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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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"In March 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement."--Container....
42) Poisoned waters
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, two iconic waterways -- the great coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay -- are in perilous condition. With polluted runoff still flowing in from industry, agriculture and massive suburban development, scientists fear contamination to the food chain and drinking water for millions of people. A growing list of endangered species also is threatened in both estuaries. [This film] examines...
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Malaria: Fever Wars" highlights man's interminable fight against malaria, a disease which kills millions every year, and which is continuing to worsen. It delivers an up to date account of the global malaria situation from the perspectives of a few heroic individuals, each fighting their own very different battles against the disease."-- PBS's website.
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bestselling author, economist and historian Niall Ferguson takes a look at how money evolved, from the concept of credit and debt in the Renaissance to the emergence of a global economy and the subprime crisis we face today.
45) Black money
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Examines the shady world of international bribery, revealing how multi-national companies create slush funds, set up front companies, and make secret payments, all to get billions in business. At the center of this is a controversial, ongoing investigation into the British-based multi-national BAE Systems and allegations about billion dollar bribes.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Can emerging technology defeat global warming? Travel the globe to reveal the surprising technologies that just might turn back the clock on climate change. Focusing on the latest and greatest innovations, including everything from artificial trees to green reboots of familiar technologies like coal and nuclear energy, Nova asks: 'Can our technology, which helped create this problem, now solve it?'
47) Influenza, 1918
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the spring of 1918, an army private reported to a hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, an illness that doctors knew little about. By the end of WWI, America was ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although under Mexican rule, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they saw as restrictive Mexican policies. Mexican officials, concerned with illegal trading and immigration in Texas, were prepared to fight hard to keep the province under their control. Caught in the middle were the area's 4,000 Mexican Texans or Tejanos who were forced to choose a side. The conflict...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This is the story behind the laying of the transatlantic cable. The physical challenges to laying the cable were enormous. The project would require the production of a 2,000 mile long cable that would have to be laid three miles beneath the Atlantic.
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1 videodisc (208 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Uncertain of her future but unwilling to sacrifice her freedom, Bathsheba rejects the proposal of Gabriel Oak only to become his employer. Still in love, Gabriel can only watch as Bathsheba flirts with her neighbor, Mr. Boldwood, unleashing a passionate obsession within the reserved Boldwood. Both men forsake their hearts, however, upon the arrival of the dashing soldier Frank Troy. Despite being in love with another woman himself, Troy sees a challenge...
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follow the Colorado River from the Rocky Mountain National Park, through Utah's Westwater Canyon, the national parks of Canyonlands, and Zion, the fragile beauty and rapids of Grand Canyon, and into Mexico.
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1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
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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
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Explores the impact of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline on culture and society in Alaska, as well as on the environment and Alaskan wilderness. Features commentary by the men and women who worked on the line, as well as long-time Alaska residents, members of the Native Alaskan community, environmentalists, government geologists, and local and national politicians. Examines the conflict between the desire to bring Alaskan oil to market and increase the energy...
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Recount the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Tesla's surprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings.
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1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Examines the latest warnings from scientists that large-scale changes in the earth's climatic systems are taking place, with potentially serious consequences. Shows what is already happening to the Alaskan glaciers.
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1 videodisc (approximately 40 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Seven American World War II veterans, all former prisoners of war, tell their stories and reveal how they have come together to conquer the self-imposed shame of being captured by the enemy.