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Cookery Drama Country life England History 19th century Courtship England History 19th century DVD-Video discs England Social life and customs 19th century Great Britain History 1789-1820 Home economics England Drama Mrs Beeton, (Isabella Mary) 1836-1865 Drama Reality television programs Great Britain Recipes DramaSummary: Through interviews with key government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors, this documentary examines the state-sponsored genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Explores the reasons why the international community and the United States did not intervene as Hutu extremists killed some 800,000 Tutsis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GHOSummary: "RFK, a new biography of Robert Kennedy ... takes as its theme lines from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory: "He who learns must suffer." RFK is a tragedy in two acts. In part one: The garish sun, Robert Kennedy devotes himself to his glamorous brother John, suppressing his own ambitions for the sake of the Kennedy name. In part two: The awful grace of God, after an assassin's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RFKSummary: Explores the period between the 16th and 19th centuries in Japan by examining the lives of shoguns, samurais, geishas, and the very few westerners allowed into Japan . Japan was then a world unto itself, closed to outsiders, and ruled by shoguns with absolute control. During this period, Japan transitioned from chaos and violence to a land of ritual refinement and peace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAPSummary: A portrait of the most famous and controversial artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Explores the complete spectrum of Warhol's artistic output, from the late 1940s to his death in 1987.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANDSummary: Filmed over three years, The farmer's wife presents the travails of a Nebraska farmer and his wife as they struggle to preserve both their farm and their marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FARSummary: The story of a callous monarch, swept to her death in the torrent of the French Revolution. It is also the tale of a fragile young woman struggling to find herself during one of the most turbulent moments in human history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MARSummary: Be introduced to the wonders of the night sky, making casual stargazing or serious amateur astronomy a part of your life. Follows in the footsteps of Timothy Ferris' prior PBS specials The Creation of the Universe and Life Beyond Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEESummary: A documentary film that interviews American pilots who became prisoners of war in Vietnam and shows footage of the prison camps and captured prisoners.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2001
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RETSummary: In this provocative, thorough examination of the final months of the war, American Experience looks at the escalation of bloodletting from the vantage point of both the Japanese and the Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VICSummary: The greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever known. Annie Oakley thrilled audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her daring shooting feats. Over time she became an American legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANNSummary: 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 are felt today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EYESummary: "In this elegant, penetrating and moving portrait of the United States Congress, filmmaker Ken Burns profiles an American institution whose ideals and actions affect us all. Narrated by David McCullough, the program employs historic film footage and interviews with insiders" including David Broker, Alistair Cooke and Cokie Roberts to detail the personalities, events and issues that have...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CONSummary: Features interviews with religious leaders and politicians as they are asked what inspires them in these challenging times, as more and more people are turning to religion and spirituality to gain a sense of meaning and understanding with what they are facing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entropy Films, LLC. 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEYSummary: In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MEDSummary: This film explores Guthrie's creative genius -- his life and music as well as lesser known talents like writing and painting. Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land.' The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to U2.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Recount the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Tesla's suprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TESSummary: George Washington, was a social climber, land-hungry Virginia surveyor, and military officer who often blamed others for his own errors. He gradually built a reputation as a gentleman by educating himself in the classics and sciences, entering politics, and marrying one of the wealthiest women in Virginia. The battle of Trenton changed everything with a victory both for America and Washington...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GEOSummary: "In the highly competitive, hot-house atmosphere of the Regency house party, marriage, money, and morals are all up for grabs. For nine sunny summer weeks, a group of eligible men and women take up residence in a magnificent English country estate to live exactly as they did two centuries ago - including the social hierarchy, the lavish lifestyle, the backroom intrigues, and the intricate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wall to Wall Television Ltd. 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REGSummary: Based on the life of Isabella Beeton, author of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and the most famous cookbook author in British history. Isabella was an accomplished business woman who died when she was only 28. Traces Isabella's transformation from young wife, to magazine journalist, to publishing phenomenon, and, although she couldn't cook, ended up producing the world's most famous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2007