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Documentaires télévisés. Documentary television programs. Historical television programs. History. Nonfiction television programs. Television series. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecording Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.Summary: Few modern authors have not been influenced by the medieval Middle Eastern literary classic "The book of a thousand and one nights." Over one thousand years ago, a legend was told about a beautiful young woman who attempted to prolong her impending execution by telling adventure tales to a murderous sultan for a thousand and one nights. The tales she wove are set in India, Persia, Egypt,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today's Indigenous communities. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century. Each hour explores a core tenet of Native American heritage: the power of Indigenous design, how language and artistry fuel the soul, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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2 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV MATSummary: The team plunges the viewer into the grime and glory of real-life archaeology: epiphany and exhaustion, discovery and disappointment. The team explores the mysteries of the past through what they find buried below the ground. Part adventure, part hard science, part reality show, applies the latest technology and the team's collective expertise to solving the riddles of the past. Through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TIMSummary: Take a risky dive into an underwater cave in Mexico to discover the 13,000 year-old skeleton of a prehistoric teenager. Follow forensic clues that reveal intimate details of her life and death, and how her people first ventured into North America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIRSummary: Television program that explores the Inca civilization from the perspective of their construction techniques. Archaeological teams use traditional building techniques to test their hypotheses, including the building of a 150-foot suspension bridge using nothing but grass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECSummary: From an Iron Age chariot to Viking treasures, from Roman burials to World War II relics, this season features expert analysis and commentary from historians and archaeologists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIGSummary: Dr. Alice Roberts and her team scour Europe to unearth ancient relics and sites that may act as the missing piece for entire generations in this thrilling series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIGSummary: Every year, a million visitors are drawn to the Salisbury Plain in southern England, to gaze upon a mysterious circle of stones. Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Now investigations inside and around Stonehenge have kicked off a dramatic new era of discovery and debate. Who built Stonehenge? What was its purpose? How did prehistoric people quarry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECSummary: The Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that homo sapiens came to inhabit. Now, join an international team of scientists as they climb to the world's highest tombs to unearth secrets of the people who settled these extreme environments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECSummary: Archaeologists have long believed that while the Egyptians were building pyramids 3,000 years ago, nothing was happening in Western Europe, but a new discovery shows something far different. Five years ago, the remains of an incredible, ancient site began to emerge from a quarry in eastern England. Due to its delicate nature, experts have largely been working in secret, until now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AFTSummary: Alice Roberts follows an entire year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations. The results are astonishing, and sometimes disturbing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIGSummary: A team of archaeologists dives deeper into the history of the Vikings and attempt to piece together what Britain might have looked like prior to the Roman invasion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIGSummary: With new evidence, testimony from historians and archaeologists, and deep dives into the meaning of new artifacts, this season is full of amazing information and insights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIGSummary: From Roman burials to World War II relics, this season features some incredible finds that help Doctor Alice Roberts and her team piece together early civilized history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIGSummary: The legend of King Arthur is one of the most evocative stories in British mythology. We think of the romantic King, with his beautiful wife Guinivere by his side and the trusty sword Excalibur in his hand. The truth, we discover, is very different. The story was written in the medieval period but it was set hundreds of years earlier, in the Dark Ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTSummary: The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible sword with its maker's name, ULFBERHT, inlaid along the blade. But who Ulfberht was, where the sword came from, and how it was made remained secrets for more than 1,000 years?
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECRoberts, Alice
Summary: Explores archaeological sites and discoveries in Great Britain and what they reveal about British history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2021