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Elizabeth: The Queen Who Shaped an Age
Elizabeth: The Queen Who Shaped an Age
"I am England now ... let that be my life." These words, spoken by the 25-year-old daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn as she ascended the throne,...
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The Expanding Conflict: 1940-1941
The Expanding Conflict: 1940-1941
In the spring of 1941, Hitler, believing Britain to be nearly beaten, mobilizes Germany to attack Russia. When the United States embargoes the sale...
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A Fragile Peace: 1918-1929
A Fragile Peace: 1918-1929
In the decade after World War I and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, growing unrest gradually began to erode the spirit of optimism that...
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The French Revolution: The Bastille
The French Revolution: The Bastille
The setting is Paris, the date July 14, 1789. By dramatically re-creating the reality of that day and that year — including mass hunger, crushing...
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French Revolution: The Butcher
French Revolution: The Butcher
Parisian butcher Robert Sauveur led a brutal life, slaughtering cattle by day, drinking himself into a stupor each night—until he discovered...
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The French Revolution: The Terror
The French Revolution: The Terror
Focusing on both humanity's idealism and its capacity for violence, this program dramatizes the ways in which the noble motives and legitimate causes...
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French Revolution: The Woman
French Revolution: The Woman
Théroigne de Mericourt tells how she believed in the Revolution wholeheartedly, when it promised political rights to women. She led crowds and...
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From Out of the Ashes
From Out of the Ashes
A documentary detailing the purpose and people attending the First World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, which takes place in Israel.  The...
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Galileo: The Challenge of Reason
Galileo: The Challenge of Reason
This dramatic production presents Galileo (Douglas Watson), challenger of traditional views of astronomy and physics, whose conflicts with...
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Greeks: In Search of Meaning
Greeks: In Search of Meaning
The magnificent age of Greece is recreated through the words and deeds of her citizens — great and small. The eternal truths are dramatized in scenes...
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Hitler: Anatomy of a Dictatorship
Hitler: Anatomy of a Dictatorship
The comprehensive documentary footage and narration that make up this program cover Hitler’s career from his emergence on the political scene in...
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Holy Qur’an (Koran)
Holy Qur’an (Koran)
The Qur’an (Koran) is sacred to all Moslems. It is regarded as God’s direct word, (the text is always in Arabic) and may never be altered, even by a...
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