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Documentaires télévisés. Documentary television programs. Feature films. Historical television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Television series. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecording Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.Summary: The American Buffalo delves into over 10,000 years of North American history, exploring the evolution and significance of buffalo to Native American people on the Great Plains and highlighting the near-extinction of the American buffalo, driven by factors such as the buffalo robe trade, westward expansion, diseases, and drought. The second episode follows a diverse group, including Theodore...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC AMECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AME1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMESummary: The game of baseball continues to reflect the complicated country that created it. Players and owners wage a battle over money and power; Cal Ripken becomes the game's new Iron Man; sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds do things that have never been done before; the Yankees build a dynasty, while their arch rivals, the Red Sox, stage the greatest comeback in history. In September...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BASSummary: Explores the life of Dante Alighieri and his most prolific work, "The divine comedy", through reenactments and interviews with experts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on a train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SCOSummary: In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc Vi 2Summary: Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns, and the blues to its mainstream popularity, viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Features...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 781.64 Country 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV COUSummary: In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc Vi 1Summary: In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VIECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VIE NOT RATEDSummary: The complete Emmy Award-winning story of America's national pastime from master storyteller Ken Burns is now fully restored in high definition! Baseball spans the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the immigrant experience, the transformation of popular culture and the enduring appeal of the national pastime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BASSummary: In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRESummary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014