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Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
TV. Radio. Phones. Airplanes. Motorcycles. Tractors. Home Appliances. Power Tools. These are “The Machines That Built America.” This new HISTORY Channel docuseries reveals the surprising stories and rivalries behind the ground-breaking innovations that turned America into a superpower. Blending dramatic reenactments and archival footage with interviews from experts, biographers, and others, “The Machines That Built America” brings to life...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Description
Featuring the voices of Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg and Oscar-nominee James Woods, "Mia and the Migoo" is a stunningly beautiful, hand-painted animated feature film. Pedro leaves his poor village and finds work drilling a tunnel through an area of exceptional natural beauty that is to become a luxurious hotel complex. But mysterious forces are working against the project. When a landslide blocks the entrance to the tunnel, Pedro is left trapped....
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Often the first stories we learn as children, myths are iconic tales where good and evil clash and humanity and fantasy collide. Thousands of years ago, they were used to help frame the world of the ancients, and dictate the guidelines of their societies.
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1943.
Description
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
66) Developing Ideas
Publisher
The Great Courses
Description
Jump-start your creativity with a selection of fun exercises, including “What-If Moments” and “The First-Line Game.” Mr. Bell cites best-selling authors such as Alice Sebold and Mickey Spillane to demonstrate the importance of creating unique elements: a twist, a character, a setting, a relationship. Find out how to create the ever-important elevator pitch.
67) Mountain Men
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Mountain Men follows men who have devoted their lives to surviving off the grid in some of the country's most unforgiving terrain.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Return of the River" is a sequel to "Heart of the People" (1997 Gemini nomination) "Return of the River" is a story of struggle and survival: The Huu-ay-aht First Nations and their ongoing efforts to bring back their river, destroyed decades ago by clear-cut logging and commercial fishing. This Documentary traces the amazing progress the Huu-ay-aht have made in their attempts to restore their river, culture and language- since embarking on this project...
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Modern technology allows us to build incredible structures like giant tankers, mammoth skyscrapers and colossal bridges. But, with enormous size comes enormous risk, and when big things go wrong, they go really wrong. The HISTORY Channel’s new series examines the catastrophic result of some of the world’s worst engineering disasters caught on tape. Each episode breaks down shocking footage from collapses and collisions to reveal the shocking answers...
71) Part One
Publisher
PBS
Description
A dangerous rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has plunged the Middle East into sectarian war. From revolution in Iran, reaction by Saudi Arabia, and wars in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq, how religion and power politics drive perpetual conflict.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Description
We commonly define the Pythagorean theorem using the formula a2 + b2 = c2. But Pythagoras himself would have been confused by that. Explore how this famous theorem can be explained using common geometric shapes (no fancy algebra required), and how it’s a critical foundation for the rest of geometry.
74) Charlotte's Web
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Description
E.B. White’s beloved Newbery Honor-winning story comes to life in this classic animated musical. In this timeless tale, a spider named Charlotte teaches a pig named Wilbur and other barnyard animals lessons on friendship, trust, and love. Featuring the voice talents of Oscar and Golden Globe nominated actors such as Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson and Paul Lynde. Winner of Best Feature Film at the **Genesis Awards**. *"A heartwarming tale of love...
75) Julius Caesar
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A fast-moving thriller about a struggle for democracy, William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is also a love story between two men united by an explosive act of political violence. Based on the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed stage production, Gregory Doran's film for BBC Television sets the action in post-independence Africa. With echos of the recent overthrow of dictators during the 'Arab Spring', the production explores the implications of political...
76) Hunting Hitler
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In "HUNTING HITLER," an FBI cold case that has laid dormant for 70 years leads a group of world-renown investigators on the ultimate manhunt to finally answer the question: Did Adolf Hitler survive World War II?
77) Season 1
Publisher
HISTORY
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In ALONE, ten men are left in solitude, and separated from each other, in the harsh Vancouver Island wilderness. With no camera crews or producers, they have to survive using only what they can stuff into a backpack.
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Description
Lightnin' Hopkins sings about playing cards with Les Blank and Skip Gerson - a card game he won which turned critical to the making of the film "The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins." After filming 13 songs, Lightnin' had told Les and Skip that he was done filming. As a last resort Les asked Lightnin' to play cards and he lost {dollar}200. But then Lightnin' agreed to film more. 3 1/2 min Color.
79) Two Men in Town
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Description
William Garnett (Forest Whitaker) is an ex-con starting life over as a recently converted Muslim. With the help of his determined parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), he gets a job, meets an interesting woman, and keeps his head down. But the town sheriff, Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel), won't leave him alone since Garnett was responsible for killing his deputy. As Agati puts pressure on him, and his old partners in crime hassle him, Garnett slowly starts...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Description
For more then twenty years, tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from all around the world has been transported to a Chinese town called Fengjang, in the south of Shanghai. Around 50,000 migrant workers have formed a real army to dismantle these metallic wastes. These green soldiers decompose, cut, split and recycle, with the most rudimentary means, almost 2 million tons of garbage every year. To remain and assume the minimum materials that...
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