Read an excerpt from William Kamkwamba ... "Let's see how crazy this boy really is." A sudden gust muffled the voices below, then picked up into a steady wind. It took hold of my T-shirt and ...

Netflix debuted another original film Friday, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. Telling the true story of William Kamkwamba, who invented a windmill in his teen years to aid the extreme famine in ...

William Kamkwamba gained fame as a child inventor when at age 14 he used blue gum trees, bicycle parts and scrapyard materials to build a wind turbine that powered domestic appliances in his ...

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.

The triumph of ingenuity over poverty is central to the story of Malawi’s William Kamkwamba, the windmill-building co-author of the best-selling memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

And who plays him in the movie? Here’s what you need to know about the true story behind The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. William Kamkwamba is a 31-year-old engineer and author from Kasunga ...

William Kamkwamba found power ... dedication and quest for knowledge in his best-selling memoir, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, in 2009.

By Jeannette Catsoulis “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” the directing debut of ... the Malawian engineer William Kamkwamba (whose 2009 memoir was the basis for this dramatization), you ...

Trywell (Ejiofor) and Agnes (Aïssa Maïga) save their money to send 13-year-old William (Maxwell Simba ... and the majority of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind works as a sometimes too-slow ...

William Kamkwamba grew up in Malawi, the son of a maize and tobacco farmer. Their house had no electricity or plumbing. In William’s village, high costs and frequent power outages made ...

Based on information he learned from library books, school drop-out William Kamkwamba built a windmill ... so that they should not bend when the wind is strong and placed almost vertical to ...

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 ...