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Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Modern Marvels goes into the hearts of these innovations and the minds of the geniuses behind them. From the history of the sugar industry to the longest bridge in the world to the world's first atom bomb, the series elucidates the ingenuity that gave way to the revelatory inventions and engineering feats that are a part of modern-day life.
3) Crude
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"[T]ells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet: the infamous $27 billion 'Amazon Chernobyl' lawsuit pitting 30,000 rainforest dwellers in Ecuador against the U.S. oil giant Chevron." -- Container.
5) 9/11
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
On the morning of September 11, 2001, brothers Jules and Gedeon Naudet were working on a documentary about a rookie New York City firefighter. Hearing a roar in the sky, Jules turned his camera upward--just in time to film the only existing image of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center Tower 1. With cameras rolling, the Naudets follow NYC firefighters into the heart of what would be known as Ground Zero. A striking tribute to real-life...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A look at Sun Records, the Memphis record company that defined American music. Includes interviews with the company's founder, Sam Phillips, rare footage of original Sun artists Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Sunny Burgess, Billy Lee Riley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Rich, and performances of classic Sun hits by contemporary artists.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Music has been a constant in human history, an intermingling of voice and instrument that for all its local variation and increasing sophistication nevertheless endured in more or less the same form for centuries. Then came recording--and music was forever transformed. Soundbreaking, an eight-part event television series, traces this ongoing sonic revolution, and explores the nexus of cutting-edge technology and human artistry that has created the...
8) Man on wire
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A look at the high-wire walk made by Philippe Petit in 1974 between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, and how it is still considered one of history's most artistic crimes.
"One of the most wildly entertaining docs of recent years."--Variety
"'Man on Wire' is about the vanquishing of the towers by bravery and joy, not by terrorism."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Thorough, understated and altogether enthralling documentary."--New...
10) The love we make
Publisher
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This film follows Paul McCartney as he journeys through the streets of New York City in the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. It also chronicles the planning and performance of the benefit concert that took place less than six months after the attacks: The Concert For New York City. It also features performance clips from the benefit concert and backstage moments with many of the performers and other famous...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004, c1999]
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Thatcher once predicted that there would never be a female Prime Minister in Great Britain in her lifetime, yet she went on to become the longest-serving Prime Minister in 20th-century British history. Composed of powerful archival footage, this program tracks the controversial career of the woman dubbed "The Iron Lady"--A forceful leader who dismantled decades of political consensus by warring with the Labour opposition, trade unions, the...
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