 | The Century-America's Time (Boxed Set) [Read More ...]
Description: Covering the entire 20th century in one video series is an ambitious project, but one that Peter Jennings and ABC News are up to. In The Century: America's Time, a 12-part documentary on six videotapes that is a companion to the book of the same name, Jennings guides us through a... |
 | American Experience: The Presidents Collection, Vol. 1 [Read More ...]
Description: This compelling biographical series profiles three of the most dynamic, controversial, and ultimately tragic figures in American history. The story of a remarkable political dynasty, The Kennedys traces the lives of Joe, Rose, and their nine children, and reveals how Joe Kennedy ... |
 | American Experience: The Presidents Collection, Vol. 2 (Theodore Roosevelt/FDR/Franklin Delano Roosevelt) [Read More ...]
Description: This continuing series looks at two towering members of an American dynasty who shaped the destiny of the country. Teddy Roosevelt profiles a man who typified America's mood at the turn of the last century--confident, exuberant and involving. Now, discover both the heroic and tra... |
 | American Experience: The Presidents Collection, Vol. 3 [Read More ...]
Description: A celebrated hero of World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower also gained enormous popularity during his first term as president. But as Ike reveals, the controversy over segregation ultimately resulted in his downfall. In Truman, follow the footsteps of America's first Cold War presid... |
![]() | Waiting for the Moon [Read More ...]
Review: Beautiful and Special:I have a VHS tape of this film. It's worn from playing it so much over the past 20(?) years. So many people I've come in contact with have never seen it ... so it's been loaned out a lot, too. I never thought to look until now and what a treat to discover th... |
![]() | American Experience: Native American Set [Read More ...]
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 | American Experience: The Iron Road [Read More ...]
Description: Railroad enthusiasts everywhere will love this brilliant documentary on the six years of harsh labor, searing heat, Indian attacks and frontier lawlessness that led to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. May 10, 1889 marked a turning point in the settling of th... |
 | Wright Stuff [Read More ...]
Description: Garrison Keillor narrates the all-American story of two Midwestern boys who truly believed they could fly—Orville and Wilbur Wright. While they had produced a working plane by 1903, they didn't publicly reveal their invention until five years later when Wilbur executed a perfec... |
![]() | Spirits of the Rainforest [Read More ...]
Review: People, plants and animals of the Rainforest:This video is about the Manu Biosphere Reserve on the mouth of the Amazon river. Westerners researching giant otters, medicinal plants and parrots interact with an extended family of the Machiguenga Indian tribe that lives in the Reser... |
 | American Experience: Spy in the Sky [Read More ...]
Description: The extraordinary spy plane that defused a Cold War arms race and ignited the "U-2 affair." Cold War. New weapons. The threat of World War III. In this high stakes game, how would the U.S. president play his hand? Despite Russian claims of nuclear superiority, the question rem... |
 | Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird [Read More ...]
Description: Follow That Bird is as much a journey through time as it is a romp past the Sesame Street stop sign. Curiously, the cast members--live ones like Gordon and Maria, not just the Muppets--have the timeless look to them. Only the cameos (by Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, and others) pl... |
