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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This 10-part series, with the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., delves into the genealogy and genetics of famous Americans, combining history and science in a fascinating exploration of race, family and identity in today's America. Professor Gates shakes loose captivating stories and surprises in the family trees of Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey, Jr., Branford Marsalis, John Legend, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters and...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of Scotland's ancient clans is a blood-soaked saga of battles and feuds, loyalty and betrayal, love and death set against the country's wild mountains and glens. Their fierce warriors were legendary, and their deeds of heroism and villainy shaped the destinies of Scotland₂s most iconic characters. Discover how the clans crushed the English King's mighty army to help win Scottish independence, and how they used clan muscle to plot, maneuver...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammed Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, thus averting disaster.
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