Summary: A gifted athlete from Fall River, Massachusetts, Chris Herren was a basketball legend before he left high school. After a troubled yet outstanding career at Fresno State, he would eventually fulfill his childhood dream of playing for the Boston Celtics, only to lose it all to a devastating addiction that nearly killed him. Award-winning director Jonathan Hock chronicles this powerful story of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Summary: A police superintendent asks Hercule Poirot to investigate a case where a man may have been convicted for a murder he didn't commit; the headmistress at an all girls' school asks Poirot to solve the murders that have been committed there; the cast and crew of "Poirot" discuss the making of the episodes and bringing the detective to the screen.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009

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Summary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003

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Summary: A teen retreats into self-imposed silence after being raped. Her art and a teacher help her regain her voice and inner strength.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 0000

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Summary: Five films and made-for-TV movies by director Alan Clarke, and a postumous documentary.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Underground 2004

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Summary: This set includes the 14 discs on the Complete Set, plus the 2-DVD set of Monty Python Live!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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Summary: Henry Kent meets writer Daisy Langrish and offers to take care of her overgrown garden. The relationship develops but Mr. Kent is fooling no one but Daisy!

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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2006

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Summary: Includes in-depth interviews of U.S. President Richard Nixon by Sir David Frost in May, 1977 regarding the infamous Watergate scandal. Features footage from 2007 of Frost discussing the impact this interview had on history, his reactions, and more.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberation Entertainment 2008

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Burns, Ken

Summary: Explores the life and career of one of the most influential American documentary filmmakers, Ken Burns.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2021

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Summary: Examines how modern breeding trends based on the demands for large volume, fast growth, and the cheapest product are leading to extinction of heritage breeds of livestock and why biodiversity is important.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas from an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005

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Summary: The story of an experiment -- "to see if Blacks had the intellectual and physical ability to fly an aircraft in combat." These pilots, trained in the "deep South," became the Tuskegee Airmen, flying combat aircraft during World War II for their country. They had to battle on 2 fronts: the Axis powers in Europe and North Africa, and the racism at home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004

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Summary: Follows the lives and careers of a group of artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009

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Artist Not Provided

Summary: Looks at the stories of people living with diabetes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020

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Summary: A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2005

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Summary: Wrapped in chains and encased in a crate, magician Harry Houdini was dropped into New York's icy East River. Horrified onlookers watched him emerge, unharmed, less than 60 seconds later. Easily the world's most famous escape artist, Houdini mesmerized audiences with astonishing acts of magic like the Water Torture Cell. A circus performer turned gifted artist, Houdini confronted humanity's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011

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Queen Elizabeth II

Summary: Tells the story of Queen Elizabeth's experiences during World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020

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Krause, Barry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Publications 1990

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Summary: The Mallards look for the perfect spot to raise their young, and find it in the most unlikely place. Their friend Michael, a policeman, helps them to "Make Way for Ducklings" as they march their eight little ones home. A little girl and her mother go out to get "Blueberries for Sal." But Sal and a little bear get mixed up with each other's mothers. Two sisters spending a summer in Maine...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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Summary: The entire cast is home for the holidays, and they're revealing their all-time favorite holiday recipes from the test kitchen archives. The special hour-long holiday episode features hosts Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison and the rest of the cast gathered in a casual behind-the-scenes setting while sharing the warmth of the holidays with viewers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Join once again Christopher Kimball and the cast of America's Test Kitchen to learn the basics of great home cooking. Learn recipes that will work the first time you try them, thanks to the dozens of test cooks who develop, refine, and test recipes again and again until they arrive at the very best versions. Learning to become a better cook has never been this foolproof or fun!

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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011

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Sun-tzu

Summary: For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success

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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 1994

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