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Publisher
[PBS Distribution]
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 216 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the world created by America's first peoples. The series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Part Renaissance prince, part medieval tyrant, Henry VIII is the most famous of English kings. Venture beyond the facade of his glamorous court to understand the danger and intrigue that routinely cost courtiers their heads.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Union's USS Monitor was a decisive factor in the Civil War. Today it rests in the nation's first marine sanctuary. Join a team of Navy divers as they attempt to recover priceless artifacts; meet the ship designer who built the Monitor; see a realistic reenactment of the battle that changed the course of the Civil War; and discover a powerful military past as the secrets of the Monitor's service emerge from the deep.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 442 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Armed with more power and greater responsibility, Ragnar's desire to seek out and conquer new kingdoms remains unquenchable. Loyalties shift as friends turn to foes and unlikely alliances are formed. Amidst all the war and political confusion, not a single soul is spared in the name of supremacy.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Lucy Worsley explores the royal wardrobes of our kings and queens over the last 400 years, from Elizabeth I to the present Queen Elizabeth II, explaining how the royal wardrobe is a carefully orchestrated piece of theater managed by the royals themselves to control the right image and project the right message to their subjects. Royal fashion is, and always has been, as much about politics as it is about the cut.
Publisher
[distributed by Joan Sullivan through] artseen@charter.net
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Parker introduces the volunteers who continue to work on cataloging the Chinatown artifacts which were discovered beneath the Palm Street Parking Garage in San Luis Obispo. He also gives a tour of the Elfin Forest and shows where the Chumash Indian middens are located.
11) Houdini
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Before David Blaine and David Copperfield, there was one man whose name was synonymous with being the master of illusion and escape - Harry Houdini. It follows the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin. The drama will chronicle the life of a man who can defy death through his stunts, his visions...
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 582 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (16 p.).
Description
In these twelve episodes, the Time Team set to work on sites from the era of the Roman occupation in the first centuries CE. From a mysterious cluster of stones in London's Greenwich Park to a vast ancient complex beneath a Cotswold field, the crew digs deep to solve some of Roman Britain's enduring mysteries.
14) Georgia O'Keeffe
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. As their relationship suffers, Alfred takes a younger lover. Georgia's search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings, and ultimately her own voice, in the New Mexico landscape.
16) Generation kill
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 470 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A "fact-based dramatization" based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion -- a new breed of American soldiers.
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