Contents: Young Halsey (1:42) -- Halsey Rises Through the Ranks (2:21) -- Halsey Learns to Fly (1:39) -- Bombing of Pearl Harbor (1:22) -- U.S Retaliates (1:53) -- Enterprise Attacks Japan (3:51) -- The Halsey Legend (1:20) -- Halsey Chooses Leyte (3:08) -- Legacy of Halsey (2:39) -- Credits: Admiral William Halsey (0:51)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: Introduction to Airstream Restoration (2:28) -- Airstream Deconstruction (2:58) -- Airstream Panel Construction (2:22) -- Chassis Repair (3:24) -- Airstream Interior Restoration (3:48) -- Airstream Self-Containment (5:55) -- Credits: 'Airstream' (0:20)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Covering the years 1900 to 1910, this program introduces some of baseball's most celebrated and colorful characters-including Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, and Ty Cobb. The film spotlights Cobb's reputation as perhaps the most aggressive and least likeable player in the history of the game (a standing reflected in the episode's title, drawn from one of the outfielder's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The New York Yankees. The New York Giants. The Brooklyn Dodgers. It's safe to say that Manhattan and its surrounding communities had no shortage of baseball at the dawn of the 1950s-and yet, by decade's end, team relocations would radically alter the landscape of the game. This program tours that ten-year stretch in all its glory and swan-song turmoil. Viewers follow the exploits of Mickey...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Commentary from leading historians are combined with eyewitness testimony and dramatic reenactments of Civil War battles to tell the tragic story of the battle of Antietam, which was fought on September 17, 1862. Eleven hours of fighting produced over 23,000 Union and Confederate casualties, the bloodiest single day of the war.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: Lost Evidence of Normandy (1:37) -- Caen: July 10, 1944 (1:41) -- Code Name: Overlord (1:47) -- The Bocage (2:46) -- Operation Jupiter (3:22) -- Battle for Eterville and Maltot (3:06) -- Battle for Hill 112 (5:21) -- Operation Goodwood (0:56) -- American Forces in the Bocage (1:46) -- St Lo and Operation Cobra (2:16) -- Operation Cobra (3:09) -- American Breakthrough in Normandy (3:35) --...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This episode of Biography looks at Brigham Young, a settler in the American west and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Known as the 'Mormon Moses', Young followed founder Joseph Smith as head of the Mormon church.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: From its Carthaginian birth to its role as one of Spain's naval headquarters, Cartagena has maintained powerful ties to the sea. This program illustrates the importance of the city's maritime foundation, guiding students through prominent features of Cartagena and its fortified harbor. The Navy's diving school, its submarine fleet base, and the National Museum of Marine Archaeology are all...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: He's super-smart, he's student body president, and he's expected to follow family tradition by applying to medical school upon graduation. But though Chetan isn't opposed to being a doctor, he's also interested in designing cars. In this program a career specialist and a life coach help Chetan sort out which, if either, of his interests are realistic. He presents some sketches for a new...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Glass sculptor Dale Chihuly's remarkable creations are part of more than 200 museum collections worldwide. This program captures Chihuly at work with his studio team as they produce pieces for an ambitious installation at San Francisco's de Young Museum. Chihuly at the de Young took more than two years to execute, and the artist's signature collaborative process, documented here, was integral...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: She is unconventional wisdom personified, as she had dedicated her entire life to chimpanzee research and conservation. It all began in 1960 when Jane Goodall, the 26-year-old untrained animal enthusiast, set off into the forest and launched what would become the most comprehensive and revealing study of chimps in the wild. In this episode of the PBS Scientific American Frontiers series, Chimps...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: Nothing reveals the dangers of drug addiction more accurately than honesty. In this intense program, filmmaker Paul Perrier interviews a family friend, crack cocaine-addicted Lisa, in her dingy hotel room where she prostitutes herself to earn the money she needs to buy drugs. Although she grew up in a middle-class family, attended good schools, and had well-behaved friends, Lisa began drinking...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The lucrative teen market is coveted by advertisers, making it all the more important for young people to know how to make wise buying decisions. In this program Maggie and Ethan go online to shop for an MP3 player while applying the four steps consumers should consider when shopping: they set a goal, list their resources, shop carefully, and then evaluate their purchase. The teens also learn...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: I get bored easily, Danielle admits. If something's hard, I just don't do it. Torn between a career in interior design or one as a police officer, Danielle must first work on her lack of motivation and identifying her skills and interests is a start. In this program a career specialist and a life coach help the teen find what draws her to two such different professions, what each actually...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection, which affects some 50 million people annually. It is now endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, South America, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and the Western Pacific. This program journeys to Thailand to join scientists at the forefront of the fight to contain and eliminate Dengue. Viewers learn about one of the principal challenges...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: David Owen, a writer for The New Yorker, discussues the complex issues of sustainability as they relate to urban and suburban life. 'Green Manhattan,' an article that Owen wrote for The New Yorker about the city's inherent sustainability, was a major inspiration for the e² series.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Contents: Germany Aims for the Sea (2:58) -- German Tank and Air Assaults (2:13) -- Citizens, Panzers, and Allied Escape (2:11) -- Dunkirk in a Death Grip (2:12) -- Operation Dynamo (3:21) -- Rescue Vessels (5:01) -- Tragedy and Triumph of Dunkirk (1:16) -- Credits: 'Dunkirk' (1:06)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: Introduction to Factory Conversion (2:27) -- Building Facade (2:45) -- Concrete Reinforcement (2:34) -- Weight-Bearing Columns (3:05) -- Evacuation Stairways (2:34) -- Window Installation (2:59) -- Apartment Conversion (3:37) -- Credits: 'Factory' (0:20)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: Opposite Sides of the Battle Line (2:40) -- Red Army Moves Towards Kustrin (2:10) -- Russians Isolate Fortress Kustrin (1:37) -- German Defense in Berlin (3:14) -- To the Front By Street Car (3:36) -- Desertion in Berlin (3:14) -- Fight for the Reichstag (2:12) -- After the Fall of Berlin (0:48) -- Credits: The Fall of Berlin (1:05)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Beginning with a mind-boggling stunt that only science or spirituality can justify-a veritable walk through fire-this program examines humankind's long, complicated relationship with the ravenous power of combustion. Fire was, for millennia, humanity's principal source of heat and energy, and viewers learn the implications of that fact in scenes of Britain's industrial revolution as well as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This overview of the life and literature of George Eliot from the Famous Authors series follows Eliot's comfortable childhood through the several phases of her education and religious development, during which she discovered major influences like Sir Walter Scott, Shakespeare, and evangelism. Later in ife, she moved away from her evangelist views, eventually leaving the Church of England all...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: To help improve the odds of being accepted by America's most desirable colleges and universities, increasing numbers of high school students are getting a jump on the competition by applying for early admission. This ABC News program looks at the controversial process and contrasts it with Georgetown University's nonbinding early action alternative. The marketing efforts of Georgetown-and of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: From hapless donors who are tricked or coerced into giving up parts of their bodies to surgeons half a world away who turn a blind eye to illicit dealings, this program shines a powerful light on the underground human-organ market. It begins as a Nepalese youth is forced to sell one of his kidneys, then travels through India, South Africa, Brazil, and universities and medical centers throughout...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Ironically, the parts of the body we use the most also tend to be the most neglected, medically speaking. As we age, it becomes more and more important to address the wellbeing of our hands and feet, and in caring for the elderly it is vital to give attention to these frequently overlooked areas. This program identifies common hand and foot health problems, explains the changes that occur in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008