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[2017]., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 960 Afr Edition: Widescreen. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Video recording surveying the 200,000-year history of human civilization in Africa, discussing the origins of human art and writing in Africa and briefly examining the great civilizations that have flourished on the continent.
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[2020]., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 333.72 Age Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explore humanity's relationship with nature and wildlife, as scientists and conservationists from all over the world examine ways that can restore the planet? The documentary series asks whether newfound awareness of nature could bring about a new chapter in the human story.
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-- Traingle fire[2011]., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Edition: [Widescreen format]. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the employee unrest that preceeded the fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911 andforced the government to enact the most comprehensive workplace saftey laws in the country.
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-- Art:twenty-oneBy Ortega, Eve-Laure Moros Atlas, Charles Tatge, Catherine Sollins, Susan Dowling, Susan Kentridge, William, 1955- Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- Salcedo, Doris, 1958- Koons, Jeff, 1955- Heilmann, Mary, 1940- Maier-Aichen, Florian, 1973- Fei, Cao Shonibare, Yinka, 1962- Sherman, Cindy McCarthy, Paul, 1945- Mehretu, Julie, 1970- Baldessari, John, 1931- Kim, Soo-ja, 1957-c2009., Distributed by PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shows a broad range of artistic practice, technical innovation, and experimentation, from artists tackling large-scale collaborative projects in hangar-like studios to those working in the quiet of more intimate studio settings.
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-- Art:twenty-oneBy Sollins, Susan Ortega, Eve-Laure Moros Atlas, Charles Tatge, Catherine Dowling, Susan Opie, Catherine, 1961- Anatsui, El, 1944- Ai, Weiwei Altmejd, David, 1974- Tabaimo, 1975- Benglis, Lynda, 1941- Ligon, Glenn, 1960- Kelley, Mary Reid Abramovic, Marina Downes, Rackstraw Mangold, Robert, 1937- Sze, Sarah, 1969- Assume vivid astro focus (Group of artists) Art 21c2012., PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Spotlights contemporary artists and reveals why, where, and how they work.
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-- Tenth inning.c2010., PBS Distribution, : PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The game of baseball continues to reflect the complicated country that created it. Players and owners wage a battle over money and power; Cal Ripken becomes the game's new Iron Man; sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds do things that have never been done before; the Yankees build a dynasty, while their arch rivals, the Red Sox, stage the greatest comeback in history. In September of 2001, baseball offers the hope that things will one day return to normal.
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2012., PBS Distirbution Call No: DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: What are the scientific secrets behind your favorite foods? David Pogue ventures into labs and kitchens to uncover the hidden truths behind the flavors and textures we take for granted every day.
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c2009., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 331.1209 CLO Edition: [Widescreen format] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how the middle class is faring in this recession through the stories of the people she's come to know at the hair salon she's frequented for the past twenty years. The film reveals the struggles of a small business owner to stay afloat, her sister's risk of imminent foreclosure on her Florida home, and the various clients whose lives intersect at this New York City salon.
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[2009]., Adult, PBS Distribution Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On October 29, 1929 - Black Monday, large and small investors alike lost corporate and personal fortunes when the stock market crashed. This program examines the reasons behind the crash and whether the crash was predictable.
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[2013]., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the face of horrific living conditions, Jewish inmates of Terezin concentration camp-artist, musicians, poets and writers-fought back with art and music. Led by conductor Rafael Schachter, they re-imagined a Catholic liturgical work, Verdi's Requiem, as a condemnation of the Nazis. They performed for Nazi brass, singing what they dared not say. Six decades later, a new conductor and choir take Verdi's Requiem back to Terezin to bring the story of Schachter's artistic uprising back to life.
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-- Nova.c2013., General, PBS Distribution Call No: Earth Science Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Nova (Television program)Summary Note: Earth From Space is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth.
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c2011., PBS Distribution Call No: Civil Rights NF FRE Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, it chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.
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[2015], [Publisher not identified] Call No: General Science & Math Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Astrophysicist Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond, all leading to the ultimate riddle: Is math an invention or a discovery? Humankind's clever trick, or the language of the universe? Join Nova for a mathematical mystery tour, a provocative exploration of mathb2ss astonishing power across the centuries.
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[2012]., PBS Distribution, : PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. Watch as David Pogue unlocks their secrets.
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2011., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 940.53 Ire Edition: Widescreen. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Story of Irena Sendler and her work during World War II to rescue Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto.
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c2011., PBS Distribution Call No: Inventors & Inventions Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Step behind the headlines as Making Stuff dramatizes the human stories woven into the current wave of hi-tech breakthroughs. Hosted by the New York Times' lively technology correspondent David Pogue, each hour in this four-part series explores the talent, luck, and determination that can turn a wild idea into a cutting-edge material or high-tech breakthrough.
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c2012., PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, thus averting disaster.
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-- Story of the greatest march in American history2013., PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Witness the compelling and dramatic story of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his stirring "I Have a Dream" speech. This watershed event in the Civil Rights Movement helped change the face of America. Recounts the events when 250,000 people came together to form the largest demonstration the young American democracy had ever seen.
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-- Life at the brink.2015., PBS Distribution Call No: Earth Science DVD MAS Edition: Widescreen. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It's a mystery on a global scale: five times in Earth's past, life has been nearly extinguished, the vast majority of plants and animals annihilated in a geologic instant. What triggered these dramatic events? And what might they tell us about the fate of our world? Joins scientists around the globe as they unravel the mysteries of two of the most dramatic mass extinctions.
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c2005., PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In his latest film, Marian Marzynski tells the extraordinary story of how he as a Jewish boy escaped the Holocaust, hiding from the Nazis, and surviving the war as an altar boy in a Catholic monastery. In a deeply moving and personal film he shares the poignant, painful recollections of other child survivors, many of whom are visiting scenes of their childhood for the last time.