Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
1181) Legacy of war
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English
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Details the successful launch and execution of the Marshall Plan - America's expansive commitment to re-build Europe at the end of the war. Walter Cronkite traces the complex and changing relationship between the United States and England and explores the dramatic shifts of the Cold War from the end of the war up to the present.
1182) Cleopatra's lost tomb
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Dr. Kathleen Martinez, criminal lawyer turned maverick archaeologist, searches for Cleopatra's lost tomb. Very little evidence remains of Egypt's last queen, but Kathleen's radical new theory about the real Cleopatra has led her to look where no one else has dared and her hunch is paying off. Could Kathleen be closing in on Cleopatra's final resting place?
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The first part is divided into seven short segments which combine storytelling and science to explore evolution and spark students' interest. The second part is devoted to teaching evolution case studies, with four segments that highlight strategies for teaching evolution, including ways to address the controversies that may arise.
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"Jefferson Davis was the Confederate States of America's first and only president. But what few people realize is that Jefferson Davis had already lived half a century before the Civil War began, much of which was spent in patriotic service to the United States of America. As an Army officer, congressman, Secretary of War and two-term Mississippi senator, Davis was instrumental in founding the Smithsonian Institute, and was largely responsible for...
1187) St. Paul's Cathedral
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Using the latest technology, Steve Burrows and his team of laser-scanning experts explore seventeenth-century St. Paul's Cathedral in the heart of London, unveiling the engineering challenges faced by its creators in the time of Charles II.
1188) The great robot race
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English
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Twenty-three unmanned robotic vehicles compete in a race sponsored by the Pentagon's research agency across a 130-mile stretch of Nevada desert.
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Follow the epic journey of wildlife conservationist and bear biologist Chris Morgan as he travels by motorcycle across Alaska while filming the PBS Nature documentary Bears of the Last Frontier. From thick forests to the icy arctic, his immersion into the bears' world reveals, as never witnessed before, an astonishingly intimate portrait of North America's three bear species: brown bears, black bears, and polar bears.
1191) Climate of doubt
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English
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Four years ago, climate change was hot. Politicians from both parties, pressed by an anxious public, seemed poised to act. But that was then. Today, public opinion about the climate issue has cooled, and politicians either ignore the issue or loudly proclaim their skepticism of scientific evidence that human activity is imperiling the planet. What's behind this reversal? FRONTLINE goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific establishment...
1193) The shape of the world
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English
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Reveals how maps shape not only our sense of geography, but also our social, political, and even religious thinking. In the past, mapmakers have provoked assassinations, won or lost wars, and opened the ways to wealth and power. Today, they help answer the crises of epidemics and climate change. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.
1194) Sunken ship rescue
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Nova follows the epic operation to secure, raise, and salvage the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground and tragically capsized off the coast of Italy on January 13th 2012, killing 32 people. Joining a team of more than 500 divers and engineers working around the clock, they will attempt the biggest ship recovery project in history.
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School the story of American public education volume episode 4, 1980-the present
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English
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Tells how the 1983 report "Nation at Risk" damaged public confidence in America's school system and spurred attempts at educational reform. Looks at such things as vouchers, charter schools, and privatization as challenges to the historical concept of a common school.
1196) The good war and those who refused to fight it: the story of World War II conscientious objectors
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This is a previously ignored chapter of WWII, the American conscientious objectors who refused to fight. These men loved their country but, based on both ethical and religious beliefs, could not bring themselves to kill another.
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"Just pick up any newspaper or watch any television news report and it becomes evident that unprecedented extreme weather events such as severe drought and heat waves, more intense hurricanes, increased tornado and wildfire activity, and crippling blizzards are leaving a trail of death and destruction throughout the world ... [this program] investigates the link between severe weather, climate change, and threats to our national security."--Container....
1198) School: Episode 2.As American as public school, 1900-1950 : :the story of American Public Education
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School the story of American public education volume episode 2, 1900-1950
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Describes how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the growth of cities increased school attendance and changed public education in America during the first half of the twentieth century. Looks at the ideas of John Dewey, the effects of IQ tests, the "life adjustment" curriculum, and Cold War politics on students.
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School the story of American public education volume episode 3, 1950-1980
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English
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Describes how in the 1950's, America's public schools teemed with the promise of a new, postwar generation of students, over half of whom would go on to college. This program shows how impressive gains masked profound inequalities: seventeen states had segregated schools; 1% of all Ph. D.'s went to women; and "separate but equal" was still the law of the land.