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1) TV in Africa
Series
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
This documentary studies the cultural landscape of Benin through the lens of that country's television programming. TV shows include… Sports Events, News Reviews, Entre Nous (Between Us), Le Grand Journal du Bien (The All-Is-Well News), Midi Pile (Twelve on the Dot), Music Videos, Christ dans vos Maisons (Christ in Your Homes), Au Delà du Réel (Beyond the Real), Nécrologie (Obituary Column), Rubi, Les Inséparables (The Inseparable Ones).
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this program dramatically evokes the causes of the war. Here are the burning questions of union and states' rights, John Brown at Harper's Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln, the firing on Fort Sumter, and the jubilant rush to arms on both sides. Along the way the war's major figures are introduced: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and a host of lesser-known but...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Great penguin race: The Octonauts cheer Peso on as he goes home to compete against an awesomely athletic penguin -- Great Arctic adventures: Peso goes with Barnacles to help his sister and her new polar cubs learn to navigate the harsh conditions of the frozen arctic -- Humpback whale: A humpback whale helps Kwazii track down a treasure chest key.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick : Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides -- Americans who...
15) The Truman show
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Truman Burbank discovers that his quaint hometown is a giant studio with hidden cameras everywhere and people around him are actors playing their roles in the most popular TV series in the world.
An insurance salesman, Truman Burbank, begins to doubt reality when he realizes that his life is a TV program. Nominated for six Golden Globes.
17) Speed racer
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The first eleven episodes of the "Japanimation" series are brought together with all of Speed Racer's trademark animated thrills, humor, characters and racing action.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this collection, the brave young trainee makes a special delivery to the ice cream fair, helps Frostini create a new flavor for the mayor's banquet, and tries to prevent a massive ice cream meltdown on the hottest day of the year. There's fun in the ice cream factory, a brave resuce at the Safari Park and an adventure in the ice caves, too!
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