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The Century-America's Time (Boxed Set)
: 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. In 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 ...
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CNN's Millennium Boxed Set
: :A thousand years in 10 hours is an ambitious project, to say the least. But the team at CNN succeeds with its now-typical aplomb, as the team that brought us Cold War shares with us Millennium. 'We know the history of our own country,' narrator Ben Kingsley intones. But this series purports to give us 'history from a global perspective, not through the eyes of the West.' Using reenactments and impressive computer graphics--used with inspiration for everything from rebuilding ...
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The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns (Boxed Set)
: essential video:The most successful public-television miniseries in American history, the 11-hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the 'Ken Burns approach,' its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writer's name at their conclusion, fresh live footage of places juxtaposed with still images (photographs, paintings, maps, ...
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Biography of the Millennium: 100 People -1000 years
: :Choosing the 100 greatest people of the past millennium is an audacious task and one that's pretty much guaranteed to invite criticism and dispute. As General Norman Schwartzkopf asks in Biography of the Millennium, how can you possibly rank these folks? But choose and rank is what A&E does, as they count down the 100 most influential people of the past 1,000 years until they reach the single individual named the person of the millennium. Writers, philosophers, artists, musicians, ...
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Civilisation - Programs 1-13
: :Lord Clark (formerly Sir Kenneth Clark), perhaps the most celebrated historian of art in the 20th century, takes a wide-ranging look at Western culture in Civilisation, Vol. 1. Starting with a segment titled The Skin of Our Teeth, he 'illuminates the Dark Ages' with visits to historic sites from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, looking at the remnants of both classical life and the more recent art and architecture created after the fall of Rome. Later, in The Great ...
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Best of on the Road With Charles Kuralt
: :Lord Clark (formerly Sir Kenneth Clark), perhaps the most celebrated historian of art in the 20th century, takes a wide-ranging look at Western culture in Civilisation, Vol. 1. Starting with a segment titled The Skin of Our Teeth, he 'illuminates the Dark Ages' with visits to historic sites from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, looking at the remnants of both classical life and the more recent art and architecture created after the fall of Rome. Later, in The Great ...
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Baseball - A Film by Ken Burns
: essential video:After the national success of his 11-hour epic, The Civil War--the highest-rated miniseries in public-television history--many wondered if Ken Burns could capture the same energy and passion with smaller subjects. His reply, the 18-hour history of America's greatest sport, Baseball, not only quieted these worries, it also perhaps surpassed his prior achievement. Massive in scope (it covers more than 100 years), exhausting in detail, and filled with celebrities, journalists, politicians, historians, and the men who played the ...
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Wonder of Gods Creation (3-tape set Volume 1,2,3 (I, II, III): Planet Earth, Animal Kingdom, Human Life)
: essential video:After the national success of his 11-hour epic, The Civil War--the highest-rated miniseries in public-television history--many wondered if Ken Burns could capture the same energy and passion with smaller subjects. His reply, the 18-hour history of America's greatest sport, Baseball, not only quieted these worries, it also perhaps surpassed his prior achievement. Massive in scope (it covers more than 100 years), exhausting in detail, and filled with celebrities, journalists, politicians, historians, and the men who played the ...
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PBS American Visions The History of American Art and Architecture
:Description:'What can we say about Americans from the things they've made? When we look at them through the lens of their art, what do we see?,' host and acclaimed TIME magazine art critic Robert Hughes asks. This extraordinary series presents a panoramic view of American history as reflected by artists in every medium and genre, from 'primitive' portraits of the Colonial era to the complex visions of the present day. Explore the luminous, almost sacred work of early-American landscape ...
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Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
: :Triumph of the Nerds won legions of computer-skeptical and computer-naive viewers with its mix of minutiae and hip techniques. Going one step further into the digital maze, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet operates as a sequel of sorts to the surprise docu-hit. Just as its precursor chronicled the rise of empires built on computer software, Nerds 2.0.1 collects interviews from key players in the development of the Internet. Fashionably hip in its visual feel, the film ...
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