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Biographical television programs. Documentary television programs. Historical television programs. History. Instructional television programs. Nonfiction films. Nonfiction television programs. Television programs for the hearing impaired. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: Join once again Christopher Kimball and the cast of America's Test Kitchen to learn the basics of great home cooking. Learn recipes that will work the first time you try them, thanks to the dozens of test cooks who develop, refine, and test recipes again and again until they arrive at the very best versions. Learning to become a better cook has never been this foolproof or fun!
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 AMESummary: On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASSSummary: 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: Talks about the 83 year construction process and the mission of what has become a house of God for all people. Gives highlights of its history from the vision that started it to the decisions that shaped its progress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WASSummary: This 10-part series, with the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., delves into the genealogy and genetics of famous Americans, combining history and science in a fascinating exploration of race, family and identity in today's America. Professor Gates shakes loose captivating stories and surprises in the family trees of Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey, Jr., Branford...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINSummary: Based on the book The Inner Game of Tennis, by W. Timothy Gallway, Tennis: The Inner Game aims to show new techniques to unleash one's true potential in the game.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.342 TENSummary: 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: In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands, even millions of dollars, from bowls that burped. "Tupperware ladies" fanned out across the nation's living rooms, selling efficiency and convenience to their friends and neighbors through home parties. The secret behind Tupperware's success: the women of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds who discovered they could move up in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TUPSummary: Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man's relationship with God and, by extension, a redefinition of man's relationship with authority. Filmed across Europe -- from the rustic rural Germany to the opulence of the Vatican City -- you'll witness the collapse of the medieval world and the...
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 MARSummary: The story of China's 8,000 terracotta warriors begins two centuries before the birth of Christ. The First Emperor of China was preparing an extravagant tomb for his journey into the afterlife, and decreed that he be protected forever by a monumental army. Since then no one has seen these ancient warriors in their original splendor, brightly painted and fully armed, ready to protect their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHISummary: The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EgaSummary: In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MEDSummary: Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVSummary: Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity. The program traces his life from his early days in New York to his last years in Boston when he suffered from tremors which kept him from his writing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EUGSummary: Based on the book The Inner Game of Golf, by W. Timothy Gallway, Golf: The Inner Game aims to show new techniques to unleash one's true potential in the game.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 GOLSummary: The four-part series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the "White gaze." The series recounts the establishment of the Prince Hall Masons in 1775 through the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, destinations for leisure, and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKSummary: A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man who's life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in Teen Display, Call number: DVD E-TV NATSummary: Secrets of the Manor House looks beyond the fiction to the truth of how life was in these ancient British houses, and how mounting financial, political and social pressures were about to bring momentous changes to both the wealthy and their servants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECSummary: Welcome again to the home of Cook's Country, a renovated 1806 farmhouse with a full working test kitchen, a live audience, and the odd neighbor who stops by with cooking problems that need immediate attention. Join host Christopher Kimball and the chefs from America's Test Kitchen as they turn their no-nonsense approach to cooking to the American repertoire, turning bad food into great food...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 COOSummary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSSummary: A startling look at preacher Jim Jones, his life prior to the mass-suicides in Guyana, and the event that took place leading up to that fateful day in 1978.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JONSummary: Wrapped in chains and encased in a crate, magician Harry Houdini was dropped into New York's icy East River. Horrified onlookers watched him emerge, unharmed, less than 60 seconds later. Easily the world's most famous escape artist, Houdini mesmerized audiences with astonishing acts of magic like the Water Torture Cell. A circus performer turned gifted artist, Houdini confronted humanity's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011