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Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Rourke has two great loves in her life: the gorilla troop she cares for as a primatologist and the laundry list of reality TV shows she watches to escape the fact that her actual love life doesn't exist. And like a reality contestant gunning for the final rose, Lucy is laser-focused on one thing: getting promoted to senior keeper. So when a wildlife docuseries hosted by hotshot TV personality Kai Bridges chooses her zoo as its summer filming...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning epic documentary, digitally enhanced, features never-before-seen interviews, commentary from Ken Burns, a sixteen-page collector's booklet and more. It tells the story of a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the vicinity of New York's Hudson River Valley, the Adirondack Mountains, Catskill Mountains, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, a group of American painters led by British born artist Thomas Cole forged an artistic vision of the American wilderness. This was the first American school of landscape painting.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Glacier National Park is undergoing dramatic changes. As the glaciers that give this wilderness its name rapidly melt away, it is clear the park will never be the same. Explore the backcountry of this scenic region's pristine forests, alpine meadows, rugged mountains, and spectacular lakes to discover a dramatic transformation, and witness a defiant new environment as it emerges.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
Español
Description
Some who lived weaves together testimonies of Holocaust survivors now living in Argentina and Uruguay with archival and contemporary footage; it also draws parallels between the Nazi regime and the government of Argentinean president, Juan Perón.
In Eyes of the Holocaust, survivors describe the slow erosion of their lives followed by panic when the Nazis took over and attempted to liquidate the Hungarian Jewish population.
Children from the abyss...
10) The rise of ISIS
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In The Rise of ISIS, Martin Smith (Gangs of Iraq; Beyond Baghdad) draws on in-depth interviews with Iraqi politicians, and American policymakers and military leaders to explore and explain how the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) became a major force so quickly. What does it mean for the U.S. to be back in Iraq, fighting a new war on terror, less than three years after American troops pulled out of the country? Smith delivers a revelatory look...
11) Ellis Island
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A look at the history of Ellis Island, the primary immigration point into the United States from 1892-1954.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Einstein called it 'spooky action at a distance,' but today quantum entanglement is poised to revolutionize technology. Physicists have become gradually convinced that quantum entanglement is real, but a few doubts remain. NOVA follows a groundbreaking experiment in the Canary Islands to use quasars at opposite ends of the universe to once and for all settle remaining questions.
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Examines civilizations through the lens of their engineering feats. Traces the rise of antiquity's greatest leaders and presents the architectural marvels and urban planning accomplishments that altered the course of history.
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1996
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner. These films provide rare footage and historical recounts of some of the most prized American institutions. The series has earned universal critical acclaim as well as over 100 awards.
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
He earned his nickname for bravery at Bull Run and led some of the most stunning campaigns of the Civil War. An outstanding leader and brilliant tactician, Stonewall Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest Confederate commanders. Visits some of the bloodiest battlegrounds in America for a riveting portrait of the commander who held his ground 'like a stone wall.'
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy in the Chinatown community, over the course of a five-year...
Publisher
Microcinema International
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Borobudur in Central Java is in the shape of a pyramid, with four square terraces leading to three circular ones. The building is covered with three miles of carvings. Situated on a lush palm-covered volcanic plain, it deserves the title of 'eighth wonder of the world'. This massive construction lay deserted and obscured by jungle for over 1000 years, only to be to be re-discovered by the famous Englishman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Now viewers...
20) Ancient Rome
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Experience the intrigue, scandal, excitement and chaos of the most dominant empire in the history of western civilization as History journeys back to the age of Caesar"--Container.
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