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Crusades (4pc)
: :Of all the wars waged in the name of God, none has ever matched the arrogance and conceit of the Christian Crusades. For nearly two centuries (1095-1291), this medieval 'holy war' variously raged, sometimes so spiritually misshapen by rapaciousness, murder, and political greed that to think it all had to do with Christian faith is absurd. And really, there is no one better to dramatize such a theater of holy war than Wales-born Terry Jones, host of The ...
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Edison Effect History Channel Three VHS Set
:Description:' The phonograph, the motion picture, and the electric light life in the modern world would be unthinkable without the inventions of Thomas Alva Edison. How did a man with only three months of formal schooling literally change the way we live? THE EDISON EFFECT tells the complete story of the feuds, the ingenuity, the mistakes and the triumphs behind Edison's most famous inventions. Rare photographs and early film footage introduce the trusted assistants who were crucial to ...
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Modern Marvels: Great Wall of China
:Description:Rising up from the land like a sleeping dragon, its vastness seems beyond the realm of human possibility... Explore the story of one of the wonders of the Ancient world. The Great Wall of China is the one of the most massive building achievements in history. Winding 6,000 kilometers through undulating mountains, it is the only man-made structure visible with the naked eye from space. Yet the true history of this engineering marvel is as mysterious and ephemeral ...
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Mummies & The Wonders of Ancient Egypt
:Description:Journey back to the rich and fantastic world of Ancient Egypt a world where animals could magically jump out of a hieroglyph and change the meaning of your writing. Where giant pyramids were a gateway to the afterlife. Where a king's ransom could buy an elaborate 70-day process that would guarantee the eternal preservation of your corpse. Join the world's greatest Egyptologists and the latest computer technology for this extraordinary program which brings the fabled world back to ...
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Rise & Fall of Adolf Hitler (6pc)
: :Typical Hitler biographies start either at his birth or at his appointment to chancellor in 1933, and follow events through 1945. Not so here: ZDF and A&E's psychological biography The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler manages to give us something new. Each of the six tapes in this set starts with Hitler's youth and ends with his suicide but focuses specifically on only one archetype in his personality: 'The Private Man,' 'The Seducer,' 'The Blackmailer,' 'The Dictator,' ...
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20th Century with Mike Wallace - Crisis in Iran: Death of the Shah and the Hostage Crisis
: :Typical Hitler biographies start either at his birth or at his appointment to chancellor in 1933, and follow events through 1945. Not so here: ZDF and A&E's psychological biography The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler manages to give us something new. Each of the six tapes in this set starts with Hitler's youth and ends with his suicide but focuses specifically on only one archetype in his personality: 'The Private Man,' 'The Seducer,' 'The Blackmailer,' 'The Dictator,' ...
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Secrets of the Oval Office
:Description:President Clinton's 'inappropriate behavior' and his attempt to, um, soften its edges are nothing new in American history. This Election Day program reports on 200 years of similar shenanigans involving sex, money, corruption or just plain bad behavior. In fact the only thing that's changed about White House scandal is the depth of media coverage and the public's attitude towards what's acceptable. This lively hours covers such infamous episodes as Andrew Johnson's drunken inaugural speech, Warren Harding's mysterious ...
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David Halberstam's the Fifties
: :The 1950s are fast becoming what the 1960s were not all that long ago. Which is to say that the era that set the stage for the obviously upheaval-heavy '60s is getting its own undressing, and the interlocutors are finding all sorts of fascinating stuff. Historian David Halberstam, who logged time in the era as a journalist and civil rights struggle participant, helped nudge the era's current popularity with his book, which gives this exhaustive six-tape series its ...
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Hiroshima: Decision To Drop the Bomb
:Description:It was August 1945, and American Marines were being slaughtered by the thousands as they advanced on the islands surrounding Japan. What the U.S. needed was a secret weapon that would end the war swiftly. Or did it? Investigate the disturbing events that led to the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan alongside leading historians and military experts. Hear why Japan's ability to fight effectively had largely been eliminated before the bomb was dropped. Examine new ...
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Witch Hunt (History Channel)
from: A&E Home Video
: :Witch Hunt draws upon the expertise of prominent historians and authors in order to provide possible explanations for the spread of the witchcraft accusations and the brutal hangings which followed. These commentators evoke a portrait of an early New England rife with religious conflict as Puritan ideology collided with the belief systems of rural folk life. Threatened by violent interactions with Native Americans and dependent on the labor of slaves, the economic life of Salem was one ...
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