Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Every year, hundreds of new skyscrapers are built around the globe. As nations vie for prestige and developers look to maximize limited urban space, these shimmering towers are rising higher and higher. In China alone, dozens of buildings reach over 1,000 feet, with a few approaching 2,000 feet. But for all their impressive engineering, are these buildings safe?
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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five years after the Fukushima disaster, the future of nuclear power is in question. Join engineers as they embark on an unprecedented cleanup and investigate new nuclear technologies that would prevent future meltdowns.
Series
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history. Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation...
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1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the years since Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, there have been countless theories about this Lost city of the Incas, yet it remains an enigma. NOVA joins a new generation of archaeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven't been touched since the time of the Incas and unearth burials of the people who built the sacred site"--Container.
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1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join historian Bettany Hughes as she explores the different beliefs and practices that form the core of the Buddhist philosophy and investigates how Buddhism started and where it travelled to, through visits to seven of the most spectacular monuments built by Buddhists across the globe.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
10 Buildings That Changed America tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society. These 10 Buildings represent architects who dared to strike out on their own and design radical new types of buildings that permanently altered our environmental and cultural landscape.
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1 videodisc (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Featuring first-person accounts from survivors of the conflict along with an unpublished diary, cartoons, and Japanese propaganda footage, this documentary chronicles the fall of the Philippines and the horrors of the Bataan Death March in the early months of World War II.
90) Wild metropolis
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1 videodisc (approximately 165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examine the world's most extraordinary wildlife living in the newest and fastest changing habitat on the planet - cities. The innovative three-part series features a diverse cast of animals that are adjusting to this new world better than predicted, not only applying their natural born skills and abilities to life in the city, but also making amazing physical or behavioral adaptations.
91) Voice of freedom
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow the story of singer Marian Anderson, whose talent broke down barriers around the world. Narrated by Renée Elise Goldsberry, Voice of Freedom interweaves Anderson's rich life story with this landmark moment in history, exploring fundamental questions about talent, race, fame, democracy and the American soul.
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the never-before-told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.
93) The vote
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2 videodiscs (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in US history.
95) Penguins
Series
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Well-loved and well-dressed, the penguin is popularly known as awkward and comical. But the complete story is not so black and white. The closer you get to penguins, the more these "strange birds" will surprise you.
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1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The people within the Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang, one of the last authentic Tibetan sanctuaries, have struggled to keep their monasteries, art, and culture alive. On the edge of collapsing, learn how they are restoring their sacred sites and saving what they hold most dear.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
99) The 1930s
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5 videodiscs (267 min., 38 sec.) : sound, color, black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
100) The ghost army
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1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Ghost Army was officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. From June 1944 to March 1945 it staged 20 battlefield deceptions, beginning in Normandy and ending at the Rhine River. These deceptions included an array of inflatables (tanks, trucks, jeeps, and airplanes), sound trucks, phony radio transmissions and even playacting to fool the enemy.