Bruce Lee: Screen Warrior

He was nicknamed "the steel mill" for his capacity to just keep going on and on. He was Mao's lieutenant who was purged twice and rose three times, the final time to the very top. He enabled China's economic miracle to happen after 1978 by allowing capitalism to reemerge in the w ...  Show more

In the early 1920s, he was just a library assistant at Peking University. Yet by the end of his life, he would rule a fifth of all humanity, turn China into a major power, and destroy the lives of millions in a Cultural Revolution. Mao Zedong was the person, above all others, who ...  Show more

Look up ‘Hollywood action hero’ in the dictionary and you’ll find one name - Bruce Lee.He overcame racism, stereotypes and challenge after challenge to become the world’s first Asian international film icon.Stephanie Okupniak enters the world of martial arts to tell the story of ...  Show more

Look up ‘Hollywood action hero’ in the dictionary and you’ll find one name - Bruce Lee.He overcame racism, stereotypes and challenge after challenge to become the world’s first Asian international film icon.Stephanie Okupniak enters the world of martial arts to tell the story of ...  Show more

Most of us know Bruce Lee as the famous martial artist and action film star -- but he was also a philosopher who taught “self-actualization”: the practice of how to be yourself in the best way possible. In this inspiring talk, Bruce’s daughter Shannon Lee takes us inside the mind ...  Show more

Award winning filmmaker Bao Nguyen joins us to talk about his inspiration for the Bruce Lee biopic Be Water. From his own experience as the child of Vietnamese refugees to the blatant racism of the 1960's, Bao helps us understand the many factors that contribute to our views of s ...  Show more