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1) Johnny Cash
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1998
Language
English
Description
Johnny Cash was born at the height of the Depression in rural Arkansas, and the legacy of his childhood shines throught in many of his classic songs. From the 'million dollar quartet' to nine Grammy awards, this is the saga of 'The man in black'.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Follows Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro on a nine-month tour throughout the U.S. and Japan. The documentary was filmed at concert halls, elementary schools, senior care centers, and in Sendai, the small town in Japan that was ravaged by the March 2011 tsunami. Home video footage, family photos, and interviews with family and friends also document Jake's rise to international fame.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An intimate exploration of the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their parents. Through moving, personal stories of children, parents, and doctors, the film examines new medical interventions increasingly being offered at younger ages.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The film vividly portrays key moments in Martin Luther's story. The massive lightning storm that nearly killed him, the bleak self-punishment of his time in the monastery, the corruption that unleashed his anger, the theological breakthrough that reset Christian thought, his trial before the most powerful man in Europe, the staged kidnapping that helped him escape the death penalty, and his ongoing drive to reform the church."--Container.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Explores the complex alchemy that accounts for the enduring celebrity of America's most famous inventor, offering new perspectives on the man and his milieu. And illuminating not only the true nature of invention, but its role in turn-of-the-century America's rush into the future.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's 1919, WWI has just ended, and Harry Selfridge is struggling with loss. After the death of his beloved Rose, he is making costly business mistakes. His empire is weakened, and he is vulnerable to his old enemy Lord Loxley.
10) Barack Obama
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Language
English
Description
Follow Obama from his early childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey to the 2008 Democratic Convention, and finally his election as president.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
One year. One class. One play. The Latino-and Asian-American children crowding Los Angeles' sprawling Hobart Boulevard Elementary face daunting odds: low-income households, under-funded, overcrowded school, and a neighborhood known for crime, not opportunity. Teacher Rafe Esquith expects the best from these kids, leading his fifth-graders through a rigorous core curriculum of English, mathematics, geography, and literature. The pinnacle of each...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Tells the compelling story of William Still, one of the most unheralded individuals of the Underground Railroad, and details the accounts of black abolitionists who had everything at stake as they helped fugitives follow the North Star to Canada.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A year in space: Adapted from Time's original digital video series, this program is the chronicle of Scott Kelly's twelve-month stay on the International Space Station, the purpose of which was to test human limits in preparation for a manned mission to Mars.
Beyond a year in space: Presents the scientific analysis of Scott Kelly's year on the International Space Station, answering questions regarding the effects of space on humans and what safety...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams; and railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Going beyond...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time.
17) For Sama
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Description
The Frontline film is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama; all while Waad films the cataclysmic conflict raging around them.
18) All the way
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
No one suspected that playboy Congressman Charlie Wilson and his partner Gust Avrakotos, an agressive CIA agent, would mastermind the covert arming of the Afghan Mujahideen. Together they engineered what became one of the largest and most successful campaigns in CIA history. Profiles the unorthodox alliance, and chronicles the epic journey the two men undertook to guarantee the success of their "freedom fighters." Reveals the full story behind the...
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