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16 videodiscs (NTSC, approximately 57 hours) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This set includes every one of Rick's half-hour TV shows plus his highly-acclaimed hour-long TV specials on Iran and Christmas in Europe, as well as bonus extras including outtakes, Rick's first TV show from 1989, with "European travel skills" and "Travel as a political act" lectures.
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Archaeologists have long believed that while the Egyptians were building pyramids 3,000 years ago, nothing was happening in Western Europe, but a new discovery shows something far different. Five years ago, the remains of an incredible, ancient site began to emerge from a quarry in eastern England. Due to its delicate nature, experts have largely been working in secret, until now.
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1 videodisc (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Includes all 8 half-hour Rick Steves' Europe TV shows on Eastern Europe, airing from 2000 to 2012. The shows featured are: Prague and Czech Republic; Czech Republic Beyond Prague; Poland: Krakow, Auschwitz and Warsaw; Budapest; Croatia; Best of Slovenia; Dubrovnik and Balkan Side-Trips; and Surprising Bulgaria.
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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 (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4.
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English
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At the time the Roman Empire supplanted the failed Republic, the Rhine River marked Rome's northern frontier in western Europe, until Emperor Augustus tried to push the boundary east to the Elbe. This program focuses on the events during the 1st through 4th centuries and traces the movements of the Goths and the tribes of Germania. Includes the battle in the year 9 when Arminius, leader of the Germanic resistance to Roman colonization, destroyed three...
9) The plague
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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(Producer) During the worst biological disaster in the history of mankind, the so-called black death released an indiscriminate fury which shook the very foundations of human order. When all was said and done, nearly one-third of Europe's population had been completely wiped out, and devastated survivors were left to contend with a world forever changed, both socially and economically.
10) Our daily bread
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A spectacular visual essay composed of epic tableaus, a haunting vision of our modern food industry, and the methods and technology utilized for mass production.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
"When allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps at the end of World War II, they found unspeakable horrors that still haunt the world's conscience. In 1945, British and American film crews accompanying the troops liberating the camps captured these atrocities firsthand. The resulting film directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock but never finished, was discovered by Frontline in 1984 in the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Sixty...
12) Killer volcanoes
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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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NOVA's expert team looks for the signature of a volcanic eruption big enough to have blasted a huge cloud of ash and sulfuric acid into the atmosphere. Killer Volcanoes spotlights the search for the mystery volcano that plunged the globe into a deep freeze and inflicted famine on medieval Europe.
14) The black death
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1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Killing one third of Europe's population in just three years and ravaging the flourishing cities of Italy, France, Germany, England, and Spain, the Black Death swept across the continent at an inconceivable rate. Through chilling reenactments, interviews with experts and historians, and excerpts from original accounts, discover the origins, progress, and cultural repercussions of the Plague's reign of terror. Many thought it was punishment by God,...
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Multiple
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Story of the Roma, commonly referred to as Gypsies, a people who have been both romanticized and vilified in popular culture. The Roma have endured centuries of intolerance and persecution in Europe, most notably the Holocaust genocide where an estimated 500,000 were murdered. A People Uncounted documents their culturally rich yet often difficult lives, and demonstrates how their present state has been deeply shaped by the tragedies of the past. Filmed...
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2 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A look at the medieval politics and warfare of the Knights Templar, the most powerful, wealthy, and mysterious military order of the Middle Ages. With the encroaching historical and ruthless downfall of the Templar Order, season two focuses on power, redemption, revenge, betrayal, family, and an epic war between church and state. Hamill joins the cast as Talus, a battle-hardened Knight Templar veteran who is tasked with preparing the next generation...
18) Barry Lyndon
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English
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"Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling version of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O'Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of...
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