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  2. Dashrath Manjhi - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, director Kumud Ranjan working for the state-owned Films Division of India produced a documentary based on Manjhi's life titled The Man Who Moved the Mountain. In August 2015, a Hindi movie Manjhi – The Mountain Man was released and well received. The movie was directed by Ketan Mehta.

  3. Manjhi – The Mountain Man - Wikipedia

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    Manjhi – The Mountain Man is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language biographical film based on the life of Dashrath Manjhi.Manjhi, widely known as the "Mountain Man", was a poor labourer in Gehlaur village, near Gaya in Bihar, India, who carved a path 9.1 metres (30 ft) wide and 110 metres (360 ft) long through a hill 7.6 metres (25 ft) high, using only a hammer and chisel. [4]

  4. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain

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    Betty, who has gotten close to him, offers to keep him company, and they end up sharing a kiss. When Anson descends from the mountain, he informs the people that the mountain is 1,002 feet high and also announces his engagement to Betty. Many years later, the mountain has settled down to 997 feet, thus turning back into a hill.

  5. The Father Who Moves Mountains - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 7 November 2024, at 15:02 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Fitzcarraldo - Wikipedia

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    Fitzcarraldo (/fɪtskə'raldo/) is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin.

  7. ‘West Virginia Boys’ move a literal mountain to build a road ...

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    "The West Virginia boys have moved the mountains. All of the roads were just gone, until now. ... moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...

  8. The Man Who Skied Down Everest - Wikipedia

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    He used a large parachute to slow his descent. He came to a full stop just 76 m (250 ft) from the edge of a bergschrund, a large, deep crevasse where the flow ice shears away from stable ice on the rock face and begins to move downwards as a glacier. The ski descent was the objective of The Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970.

  9. The Man Who Knew Infinity - Wikipedia

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    At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty. . While performing his menial labour, his employers notice that he seems to have exceptional skills in mathematics and they begin to make use of him for rudimentary accounting tas