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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This four-hour series, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people-beyond the reach of the “White gaze.” Gates takes viewers into an extraordinary world that showcases Black people’s ability to collectively prosper, defy white supremacy and define Blackness in ways that transformed America itself.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE examines how Iranian-backed Shia militias are terrorizing Iraq and investigates allegations that militias are threatening and killing critics with impunity and targeting US interests. Also: in Yemen, explore how COVID is worsening the country’s humanitarian crisis.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This new documentary tells of a horrific, little-known incident of racial violence by police that became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and,...
1204) Native America: S2
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What was the New World like before it encountered the Old? Now, scientific expeditions in North and South America are woven with drama recreations to investigate and present a new vision of America, and how the clash of civilizations forever altered the history of our world.
1205) Norman Lear
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The first documentary about legendary showrunner Norman Lear, who dominated and reshaped television for decades. Largely responsible for the explosion of bold American television in the 1970s, Lear’s name is synonymous with the sitcom, yet he brought provocative subjects like war, poverty and prejudice to 120 million viewers every week, Lear proved that social change was possible through an unlikely prism – laughter. With unprecedented access...
Publisher
Distributed by KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Claire and Tess, two sisters who were separated as children, are reunited when they inherit Drover's Run, a large Australian cattle property passed down for generations. Together they assemble an all-female workforce and face the challenges of the land.
1207) Breaking bad : Season 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a chemistry teacher learns he has terminal cancer, he turns to a life of crime to provide for his loved ones.
1208) The Saint
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Simon Templar, a wealthy adventurer, travels around the world in his yellow Volvo.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Contains the entire seventh season of the Emmy Award-winning television program "Grey's Anatomy" in which a group of surgical interns deals with personal issues while handling the stress of their new jobs.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When filthy-rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira and their two kids -- über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis -- suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup and rebuild their empire from within the rural city limits of their only remaining asset - Schitt's Creek, an armpit of a town they once bought as a joke.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Andy Dalziel is an idiosyncratic copper with a penetrating wit and questionable personal habits. Inspector Peter Pascoe is his cultured sidekick, a thoughtful 'New Man' with a degree in Social Sciences, a caring attitude and a sharp brain. When they threw together these contrasting characters, few thought their talents would gel and that, sharing a commitment to justice, they would forge an impressive crime-solving partnership, and a tentative...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a production company invades Magna Manor to film a new version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the off-camera conflicts among cast and crew prove almost as deep and bloody as those in the script. Barnaby delves into their sordid real-life histories to end a murderer's reign of terror on the set.
1213) Foyle's war: Set 5
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an...
1216) The Intruders
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A former cop discovers a terrifying conspiracy as he searches for his vanished wife.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Emily Thorne returns to the Hamptons with a vengeance. Her enemies may be the same, but her mission now takes on a new, suspenseful twist. Feel the power of television's most seductive series, as the action and passion hit new heights in all Twenty-Two episodes of Revenge: The Complete Second Season. Emily will stop at nothing to uncover the secrets of her father's murder, but the web of deceit is larger than she ever imagined. Now, with her mother...
1218) Nature: The Alps
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Europe’s highest mountain range, discover how Eurasian lynx, golden eagles, ibex, marmots and more face extreme seasonal fluctuations, from volatile thunderstorms and landslides of summer to avalanches and frozen temperatures of winter.
1220) The Great Muslim American Road Trip: Episode 3,Back on the Road Again: Arizona, Nevada, California
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A Muslim American couple drive the last leg of Route 66. Road trips breed stress, but the Grand Canyon lends perspective. They uncover surprising stories on the way: traces of a 16th century Muslim explorer, a Syrian camel driver who surveyed the original Route 66, and an unlikely Muslim Village in Las Vegas.
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