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A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers Big picture (United States. National Archives and Records Administration) Brain (New York, N.Y.) Cambridge core science series Complete new releases curriculum library 2006 Elegant universe Librarian special (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Living stones 2 Physical science collection (New York, N.Y.) The American presidentFilter By Series
A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers Big picture (United States. National Archives and Records Administration) Brain (New York, N.Y.) Cambridge core science series Complete new releases curriculum library 2006 Elegant universe Librarian special (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Living stones 2 Physical science collection (New York, N.Y.) The American presidentSummary: Hadleyburg has a reputation for unshakable honesty. The smug townspeople are proud of this virtue and keep themselves honest by simply avoiding temptation. That is until “the man that corrupted Hadleyburg” arrives in town. Robert Preston stars as the stranger who plots a revenge on the hypocritical residents by promising a fortune to the citizens who once showed him charity many years before....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Summary: America’s magnificent storyteller Mark Twain has crafted an intriguing and classic tale of mistaken identity, deceit, and murder. At the center of it all is a slave woman who cradle-switches her master’s son with her own light-skinned baby…a child, though raised as white, who never fulfills her hopes and dreams for him as he becomes an arrogant and cruel man. Acclaimed actor Ken Howard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1983
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Summary: Seems like a simple enough storyline, considering it became one of the most significant, beloved, acclaimed, and studied novels ever written. This classic motion picture is the definitive adaptation of Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - splendidly filmed, lovingly produced for PBS’s American Playhouse, with an acclaimed all-star cast, and presented in an unedited, full-length version....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1985
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Summary: Few works in American literature address issues as timeless as those explored in Mark Twain's controversial novel, Huckleberry Finn. In this program, three scholars, including noted Twain biographer Justin Kaplan, examine the work and its various themes-race, cruelty, consequences of greed, meaning of civilization, and the nature of freedom. The author's life is traced from his days as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this Peabody Award-winning program, CNBC's David Faber scrutinizes Wal-Mart as he seeks to understand how the company has ascended to the heights of power it has come to occupy-and whether this juggernaut can continue to succeed in the face of increased opposition. Given unprecedented access, Faber takes viewers from an annual managers' meeting that resembles an evangelical revival to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program examines how luxury ice cream companies are vying for their European market shares. A variety of strategies used by Haagen-Dazs are discussed. In Britain, a Haagen-Dazs executive explains how the company appealed to adult consumers by presenting ice cream as a sensual gourmet specialty, rather than a child's treat. Advertisements in Vogue and other upscale publications use sex and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This episode of Frontline offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio; the other, a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The Taking of Logan Marr tells the tragic story of a young girl who was killed while in state custody. On January 31, 2001, 5-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly-respected former caseworker for Maine's Department of Human Services (DHS) who would later be convicted of manslaughter. As suspected, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: With the election of Mohammad Khatami, reform-minded Iranians hope for discourse with the West, a policy that runs counter to fundamentalist opinion. In this program, President Khatami; Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar; Salam editor Abbas Abdi, leader of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover; and others address issues that stand between Iran and the U.S., Israel, Egypt, and other countries. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Nic Marks gathers evidence about what makes us happy, and uses it to promote social policies that put people and the planet first. He's the founder of the Centre for Well-Being at the U.K. think tank New Economics Foundation (NEF). In this TEDTalk, Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity instead of by the health and happiness of its people. He also introduces the Happy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The impact of Marx on the 20th century was all-pervasive and worldwide, costing tens of millions of lives where Communism was imposed, resulting in brutal wars to contain or expand it, and vastly improving the lives of workers where fear of Communism resulted in social reform. This program looks at the man, at the roots of his philosophy, at the causes and explanations of his philosophical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The 1950s in America were a time of nostalgia and neurosis. Factories poured out goods, the dollar was powerful, and the United States - filled with the heady optimism of victory in World War II - believed that it could politically, culturally, and militarily lead the world. But the decade also saw the solidification of the Iron Curtain in Europe, the entrenchment of Communism in China, years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1984
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Summary: This program introduces string theory and shows how modern physics—composed of two theories that are ferociously incompatible—reached its schizophrenic impasse. One theory, general relativity, successfully describes the stars and galaxies, while another, quantum mechanics, is equally successful at explaining small things like atoms and subatomic particles. Albert Einstein, the inventor of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Discovered by chance in the early 1930s, the ancient city of Mari provides insights into Mesopotamian culture and humankind's first steps toward urbanization. In this program, archaeologists Jean-Claude Margueron and Beatrice Muller-Margueron lead a team in the excavation of Mari's urban center as they work to uncover the successive layers of the third, second, and first towns. Geographic and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This inspiring documentary examines the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps—the Tuskegee Airmen. These 450 black men fought the Nazis in World War II and, back in America, they fought prejudice, bigotry, and racism. Extraordinary airmen, they remain today the only fighter group never to have lost one of their bombers to enemy fire. Trained by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Why do dreams occur? What is their function? What do they mean? This provocative program looks at the facts and examines the theories, from Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to today's neuroscience laboratory findings. The program visits a sleep research lab to explain REM sleep; another lab where researchers are using positron emission tomography (PET scanning) to explore the dreaming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Touted for its environmental, economic, and national security benefits, natural gas is considered by some the fuel that will bridge the nation's transition from fossil fuels such as oil and coal to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. The ability to extract natural gas from shale formations through a method called fracking-short for hydraulic fracturing-has unleashed vast, untapped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: This program draws on insightful commentary from literary scholars and authors to examine the characters, plots, and themes of seven American novels that deal with wealth, poverty, and the nature of success and failure in the U.S. In an exploration that moves from the turn of the 20th century into progressively more contemporary surroundings, passages from each book are dramatized through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series goes to Fort McClellan, Alabama, for this first look at the new training center for Women’s Army Corps officers and enlisted women. Since the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was created in 1942, women training for service with the U.S. Army have had a number of temporary homes, ranging from Florida to Massachusetts, from Iowa to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In the fullness of time, his failings have become obvious. Yet, even after the collapse of global Communism, Karl Marx stands undiminished as one of history’s most influential thinkers. This program chronicles Marx’s life and intellectual development, including the publication and impact of his major writings. Beginning with his birth and religiously confused childhood in Prussia, the video...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: It is often observed that American national identity is less a condition than an idea. And, as profiled in this program, no one is better positioned to express that idea than the president himself. What we have come to refer to, as “the vision thing” is an expectation that our presidents will bring to office a particularly strong sense of national mission. The four presidents chronicled is this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: How did we get to the Moon? What have we accomplished in the years since? And what challenges lie ahead? To answer these questions, this video tracks the history of Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo; touches on Skylab, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, and the crew exploration vehicle; and considers next steps toward colonizing Mars, including robotic data-gathering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006