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(0)Calif.) KCET (Television station : Los Angeles
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Reveals how the first big artistic discoveries were made and how they have cascaded down the centuries to define the look of the present day. Encompassing everything from cave paints to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, this film explores the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body; the secret powers of the feature film; how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily; visions of the afterlife; and why we use imagery at all....
4) Cosmos
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carl Sagan discusses the cosmic relationship between man and the universe.
Publisher
PorchLight Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
#1: When Annie is elected president of the Drama Club, her desire to make a profit blinds her to the true meaning of Christmas. #2: Zach and Annie collect canned goods for a local shelter. When Plato relaizes that the kids are more concerned about taking credit for their good deeds rather than actually helping people, he spins a story about true generosity.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This biography explores whether Americans should celebrate Jackson or apologize for him. The program reveals the world of America's 7th president, who founded the Democratic Party, yet was viewed by his enemies as an American Napoleon. The film contains reenactments, lithographs, letters and the insights of distinguished scholars.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A highly imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing epochs in human history: when the 'Old World' first encountered the 'New World.' Travel from Granada in Spain to Machu Picchu in Peru, and from Mexico to Madrid in Spain. Explores how the collision of these two sophisticated but different worlds led to the birth of an entirely new Latino culture.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Metropolitan Los Angeles is sitting on ground zero. Slicing under the highrises of downtown is a network of potentially deadly faults which could trigger the nation's most devastating natural disaster. Includes 1994 Los Angeles earthquake.
10) Coney Island
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2006], c1991]
Language
English
Description
In scale, in variety, in sheer inventiveness, Coney Island was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and eventually, everyone came to see it. At the turn of the century, Coney Island exploded in a forest of glittering electric towers and a riot of rides, restaurants, recreated disasters, freak shows, and historical displays when three vast amusement parks -- Steeplechase, Luna Park, and Dreamland -- were built. Indicative of its overwhelming popularity,...
Publisher
BBC Video Ltd
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"'Auschwitz: inside the Nazi state' is the result of three years of research, drawing on the close involvement of world experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100 interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of whom are speaking on the record for the first time. Their stories are brought to life through the innovative use of archive footage, dramatic recreations of key ... moments, and their ... testimony"--Container label.
13) Awake and sing
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of the Depression years.
Publisher
Craft in America, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Craft in Ameica is an exploration into the hearts and minds of artisans devoted to a diverse array of mediums -- from furniture making to and basket weaving to pottery and metalsmithing. Each episode reveals that craft has earned itself a place within the realm of fine art"--Container.
Series
Publisher
2/entertain
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Joseph Stalin - the supreme leader of the Soviet Union - was a tyrant responsible for the death of millions. He also had some unlikely relationships during the Second World War. This ambitious series uses exclusive evidence gained from the actual conversations and secret meetings Stalin conducted. Dramatic reconstructions carefully sourced from archive material, reveal how the great leaders decided the future shape of the post-war world. These decisions...
16) Scarecrow
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In a 17th century Massachusetts town, a scarecrow is magically transformed into a man and charged with the mission of destroying true love.
17) Copenhagen
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's play about the 1941 meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, longtime friends whose work had opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who found themselves on opposite sides of World War II.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
On October 29, 1929 - Black Monday, large and small investors alike lost corporate and personal fortunes when the stock market crashed. This program examines the reasons behind the crash and whether the crash was predictable.
19) American cinema
Publisher
Annenberg Media
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
An epic analysis of the American motion picture industry that combines rare archival film, key scenes from immortal movies, interviews with leading filmmakers and commentary from noted film scholars and critics.
Series
American experience volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of a mostly forgotten crusader for Black and women's rights, Ida B. Wells Barnett, born in slavery on a plantation in Mississippi. She very effectively used the press and the written word to sway public opinion on matters from post civil war lynching to rights for women and helping secure freedom for supposed perpetrators of the Arkansas race riots. Toni Morrison reads passages from Ida's memoirs as part of the way the story is told.
