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Series
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace, The Best of "See It Now" features impressive highlights from one of TV's earliest documentary series, hosted by Murrow as his crossover from radio into television during the 1950s. Revolutionizing how news was delivered in a visual medium, See It Now let viewers become intimate with the people who were directly shaping world events.
Publisher
Level4
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 2007, leading atheist and political journalist Christopher Hitchens and evangelical theologian and pastor Douglas Wilson began corresponding. The two authors' discussion centered around the question "Is Christianity good for the world?". In the fall of 2008, the two finally met in person when they embarked on a debate tour arguing the topic. This film follows the two as they tour and passionately argue their points of view.
44) Harvest of shame
Series
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Presented by CBS News correspondent Dan Rather, Murrow's Harvest of Shame is among the most famous television documentaries of all time. Richly photographed and arrestingly poignant, this long-acclaimed 1960 expose on the plight of migrant farm workers resonated deeply for a nation unfamiliar with such brutally honest depictions of living conditions that, as Murrow remarks, "wrong the dignity of man."
45) The good German
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Takes place in the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, where U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar becomes involved with Lena Brandt, a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt led by both the American and Russian armies. Intrigue mounts as Jake tries to uncover the secrets Lena may be hiding in her desperation to get herself and her husband out of Berlin. Tully is an American soldier working in the U.S. army motor pool who is assigned...
46) Anzio
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
" ... After landing with Allied troops in Anzio Italy in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis and buddy Corporal Rabinoff tell Anzio commander General Lesley that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome, Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold, only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead ..."
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy's P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. Max Siegal is the Second in command to a clueless Commanding Officer who believes Sea Duty to be the worst punishment he can give one of his men. Siegal has to keep the foreign correspondents happy, his Commander out of trouble, and find a way for one of the enlisted sailors to date the lady Lieutenant of his dreams, while convincing...
48) Generation like
Series
Publisher
PBS / Frontline
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE correspondent Douglas Rushkoff explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media, and exposes the game of cat-and-mouse that corporations are playing with these young consumers. Here is a powerful examination of the evolving and complicated relationship between teens and the companies that are increasingly working to target them.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of Washington D.C., Hope plays an eager but not-too-bright newspaper correspondent who tries to expose the activities of foreign spies. Lamour is the head of a news bureau, and together they become involued in murder, kidnapping and romance when they begin to track down the facts.
Publisher
WGBH Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This documentary focuses attention on the United States' aging population and the many adult children who are undertaking the primary care for their aging parents, underscoring today's struggle to keep parents at home, tensions between siblings and social, cultural and economic issues. Immediately followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with medical correspondent Dr. Art Ulene which offers constructive advice and guidance on how to start the caregiving...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films, Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
World-famous Dutch graphic artist M.C Escher (1898-1972) comes to life through history, psychology, and psychedelia, diary musings, excerpts from lectures, and correspondence. Escher's woodcuts, lithographs, and other printing techniques appear in both original and playfully altered form, and two of his sons, George (92) and Jan (80), reminisce about their parents while musician Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills & Nash) talks about Escher's rediscovery...
Publisher
Deep Ellum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rick Kirkham, a successful television correspondent, recorded his life on video for 30 years as a hobby. He captured the successes as well as the addiction to crack cocaine that led to his losing his job and his family. Edited into a film, the footage gives a close look at the reality of addiction.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
ABC News correspondent Judy Muller reports on the quality of life along the international border between El Paso and Juarez since the implementation of NAFTA. Program concludes with a discussion between Ted Koppel and Fernando Macias, leader of a consortium of American and Mexican officials charged with managing change along this new economic frontier.
54) This reporter
Series
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by the late CBS News correspondent Charles Kuralt, This Reporter presents a compellingly candid portrait of Murrow's illustrious career and features rarely-seen clips from CBS News Archives and interviews with his esteemed peers. From his gutsy search for journalistic truths during the McCarthy era to his celebrated Person to Person chats with Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando, this in-depth documentary explores how Murrow's poineering work...
55) Making stuff
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Step behind the headlines as Making Stuff dramatizes the human stories woven into the current wave of hi-tech breakthroughs. Hosted by the New York Times' lively technology correspondent David Pogue, each hour in this four-part series explores the talent, luck, and determination that can turn a wild idea into a cutting-edge material or high-tech breakthrough.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
War reporter and former British intelligence officer Leo Cauffield and his collegue Sally Tyler, a United States war correspondent, meet on assignment in Beirut. After Leo disappears, Sally starts to uncover his secret life. Her quest to discover the truth will take her to the Soviet Union and into the clutches of the KGB. Now, with the CIA after her and the British government close behind, her loyalty to Leo and her family will be put to the ultimate...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Captain Christopher Phelan has been corresponding with the beautiful golden-haired Prudence Mercer while he was away fighting in the Crimean War. What he doesn't know, however, is that the woman who wrote to him is actually Prudence's best friend, Beatrix Hathaway. Upon his return home to Hampshire, it becomes clear that Christopher's experiences in war have changed him.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Hear the stories of the men and women who are at the forfront of the medical frontier ... Correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was critically injured while covering the war in Iraq in 2006 and was saved by the advances in military medical care, brings his personal understanding of the issues to this documentary as he covers military medical advances and technology from the battlefield to the return home"--Container.
Publisher
Gemini Entertainment Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Join former NBC News correspondent and A&E 'Biography' host Jack Perkins for two classic documentaries exploring Maine history. 'Katahdin: Mountain of the People' explores the history, geography, and folklore of the mountain and how it was given as a gift to the people of Maine. 'The Life of L. L. Bean' tells the story of how L. L. Bean, despite his modest beginnings as a rural farm boy, became a pioneer in the mail order catalog business and created...
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