of the Decade. During its original television run in the , the Akira Kurosawa’s By the late 1980s, George Lucas was preparing series was critically acclaimed and won 12 Emmy his first weekly live-action television series, and Awards® and 26 Emmy nominations. (1980); Mishima he turned to McCallum to produce the ambitious Lucas’ film career started in 1971. With San (1985); Latino series. With a unique perspective on the eventful Francisco-based and long-time (1985); Howard early life of Indiana Jones—including its cinematic friend Francis Ford Coppola as executive producer, the Duck (1986); qualities, an emphasis on storytelling and Lucas transformed an award-winning student film Labyrinth (1986); characters, and an enticing promise of new into his first feature, THX 1138. as well as 1994’s adventures each week—McCallum attracted Lucas’ second feature film, the low-budget Radioland acclaimed directors, actors and writers to the American Graffiti (1973), became the most Murders. creative ranks of The Adventures of Young successful film of its time and garnered the Golden Lucas returned to directing in 1999 with the first Indiana Jones. Globe®, the New York Film Critics’ and National of three new episodes of the Star Wars Saga: Star When Young Indiana Jones wrapped, Society of Film Critics’ awards. Pushing the Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, the year’s McCallum produced (1994), boundaries of storytelling, American Graffiti was biggest box-office hit, which was also the first major for which Lucas served as executive producer. the first film of its kind to tell multiple stories live-action film to be projected digitally. Three Lucas confided to McCallum that the director through interweaving narratives backed by a years later, Episode II Attack of the Clones broke was contemplating three new Star Wars movies. soundtrack of contemporary music. new ground as the first major movie shot using PRODUCER To test the digital waters, McCallum produced It was Lucas' third film, 1977's Star Wars, that entirely digital media. In 2005, Star Wars: Episode revised versions of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes changed everything—breaking box-office records, III Revenge of the Sith, the final movie in the epic As the producer of The Adventures of Young Back and —each of which setting new standards for sophistication in film saga, was the top-grossing film worldwide. Indiana Jones, Rick McCallum assembled a proved remarkably successful at the box office visuals and sound and garnering eight Academy Lucas is currently in production on Indiana remarkable array of directors, writers and actors, and proved that the once-impossible visual feats Awards. The success of Star Wars allowed Lucas to Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, for orchestrating a lavish, global epic that spans two needed for Lucas’ next movies were indeed remain independent and continue operating in which he wrote the story and serves as executive decades of early 20th century history. possible. Assembling an extraordinary group in Marin County, . Lucas has been the producer, and which is scheduled to be released The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones front of and behind the cameras, McCallum storywriter and executive producer of a series of in May 2008. In addition, he is supervising the marked McCallum’s first foray into weekly TV, but produced the next three films that Lucas wrote other box-office blockbusters beginning with the creation of Star Wars: , the first he had already earned enormous global acclaim and directed: Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom continuation of the Star Wars saga: The Empire computer-generated animated television series for the groundbreaking 1986 BBC series “The Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II Attack of Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983. from . Singing Detective,” for which he served as the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III In 1981, he created the classic adventurer Indiana Lucas has also taken a leadership role in applying executive producer, working closely with its Revenge of the Sith (2005). Jones, and co-wrote and executive-produced the his technical and storytelling expertise to the creator, the late . They teamed up The McCallum-Lucas collaboration continues, successful series consisting of Raiders of the Lost classroom, engaging students through interactive again in 1989 for BBC’s four-part “Blackeyes.” with McCallum currently in pre-production on Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom multimedia environments. He is chairman of the It was on a previous Potter project, Herbert , an action-adventure that pays tribute (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade board of the George Lucas Educational Foundation Ross’s big-screen adaptation of the Depression- to the spirit of World War II’s , (1989), a trilogy that won eight . and also serves on the board of the Film era musical Pennies from Heaven (1981), that and on which Lucas will act as executive Lucas has also served as executive producer on Foundation and is a member of the USC School of McCallum began his career as a producer. Their producer; and a live-action television series set in such widely varied films as Willow, which was Cinema-Television Advisory Board. successful collaboration also brought to life the Star Wars universe. 20 21 TEN-YEAR-OLD INDY TEENAGE INDY Corey Carrier was born in Middleborough, Sean Patrick Flanery was born in Lake Massachusetts and started his acting career at Charles, and raised in Houston, Texas. the age of five. In 1987, Carrier made a notable He attended the University of St. Thomas to guest appearance on the television series “The study for a business degree. While there, he Equalizer,” marking the first time a child actor began doing theater and discovered his passion had played an AIDS victim on television. for acting. He left college and relocated to Los Best known for his role as the title character in Angeles to pursue his career. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Carrier Flanery was introduced to audiences as the was nominated at the 1993 Young Artist Awards in title character in George Lucas’ acclaimed The the category of Best Young Actor Starring in a Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, and has Television Series for his performance. since starred in a wide variety of critically Carrier has appeared in many feature films acclaimed films including Powder, Suicide Kings including Men Don’t Leave, The Witches of and The Boondock Saints. Eastwick, My Blue Heaven and Nixon. His extensive television career includes roles on “The Twilight Zone,” “Stargate SG-1,” “,” “Touched by an Angel,” “CSI:Crime Scene Investigation” and “Steven King’s Dead Zone.” He has two films currently in production The extensive interactive DVD timeline that details Indy’s for release in 2008. adventures and previews footage of the companion documentaries

presented a rare view of actual jury deliberations in criminal trials. In his eight years DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER at 48 Hours, Schneider covered stories from around the world on a wide variety of topics, In November, 2002, David Schneider was from fashion to nuclear weapons. In 1986, he named Head of Documentaries at JAK Films worked on the groundbreaking broadcast 48 (the production arm of Lucasfilm) and asked to Hours on Crack Street. spearhead the creation of non-fiction historical After starting in the bureau of documentaries to accompany The Adventures CBS News, Schneider opened the network’s of Young Indiana Jones episodes on DVD. Denver bureau in 1984 to cover news in the Over the next four and a half years, his unit Mountain Time Zone for the CBS Evening produced 94 documentaries, three historical News with Dan Rather and other broadcasts. overviews and an interactive timeline covering Schneider has received the duPont-Columbia many of the most important people and events Silver Baton for Enter the Jury Room, plus of the early 20th century. seven Emmys and a Peabody Award for his Before joining Lucasfilm, Schneider spent 21 other works. In 1980-81, Schneider was one of years at CBS NEWS where he was a member 15 Americans chosen by the Henry Luce of the original teams that launched 60 Minutes Foundation for the Luce Scholars Program, II and 48 Hours. At 60 Minutes II, Schneider during which he worked in the news divided his efforts between investigative stories department of a Manila television station in The and breaking news. Schneider wrote and Philippines. Schneider is a graduate of produced the 1997 documentary, CBS Claremont McKenna College with a bachelor’s REPORTS: Enter the Jury Room, which degree in Literature and Philosophy.

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