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1) Alaskan Nets
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English
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Off the coast of Southeast Alaska lies an island - remote, largely hidden from the outside world and home to the Tsimshian Indians of Alaska's last native reserve: Metlakatla. For more than a century, two sacred traditions have defined Metlakatla: fishing and basketball. Witness the improbable journey of cousins Danny Marsden and DJ King, fishermen and stars of the high school basketball team, as they lead their team and town in search of their first...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute. At times they were arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their strategies were militaristic, but more often they used what influence...
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Lives Well Lived celebrates the incredible wit and wisdom of people aged 75-100, who reveal their secrets for living a meaningful life. Encompassing 3,000 years of collective life experience, diverse people share life lessons about perseverance, the human spirit, and staying positive in the midst of life's greatest challenges.
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Most people imagine dinosaurs lurking in warm locales with swamps and jungles, dining on vegetation and each other. But "Arctic Dinosaurs" reveals that many species also thrived in the harsh environments of the north and south polar regions. NOVA follows two high-stakes expeditions and the paleontologists who push the limits of science to unearth 70 million-year-old fossils buried in the vast Alaskan tundra. The hardy scientists shadowed in "Arctic...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A revealing four-part documentary series from writer/director W. Kamau Bell offering a deeply personal exploration of Bill Cosby's descent from “America's Dad” to alleged sexual predator. Exploring the complex story of Cosby's life and work, Bell invites comedians, educators, journalists and Cosby survivors to have a refreshingly candid, first of its kind conversation about the man, his career and his crimes. Bell takes an unfiltered look at his...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Executive produced and hosted by Oscar®-winning actor Morgan Freeman, this compelling 8-part docuseries explores some of the most infamous prison escapes in history from Alcatraz and Rikers Island to Germany's Stalag Luft III and HM Prison Maze in Belfast. Featuring dramatic recreations and cutting-edge visual effects, along with interviews with some of the prisoners themselves, their families, their cellmates, and guards who were there, uncovers...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Journey back 4,500 years to unlock the secrets of the world's most enduring archaeological mystery. This television program presents world-renowned archaeologists as they reveal a revolutionary new theory about who built Stonehenge and why. Thanks to a recent discovery of a lost city just two miles from the famous stone circle, our understanding of this era is now transformed.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The ancestors of today's Maya people thrived in hundreds of cities across Central America. Caracol and Tikal, with over 100,000 inhabitants at their peak, were among the biggest cities anywhere in the world at the time. For centuries, Maya "god-kings" commissioned magnificent pyramids and palaces until, beginning around 800 CE, the great cities of the lowland jungle region began to fail for reasons that have long intrigued archaeologists, scholars,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
As a prequel to the "Meerkat manor" television series, this documentary film traces the rise of Flower from a young meerkat pup to the leader of the pack. Watch as Flower blooms into a remarkable matriarch and forges a legacy amidst the unforgiving landscape of the Kalahari Desert.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Are we being watched by visitors from beyond the stars? Is alien technology already in use? Ever since the first reports of a spaceship crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, U.F.O.s, (unidentified flying objects) have had a hold on the public's imagination. Countless films from the 1950s onward featured advanced civilizations visiting, and sometimes attacking, the human population on Earth. The U.S. government, meanwhile, dismissed all threats. Was...
19) Pole to pole
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Michael Palin takes viewers on a voyage from pole to pole, visiting seventeen countries, including Greenland, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Ukraine, Cyprus, and Chile.
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