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The most-watched program in PBS history, Ken Burns' history of the Civil War is the first full-scale presentation of the conflict that tore the country apart and redefined the nation. Five years in the making, this 5-volume DVD collection presents the entire sweep of the war. This collection travels from the battle-fields to the home fronts, from the generals to the enlisted men and from the opening guns at Sumter to the stillness at Appomattox and...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Based on the life of Isabella Beeton, author of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and the most famous cookbook author in British history. Isabella was an accomplished business woman who died when she was only 28. Traces Isabella's transformation from young wife, to magazine journalist, to publishing phenomenon, and, although she couldn't cook, ended up producing the world's most famous recipe book.
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[2009]
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English
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What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins the leading dream researchers as they embark on a variety of neurological and psychological experiments to investigate the world of sleep and dreams. Delving deep into the thoughts and brains of a variety of dreamers, scientists are asking important questions about the purpose of this mysterious world we escape to at night.
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A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man whose life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.
8) Our town
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
Description
Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Examines the emotional and legal aftermath of divorce, seeking to find out: What's best for the kids? Explores the pros and cons of joint physical custody, looks at efforts to reform how custody is decided in the current judicial system, and examines how divorce education programs are helping both parents and kids.
11) A midwife's tale
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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The life of Martha Ballard, a frontier midwife in Maine, is reconstructed through her diary. She lived through the economic boom and bust, and political and social turmoil of the decades following the American Revolution.
12) Mr. Miami Beach
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Mr. Miami Beach traces the story of Carl Fisher, a fast-living dreamer from Indiana, who among other things transformed a mosquito-infested swamp into a lush tropical paradise.
13) America 1900
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
Description
It was the dawn of the American century, a time of optimism, progress, and confidence. Yet the 19th century's final year would prove to be a turning point. American troops are sent overseas for the first time, a public debate rages over sex and morality, racial tensions threaten to explode, and the pace of technological change propels everyone into the unknown. Features archival film and photographs.
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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John Brown, considered the father of American terrorism, was an inspiration to the Civil Rights movement. He was a farmer, a warrior, a family man and an avenging angel. More than 150 years after his execution, questions swirl around John Brown: was he a madman or a martyr? A bloodthirsty fanatic or a great American hero? Dramatic reenactments trace John Brown's obsessive battle against human bondage.
15) Huey Long
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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"No modern politician has captured the American imagination as has the Kingfish--Huey Long. Two years in the making, Ken Burns' documentary traces Long's spectacular career from the 1920s when he burst out of Louisiana's red clay hills to smash the state's power structure under the banner "Every Man a king.""--Publisher's website.
16) Rat attack
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
Description
Filmed in the Indian state of Mizoram, Rat attack documents the 2008 "mautam", an invasion of rats that occurs every half-century in northeast Asia when an indigenous species of bamboo known as Melocanna baccifera is in bloom.
18) The Marines
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
For longer than the United States has been an independent nation, there has been a Marine Corps. They consider themselves the very best America has to offer. Embodying fierce patriotism, extraordinary courage, and innovative weapons, they are a force. This documentary focuses on their training and examines what it means to be a Marine.