By Jeannette Catsoulis “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” the directing debut of the actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, is so worthy, so earnest and so achingly sincere that it’s almost painful to ...

Chiwetel Ejiofor's directing debut, 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,' tells the true story of a self-taught teen inventor in Malawi. By THR Staff There’s something discomfiting about rooting for ...

Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, is this year’s British entry for Oscar’s recently renamed Best International Feature Film category. But the same rules ...

The Malawi native recounted his dedication and quest for knowledge in his best-selling memoir, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, in 2009. His country’s ...

A lovely and thoughtful family film, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” is a far cry from Marvel multiplex-ity. But once viewers (of all ages) adjust to its quiet and respectful approach ...

The propellers are made of plastic pipes supported by sticks so that they should not bend when the wind is strong and placed almost vertical to the direction of where the wind comes from.

That pushback arrives late in the film, and the majority of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind works as a sometimes too-slow lead-up to the ending. The transition to the last act doesn’t completely ...

But in December 2000, when William is 13, everything in his world goes very wrong, and "The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind" becomes a book for readers of all ages, one that may not leave you dry-eyed.

According to the Netflix “More Details” page for “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” the new movie has been officially categorized as “… HEARTFELT, INSPIRING.” I recommend it — in ...

But “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” which dramatizes Malawian engineer William Kakwamba’s youthful struggle to save his starving village via technical ingenuity, carries its seriousness ...