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The Century-America's Time (Boxed Set)»rank: 83starring: Linda Hunt, Peter Jennings, John Aaron, Harold Agnew, Steve Allen
: essential video:Covering the entire 20th century in one video series is an ambitious project, but one that Peter Jennings and ABC News are up to. ln The Century: America's Time, a 12-part documentary on six videotapes that is a companion to the book of the same name, Jennings guides us through a century of technology and advancement like no other. As he says in his introduction to episode 1, 'Seeds of Change,' 'Unlike previous centuries where leadership was defined by royalty and ... |
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The Perfect Weapon»rank: 3229starring: Jeff Speakman, John Dye, Mariska Hargitay, James Hong, John Koyama
: essential video:Covering the entire 20th century in one video series is an ambitious project, but one that Peter Jennings and ABC News are up to. ln The Century: America's Time, a 12-part documentary on six videotapes that is a companion to the book of the same name, Jennings guides us through a century of technology and advancement like no other. As he says in his introduction to episode 1, 'Seeds of Change,' 'Unlike previous centuries where leadership was defined by royalty and ... |
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Stalin (1992)»rank: 492starring: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé, Joan Plowright
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Weapons of the Spirit»rank: 6800starring: Joseph Atlas, René Bousquet, Adolphe Caritey, Roger Darcissac, Charles Gibert
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The Moyers Collection: Amazing Grace with Bill Moyers»rank: 7425starring: Bill Moyers
:Description:ln and around one village in Nazi-occupied France, 5,000 Jews were taken in and sheltered--by 5,000 Christians! 'Weapons of the Spirit' is the story of a unique conspiracy of goodness, a story filmmaker Pierre Sauvage was born to tell: he was born and protected at that time in that singular oasis of peace--Le Chambon. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was a tiny Protestant farming village in the mountains of south-central France. Defying the Nazis and the French government that was collaborating with the Nazis, the villagers ... |
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The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns (Boxed Set)»rank: 2033starring: David McCullough
:Description:Hailed as a documentary masterpiece without parallel, Ken Burns' filmed chronicle of America's most terrible and destructive conflict will hold you in thrall as it portrays the strategies and action of the war's famous battles, and tells the stories of illustrious generals and ordinary field soldiers, politicians and rogues, heroes and a beleaguered President. Winner of two Emmy Awards, the series begins by looking at the fateful causes of the war that led to the firing on Fort Sumter, to the devastating battles ... |
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The Irish In America: Long Journey Home»rank: 3230starring: Michael Murphy, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O'Connor, Van Morrison, Mary Black
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The World At War - 9 Volume Gift Set»rank: 2712starring: Laurence Olivier, Albrecht Brauning, John Kenneth Galbraith, Lord Harding, Tsuyako Kii
: essential video:Sir Jeremy lsaacs highly deserves the numerous awards for documentaries he has earned: the Royal Television Society's Desmond Davis Award, l'0rdre National du Mérit, an Emmy, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth ll. His epic The World at War remains unsurpassed as the definitive visual history of World War ll. The Second World War was different from other wars in thousands of ways, one of which was the unparalleled scope of visual documents kept by the Axis and Allies of all ... |
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Streetwise»rank: 5997starring: Roberta Joseph Hayes, Baby Gramps, Dewayne, Kim, Lillie
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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great»rank: 10381starring: Michael Wood
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