Summary: Lucy Worsley brings to life key events in European royal history, covering: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and England's parting of ways with Catholic Europe; the Regency, and the reasons that George III reliquished power; the Russian Revolution, revealing that the Czar had actually been deposed by an uprising that had preceded the October Revolution of 1917.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: "[A] group of bright but incorrigible high school students spend...their summer at the NASA SpaceCamp. But when a frightening miscommunication occurs during a space shuttle training mission, the teens and their astronaut instructor are accidentally launched into orbit. Can this young team of unlikely heroes work together to survive the outer-space adventure of a lifetime?" --container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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Summary: "Craft in America is an exploration into the hearts and minds of artisans devoted to a diverse array of mediums -- from furniture making and basket weaving to pottery and metalsmithing. Each episode reveals that craft has earned itself a place within the realm of fine art"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Craft in America, Inc. 2007

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Summary: Numbering no more than a few thousand, tiny groups of intrepid humans began to move out of Africa, eventually dominating the planet. How did these early humans acquire the skills, technology, and talent to thrive in every environment on Earth? Take a global journey through the past, following the ancestors' footsteps out of Africa along a trail of scientific clues to help unravel the mystery of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2016

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Summary: In a spectacular adventure, NOVA unlocks the mystery on the vast, grassy plains of Kazakhstan, where horses still roam free, and nomadic herders follow their traditional way of life. Investigating clues from archaeology and genetics, researchers reveal vivid evidence of the very first horsemen. They also discover warriors who swept across Europe and turn out to be the ancestors of millions today.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: An evolutionary musical journey through the light, song and dance of a dynamic and alive art form.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015

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Summary: This film profiles Chester Burnett, better known as the Howlin' Wolf. It includes an incredible compendium of never-before-seen footage of the Howlin' Wolf.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sea Productions 2003

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Summary: In this landmark living history series, a Victorian tenement in the heart of London's East End has been painstakingly brought back to life. Host Michael Mosley joins a group of 21st century families as they move in and experience the tough living and working conditions of the Victorian poor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Ten-year-old Paul slowly begins to realize that his mother is an addict and, with the help of a local waitress, tries to rescue his mother from her boyfriend/dealer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Indican Pictures 2006

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Summary: This is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually leading to his impeachment trial.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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Summary: A groundbreaking documentary series sheds new light on real-estate icon, Robert Durst, while unraveling one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in New York history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2015

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Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Robert and Clara Schumann.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002

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Summary: Bestselling British author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the legend Captain James Cook as she traces his story in a series that is part biography, part travelogue and completely enthralling.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2013

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Summary: Chronicles the rise and fall of the hit television show Gorgeous ladies of wrestling, through the stories of those who lived it. For some, the show was a brief foray into acting and a short-lived adventure. For others, their time in Glow would impact and influence their lives for years to follow. For all of the women, working on GLOW was a unique and exciting experience that will bond them...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2013

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Summary: "In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states ... even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Spotlights...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012

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Summary: Art world provocateur and elusive artist Maurizio Cattelan made his career on playful and subversive works that upended the art establishment, until a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2011 finally solidified his place in the contemporary art canon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2017

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Dofat, Paula

Summary: Follows a girls' step team at an inner-city Baltimore high school.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2017

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Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2009

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Summary: Laura Huxley married Aldous Huxley in 1956. Their home was the center of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde of Los Angeles. Huxley on Huxley offers a compelling glimpse of Laura's life with Aldous and the revolutionary and provocative work that had a major influence on American and contemporary cultural history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2008

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Summary: Season two brings new challenges and unforgettable frontier adventures. When debts force Charles to work at several jobs, his entire family pitches in to earn the needed money. Mary₂s gift for mathematics makes her the talk of the town. Charles helps an ailing widow find care for her three children, and the Ingalls family celebrates the nations₂ centennial with a joyous town party.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: A feature documentary film following six individuals deploying and grappling with the current systemic failures of how we have dealt with addiction and their journey to develop and employ new, innovative, and often controversial solutions to the problem.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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