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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers are racing against the clock and battling the forces of nature to try to save this historic city for future generations.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each episode, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder and worry about. Neil will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Growing up in the 1990s, Abdurahman Khadr's playmates were the children of his father's longtime friend, Osama bin Laden. How Khadr was raised to be an Al Qaeda terrorist -- and how he ultimately found himself working for the U.S. -- is the focus of FRONTLINE's "Son of Al Qaeda." Through interviews with Khadr as well as his mother and siblings, the documentary recounts his incredible journey from terrorist upbringing to CIA informant, offering a...
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Cuba's unspoiled tropical terrain, closed for decades by a U.S. trade embargo, escaped the commercialization of its Caribbean island neighbors. A title wave of hotels, asphalt, and pollution may be just ahead, if tourism experts are right. Look inside the long-closed paradise to see what the future holds for Cuba's unusual species of amphibians, reptiles, and fresh water fish.
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2 videocassettes (240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
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English
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"Explores the complex demands of the country's rapidly changing multiracial and multicultural society and shows how American citizens imagine the new America of the 21st century"--Container.
6) College, Inc
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A closer look at for-profit colleges and universities and how the way they use money affects the education they provide.
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2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
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English
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"It began as a border dispute, but soon escalated into a 16-month conflict that transformed a continent. The [film] tells the exciting and dramatic story of a war that cost Mexico nearly half its territory -- the present Southwest from Texas to California. This critically acclaimed documentary series, the first to study both sides of the conflict, presents a historical panorama filled with unforgettable characters like Mexican president Antonio Lopez...
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained? This in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world continues a line...
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1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1703 Sarah Cloyce, survivor of the Salem witchcraft hysteria presents her story to a special commission empowered to investigate the trials for witchcraft. The events leading to the trials and the suffering they caused are told in flashback fashion.
10) The Congress
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
11) Frontier House
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2 videodiscs (approximately 6 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Three modern families were chosen to learn to survive as if the year is 1883. Using the tools and technology of that time they must make difficult choices and cope with the consequences in the Montana wilderness.
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5 videodiscs (approximately 15 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
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7 videodiscs (120 min. each) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Vols. 1-3: Depicts the story of America's civil rights years from 1954-1965. Vols. 4-8: Examines the new America from 1966 to 1985, from community power to the human alienation of urban poverty.
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1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Every year monarch butterflies migrate across North America to a remote area of Mexico. This presentation discusses how the butterflies navigate and endure the long journey and takes you to the locations they call home.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Scientific genetics, little more than a century old, holds at once the promise of eradicating disease and the threat of altering the very essence of what it means to be human. It traces the dizzying evolution of this new science as researchers race to identify treatments for genetic diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, and to perfect tools for rewriting DNA.