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4 videodiscs (516 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm
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English
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"With a lust for power and an appetite for love, the young monarch rules his kingdom as he lives his life - with ruthless abandon. Season one of The Tudors reveals the untold story of the hot-headed tyrant whose affair with Anne Boleyn and obsession with producing a male heir changed the institution of marriage, and the world, forever"--Case-slip.
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"'The French Revolution' is a ... documentary that encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization. With dramatic reenactments, paintings from the era, and revealing accounts from journals and expert historians, 'The French Revolution' vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence. King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, and Napoleon Bonaparte lead a cast of thousands ..."--Container.
4) Connections
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5 videodiscs (104 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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 (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The story of the tumultuous years after the Civil War during which America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and, at the same time, how former slaves could be brought into the life of the country.
6) 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.
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1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4.
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English
Description
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...
10) Machu Picchu
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Using cutting-edge, 3D laser-scanning technology, structural engineer Steve Burrows leads his team of experts into the Peruvian jungle to scan the sacred Inca city of Machu Picchu, asking three main questions: How did the Inca build a city atop a mountain ridge? How were the terraces constructed? And how did they supply water to the city? Join the team as they turn back time and decode the past.
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1 videodisc (40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Relive an amazing tale of discovery and exploration as National Geographic brings to life the first crossing. Two hundred years after Lewis & Clark epic journey, go back in time and discover the adventure, danger, and beauty of the unmapped West.
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Frontline presents the story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela's character, leadership, and life's method through intimate recollections with friends, political allies, adversaries, and his fellow prisoners and jailers on Robben Island, where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 prison years, transforming himself in prison from an impetuous, risk-taking radical into a mature leader and statesman.
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6 videodiscs (approximately 882 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The fifteen-part series explores the vast history of the British Empire from 3000 BC to 1965. Simon Schama's compelling storytelling skills breathe new life into the dramatic stories of lives and moments in Britain's rich and colorful past.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using CGI-enhanced visuals and dramatic reenactments, The History Channel brings the key battles of the Crusades to life. See rare locations, including a vast chain of Crusader castles and get a feel of what day-to-day life was like.
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise of the porn industry that began in New York City in 1971-72, driven by the gradual legalization of porn and a politically motivated effort to 'clean up' Times Square. Over the course of eight episodes, viewers will get an up-close look at a gritty world of sex, crime, high times and sudden violence, as the porn business begins its climb to legitimacy, cultural permanence, and billion-dollar profitability.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 765 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scientists Tony Newman and Doug Phillips are the young heads of Project Tic-Toc, a multi-billion dollar government installation buried beneath the desert. They have invented a Time Tunnel, which will allow people to travel through time and space. While testing the tunnel for an impatient senator who wants to cancel the project, Newman and Phillips become trapped in time, and each week coincidentally find themselves at the site of an important historical...
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