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Author
Publisher
Main Street Landing
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (46 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Main Street Landing in 1984 commissioned a multimedia slide show on the history of Burlington's Waterfront. The history of the waterfront was an important aspect of Main Street Landing's visioning process and it guided them through the creation of 250,000 square feet of built environment on the waterfront. Main Street Landing's acclaimed redevelopment projects became the catalyst for future development on the waterfront, and their commitment to...
3) Baseball
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (ca. 23 hr.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is an epic overflowing with heroes and hopefuls, scoundrels and screwballs. It is a saga spanning the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the transformation of popular culture, and the unfolding of the national pastime. Here is the story of a nation at work and play. Experience it in ten thrilling "innings" from master storyteller and award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.
Author
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Riveted: The History of Jeans reveals the fascinating and surprising story of the iconic American garment. They're more than just a pair of pants -America's tangled past is woven deeply into the indigo fabric. From its roots in slavery to the Wild West, youth culture, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop, jeans are the fabric on which the history of American ideology and politics are writ large.
5) Dogfights
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Harnessing the technology from the latest CGI video game flight simulators this puts the viewers behind the cockpit pitted against enemy aircraft in some of modern history's greatest air battles.
Publisher
distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Commemorative ed. 150th anniversary.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (660 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
Author
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
"It is blatant, it is cheap, it is the apotheosis of the ridiculous. But it is something more; it is like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone Park; it is a national playground, and not to have seen it is not to have seen your own country," said Reginald Wright Kauffman in 1909 of Coney Island, the tiny spit of land at the foot of Brooklyn that, at the turn of the century, became the most extravagant playground in the country and one of...
Publisher
HISTORY
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (347 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In "HUNTING HITLER," an FBI cold case that has laid dormant for 70 years leads a group of world-renown investigators on the ultimate manhunt to finally answer the question: Did Adolf Hitler survive World War II?
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (750 min.) sd., col. and b&w 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
Author
Publisher
HISTORY
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This is the untold story of the personal battles that gave rise to the multibillion-dollar video game industry. Brought to life by Academy Award winning director Daniel Junge, this documentary is a tale of brilliant innovations.
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
14) Season 1
Publisher
HISTORY
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In ALONE, ten men are left in solitude, and separated from each other, in the harsh Vancouver Island wilderness. With no camera crews or producers, they have to survive using only what they can stuff into a backpack.
Author
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In October 1942, Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in the Ukraine, leads her family underground to hide from the pursuing Nazis – and stays nearly a year and a half. Their harrowing story of survival living in near total darkness in two cold, damp caves is one like no other ever told. It was life...like No Place On Earth.
16) Murder Maps
Publisher
3DD Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This drama-doc series takes you back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history. Our presenter, Nicholas Day, guides us into into the world of the killer as we see how police ingenuity and early forensics helped bring them to justice.
Publisher
El Dorado Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (10 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Nisei Soldiers - The Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII would become the most decorated unit in US military history - but at what price?
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film sheds light on a relatively unexplored, but pivotal battle to secure a critical route inland for allied forces invading France on June 6, 1944. The fight for the La Fière causeway and bridge is regarded as one of the bloodiest small arms battles in U.S. military history, fought largely by paratroopers and glidermen from the 82nd Airborne Division.
Publisher
El Dorado Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Relying on newly discovered archival footage, memoirs from the fallen and expert commentary from world-renown scholars, THE WAR TO END ALL WARS tells the story of World War I from the American perspective: It's Ace pilots, mine-laying sailors, heroic doughboys, Harlem Hell Fights, and courageous nurses. As the story of trench, chemical and open warfare unfolds, we come to understand how the first global war transformed American society, leading to...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An Oscar-winning love story spanning two continents, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 to a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel and their five-year-old daughter Regina each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. As they eventually learn to cherish their life in Africa, they also endeavor...
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