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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of controversial founding father, Alexander Hamilton, depicting his notorious love affairs, his leadership in the economic transformation of the new country as the first secretary of the treasury, and his demise in a duel with Aaron Burr.
82) Born to be wild
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the people who rescue and rehabilitate them to be able to go back into the wild and survive.
83) Grand Central
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c[2008]
Language
English
Description
On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at New York City's newest landmark. The new Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street housed an underground electric train station that would revolutionize the way people traveled and transform midtown Manhattan. By 1947, over sixty-five million people, the equivalent of forty percent of the population of the United States, had traveled through the station.
85) Life in a day
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A collection of videos gathered through the website YouTube showing what life was like on Earth on July 24th, 2010.
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.
88) Marc Chagall
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2011], c1984
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of the painter Marc Chagall accompanied by spectacular still images of the artist's greatest work.
Publisher
Georgia Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Born in Atlanta in 1900, Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell was a force to be reckoned with throughout her life. Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel features interviews with leading historians, biographers and people with personal connections to her as well as dramatic re-enactments based on her own personal reflections. The film also looks at the reasons behind the amazing endurance of Gone With the Wind across cultures and over time.
91) Radiant city
Publisher
Koch Lorber
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A filmmaker and a journalist take a trip into modern-day suburbia and explore why people choose to live in certain types of planned neighborhoods.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c[2012]
Language
English
Description
Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Leo Tolstoy's Russia, examining how Russia's great novelist became her great troublemaker. Guided by the writer's confessional diaries, Yentob travels through Tolstoy's Russia looking at the life, work and legacy of the author. It reveals a difficult, restless, ferociously brilliant man with an appetite for causing trouble both for himself, his family and for the world around him due to his fundamentalist...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2011, c2006
Language
English
Description
World War II encompassed some of America's greatest triumphs and most bitter defeats. This comprehensive and intimate survey of this epic war features the greatest World War II documentaries, each packed with original archival footage, interviews with military experts and historians, and gripping reenactments from the War in Europe to the war in the Pacific.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
David Attenborough investigates birds of paradise in New Guinea, an unmapped, mountain region of New Guinea, ancient Polynesian beliefs on Easter Island, Bowerbirds in the Australian rainforests, musical communication in the natural world, and the unique preservation qualities of amber; Michael Palin hosts a tribute to Attenborough's career in "Life on air."
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Offers an intimate portrait of the celebrated writer as well as her craft, interweaving the story of Lamott's life, in itself a deeply moving tale of addiction and redemption, grief and joy, intellect and faith, with one year's worth of interviews, public lectures, and readings, and footage of the writer at work.
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