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1) Dogfights
Publisher
The History® Channel
Language
English
Description
Harnessing the technology from the latest CGI video game flight simulators this puts the viewers behind the cockpit pitted against enemy aircraft in some of modern history's greatest air battles.
4) The exiles
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documentary filmmaker, Christine Choy, tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned project she began shooting in 1989. Driven by Choy’s iconoclastic voice, THE EXILES is about the enduring love for one’s home, the fragility of historical record and remembrance, and the power of film to intervene and bear witness.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Stories of Viking conquests are the stuff of legends. What is lesser known, however, is the indelible influence these raiders had on the British Isles. Far from conquering and leaving, genetic testing reveals that the Vikings never completely left. This 100 minute documentary follows the progress of Danish Viking King Canute, who built his North Sea Empire across Britain and Scandinavia.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Riveted: The History of Jeans reveals the fascinating and surprising story of the iconic American garment. They're more than just a pair of pants -America's tangled past is woven deeply into the indigo fabric. From its roots in slavery to the Wild West, youth culture, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop, jeans are the fabric on which the history of American ideology and politics are writ large.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Atomic Cover-up is the first documentary to explore the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the unique perspective -- words and startling images -- of the cameramen who risked their lives filming in the irradiated aftermath. It reveals how this historic footage -- created by a Japanese newsreel crew and then an elite U.S. Army team-- was seized, classified top secret, and then buried by American officials for decades to hide the full human costs...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"This course explores the history of how humans have produced, cooked, and consumed food--from the earliest hunting-and-gathering societies to the present. This course examines how civilizations and their foodways have been shaped by geography, native flora and fauna, and technological innovations."--Page 1 of guidebook.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it. Best Documentary winner at the **Independent Film Festival Boston**. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Women Film Critics Circle Awards**. "*One of the year's best films. An urgent, illuminating dive into the headwaters...
10) Hunting Hitler
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In "HUNTING HITLER," an FBI cold case that has laid dormant for 70 years leads a group of world-renown investigators on the ultimate manhunt to finally answer the question: Did Adolf Hitler survive World War II?
11) Horse
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2009, c1994
Language
English
Description
An introduction to horses that explores the history and varieties of horses, and the links between horses and humankind.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sought by explorers for centuries and hailed as the one of the most beautiful waterways in the world, The Northwest Passage tells a dramatic story of courage, discovery and adventure. From the breath-taking landscapes of the Arctic to the unforgettable exporters that risked everything to accomplish the un-thinkable, this 6-Part documentary highlights the missions and mysteries of the world s greatest waterway. Through in-depth interviews with experts...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Join a world-class lineup of artists as they slip, slide, strut and glide their way through the spicy sounds that took over the world. Jazz has influenced the course of popular music for over a century. A raucous tribute to the musical heritage of New Orleans, chock full of performances, archival footage and conversations with the remarkable men and women who created it.
14) Episode 2
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
El Shazly and Rashad continue their investigation into the boy king's life, looking closely at his advisors as he sought to reverse his infamous father’s religious and cultural revolution, and the factors surrounding his untimely death. Featuring commentary from leading Egyptologists Dr. Zahi Hawass, Fayza Haikal, Salima Ikram and more.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"It is blatant, it is cheap, it is the apotheosis of the ridiculous. But it is something more; it is like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone Park; it is a national playground, and not to have seen it is not to have seen your own country," said Reginald Wright Kauffman in 1909 of Coney Island, the tiny spit of land at the foot of Brooklyn that, at the turn of the century, became the most extravagant playground in the country and one of...
16) American veteran
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Today, America has nearly eighteen million living military veterans, from the Greatest Generation to men and women coming home from recent tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. They join the now-silent ranks of American veterans reaching back to our earliest conflict, the Revolutionary War.
Publisher
Letterpress Film LCC
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
How has letterpress printing survived in a digital age? Pressing On explores captivating and unusual personalities blended with wood, metal & type as young printers strive to save a process in danger of being lost forever as its caretakers age.
Publisher
Mark Oliver Productions
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A documentary film about the origin and unique history of one of California's oldest and continuous African American communities in the state's northern mountains. Many of the African Americans who arrived in the north state during the Great Migration in the early 20th century in search of work at the local lumber mills settled in Weed and neighboring communities.
20) Hunting Hitler
Publisher
HISTORY
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In "HUNTING HITLER," an FBI cold case that has laid dormant for 70 years leads a group of world-renown investigators on the ultimate manhunt to finally answer the question: Did Adolf Hitler survive World War II?
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