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400 Years of the Telescope (US Only)
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A documentary following the history of the telescope from the days of Copernicus to recent findings from the Hubble Telescope; 400 Years of the Telescope opens in 17th century Florence, Italy, with Galileo training his spyglass on the heavens and discovering that Jupiter has four moons; Venus has phases like the Moon; and most shocking of all: the Earth is not the center of the universe.
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A Death in Tehran
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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. With the help of a unique network of correspondents in and out of the country, FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive. The film also explores a number of unanswered questions in the aftermath of the greatest upheaval in Iran since the 1979 revolution: How many were arrested and killed as the security forces attempted to contain the growing protest movement? To what extent was the presidential vote manipulated? What is the nature of the reported divisions among Iran s ruling elites?
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Absolute Zero
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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? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get? This two-part NOVA special brings the history of this frosty fascination to life with brilliant dramatic recreations of high moments in low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer.
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 1
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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 2-DVD set includes all 13 episodes of Season 1!
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America's Test Kitchen - Season 2
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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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America's Test Kitchen - Season 3
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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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America's Test Kitchen - Season 4
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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
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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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America's Test Kitchen - 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 8
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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
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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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American Experience: The 1930s
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The 1930s collection examines America’s response to the unprecedented economic crisis that threatened the nation during one of history’s most tumultuous decades — a decade that is increasingly a touchstone for our own. 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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American Experience: The Polio Crusade
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This film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. 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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American Road Trip!
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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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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season III
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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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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season IV
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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: Seasons I & II
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Each program profiles three to five artists, from painters, photographers, and sculptors to performance and video artists.
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Autism Genes: NOVA scienceNOW 2009 Episode 2
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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. This episode of NOVA scienceNOW covers: Hunt for Alien Earths, Art Authentication, Profile--Maydianne Andrade, and Autism Genes.
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Becoming Green - Growing Environmental Awareness
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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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Becoming Human
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Nothing is more fascinating to us than, well, us. Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot in the trenches as fossils were unearthed, and stunning computer-generated animation, Becoming Human brings early hominids to life, examining how they lived and how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today. In the first episode, NOVA encounters Selam, the amazingly complete remains of a 3 million year-old child, packed with clues to why we split from the apes, came down from the trees, and started walking upright. In gripping forensic detail, the second episode investigates the riddle of Turkana Boy -a tantalizing fossil of Homo erectus, the first ancestor to leave Africa and colonize the globe. What led to this first great African exodus? In the final episode, Becoming Human explores the origins of us -where modern humans and our capacities for art, invention, and survival came from, and what happened when we encountered the mysterious Neanderthals. Crucial new evidence comes from the recent decoding of the Neanderthal genome. Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals? Exterminate them? Becoming Human examines why we survived while our other ancestral cousins-including Indonesia's bizarre 3 foot-high Hobbit -died out. And NOVA poses the intriguing question: are we still evolving today?
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Best Baking Recipes - America's Test Kitchen
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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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Best Entertaining Recipes - America's Test Kitchen
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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
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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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Between the Folds
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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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Chirp Flies
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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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Cracking the Maya Code
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The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind a riddle: an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on stone monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. Because the invading Spanish suppressed nearly all knowledge of how the script worked, unlocking its meaning posed one of archaeology's fiercest challenges, until now. 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. Cracking the Maya Code highlights the ingenious breakthroughs that opened the door to deciphering the elaborate and exotic script and finally cracked the code, unleashing a flood of dramatic new insights about the ancient civilization.
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Craft in America
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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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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
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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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DNA - Secret of Photo 51
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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.'' But their crucial breakthrough depended on the pioneering work of another biologist–Rosalind Franklin. She would never know that Watson and Crick had seen a crucial piece of her data without her permission. This was an X-ray image, ''Photo 51,'' that proved to be a vital clue in their decoding of the double helix. 50 years later, NOVA investigates the shocking truth behind one of the greatest scientific discoveries and presents a moving portrait of a brilliant woman in an era of male-dominated science. Sadly, Franklin never lived to see her vital role in the discovery vindicated. While Watson and Crick went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1962, Franklin died in 1958, at 37, from ovarian cancer; and the Nobel is not awarded posthumously. Hear the inside story from Maurice Wilkins, the colleague who showed her crucial x-ray to Watson; Raymond Gosling, Franklin’s Ph.D. student with whom she made Photo 51; and Nobel Prize winner Sir Aaron Klug, Franklin’s last collaborator, who shows new evidence of just how close Franklin came to making the vital double helix discovery herself.
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Doctors' Diaries
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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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Dying to Be Thin
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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. Go behind the scenes with NOVA for a courageous and candid look at America’s body obsession.
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e2: Design
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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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e2: Design: Season Three
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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 Two
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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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e2: Energy
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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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e2: Transport
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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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Earth Days - The Seeds of a Revolution
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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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Evolution - Great Transformations and Extinction!
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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? We focus on evolution's "great transformations," among them the development of a standard four-limbed body plan, the journey from water to land, the return of marine mammals to the sea, and the emergence of humans. Driven by a combination of opportunism and a genetic "toolkit," these astounding leaps forward define the arc of evolution. And they suggest that every living creature on earth today, and every species that has ever existed, is a variation on a grand genetic theme, a member of one, and only one, tree of life. Extinction!: Some 99.9 percent of all the species that have ever lived are now extinct. While cataclysmic events on earth have pruned the tree of life, extinction also opens the door to diversity, carving out room for new species to emerge and thrive. This film explores the causes of the five mass extinctions that have occurred over the life of the planet, and takes us to the sources of extinctions happening today. In doing so, it confronts a frightening notion: Are we humans causing the next mass extinction, the sixth in the history of life on earth? If so, what does evolutionary theory predict for the world we will leave to our descendants?
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Evolution - The Evolutionary Arms Race and Why Sex?
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The Evolutionary Arms Race: "Survival of the fittest." Raw competition? Or, a level of cooperation indispensable to life? Evolution tells us that both are important. 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." Interactions between species are among the most powerful evolutionary forces on earth, and understanding them may be key to our own survival. Why Sex?: In evolutionary terms, sex is more important than life itself without progeny, we are evolutionary losers. Sex fuels evolutionary change, by adding variation to the gene pool and eliminating unsatisfactory traits. We look at the endless variety of sexual expression and the powerful hold sex exerts over almost all living things. And we explore how the need to pass on our genes has shaped our own bodies, minds, and lives. Some scientists believe that art, literature, music in fact all of human culture may be the ultimate result of our sexual drives.
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Evolution - The Mind's Big Bang and What About God?
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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. This was a pivotal point in our evolution, the time when the human mind truly emerged. The Mind's Big Bang examines forces that may have contributed to the breakthrough, allowing us to prevail over other hominids, the Neanderthals, who co-existed with us for tens of thousands of years. The film then explores where this power of mind may lead us, as the culture we create overtakes our own biological evolution. What About God?: Of all the species on earth, only humans try to explain who they are and how they came to be, through the prisms of both science and religion. Today, the theory of evolution is dogged by this tension. What About God? explores the controversy by drawing on real human stories of people struggling to find a balance between religion and science. Through their perceptions, the film underscores the point that these realms are compatible, although they play very different roles in assigning order to the universe and a purpose to life.
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Evolution Educational Set with Judgment Day-Intelligent Design
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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, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin s theory of evolution called intelligent design the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent agent. The teachers refused to comply, and both parents and teachers filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the school board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state.
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Eyes on the Prize - America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965)
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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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FRONTLINE: My Father, My Brother and Me 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. Along the way, he meets some remarkable people--a leading Parkinson's researcher whose encounter with "frozen" heroin addicts led to a major breakthrough; a Parkinson's sufferer given a new lease on life by an experimental brain surgery; and a geneticist who helped identify some of the gene mutations responsible for Parkinson's and who is now working on drugs to fix them
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Happiness 101
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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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I.O.U.S.A.
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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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Inside the Human Body Digital Field Trip
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NOVA Digital Field Trips take you on an adventure that reveals the mysteries of the world around us, through science. Each NOVA Digital Field Trip includes three programs accompanied by downloadable educational materials. These award-winning teacher guide materials include program descriptions, viewing suggestions, discussion questions, activities, and more.
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Julia Child - America’s Favorite Chef
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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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Julia Child! The French Chef
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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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Ken Burns' America
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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. "Brooklyn Bridge" and "Statue of Liberty" chronicle the conception and building of these magnificent structures that grace New York Harbor. "Empire of the Air" is an absorbing history of radio and the men who created it, while "The Congress" is a fascinating portrait of this unique American institution. Opposites in almost every way, artist "Thomas Hart Benton" and politician "Huey Long" are portrayed in compelling biographies. "The Shakers" is a moving tribute to the most enduring religious experiment in American history.
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King Lear
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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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