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Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Takes a look at various goofy buildings along the roadsides of America. These structures generally look like certain things, such as the Shoe House in York, Pennsylvania; the Frates Milk Bottle in New Bedford, Massachusetts; or the Catsup Bottle water tower in Collinsville, Illinois. Listens to comments from owners, employees, and visitors.
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Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"Frontline goes behind closed doors to tell the inside story of how things went so wrong so fast and to document efforts to stabilize the industry. Veteran Frontline producer Michael Kirk untangles the complicated financial and political web threatening one superbank in particular, Bank of America."--Container. DVD format.
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Pub. Date
2011
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Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Old Unhappy Far Off Things: Lewis and Hathaway investigate two murders at Oxford's last surviving all-female college. Wild Justice: Candidates in an election at Oxford's St. Gerard's Hall are being murdered one-by-one. The Mind Has Mountains: When a student dies from a new anti-depressant drug, is it murder or suicide? The Gift of Promise: Businesswoman Andrea de Ritter is bludgeoned to death in an apparent blackmail plot gone wrong.
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Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Tells the story of American fighter pilots shot down over North Vietnam and their sudden transformation from self-confident, top-gun aviators to prisoners of war confronting yeas of captivity. Includes never-before-seen footage from the archives of Vietnam and first person accounts of the hidden war behind prison walls.
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Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
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. DVD format.
13) Castle
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
The eldest son of every British monarch is vested as the Prince of Wales at the Welch Castle of Caenarvon, one of the greatest medieval castles ever built. Join host David Maculay as he explores the giant castles built by King Edward I during England's legendary campaign to bring Wales into the British empire. Uses both live-action documentary sequences and a colorful animated story dramatizing medieval life and the siege of a castle.
Description
Its been sixty years since Indian independence. Presented is the tale of the oldest and most diverse civilization and the largest democracy. A nuclear power and a rising giant, India's population will overtake China's within 10 years and its economy is predicted to overtake that of the United States by the 2030s. A journey of sights and sounds, and achievements, go from the deserts of Turkmenistan to the Khyber Pass.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Young Becky Botsford is just an average 5th grader until she becomes a superhero, where her knowledge of words and love of reading saves the day. Episodes include Birthday Girl; Earth Day Girl; You Can't Crush City Hall; Two Brain Highway; Jerky Jerk; Tobey or Consequences; Coupon Madness; and Lady Redundant Woman.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The royal tomb of Pharaoh Psusennes I is one of the most spectacular of all the ancient Egyptian treasures. Discovered in 1939 by French archeologist Pierre Montet, why hasn't the world heard about it? Archaeologists, using the hieroglyphs inside the tomb, pieced together the identity of the pharaoh, and further investigation reveals political intrigue, a lost city, and a leader who united a country in turmoil and became the Silver Pharaoh.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
20) The Big Burn
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Pub. Date
c2014
Description
Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.