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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In small towns and along America's backroads, treasures are waiting to be uncovered, valuable relics from our history that are hidden in junk piles, buried in barns, and stacked in garages. It takes experts to find them, and turn rust to riches. Follow highly skilled 'pickers' Mike Wolfe, owner of Antique Archaeology in Iowa, and his business partner Frank Fritz as they hunt down objects with historical, collectible, and pop culture value that have...
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Mike Wolfe, owner of Antique Archaeology in Iowa, and his business partner Frank Fritz, hunt down objects with historical, collectible, and pop culture value that have been long forgotten by their owners. From a vintage Harley to a one-of-a-kind Ferris wheel, each treasure hunt uncovers weird and wonderful Americana, offering a glimpse into a little-known side of the antiques business. Along the way, Mike and Frank meet people whose own stories open...
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Mike Wolfe, owner of Antique Archaeology in Iowa, and his business partner Frank Fritz, hunt down objects with historical, collectible, and pop culture value that have been long forgotten by their owners. From a vintage Harley to a one-of-a-kind Ferris wheel, each treasure hunt uncovers weird and wonderful Americana, offering a glimpse into a little-known side of the antiques business. Along the way, Mike and Frank meet people whose own stories open...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Presents the story of the eugenics movement in the U.S., tracing its evolution from a force for human progress through the study of genetics to an anti-humanistic campaign for state-sponsored sterilization and the closing of the country's borders to peoples believed by some to be genetically inferior.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
7) The Amish
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Explores the insular religious community, whose intense faith and adherence to 400-year-old traditions have by turns captivated and baffled Americans for more than a century. The film examines the beliefs, lifestyle, and history of the Amish, as well as their complex relationship to mainstream American culture. Beautifully and lyrically photographed, The Amish is part history, part observational documentary that takes viewers into the world of the...
8) 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.
9) 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.
10) 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.
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.
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.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Reveals the crime busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to break the most baffling cases. Whether the crime lab handles bullets or bombs, fingerprints or fibers, the FBI's lab - the largest facility in the world - takes on tough cases, grappling with fraud, drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder, extortion and terrorism. Reveals the first time the crime busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to break the most baffling...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor as the most prominent members of the most important family in history. Through their stories, PBS chronicles the history they helped to shape, from the Square Deal to the New Deal, San Juan Hill to the Western Front, to the founding of the United Nations.
18) The Vietnam War
Pub. Date
[2017]
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 fought...
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