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Biographical television programs. Documentary television programs. Feature films. Historical television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Television programs for people with visual disabilities. Television programs for the hearing impaired. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DUSSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOSummary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STOSummary: Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JACCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACSummary: It's long been known that German soldiers used methamphetamine called Pervitin in the Second World War. But have tales of Nazis on speed obscured the other side of the story: the massive use of stimulants by British and American troops? Did total war unleash the world's first pharmacological arms race? Historian James Holland quests to dig deeper and unearth the truth behind the war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019