VIDEO COLLECTION · 9 FILMS
Selected Hammer films, visual essays and commentary by Kerry Plowright.
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Hammer: The Artifact and the Signal · Part 2
A polished metal rod survives across impossible distances and deep time. It is not merely an object: it is the physical key to an alien intelligence reaching into the human story.
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Hammer: The Artifact and the Signal · Part 1
A burst of intelligence crosses a billion light-years, reaches Earth in 2023 and reveals a strange connection between the signal, repeated extinction events and an impossible metal rod.
0:42
Hammer: The Artifact and the Signal · Part 3
During the Second World War, German officers pursue something guarded by Pashtun chieftains—and are sent toward an empty ruin and an explosive dead end.
1:02
Hammer: The Artifact and the Signal · Part 4
A German Ju 52 vanishes in the mountains while carrying something Heinrich Himmler wanted recovered. More than fifty years later, Hammer reaches it first.
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Hammer: The Artifact and the Signal · Part 5
High in a punishing mountain range, Hammer finds the wreck of a German Ju 52—and evidence that its most important cargo may have survived.
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Hammer: The Artifact and the Signal · Part 6
A metal component in a travel bag and a set of ancient parchments may hold the same clue—the next link in Hammer's artifact mystery.
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Hammer: The Modern Story · Part 1
An aircraft burns at Kandahar and a soldier makes the decision that defines him. A short character teaser from Kerry Plowright's Hammer.
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Hammer: The Modern Story · Part 2
A reporter watches a wounded soldier return to Kandahar and asks the question at the heart of his legend: why do they call him Hammer?
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Energy and environment
Renewable energy reduces greenhouse emissions, but wind farms, transmission corridors and associated construction can still impose real costs on wildlife and habitat. Kerry Plowright asks whether those costs receive enough scrutiny.