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Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in movies and TV shows. He describes the many challenges of the Battle of Okinawa as portrayed in "Hacksaw Ridge," starring Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, and Sam Worthington. He compares the portrayals of the Battle of Iwo Jima in Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers," starring Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, and Paul Walker; and "Letters From Iwo Jima," starring Ken Watanabe. He discusses World War II-era munitions in "The Pacific," starring Joseph Mazzello and Rami Malek. He breaks down the tank battles in "Battle of the Bulge," starring Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.
Persons: John McManus, Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Clint Eastwood's, Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, Paul Walker, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Mazzello, Rami Malek, Michael Bay's, Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Alec Baldwin, Nicolas Cage, Mark Ruffalo, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Sean Penn, Jared Leto Organizations: Business Locations: Okinawa, Iwo Jima
Master chef and restaurateur Paul Liebrandt rates every fine dining scene from "The Bear" for realism. Liebrandt breaks down restaurant operations and management in the first season of "The Bear," starring Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edibiri, as the head chef and sous chef of The Original Beef of Chicagoland. He looks at the realism of opening and running The Bear restaurant in season two, including the process of staging and training the kitchen staff of a fine-dining restaurant. He mentions the real-life renowned chefs featured in the third season, such as Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and René Redzepi, while also connecting his personal experiences as a Michelin-starred chef and restaurateur. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.
Persons: Paul Liebrandt, Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss, Bachrach, Matty Matheson, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, René Redzepi Organizations: Business Locations: Chicagoland
Former Hells Angels chapter president Pat Matter breaks down biker gang scenes in movies and television, such as "Sons of Anarchy," for realism. Matter discusses life during and after joining the Hells Angels, such as the initiation ceremony for a prospect in "Hells Angels on Wheels," starring Jack Nicholson; the role of women in outlaw motorcycle clubs in "Yellowstone" S3E4 (2020); and the plausibility of law enforcement going undercover to infiltrate outlaw motorcycle clubs in "Beyond the Law," with Charlie Sheen. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account?
Persons: Pat Matter, Angel —, Robert De Niro, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, S2E1, Jack Nicholson, Charlie Sheen Organizations: Hells Angels, Outlaws, Business
Cowboy and Old West historian Michael Grauer rates 13 Wild West scenes in movies and television for realism. Grauer is a public historian focusing on cowboy history and Western American culture. He is the McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art for the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. He also does a living history cowboy presentation called "Cowboy Mike." You can learn more about the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum here.
Persons: Michael Grauer, gunslingers, Clint Eastwood, Buster Scruggs, Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Django, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee, Grauer, John Wayne, Kevin Costner, Rufus Buck, Lakeith Stanfield, Regina King, Idris Elba, Charles Goodnight, Tim McGraw, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Mike Organizations: Old, Gold, Business, Confederate, Cowboys, Cowboy Culture, Collections, Western Art, National Cowboy, Western Heritage Museum, Western Heritage Locations: Old West, Tombstone
Tu Lam, a former Special Forces soldier, rates the fighting techniques Keanu Reeves uses in the "John Wick" movies. He talks about judo and jujitsu, sniper techniques, and the ways public missions are handled in "John Wick" (2014), with Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, and John Leguizamo. He explains how suppressors work, the best ways to handle a knife, and how to turn anything in a room into a weapon, as seen in "John Wick: Chapter 2" (2017), with Common, Ruby Rose, and Laurence Fishburne. He compares his own experiences with urban shootouts, working with military dogs, and fighting on a motorcycle to "John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum" (2019), with Halle Berry, Ian McShane, and Anjelica Huston. Finally, he breaks down defensive driving, clearing a room, and fighting on stairs in "John Wick: Chapter 4" (2023), with Bill Skarsgård and Donnie Yen.
Persons: Lam, Keanu Reeves, John Wick, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, John Leguizamo, Ruby Rose, Laurence Fishburne, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, Bill Skarsgård, Donnie Yen Organizations: Special Forces, Business
Primatologist Mireya Mayor breaks down 10 monkey and ape attacks in movies, including "King Kong," based on realism. Mayor also breaks down the evolution of ape and monkeys, such as the common ancestor of humans and apes, the hominin, in "2001: A Space Odyssey"; the Gigantopithecus in "The Jungle Book" (2016); and the capuchin monkey in "Night at the Museum," with Ben Stiller. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account?
Persons: Primatologist, King Kong, debunks, King, Jack Black, Naomi Watts, Gordy, Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yeun, Keke Palmer, James Franco, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Ben Stiller Organizations: Business Locations: King, King Kong, Awkwafina
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Louisiana produces 90% of the United States' crawfish. Most of the farmed crawfish comes from rice fields in one small area of Cajun country. In the 1980s, rice farmers experimented with cultivating crawfish in their fields. Today, business is booming, clearing the way for the next generation of farmers like Madison McIntyre. But the industry is also unregulated and fast-moving, trapping producers in an endless fight to keep crawfish alive.
Persons: Madison McIntyre Locations: Louisiana, United States
Western wellness influencers once dubbed coconuts the new "it" superfood. Even though nutritionists couldn't agree if they deserved the hype, people kept gobbling them up. Well, harvesting coconuts is dangerous work. Farmers risk their lives climbing 80-foot palm trees to get the fruit. We visit Sri Lanka to see how coconut farmers bear the burden of the West's superfood obsessions.
Persons: nutritionists couldn't Organizations: Farmers Locations: Sri Lanka
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Nigeria is the globe's biggest producer of cassava, or yuca. It could stand to earn billions from exports of flour, sorbitol, bubble tea, and ethanol.
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Olive farmers in Spain didn't have enough water for this year's crops due to severe droughts. We went to Antequera, Spain, to see how they managed to bottle up millions of liters of olive oil. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on the culture & business of sustainability — delivered weekly to your inbox. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicySpain produces roughly half of the world's olive oil. In 2022, Europe experienced its worst drought in 500 years, making it tougher for these farmers to grow the olives they need.
From the captain's bridge to the engine room, a staff of 2,400 works 24-7 to keep Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas sailing.
Organizations: Royal Caribbean's Symphony
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It takes dozens of people, expensive robots, and fancy cameras to bring a fast food commercial to life. These crews use real food on set, so they have to film fast before it wilts. We visit The Garage in New York to see how the crew films ads for clients like Hershey's, Pepsi, and Domino's. But they use real food on set, so they work against the clock to film each take before it starts to wilt. We visit The Garage in Brooklyn, New York, to see how the crew films advertisements for clients like Hershey's, Pepsi, and Domino's.
New York cheesecake institution Junior's has been slinging out towering slices since 1950. But recently, the company has faced skyrocketing ingredient prices and a cream cheese shortage. We visit the Junior's factory to see how its third generation is diversifying to stay afloat amid shrinking margins. But in recent years, the company has faced pandemic closures of its restaurants, skyrocketing ingredient prices, and a cream cheese shortage. We visited Junior's factory to see how its third generation is diversifying to stay afloat amid shrinking margins.
Limestone is used in everything from cement and tiles to paper- and plastic-making. The Egyptians that mine the haunting white mountains risk their lives and limbs to get it.
The price of limes was three times higher than usual at the start of 2022. We head to Veracruz, Mexico, to see how on farm is harvesting millions of limes as cartels close in. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox. And then, after terrorizing lime farmers in western Mexican states for years, cartels began expanding their turf. We head to Veracruz, Mexico, to see how one farm is harvesting and processing millions of limes in the face of growing instability.
Making silk is a tedious process that includes raising hungry worms and hand-pulling silk from cocoons. In Vietnam, traditional craft villages have struggled as cheaper, fake silk floods the market. But families in Nam Cao village saved their silk business by banding together and forming a cooperative. They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. We head to northern Vietnam to learn how Nam Cao village saved its big business of silk.
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