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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003, c2000
Language
English
Description
One modern family takes on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's home front in 1940s house, a re-creation of a World War II household. This time-travel experiment covers the period from the outbreak of war in 1939 to Victory Day in 1945, compressing the events of six wartime years into two months. Though the military threat is metaphorical, the privations are real and the pressures create tensions nonexistent in modern society.
2) The war
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[[2006] 2006]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Journey on a deep-sea expedition with world-renowned shark experts Michael Scholl and Ramon Bonfil as they tag a 12-foot great white shark. Experience her world up close through her eyes and senses, a world full of wonder, mystery, and danger.
Series
Publisher
ESPN Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1970s there was racial unrest in the streets. But there was a happier place where men of different backgrounds showed people that amazing things could happen when they worked together: Madison Square Garden. Stitched together by Red Holzman, the Knicks may have seemed an odd collection, but by embracing their differences and utilizing their strengths, they showed the NBA and the world what it was like to play as a team.
During the tumultuous...
9) Kit Carson
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Language
English
Description
"This film draws upon rich archival materials, original recreations, and interviews with authors and historians to bring the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier to vivid life, and provide a lens on a pivotal but little-understood era in American history"--Container.
10) Bats
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Learn fascinating facts about bats, such as the different types of bats, how they use echolocation, and how they migrate and hibernate.
11) Juro que te amo
Publisher
Televisa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Violeta Madrigal's family was very rich until their copper company was closed due to powerful, wicked Justin Fregoso. Violeta vows on her father's deathbed to get her family out of poverty. After she and her family endure much humiliation by the Fregoso family, Violeta then becomes torn between charming but unscrupulous Max, and Jose Maria, who believes that Violeta is the love of his life. Inexperience and false promises cause Violeta to fall for...
12) The West
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the American West, starting with the first European explorations and ending with the beginning of the 20th century. Examines the impact of the white settlers on the lives of the Native Americans and the land. Also discusses the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the battle of Little Bighorn, and the massacre at Wounded Knee
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the birth of the American national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create...
14) The world at war
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1973
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Returning for what would be the final season (1979-80) for many of the original cast and writers of SNL, the complete fifth season includes an array of comedic hosts, including Steve Martin, Eric Idle, Buck Henry, Rodney Dangerfield, Martin Sheen, Bea Arthur, Ted Knight, and more. It also features classic performances by Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Randy Newman, and others. Includes audio commentary by Buck Henry and...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In this freewheeling, no-holds-barred performance before a packed house in Raleigh, North Carolina, Bill fearlessly and hilariously lets loose on a comprehensive set of unique insights and controversial topics: the 'Great Recession,' fake patriotism, President Obama, Michael Jackson, the drug war, health care, the Tea Party movement, reverse racism, religion, and much more, including the first-ever burka fashion show.
17) Triangle fire
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the gruesome culmination of years of unrest in America's most profitable manufacturing industry. Two years earlier, led by a spontaneous walkout in the same factory, twenty thousand garment workers, in the largest women's strike in American history, took to the streets of New York to protest working conditions. They gained the support of both progressives...
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