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(0)Florentine Films
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2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The game of baseball continues to reflect the complicated country that created it. Players and owners wage a battle over money and power; Cal Ripken becomes the game's new Iron Man; sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds do things that have never been done before; the Yankees build a dynasty, while their arch rivals, the Red Sox, stage the greatest comeback in history. In September of 2001, baseball offers the hope that things will one...
2) The address
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"At the tiny Greenwood School in the small New England town of Putney, Vermont, its roughly 50 students, boys from the ages 11 to 17 are asked each year to memorize the Gettysburg Address. This would be a daunting assignment for any student, but the boys at Greenwood all suffer from learning differences that have made their personal, academic and social progress extremely challenging. As the students come to terms with the address's simple message...
3) Mark Twain
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1 videodisc (220 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kentucky is home to some of the greatest country stars of all time. Still today, inspired Country, Gospel, Bluegrass and Mountain music echo from every hollow. Follows country music to its very roots, searching out local national treasures who live for the music they play. Set against the backdrop of the Kentucky countryside, seamlessly weaving wonderful music and intimate stories.
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1 videodisc (approximately 58 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This revealing and poignant film by Ken Burns portrays 200 years of Shaker life in America, guided by the recollections of the three surviving members of the faith, along with a wealth of archival material from over 40 collections. Explore every aspect of this strange and noble sect that produced some of the greatest architecture and furniture in American history.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 19 hr.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Episode 1. Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues. Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
Episode 2. From 1917 through 1924, the "Jazz Age" begins with...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.
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8 videodiscs (approximately 16 hours) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns, and the blues to its mainstream popularity, viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more...
10) The dust bowl
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2 videodiscs (4 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
11) The Congress
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history and promise of the country's most important and least understood institutions. The film chronicles the personalities, events and issues that have animated the first 200 years of congress.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
America's national mammal sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations before being driven to the brink of extinction, eventually prompting an unlikely collection of people to rescue it from disappearing forever.
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of women's suffrage in the United States through the dramatic, often turbulent friendship of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony. Part 1 covers the years from their youth up to the establishment of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1868. Part 2 spans the period from 1868 to the passage in 1919 of the 19th amendment to the Constitution which gave women the vote.
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2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color, black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them.
15) Huey Long
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1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"No modern politician has captured the American imagination as has the Kingfish -- Huey Long. Two years in the making, Ken Burns' documentary traces Long's spectacular career from the 1920s when he burst out of Louisiana's red clay hills to smash the state's power structure under the banner "Every Man a king"--Publisher's website.
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1 videodisc (approximately 58 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and a refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and provocative portrait of the statue, Ken Burns explores both the history of America's premier symbol and the meaning of liberty itself. Featuring rare archival photographs, paintings and drawings, readings from actual diaries, letters and newspapers of the day, the fascinating story of this universally...
17) Thomas Jefferson
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack.
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Explores almost 200 years of Deaf life in America and presents a broad range of perspectives on what it means to be deaf. The film is propelled by the stories of people, both eminent and ordinary, and sheds lights on events that have shaped Deaf lives: the creation of schools for deaf students, the debate about American Sign Language, the campaign for a deaf-friendly telephone (the TTY), the fight for a deaf president at Gallaudet University, and...