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61) Part Two
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
Part two of a special series about how two rivals have plunged the Middle East into sectarian war. While Iran extends its power from Iraq into Syria and Lebanon, Saudi Arabia is making a stand in Yemen, with deadly consequences for the region.
Publisher
HISTORY
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
“PROJECT IMPOSSIBLE” explores epic engineering feats that were once considered unthinkable, but with new advances in technology have become possible. Each episode delves into the construction of man-made structures that are crucial to the planet's future.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
For more then twenty years, tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from all around the world has been transported to a Chinese town called Fengjang, in the south of Shanghai. Around 50,000 migrant workers have formed a real army to dismantle these metallic wastes. These green soldiers decompose, cut, split and recycle, with the most rudimentary means, almost 2 million tons of garbage every year. To remain and assume the minimum materials that...
64) The Presidents
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
See the minorities that have influenced politics.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the United States, ten percent of people who wish to have children struggle with infertility. NOVA explores barriers to fertility, from the social to the biological, and the state of assisted reproductive technologies. Follow the journeys of people navigating challenges from structural inequalities and racism to falling sperm counts, egg freezing, and IVF.
66) Fox tales
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
The resilient Red foxes are able to change their behavior to successfully make a home in new environments at a rate that astounds even the scientists who have spent a lifetime studying them. Fox Tales reveals new research into everything from their first hours of life to their first steps into unchartered territory, to offer a visually rich and fascinating look into the secret life of Red foxes.
69) Chasing the moon
Series
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
This series reimagines the race to the moon for a new generation, upending much of the conventional mythology surrounding the effort. The series recasts the Space Age as a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama. Utilizing a visual feast of previously overlooked and lost archival material — much of which has never before been seen by the public — the film features...
70) Sharks
Publisher
Vision Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exceptional imagery depicts these amazing sea dwellers in a new and different way, as they've been around long before dinosaurs. The white shark, the hammerhead shark or the whale shark can all be seen at a first-hand experience.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
LAST MAN STANDING takes at look at Death Row Records and how L.A.'s street gang culture had come to dominate its business workings, as well as an association with corrupt L.A. Police Officers who were also gang affiliated. It would be this world of gang rivalry and dirty cops that would later claim the lives of the world's two greatest rappers: Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
72) Bully
Author
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America.
73) Sound City
Publisher
RCA Records
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 2012 Dave Grohl purchased the legendary Neve 8028 recording console from Sound City Studios. The board, built in 1972, is considered to be the crown jewel of analog recording equipment, having recorded such artists as Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, Guns and Roses, Metallica, and many other musical legends. This tells the story of real rock history, and celebrates the music, as Grohl gathers some of rock's greatest artists to collaborate...
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling Little House series.
75) American horses
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
AMERICAN HORSES are icons. Mustang. Appaloosa. Morgan. Quarter Horse. Follow the history of the uniquely American horse breeds that helped shape our nation and meet the people who are continuing in the long tradition of caring for them.
76) On these grounds
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
An explosive video goes viral, showing a white school resource officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her desk. One woman uproots her life to support the girl and dismantle the system, including facing the police officer.
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
For generations, Monopoly has been America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and--for better or worse--the impulses that make our free-market society tick. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing. Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History presents the fascinating true story behind America’s favorite game.
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