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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A look at the history and legends of ancient Ireland. Beginning in 2000 B.C., when Stone Age farmers built some of the largest and most spectacular Neolithic monuments in Europe, to 1167 A.D, when the Norman invasion placed Ireland under English control.
Series
Great artists volume disc 2
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
In separate episodes, art historian Tim Marlow explores the lives and works of Dürer, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Filming takes place throughout the world.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Join Lucy Worsley on a journey across Europe to visit the incredible locations where royal history was made. From the Spanish Armada to the French Revolution, learn how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology. Host: Lucy Worsley.
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This documentary reveals how biologically determined politics has disenfranchised women and people of color, provided a rationale for state sanctioned crimes committed against America's most vulnerable citizens, and now gains new traction under the Trump administration. A radical reassessment of the meaning, use and misuse of gene science. Like no other film before it, this documentary brings to light how false scientific claims have rolled back long...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Presents the parallels between the two great American societies of the Aztecs and the Incas, both of which fell to the Spanish conquistadores of the sixteenth century. Includes re-creations of lost cities such as Tenochtitlan and Machu Picchu.
10) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive...
11) Russian ark
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
Russian
Description
A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It examines a critical yet overlooked moment of transformation in Palestine, long before the Balfour Declaration and British Mandate period usually considered the matchstick for today's ongoing struggles. It was a time when identities were fluid and few Arabs or Jews living there could imagine the conflict that would engulf their region for the next century.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
1968: in that single year, MLK and RFK were assassinated, Chicago rioted, Nixon triumphed, and Tet exploded. The top music acts were the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Man circled the Moon. From Civil Rights to Vietnam, from rock & roll to rocket science, 1968 stands out as a concentrated dose of everything we think of as the Sixties.
Publisher
Whirlwind Media, Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Audio section (Entertainment): The Lux Radio Theater presents "Buck Privates," starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
Audio section (Music): Music from the day's hottest artists.
Audio section (News): contains radio broadcasts of important news events during the year 1941.
Video section focuses on the year 1941. Newsreel footage captures stories on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill's address before the U.S. Congress, fighting...
Publisher
BBC TV and BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"France, 1792. It is the height of the French Revolution. The country is gripped by revolutionary fever and the evil Head of Secret Police, Chauvelin, keeps the guillotines busy executing innocent peasants, aristocrats and priests. Only the mysterious stranger known as the Scarlet Pimpernel constantly foils Chauvelin's plans with his heroic missions to save innocent lives"--Box.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
What if everything you learned in history books were only half true? In Season 2, best-selling author and history buff Meltzer separates fact from fiction as he investigates the hidden history and coded truths behind everything from Mt. Rushmore to the Spear of Destiny to the Declaration of Independence.
19) Voĭna i mir
Publisher
Ruscico
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Russian
Description
Napoleon's army advances through Europe, and the high society of St. Petersburg discusses philosophical matters: What sets history in motion? The ambition of an emperor, the hastiness of a tsar, or the talent of a military commander? The destiny of Russia is inseparable from that of Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, and Natasha Rostova.
20) Into the West
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Explore one of the most powerful and defining chapters in American history. This powerful epic adventure unfolds as told through the struggles, triumphs, and heartaches of two families as they journey in search of the American dream.
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