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Animal television programs. Biographical television programs. Documentary television programs. DVD-Video discs. Educational television programs. Medical television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: "Every year, over a million babies are born worldwide with a hereditary disease; most are serious, and many are fatal. For most of the history of medicine, doctors could only treat symptoms. Now an elite cadre of pioneers, gene doctors, is starting to target root causes. Through intimate stories of families whose lives are being transformed, the film takes viewers to the frontlines of a medical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GENSummary: Shows the fetal development of an elephant, a dolphin, and a dog from a common evolutionary root into dramatically diverse adult mammals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSummary: The legendary vampire Dracula was not modeled on a medieval count from Transylvania, but on the fate of a real 18th century bohemian princess named Eleonore von Schwarzenberg. Archaeologists open her bizarre grave and examine it for the first time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VAMArtist Not Provided
Summary: An investigation of how teenagers from Central American countries were smuggled into the United States by traffickers who promised them a better life, only to force them into a life of slavery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRASummary: Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind since early childhood, was a passionate advocate for change, using her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty. Becoming Helen Keller examines the complex legacy of this author, advocate, lecturer, and human rights pioneer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BECSummary: Chasing the moon reimagines the race to the moon for a new generation, upending much of the mythology surrounding the effort. The series recasts the Space Age as scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama. Utilizing overlooked and lost archival material, the film features a cast of characters who played key roles in these historic events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHASummary: An all-new presentation of the BBC's award-winning Walking with dinosaurs. Travel back in time 220 million years and come face to face with the animals that ruled the world then: dinosaurs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRESummary: Documentary following a core group of subjects from the Admiral of the strike group to the elite fighter pilots to the junior enlisted as they navigate personal conflicts around their jobs, family, faith, patriotism aboard the USS Nimitz deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Distribution 2008