World History
THE CRUCIBLE OF THE MILLENNIUM: The Birth of Globalization (Part II)World History Directed by Women
Examines the technological advances, the wide-ranging exploration and the collision of cultures that characterized the midpoint of the last millennium.
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THE CRUCIBLE OF THE MILLENNIUM: The Birth of Globalization [set]World History Directed by Women
Examines the technological advances, the wide-ranging exploration and the collision of cultures that characterized the midpoint of the last millennium.
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WOMEN OF COURAGE: UNTOLD STORIES OF WWII (series)Women's Studies World History Sociology Directed by Women
Women of Courage is a five part series based on true, untold stories of remarkable and courageous women who served in the Second World War.
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THE SENSATIONAL SEVENTIES (Series)World History American Studies American History
The major political, cultural and social issues of each year in the decade are brought vividly to life in this ten-part series.
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THE LOOMIS GANGWorld History Sociology Criminal & Law American Studies Animation
The powerful Loomis Gang of Central New York may have been the largest family crime syndicate in 19th-century America. In this video, documentary filmmaker Brian Peter Falk returns to Waterville, New York, his boyhood home and the epicenter of Loomis power during the Civil War era, to chronicle the gang’s legend and explore the efforts by a handful of local people to revive it.
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FORGOTTEN JOURNEY: THE STEPHENS-TOWNSEND-MURPHY SAGAAmerican History World History
In 1844 the Oregon Trail was full of farm families moving West, but that summer one party set out on its own, heading into an unknown wilderness and blazing the trail to California.
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DISPLACED: MIRACLE AT ST. OTTILIENAmerican History Jewish Studies Sociology World History
This documentary is based on the true experiences of U.S. Army privates Edward Herman and Robert Hilliard, who were stationed in Germany at the close of WWII. They discovered the horrendous treatment of displaced Jews in St. Ottilien, a displaced persons camp run by the U.S. military.
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POMPEII, A.D. 79
The volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, A.D. 79, called an abrupt halt to the busy life of the city of Pompeii. Buried under a shower of ash, pumice and volcanic mud, the ancient town played host to a unique disaster of nature, one which preserved as it destroyed.
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IN VIENNA, THEY PUT YOU IN JAIL: THE MAX BIRNBACH STORYJewish Studies World History Directed by Women
In 1938 Vienna, anti-Semitism was at its peak. Hitler's army was threatening Austria's border and Max Birnbach knew that he would have to flee Austria or risk certain death as a Jew.
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NO EASY WALK (series)African Studies Anthropology Europe Political Science Sociology World History
This series chronicles the history of colonialism and the
struggle for independence in three African countries - Ethiopia,
Kenya, and Zimbabwe.
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WHO BUILT AMERICA? (series)American Studies American History Labor Studies Education Women's Studies World History Sociology
This ten-part series on nineteenth and twentieth-century American history uses period graphics and innovative computer animation to make history accessible and exciting for high school, college and adult education students.
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GRENADA: THE FUTURE COMING TOWARDS USLatin-American Studies Europe Political Science Spanish Language World History Directed by Women
Examines the aims and accomplishments of the New Jewel Movement and the reasons for the Fall 1983 U.S. military invasion.
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