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An outstanding cast of acclaimed British actors bring the First World War to life in this stirring documentary created to commemorate the conflict's centennial in 2014. This unique four-part series mixes archival footage with reenactments by actors playing real participants in the war and performing excerpts from their original letters, memoirs, and diaries of the time.
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The program examines the Latino experience during a war that placed its heaviest burden on working class youth and their communities. Framing the documentary are memoirs of two siblings, Everett and Delia Alvarez, who stood on opposite sides of the Vietnam War, one as a POW and the other protesting at home. During the war, Latinos began asking for the first time: What is the true cost of war and the appropriate price of citizenship?
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What goes on behind-the-scenes to get the manners of 1900s Britain exactly right on Downton Abbey? Discover the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did. Includes revealing interviews with leading cast members.
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Peaceful, intelligent, friendly beings that swim as if they own the sea, dolphins have long evoked humans affection and fascination, but still little is known about them. Viewers will get a fresh look at the world of the dolphins and meet up with scientists who will provide a better understanding of them. See what happened 50 million years ago when wolf-like mammals evolved into the family of dolphins, porpoises, and killer whales. Contains five episodes....
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Presents lectures focusing on significant facets of American Sign Language followed by several stories signed in ASL by deaf signers chosen to represent a variety of signing styles and regional signs within the deaf community. Each of these programs focuses on a key element of ASL, including: the use of facial expressions to express affect in ASL; the transition markers required to guide the flow of discourse in ASL; the importance of a signer's entire...
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Sign Language
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Presents lectures focusing on significant facets of American Sign Language followed by several stories signed in ASL by deaf signers chosen to represent a variety of signing styles and regional signs within the deaf community. Each of these programs focuses on a key element of ASL, including: identifying a narrator and characters of a story using body and gaze shift; determining the difference between nouns, verbs, and adjectives using ASL classifiers;...
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Sign Language
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Presents lectures focusing on significant facets of American Sign Language followed by several stories signed in ASL by deaf signers chosen to represent a variety of signing styles and regional signs within the deaf community. Each of these programs focuses on a key element of ASL, including: identifying the subject and object of a sentence and the inclusion of spatial referencing; clarifying the context of a discourse using fingerspelling; and the...
16) Cyberwar threat
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English
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Thanks in part to the documents released by Edward Snowden, the true scale of the National Security Agency's scope and power is coming to light. Besides spending billions to ingest and analyze the worlds' electronic communications, the NSA has set out to dominate a new battlefield, cyberspace. Nova examines the science and technology behind cyber warfare and asks if we are already in the midst of a deadly new arms race.
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The history of Christmas dates back thousands of years and it has spawned as many traditions as it has questions. This special collection takes a look at the holiday from a number of vantage points including: an in-depth look at the traditions of Christmas from Santa Claus to the Christmas tree; an examination of the stories surrounding Christmas including the three wise men and the Star of Bethlehem and what some modern day scholars now believe is...
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This, the most complete chronicle of the Titanic ever created, is filled with survivor interviews, rare newsreel footage, and photos. It's an incomparable voyage into one of history's most unforgettable tragedies. This title has been repackaged. Presented in 3 feature-length programs, the set covers the creation, the disaster, the aftermath, and footage from modern-day explorations.
20) Requiem, K. 626
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Latin
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The Wiener Symphony, Choir of Wiener Staatsoper and Karl Bohm team up to perform Mozart's sublime choral work.
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