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42) Addiction
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
As the deadliest drug epidemic in US history rages, follow the cutting-edge work of doctors and scientists as they explore how addiction affects the brain, and how the opioid crisis should be addressed.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
British amateur bakers compete in a series of weekly baking challenges, each episode introducing a new technical skill and a challenge in each of three categories: Sigature Bake, to test creative flair and basic baking ability; Technical Bake, in which contestants are given basic recipes consisting of an ingredients list and minimal instruction; and Showstopper Bake, designed to display baking virtuosity.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Take a stunning new look at our wild planet by turning the cameras around to show the world as it really is, with humans in the picture. Dr. M. Sanjayan journeys to the frontiers of where man and animal meet to discover how our relationship with the greatest natural history events on the planet can provide a key to preserving our present and enriching our future.
46) Killer floods
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Description
Scientists investigate floods occurring in the remote past that evidence shows to have been of a magnitude far greater than even the more extreme floods of today. The possibility of such floods recurring and the connection between cataclysmic floods and climate change are discussed.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Before he became famous, a wide-eyed and eager James Herriot arrived at Glasgow Veterinary College to pursue the career he'd dreamed of since childhood. Unfolding against the backdrop of profound social change at home and abroad, Young James Herriot is a fascinating look at the backstory of a beloved author.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Come along with Emmy Award-winner Phil Rosenthal on these six offbeat and often hilarious culinary adventures around the world. Phil, creator of the TV hit Everybody Loves Raymond, meets the chefs, culinary leaders, and style-setters who keep their communities' traditions alive and create new ones, in kitchens both on and off the well-worn gastronomic path. Visit Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Spain, Paris and Italy.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Global warming is revealing some strange secrets about our planet's past inhabitants. Long buried under frozen ground, as the Siberian permafrost melts, woolly mammoth remains -- from bones to complete bodies -- are being exposed. Scientists around the world are using these remains to uncover astonishing new information about this extinct giant's physiology, behavior and environment. WOOLLY MAMMOTH: SECRETS FROM THE ICE brings these groundbreaking...
51) The draft
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
What is the price of citizenship in time of war? What are the limits to government authority over the liberty of a free people? Does the military draft have a place in American democracy? Since the birth of the United States, these questions have driven a defining national debate. This documentary, first aired on PBS, unpacks the history and the arguments that have shaped military conscription in the United States.--Adapted from container.
52) Skeleton
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Takes you beneath the surface to reveal the hidden secrets of an incredible variety of skeletal structures, none more complex than our own. A symbol of our deepest fears, a miracle of engineering -- see the skeleton as never before.
Series
Pub. Date
c2016.
Description
An essential examination of the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson, and parallels between his incredible story with that of race in America. This critically-acclaimed documentary series reveals how he first became a football star, why America fell in love with him off the field, what happened in the trial for his ex-wife's murder, and finally, why he is now sitting in jail for another crime 20 years later.
54) Muhammad Ali
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Follow Muhammad Ali's rise from Louisville, Kentucky to international fame, as he transcended his great athletic achievements to become one of the most influential Americans of his time.
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Description
Spurred by a personal tragedy, America's foremost documentarian is tackling cancer. Ken Burns examines cancer with a cellular biologistb2ss precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. The series artfully weaves three different films in one: a riveting historical documentary; an engrossing and intimate verite film; and a scientific and investigative report.
Pub. Date
2020
Description
One hundred years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in US history.
57) Snow babies
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Stunning wildlife footage provides an intimate and playful look at the first year of adorable baby animals and their families, including arctic wolves, snow monkeys, reindeers, otters, polar bears, and more.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Amateur British bakers compete in a series of weekly baking challenges, with each episode introducing a new technical skill and a challenge in each of three categories: Sigature Bake, to test creative flair and basic baking ability; Technical Bake, in which contestants are given basic recipes consisting of an ingredients list and minimal instruction; and Showstopper Bake, designed to display baking virtuosity.
Pub. Date
c2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
For two years filmmakers, rangers, and scientists follow a family of the recently-discovered Yunnan snob-nosed monkeys. The monkey society, formed in response to the hardships of the Himalayas, endures those hardships with a mixture of kindness, violence, cooperation, and interdependence.
60) Meet the coywolf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The coywolf, a mixture of western coyote and eastern wolf, is a carnivore found increasingly on the streets of North American cities. Its appearance was very recent -- within the last 90 years -- in evolutionary terms, a blip in time. The story of how it came to be begins in Canada but by no means ends there.
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