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3 videodiscs (304 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This six part series explores the influence on ancient culture on our lives today. Host Michael Wood visits the ancient cities and great ports of India and China, the deserts of Egypt and Iraq, the Mexico of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the Greek and Roman monuments of Europe and the jungles of Central America searching for the living legacies of these once great civilizations. The series traces how the institutions that arose with urban civilization...
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1 videodisc (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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The Greeks used deductive reasoning to develop an elaborate mathematical system that we still use today. See how Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Thales, and Euclid contributed profoundly to mathematics as we know it today.
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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"Africa's Great Civilizations In his six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing, and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only...
6) Connections
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5 videodiscs (104 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Burke presents science as a detective story, illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Burke tracks through twelve thousand years of history for the clues that lead to eight great life-changing inventions-- the atom bomb, telecommunications, the computer, the production line, jet aircraft, plastics, rocketry and television.
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This film calls into question everything we think we know about contemporary society. By juxtaposing images of ancient cultures with those of modern life, Powaqqatsi masterfully portrays the human cost of progress.
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1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, and other team members follow the migratory trail of the Celts across Europe, unearthing vestiges of a civilization vaster and more sophisticated than previously believed - including traces of a cultural blending of Celts and Etruscans and evidence of a well-developed knowledge of mathematics.
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1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
In this spectacular action-adventure inspired by the classic mythology of Egypt, the survival of mankind hangs in the balance as an unexpected mortal hero Bek undertakes a thrilling journey to save the world and rescue his true love. In order to succeed, he must enlist the help of the powerful god Horus in an unlikely alliance against Set, the merciless god of darkness, who has usurped Egypt's throne, plunging the once peaceful and prosperous empire...
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1 videodisc (approximately 227 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Be astounded by the fifth largest country in the world, from the lost world of Amazonia, to the buzzing cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, a city of 30 million, where the super rich commute by helicopter. Meet remote tribes who pit their survival skills against gold diggers and loggers. In the entertaining company of good-natured host Michael Palin, delight in the spectacular landscape, food, music, beach life and unique cultural heritage of...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 220 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having lived as mobile foragers for 99 percent of our time on Earth, how and why did humans set out on the road to civilization? How did they create villages, towns, cities and states, and establish the blueprint for the modern world? Explore the seedbed civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Middle East, and the Indus Valley in this global story.
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1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
In a remote monastery high up in the mountains, an old master, a young monk and an orphaned boy devote themselves to their Buddhist teachings. As the master faces death, he must lead his disciples away from their past ties to the outside world and its rapidly changing values, and point them toward their quest for enlightenment.
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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
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"Documents the salvaging of the first Etruscan ship ever found: a spectacular wreck off the coast of southern France with a perfectly preserved lower hull and laden with hundreds of amphorae. Lying on the seabed for thousands of years, this vessel and its cargo are a tantalizing link to a civilization that has, as yet, given up too few of its mysteries"--Container.
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
16) Savages
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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A tribe of primitive mud people encounter a croquet ball, rolling through the forest. Following it, they find themselves on a large, deserted estate. After entering, the begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles of people at a party.
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1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Yatra is the Sanskrit word for pilgrimage or spiritual journey. As the first documentary of the Yatra trilogy, Dharma River is a timeless journey through legendary rivers to the greatest Buddhist temples and mystical sites of Laos, Thailand and Burma. It offers a direct experience of lost civilizations, sacred spaces, and ancient traditions. The film's narration explores the different cultural representations of this universal icon of inner peace...
19) China revealed
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the most complex country on Earth, of the dreams and challenges driving its people to look forward-- while cherishing the past. Can this ancient civilization survive its breakneck journey into the future? And at what price? This is the story of the greatest transformation on Earth, and of the people in the vortex.
Series
Criterion collection volume 918
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2 videodiscs (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..+ 1 folded insert (12 pages : color illustrations, 18 cm).
Language
Armenian
Description
"A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov's masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series a tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranites revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional...
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