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Publisher
American Home Treasures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This fascinating program explores the romantic history of the clans through tours of the castles that have witnessed centuries of war and tribal treachery. Legends of fairies, secret rooms and ghosts enliven the history of a brave people.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Award-winning historian Simon Schama presents A history of Britain, a 15-part series that brings the stuff of history to life through the dramatic stories of key lives and moments in Britain's rich and colorful past. Familiar names and places - warriors and kings, priests and politicians, battlegrounds, castles and cathedrals - punctuate the stories that make up this series spanning 3000 BC to 1965.
Publisher
IMC Vision Ltd
Pub. Date
c2000, 2001
Language
English
Description
Scottish clans: Delves into the origins and backgrounds of key individual Scottish Clan names. Scottish verse: A selection of classic Scottish poetry and verse, set to beautiful and evocative landscapes, featuring Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott.
6) Mob hitmen
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this exposé, "American justice" ventures inside the bloody mob wars that have scarred Philadelphia over the past decade. In addition to interviews with some of the mob's most notorious triggermen and women, this program features footage and news accounts of the city's recent brutal mob hits and introduces viewers to the police and prosecutors who have devoted their lives to catching these shadowy killers.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides -- Americans who fought...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"...to reveal how each state's territory was determined and explores their individual natural environments, populations, politics, traditions, legends, and quirks.....highlighting what makes each one unique as well [as] an integral part of the whole. Learn new factoids about each state's history, natural resources, geography and monuments as well as the truth behind the legends....There's a story...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"...to reveal how each state's territory was determined and explores their individual natural environments, populations, politics, traditions, legends, and quirks.....highlighting what makes each one unique as well [as] an integral part of the whole. Learn new factoids about each state's history, natural resources, geography and monuments as well as the truth behind the legends....There's a story...
15) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Explores the consequences of the Eighteenth Amendment and raises questions about the role of government in legislating morality.
16) Scotland islands
Publisher
BFS Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The geography and history of the islands of Scotland is explored.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world. The origin of great literature, fine art, and modern government, it was also the first Christian empire. Pass through the gates of Constantinople, explore the magnificent mosque of Hagia Sophia and see the looted treasures of the empire now located in St. Marks, Venice.
19) Censored voices
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
עברית
Formats
Description
Combining original recordings of soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War with archival newsreel footage, CENSORED VOICES is a stark reminder of how far the region remains from the peace for which they long. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema - Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of Best Documentary at the Awards...
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