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American Experience: The Polio Crusade DVD
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We Shall Remain DVD
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American Experience: The 1930s DVD
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Grades 7-12 The Polio Crusade features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.
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We Shall Remain represents an unprecedented collaboration between Native and non-Native filmmakers and involves Native advisors and scholars at all levels of the project.
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Grades 7+ In a series of five films, this AMERICAN EXPERIENCE explores politics and culture during the Great Depression through eyewitness accounts and rare archival footage.
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FRONTLINE: My Father, My Brother and Me DVD DVD
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Obama's War DVD
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The Warning DVD
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In My Father, My Brother, and Me, a FRONTLINE co-production with ITVS, airing Feb. 3, 2009, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), Iverson sets off on a personal journey to understand the disease that has taken such a toll on his family.
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Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander, and armed with a counter-insurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the "graveyard of empires?
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In the devastating aftermath of the economic meltdown, THE WARNING sifts through the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might have gone much differently.
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A Death in Tehran DVD
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FRONTLINE: The Card Game DVD
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400 Years of the Telescope (US Only) DVD
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Grades 9-12 At the height of the protests following Iran s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Soltani was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the Web quickly became an international outrage, and Soltani became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hardline government s hold on power.
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FRONTLINE jointly with the New York Times examines the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy.
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Grades 7+ A documentary following the history of the telescope.
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King Lear DVD
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I.O.U.S.A. DVD
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Ken Burns' America DVD
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William Shakespeare's unrelenting King Lear is considered to be one of
the playwright's most enduring and haunting works for the stage. The
challenge of playing its title role has long fallen to some of the
greatest actors of our time. This telecast marks Sir Ian McKellen's
return to the Royal Shakespeare Company, that has resulted in a
tour-de-force performance as Lear. Co-directed for television by Sir
Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt.
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America is on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States. Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions.
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These seven brilliant programs by America's foremost documentary filmmaker comprise a glorious anthem to a great nation and its people.
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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery DVD
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Legacy of War DVD
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Malaria: Fever Wars DVD
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Another reliably well-crafted, generally engrossing documentary from Ken Burns, Lewis & Clark employs the director's now-familiar approach to his subjects, from its elegant juxtaposition of period illustrations and portraits against newly filmed footage of historic sites to Burns's repertory of accomplished actors to provide gravitas for quotes from the key figures. Granted the formula has become familiar enough to allow parody, but Burns knows how to invest his historical investigations with movement and drama, making this four-hour journey a worthwhile trip.
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Chronicles the rebuilding of shattered lives in a ruined city after the Blitz in London during WWII. Narrated by Walter Cronkite.
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Grades 7+ "Malaria: Fever Wars" highlights man's interminable fight against
malaria, a disease which kills millions every year, and which is
continuing to worsen.
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The Music Instinct: Science and Song DVD DVD
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Mark Twain DVD
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NOVAHubble'S Amazing Rescue DVD
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The power of music: The Music Instinct: Science and Song provides a
ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism--and the
whole ebb and flow of the cosmos--is moved by the undeniable effect of
music.
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Considered the funniest man of his time, Mark Twain was a critic of human nature who used his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed, and racism. As America's best-loved author, he created some of its most memorable characters and quoted sayings. Director Ken Burns digs beneath the legend to discover the true Twain and reveals his extraordinary life, filled with adventure and literary pursuit, incredible success and defeat, comedy, and tragedy
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In the spring of 2009, NASA sent a shuttle crew on a risky mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time. The astronaut servicing team must carry out the first ever in-space repairs of Hubble's defective instruments, a task that requires ingenious engineering fixes and the most intensive NASA spacewalk ever. NOVA presents the inside story of the mission and the extraordinary challenges faced by the rescue crew.
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What Are Dreams? DVD
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Mumbai Massacre DVD
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Stephen Hawking's Universe DVD
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What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins the leading dream
researchers as they embark on a variety of neurological and
psychological experiments to investigate the world of sleep and dreams.
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Told from the perspective of victims and survivors in their own words, Mumbai Massacre places viewers inside the nightmarish 60 hours of orchestrated terrorism, broadcast live to the world via cell phones and internet, text and twitter. This program captures the desperation and courage of ordinary people, and how social media became a silent witness and simultaneously transformed news as it happened.
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This program presents the frontiers of scientific knowledge about the basis of our existence & of everything around us.
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The Story of India DVD
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The Botany of Desire DVD
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Happiness 101 DVD
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Sixty years after Indian independence, British historian Michael Wood presents the tale of the oldest and most diverse civilization, and largest democracy. A nuclear power and a rising giant, India's population will overtake China's within 10 years and its economy is predicted to overtake that of the U.S. in the 2030s. This journey of sights and sounds, and achievements takes him from the deserts of Turkmenistan to the Khyber Pass.
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Grades 7+ In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how
people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal
relationship.
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Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, who taught one of Harvard's most popular classes, combines scientific studies, scholarly research, self-help advice and spiritual enlightenment to teach viewers how to learn to be happy.
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The War: A Ken Burns Film DVD
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The War That Made America DVD
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Inside the Human Body Digital Field Trip DVD
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The War, a seven-episode series, produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, that will examine the myriad ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
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"The War that Made America" brings to life a vastly important time in American history, when events set forces in motion that would culminate in the American Revolution. The dramatic documentary tells the story of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), which began in the wilderness of the Pennsylvania frontier and spread throughout the colonies, into Canada, and ultimately around the world.
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NOVA Digital Field Trips take you on an adventure that reveals the mysteries of the world around us, through science.
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Vietnam: A Television History Set DVD
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Dying to Be Thin DVD
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Secrets of Lost Empires 2 DVD
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Exactly why was America in Vietnam? This remarkable and essential seven-volume series--six years in the making and originally broadcast on public television in 1983--tells the agonizing history of Vietnam's lengthy conflicts with some of the largest powers on Earth.
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Grades 7+ Dying To Be Thin introduces you to students, ballet dancers, fashion
models and other young women who are seeking recovery or have conquered
their disease. Plus, you’ll discover how leading eating disorder
specialists are making dramatic advances in the diagnosis and treatment
of these two devastating diseases.
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In the series, NOVA crews attempt to ferret out long-forgotten secrets of early architects and engineers. How did they design and erect the medieval war machines known as trebuchets? Egyptian obelisks? The Easter Island stone monoliths called moais? Roman baths? The rainbow bridges of ancient China?
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Evolution - Great Transformations and Extinction! DVD
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Evolution - The Evolutionary Arms Race and Why Sex? DVD
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Evolution - The Mind's Big Bang and What About God? DVD
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Great Transformations: What triggered the incredible diversity of life on earth, and how have complex life forms, including humans, evolved? Is there direction to evolution? And is human intelligence inevitable?
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We explore our own spiraling arms race with microorganisms, the only entities that can pose a threat to our existence. We follow the struggles of medical detectives uncovering the roots of epidemics and trace the alarming spread of resistance among pathogens that cause disease, like the new virulent tuberculosis nicknamed "Ebola with wings."
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The Mind's Big Bang: Anatomically modern humans existed more than 100,000 years ago, but with crude technology, no art, and primitive social interaction. By 50,000 years ago, something had happened which triggered a creative, technological, and social explosion and humans came to dominate the planet.
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Scarlet Letter DVD
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DNA - Secret of Photo 51 DVD
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Secrets of Lost Empires 1 Set DVD
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An epic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's enduring novel of Puritan America in search of its soul. Hester Prynne overcomes the stigma of adultery to emerge as the first great heroine in American literature. Hawthorne's themes--the nature of sin, social hypocrisy, and community repression--still reverberate through American society.
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On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule essential for passing on our genes and the ''secret of life.''
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Uncover the secrets of ancient civilizations as NOVA journeys to five archaeological sites where teams of experts use traditional techniques to test their hypotheses.
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Thinking with Numbers Set DVD
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Six Days in June DVD
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MPT Northanger Abbey DVD
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This subset of the 22-volume series aims its focus on children and adolescents that are dealing with common problems in mathematics. Along with parents teachers and other experts developmental-behavioral pediatrician Dr. Mel Levine discusses practical strategies that can be used to help children think with numbers.
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Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism and reprisal. The Six Day War forever changed the politics of the Middle East by helping to destroy the secular basis of Pan-Arab nationalism and transform secular Zionism. It gave rise to a Palestinian nationalist movement and helped unleash the fury of fundamentalism. Shot on location in Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Moscow and Washington, this powerful film takes us through the weeks that preceded the war, its six days of fighting and its aftermath that still lingers today.
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In Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, Felicity Jones (Meadowlands) plays romance addict Catherine Morland. Invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies, she forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney (JJ Feild, The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton), but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short. Adapted by Andrew Davies.
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MPT Mansfield Park DVD
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Becoming Green - Growing Environmental Awareness DVD
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NOVA: Absolute Zero DVD
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In one of Austen's most complex plots, Billie Piper (Doctor Who, The Ruby in the Smoke) stars as Fanny Price, who goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park. Fanny navigates a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house, while her cousin Edmund Bertram (Blake Ritson, Inspector Lynley Mysteries) remains her stalwart confidant. Also starring Jemma Redgrave (Bramwell) as Fannyís observant aunt.
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Grades 7+ What will the car of the future be like? Can solar power help save the Earth from the ravages of global warming? Deadly flooding in Africa, catastrophic hurricanes in the U.S. record high temperatures worldwide, are these natural, temporary glitches in our global climate, or is the devastation the result of global warming? Join NOVA as they explore these topics.
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Grades 6+ Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it s air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconductivity at the heart of cutting-edge technology. But what is cold?
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Cracking the Maya Code DVD
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Evolution Educational Set with Judgment Day-Intelligent Design DVD
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Doctors' Diaries DVD
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For the first time, NOVA presents the epic inside story of how the decoding was done, told by the experts at the center of one of archaeology's greatest detective stories.
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Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004.
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Over the past 21 years, NOVA has followed a group of seven doctors from their first day at Harvard Medical School in 1987. All young, bright and accomplished, none of them could have predicted what it would take, personally and professionally, to become a member of the medical tribe. In this special two-part program, NOVA returns one last time to get an update on the kind of doctors, and people, they have become.
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea DVD
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American Road Trip! DVD
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Autism Genes: NOVA scienceNOW DVD
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Why does Charles Darwin's "dangerous idea" matter more today than ever,
and how does it explain the past and predict the future of life on
Earth? The first show interweaves the drama of Darwin's life with
current documentary sequences, introducing key concepts of evolution.
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Grades 7+ Take the ultimate cross-country road trip to some of America's most popular destinations, and learn the fascinating true stories of Niagara Falls, Mount Rushmore, the Hoover Dam, and the Golden Gate Bridge. And check out the changing landscape along America's first transcontinental highway, from Times Square to San Francisco in A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway.
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The award-winning producers of NOVA--and renowned astrophysicist Neil
deGrasse Tyson--bring you the very latest in cutting-edge science with
NOVA scienceNOW.
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NOVA: Algae Fuel DVD
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NOVA: Miracle of Life DVD
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 1 DVD
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Grades 7+ This episode of NOVA scienceNOW weighs the risks against the benefits of getting a personal genetic profile; takes a closer look at algae, and asks if it may be our bio-fuel of the future; explores the undersea Gakkel Ridge, deep in the Arctic Ocean, for clues that one of Jupiter's moons may host life; and profiles Yoky Matsuoka, a leader in the emerging field of neurobotics--the fusion of neuroscience and robotics.
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Renowned Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson presents the incredible voyage of a new life with his stunning look at the microscopic world of the human body.
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Grades 9-12 America's Test Kitchen demonstrates the secrets to foolproof home cooking along with no-nonsense reviews of kitchen equipment sand supermarket ingredients. This 2-DVD set includes all 13 episodes of Season 1!
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 2 DVD
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 3 DVD
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 4 DVD
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Grades 9-12 America's Test Kitchen demonstrates the secrets to foolproof home cooking along with no-nonsense reviews of kitchen equipment and supermarket ingredients. This 4-DVD set includes all 26 episodes of Season 2!
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Grades 9-12 America's Test Kitchen demonstrates the secrets to foolproof home cooking along with no-nonsense reviews of kitchen equipment and supermarket ingredients. This 4-DVD set includes all 26 episodes of Season 3!
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Grades 9-12 America's Test Kitchen demonstrates the secrets to foolproof home cooking along with no-nonsense reviews of kitchen equipment and supermarket ingredients. This 4-DVD set includes all 26 episodes of Season 4!
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 5 DVD
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 6 DVD
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 8 DVD
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Grades 9-12 America's Test Kitchen demonstrates the secrets to foolproof home cooking along with no-nonsense reviews of kitchen equipment and supermarket ingredients. This 4-DVD set includes all 26 episodes of Season 5!
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Grades 9-12 America's Test Kitchen demonstrates the secrets to foolproof home cooking along with no-nonsense reviews of kitchen equipment sand supermarket ingredients. This 4-DVD set includes all 26 episodes of Season 6!
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America's Test Kitchen demonstrates the secrets to foolproof home cooking along with no-nonsense reviews of kitchen equipment sand supermarket ingredients. This 4-DVD set includes all 26 episodes of Season 6!
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 9 DVD
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Best Baking Recipes - America's Test Kitchen DVD
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Best Entertaining Recipes - America's Test Kitchen DVD
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Grades 9-12 This collection includes honest tastings of supermarket ingredients, detailed ratings of indispensable kitchen equipment and tools, and helpful kitchen science tips so that you can make informed choices when shopping.
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The America’s Test Kitchen team has carefully selected nine tried-and-true recipes that belong in every home cook’s baking repertoire.
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The America's Test Kitchen team has carefully selected eleven tried-and-true recipes that belong in every home cook's entertaining repertoire.
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Best Weeknight Recipes - America's Test Kitchen DVD
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The Best of America's Test Kitchen DVD
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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season IV DVD
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The America's Test Kitchen team has carefully selected eleven tried-and-true recipes that belong in every home cook's entertaining repertoire.
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The America's Test Kitchen team has carefully selected 30 tried-and-true recipes that belong in every home cook's repertoire from Deep-Dish Apple Pie and French Onion Soup to Pan-Seared Shrimp and Barbecued Pulled Pork.
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Each episode is organized around a theme to help audiences compare and contrast the artists profiled.
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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season III DVD
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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Seasons I & II DVD
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Craft in America DVD
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Art: 21 enters its third season with an invigorating look at established artists and newcomers, from Laylah Ali, Ellen Gallagher, and Matthew Ritchie to Josiah McElheny, Jessica Stockholder, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The popular PBS series features behind-the-scenes looks at groundbreaking artists of the new century.
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Grades 9-12 Each program profiles three to five artists, from painters, photographers, and sculptors to performance and video artists.
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This program explores the history and significance of the craft movement in the United States. "Memory" focuses on the historical relevance of craft through the eyes of several contemporary pioneers in the field. "Landscape" examines the interdependent relationship of craft artists to their media and the natural world. "Community" highlights the social and emotional connections that crafts embody.
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e2: Design: Season Three DVD
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e2: Design DVD
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e2: Transport DVD
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Season Three of “e2: Design” features six more episodes of innovative Design. Each episode presents unique design challenges and triumphs which represent true innovation.
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e2 design season one examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. Includes all six series episodes: The Green Apple, Green for All, The Green Machine, Gray to Green, China: From Red to Green, and Deeper Shades of Green.
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This ongoing series explores real solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges, presented with a combination of compelling storytelling, proactive cinematography and emotive original music.
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e2: Design: Season Two DVD
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e2: Energy DVD
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Tsunami - The Wave that Shook the World DVD
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Global in scope and comprising six 30-minute chapters filmed in HD, the second season of “e2: Design” features the designers and drivers of change in the world of sustainable architecture. Equal parts visual style and storytelling acumen, each episode explores the potential of the built environment to help turn around our global climate crisis.
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Global in scope and comprising six 30-minute chapters filmed in HD, “e2: Energy” features people, places and innovations that suggest that a more environmentally benign future is possible and within reach. Equal parts visual style and storytelling acumen, each episode stands alone while contributing to the larger dialogue the series is intended to promote.
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In an authoritative look at tsunami science, NOVA presents the first in-depth exploration of what made the waves so destructive. And with the help of a massive wave tank, scientists assess the risk that a similar or even bigger catastrophe might one day strike U.S. coastlines.
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Earth Days - The Seeds of a Revolution DVD
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Eyes on the Prize - America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965) DVD
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Peep and His Pals Set DVD
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Earth Day traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s to its moment of triumph in 1970 with the original Earth Day and to its status as a major political force in America.
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Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today.
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The animated series PEEP and the Big Wide World, narrated by award-winning actress Joan Cusack, gives wings to the innovative idea of teaching science to preschoolers.
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Peep and the Big Wide World DVD
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Peep Explores DVD
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Peep Figures It Out DVD
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Peep, Chirp, and Quack find the funniest things out in the big wide world. Now young children can join the search and learn basic science concepts along the way! Discover a flashlight and the very last flower of summer, and explore the wonders of a mirror and the comic spell it casts on a certain blue duck. Then join real kids as they experiment and play in their own "big wide worlds." Includes Peep's New Friends, Peep Finds, and Peep Floats
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Peep, Chirp, and Quack find the funniest things out in the big wide world.
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Join Peep, Chirp and Quack on six exciting adventures!
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Peep Finds DVD
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Peep Floats DVD
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Peep's New Friends DVD
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Peep, Chirp, and Quack find the funniest things!
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Join Peep, Chirp and Quack, as they dive into six new, fun-filled adventures
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Want to make some new friends? Then join Peep, Chirp and Quack as they explore the big wide world of animals in six new capers.
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Quack Knows It All DVD
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Julia Child - America’s Favorite Chef DVD
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Julia Child! The French Chef DVD
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Explore "the power of duck feet" as Quack, Peep and Chirp take six web-footed adventures:
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Discover Julia Child as few have seen her before in a one-hour tribute and testament to a great American icon through an interview with Julia herself.
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Discover Julia Child as few have seen her before in a one-hour tribute and testament to a great American icon through an interview with Julia herself.
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Your Life, Your Money DVD
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FRONTLINE: Age of Aids DVD
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Between the Lions: Listen Up DVD
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Grades 9-12 Hosted by Donald Fiason of the popular TV show Scrubs, this program is
told through real-life stories by a series of engaging characters. Aimed
at teens and young adults, it presents a broad range of fundamental
financial information from
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Through interviews with researchers, activists, and patients, FRONTLINE investigates the science, politics and human cost of this disease, and asks: what has been learned, and what must be done to stop AIDS?
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Between the Lions: Get Cookings DVD
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NOVA: Bugs! DVD
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Dimming the Sun DVD
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Explore the world around you from a new perspective. See what it takes to make it in the world of bugs as NOVA takes on ants, bees, and the microscopic monsters all around us in Ants: Little Creatures Who Run the World, Bees: Tales from the Hive and The Unknown World.
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Grades 9 - 12 In a stunning investigation, NOVA reports on the discovery that the amount of sunlight reaching Earth is dropping--a big surprise given international concern over global warming.
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Global Warming - What's Up with the Weather? DVD
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The Human Spark DVD
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Art & Copy DVD
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Grades 9 - 12 The weather is different now -- but why? Find out when NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to determine What's Up with the Weather? Man-made carbon dioxide has overloaded the earth's atmosphere.
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After billions of years of life's evolution on this planet, and after recognizable humans first walked its surface, a new human burst upon the scene, apparently unannounced. It was us. Until then our ancestors had shared the planet with other human species. But soon there was only us, with unprecedented power over our environment and everything else alive. That something was and is the Human Spark
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Grades 6-12 Art & Copy is a powerful film about advertising and inspiration.
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Between the Lions: Animal Stories DVD
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Between the Lions: More Animal Stories DVD
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A Girl's Life with Rachel Simmons DVD
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Animal Stories! joins the cubs as they make friends, learn about pets, face their fears, and more, in eight exciting adventures
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More Animal Stories! joins the cubs as they turn the library into an art museum, study a chicken, try to blend in, and more, in eight exciting adventures
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Grades 6-12 Researcher and author Rachel Simmons examines the challenges facing young women as they surf the waves of 21st century adolescence. Simmons interviews parents, psychologists, teachers, and social workers who are helping nurture girls into capable, resilient adults.
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The New Science of Learning: Brain Fitness for Kids DVD
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FRONTLINE: The Medicated Child DVD
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Chirp Flies DVD
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Grades 6 - 12 The latest neuroscience has shown how plastic the brain actually is. We can train this amazing structure to help children become more fit and ready for lifelong learning, and the earlier in life we start with such exercise, the better.
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Grades 6 - 12 With over four million children now on behavior modifying medications, some starting as young as two years old, FRONTLINE continues its investigation into the controversial practice of medicating kids. Are the drugs safe? How young can you detect mental illness in a child? Is medication really the answer? As the debate grows more intense, FRONTLINE investigates the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children.
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Join Peep, Chirp and Quack as they explore the big wide world in six flight-filled adventures: The Windy Day, Chirp Builds a Nest, Chirp's Flight Program, The Red Ballmoon, A Delicate Balance, and Sounds Like...
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Evolution Educational 4 DVD Set
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Between the Folds DVD
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NOVA: Becoming Human DVD
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Evolution offers a groundbreaking and definitive view of the extraordinary impact the evolutionary process has had on our understanding of the world around us.
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The film paints an arresting portrait of the remarkable artistic and scientific creativity that fuels this ever-changing art form, fusing science and sculpture, form and function, ancient and new.
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Grades 9-12 Where did we come from? What makes us human? An explosion of recent
discoveries sheds light on these questions, and NOVA's comprehensive,
three-part special, "Becoming Human," examines what the latest
scientific research reveals about our hominid relatives.
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Ken Burn's The Civil War DVD
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Last Extinction
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Magnetic Storm
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The DVD features on The Civil War provide a wealth of insight, creative philosophy, historical perspective, and educational enjoyment.
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In Last Extinction, NOVA presents an exclusive in-depth investigation of a bold and controversial new hypothesis, which suggests that a massive impact from space could be the culprit.
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Travel from Hawaii's molten lava flows to the mountains of Oregon and into the far reaches of outer space for a charged look at Earth's magnetic history and potentially deadly future.
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Depression: Out of the Shadows
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Kids & Divorce: For Better or Worse
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Cry For Help
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Through the voices and stories of people living with depression and interviews with scientists, Depression: Out of the Shadows provides a portrait of the disease never before seen on American television.
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This special explores the pros and cons of joint custody, looks at efforts to reform how custody is decided in the judicial system, and examines how divorce education programs are helping both parents and kids.
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CRY FOR HELP provides a rare and important look at mental illness among young adults. Through their own words, the program documents their stories, their emotional struggles, their lives in crisis. CRY FOR HELP affords a new understanding of the teens’ world.
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Developing Great Self Esteem
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The Persuaders
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Global Business DVD
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Study skills, including memory enhancement, prioritizing and time management, reading, writing and test taking skills all are essential tools for students to maximize their learning potential.
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'Frontline examines the "persuasion industries" -- advertising and public relations.
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Examine how a local business becomes a global corporation.
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Financial Literacy for Students: Grades 9-12
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Story of 1
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GardenStory: Inspiring Spaces, Healing Places
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Instill your students with a sense of personal fiscal responsibility.
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Terry Jones embarks on a humor filled journey to discover the amazing tale that lies behind the simplest number we have.
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GardenStory is an in-depth exploration of how gardens change our lives. Neither a travelogue nor a how-to series, GardenStory is a fresh, new approach that features distinguished designers and citizen advocates.
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NOVA: Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Drowned a City
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National Parks: America's Best Idea DVD
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Ken Burns: Prohibition DVD - AV Item
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NOVA looks at what made hurricane Katrina so deadly and analyzes how, despite sophisticated defenses and disaster relief planning, this event has resulted in destruction on an unprecedented scale for the Gulf Coast region. NOVA will also examine the question of whether storms, like Katrina, are increasing in power and frequency and how the long-term ecology of New Orleans and the shrinking wetlands steadily increased the city's vulnerability
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - The National Parks: America's Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.
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PROHIBITION, a three-part documentary series, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor--and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow
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NOVA: The Fabric of the Cosmos
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NOVA: The Elegant Universe
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Ken Burns: Jazz DVD 10 Pack
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Grades 9+
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Grades 9+
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JAZZ celebrates America's greatest original art form. Ken Burns' 10-part documentary opens at the dawn of the 20th century, incorporating American culture and historical events that interact directly with the music. From the 1890s through the ferment of the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age, to the Great Depression, New Deal, Second World War, and beyond, JAZZ paints an astounding portrait of a nation and its improvisational core of music.
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American Photography: A Century of Images
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American Photography: A Century of Images captures the images of a century of change and the role the camera has played both in creating and documenting it. Dramatic and intimate stories trace photography's profound effect on American life - influencing what we buy, how we dress, how we get the news, and in matters of life and death, medicine, science and war. Even in a high-tech world, the power of the "still" photograph endures.
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