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85 |
Engineering An Empire |
DVD |
2006 |
Color and B&W |
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Engineering An Empire |
DVD |
2006 |
Color and B&W |
EGYPT Five thousand years ago-nearly two millennia before the Romans built their first mud huts-ancient Egypt's mighty pharaohs began commissioning and building monumental masterpieces whose scale, beauty, and sophisticatin still boggle the mind. Hosted by actory and art historian Peter Weller, the feature-length EGYPT: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE explores Egypt's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities. As Egypt's pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of land, they pushed ther royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imaginatin and human potential, in effect inventing the science of structural engineering. Follow the empire's development from the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last days of the reign of Ramses the Great in 12 BC, and watch the construction of their engineering acheivements from dazzling obelisks to the 700-foot Great Pyramid of Giza. Through cutting-edge digital graphics and countless interviews with noted Egyptologists. THE HISTORY CHANNEL chronicles the pharaohs and feats that brought forth the world's very first superpower. |
700-foot Great Pyramid of Giza., dynasty of 3000 BC-1212BC, Egypt, inspiring engineering accomplishments, instructural engineering, monumental masterpieces, stretching the boundaries of the imagination |
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6 of 6 DVD's |
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85 |
Engineering An Empire |
DVD |
2005 |
N/A |
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85 |
Engineering An Empire |
DVD |
2005 |
Color and B&W |
ROME For more than 500 years, Rome was the most powerful and advanced civilization the world had ever known, ruled by visionaries and tyrants whose accomplishments ranged from awe-inspiring to deplorable. One characteristic linked them all-ambition-and the thirst for power that all Roman emperors shared fueled an uprecedented mastery of engineering and labor. This documentary special chronicles the spectacular and sordid history of the Roman Empire from the rise of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to its eventual fall around 537 AD, detailing the remarkable engineering feats that set Rome apart from the rest of the ancient world. Featuring extensive state-of-the-art CGI animation, and exclusive never-before-seen footage shot on a diving expedition in the water channels underneath the Colosseum, and one of the most powerful civilizations is reborn. |
537 AD, 55 BC, ambition, CGI animation, diving expedition, Julius Caesr, most powerful and advanced civilization, powerful civilizations, Roman emperors, Rome, tyrants, visionaries |
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5 out of 6 DVD's |
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85D |
Engineering an Empire |
DVD |
2005 |
Color |
For more than 500 years, Rome was the most powerful and advanced civilization the world had ever known, ruled by visionaries and tyrants whose accomplishments ranged from awe-inspiring to deplorable. One characeristic linked them all-ambition-and the thirst for power that all Roman emperors shared fueled and unprecedented mastery of engineering and labor. This documentary special chronicles the spectacular and sordid history of the Roman Empire from the rise of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to its eventual fall around 537 AD, detailing the remarkable engineering fears that set Rome apart from the rest of the ancient world. Featuring extensive state-of-the-art CGI animation, and exclusive never-before-seen footabe shot on a diving expedition in the water channels underneath the Colosseum, and one of hte most powerful civilizations is reborn. |
ambition, empire, Roman emperors, Rome, thirst for power |
Set of 5 dvds - 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 |
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81D |
Engineering an Empire |
DVD |
2006 |
Color |
ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE initiates its arcitectural investigation with mighty Greece, the Empire that gave rise to Western civilzation and produced some of antiquity's greatest treasures. Next, discover how Alexander saved the Greek Empire from its period of civil unrest, then voyate to Central America to unlock the mysterious and magical world of the ancient Aztecs. |
Alexander, ancient Aztecs, Central America, Greece, Greek Empire, the Empire that gave rise to Western civilization |
1 of 5 dvds 81D, 82D, 83D, 84D, 85D |
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84D |
ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE |
DVD |
2006 |
Color |
ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE continues with Volume 4 as it follows the rise of one of the greatest military strategists in history, and uncovers one who spurred on some of the world's most iconic masterpieces, and uncovers the brilliant gem of the Dark Ages: the Byzantine Empire, Finally, watch Italy magnificiently reawaken and build on a scale not witnessed since the ascent of Rome. |
DA Vinci's World, Dark Ages, France, Napoleon, Napoleon: Steel Monster, The Byzantines |
4 of 5 dvds |
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82D |
Engineering an Empire |
DVD |
2006 |
Color |
ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE continues its quest to unearth the framework of the ancient world in Volume 2. Witness the sophistication and defense techniques of Carrhaginian engineers, learn about the unparalleled feats of ancient China, and tace the brutal rise and fall of the Russian Empire. |
Carthage, China, Prussians |
2 of 5 DVDS |
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82 |
Engineering An Empire The Complete Series |
N/A |
2 |
2 of 6 DVD's |
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82 |
Engineering An Empire The Complete Series |
DVD |
2006 |
Color and B&W |
Engineering An Empiore continues its quest to nearth the framework of the ancient world in Volume 2. Witness the sophistication and defense techniques of Carthaginian engineers, learn about the unparalleled feats of anxiient China, and trace the brutal rise and fall of the Russian Empire. CARTHAGE Find out how Carthaginian engineers harnessed their extensive resources and manpower to develop some of the ancient world's most groundbreaking technology. CHINA Century after century, China's regal emperors mobilized immense peasant armies to accomplish unfathomable feats-including the most ambitious construction project ever completed. RUSSIA From the Mosscow Kremlin to St. Petersburg to the Trans-Siberian railroad, examine the architecture and infrastructure that led to the rise and fall of the Russian Empire. |
Carthaginian engineers, China, mobilized immense peasant armies, regal emperors, rise and fall of the Russian Empire, Russia |
DVD 2 out 6 |
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83D |
Engineering and Empire |
DVD |
2006 |
Color |
The incredible displays of technological prowess continue in the third volume of ENGINEERING AND EMPIRE. Watch the mighty rise of the British Empire as it paves the way for the modern world, and explore the incredible engineering feats of the Persian Empire. Learn about Mayan ingenuity from 250 to 900 AD and search for clues regarding the civizations strange disappearance. |
DVD |
3 of 5 dvds 81D,82D, 83D, 84D, 85D |
Britain, Blood and Steel, The Persians, The Maya: Death Empire |
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317 |
Eternal Seed |
1996 |
N/A |
Interviews and rare footage from India's agricultural industry, depicts Indian woman's struggles to use traditional farming practices instead of chemically-based agriculture. |
agriculture, farming, India, oral history, womens history |
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470 |
Everything Under the Sun |
N/A |
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87 |
Eyes On The Prize |
DVD |
1986 |
Color and B&W |
AWAKENINGS (1954-1956) Emmett Till...Rosa Parks...Martin Luther King, Jr. rare reflections open the door to understanding America's struggle for equality. Curtis jones (Emmett Till's cousin), Coretta Scott King, and other key witnesses describe the extraordinary role ordinary people played in shaping the civil rights movement. Mose Wright stands up to racial injustice. Rosa Parks and martin Luther King, jr. spark a boycott to desegregate city buses. King and other ministers form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to expand the movement for civil and human rights. FIGHTING BACK (1957-1962) Little Rock..."Ole Miss"...the 1954 Supreme Court Decision. Unforgettable images of the battle lines drawn in the South come to life through the eyes of those who were on the frontlines-Central High School senior Ernest Green. University of Mississippi registrar Robert Ellis. U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell. See states' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the strubble to integrate Central High School. James Meredity and NAACP lawyers face mob violence integrating the University of Mississippi. |
boycott to desegregate city buses, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, integrate Central High School, Jr., Martin Luther King, NAACP., Rosa Parks, Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC), struggle for equality |
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1 of 7 DVD's |
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89 |
Eyes on the Prize |
DVD |
1986 |
Color and B&W |
MISSISSIPPI: IS THIS AMERICA? (1962-1964) Medgar Evers...Freedom Summer...the Civil Rights Act Mississippi becomes a testing ground of constitutional principles as activists focus on the right to vote. Key participants recount the state's resistance to the movement and the equally strong determination of black and white organizers to bring blacks into the political process. NAACP leader Medgar Evers is assassinated and three civil rights workers are murdered. Amidst the horror the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 is passed. BRIDGE TO FREEDOM (1965) Selma...Montgomery...The Voting Rights Act. Eyewitness accounts by the Rev. C.T. Vivian, Stokley Carmichael, and George Wallace illuminate the events of 1965 focusing on a decade of lessons learned and the role of television in the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. receives the Nabel Peace Prize. TV images of troopers gassing demonstrators on a Selma bridge fill lifing rooms. Twenty-five thousand people march from Selma to Montgomery, helping to ensure the passage of the Voting Right Act of 1965. |
activists, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Bill of 1964 is passed, Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Mississippi, NAACP, right to vote, troopers gassing demonstrators, twenty-five thousand people march from Selma to Montgomery. |
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3 of 7 DVD's. |
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90 |
Eyes on the Prize |
DVD |
1990 |
Color and B&W |
THE TIME HAS COME (1964-1966) Malcolm X...Stokely Carmichael..."Black Power." After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is on the horizon: the insistent call for power. Malcom X takes a nationalism message to urban streets. Stokely Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinationg Committee (SNCC) move from "Freedom Now" to "Black Power," CBS reporter Mike Wallace, author Alex Haley, and actor Ossie Davis discuss the new leaders and their role in transforming the civil rights movement into a broader struggle for human rights. TWO SOCIETIES (1965-1968) Chicago...Detroit...the Kerner Commission. Examine the color lines outside of the south with rarely seen, personal testimony by Jesse Jackson, Andrew Youong, and others who survived the times. In chicago, Martin Luter King, Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) face off with Mayor Richard Daly over segregated housing. In Detroit, tensions explode and more than 100 cities share the pain of racial violence. A presidential commission warns that America has become "two societies, separate and unequal." |
Andrew Young, Black Power,, Civil Rights Movement, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Malcom X, Martin Luther King, racial violence, segregated housing, separate and unequal societies., Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Stokely Carmichael |
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4 of 7 DVD's |
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Eyes on The Prize |
DVD |
1990 |
Color and B&W |
Cleveland...Oakland...Brooklyn. Across America, the call for "Black Power" mobilizes communities for change in strikingly different ways as told through the perspectives of Black Panther Party members, teachers, politicians. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes seeks power through the ballot box and becomes the first black mayor of a major city. Tension between citizens, police, and activists gives birth to the Black Panther Party. African-American and Latino residents in Brooklyn elect an inter-racial governing board to control their children's education. THE PROMISED LAND (1967-1968) Economic Equality...Memphis...Assassination. Hear leaders and activists reflect on Martin Luther King Jr's crusade to overcome the fragmenting civil rights movement. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC) organize a multiracial Poor People's March to Washington, D.C. A peaceful protest of striking Memphis sanitation workers ends in tragedy when an assassin's bullet takes King's life. A hundred cities explode in riots and the murder of Robert Kennedy shortly after adds to the darkness. |
activists, Black Panther Party, Black Power, bullet takes King's life, Carl Stokes, Civil Rights Movement, first black mayor of a major city, inter-racial governing board, Martin Luther King, Poor People's March to Washington D.C., riots., Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), striking Memphis Sanitation Workers |
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5 of 7 DVD's. |
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Eyes On The Prize |
DVD |
1990 |
Color and B&W |
AINT'T GONNA SHUFFLE NO MORE (1967-1972) Muhammad Ali...Howard University... Gary, IN. A call to pride and renewed push for unity galvanizes black Americans. Telling interviews with athletes, entertainers, and community participants chart Cassius Clay's challenge to America to accept him as Muslim Muhammad Ali, and his fight up to the Supreme Court...Howard University students' battle to bring their African heritage into the halls of learning...and the 1972 National Black Political convention in Gary, IN, that set the stage for unprecedented black political participation. A NATION OF LAW? (1968-1971) The Black Panters...Fred Hampton...Attica. Civil rights activists and government officials provide unprecedented insight into the sometimes violent and unetical response to black activism from local and federal law enforcement agencies. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover declares the Black Panters the number one threat to internal security. Urban rebellion, campus unrest, and the killing of two Black Panther leaders result in a "law and order" crackdown that has tragic results at new York's Attica State Correctional Facility. |
Attica, black activism, Howard University, J. Edgar Hoover, killing of two Black Panther leaders, law and order, Muhammad Ali |
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6 of 7 DVD's. |
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93 |
Eyes On The Prize |
DVD |
1990 |
Color and B&W |
THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM (1974-1980) Busting...Maynard Jackson...Affirmative Action. Famous and lesser-known participants recount the remedies used to solve the problems of discrimination in schools and the workplace. For blacks and whites in Boston, court-ordered busing proves an unpopular means of integrating schools. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson pursues affirmative actin to help combat the city's poverty rate. The Bakke Supreme Court case challenges affirmative action when a white man sues a university on the grounds of "reverse discrimination." BACK TO THE MOVEMENT (1979-1985) Activism...Overtown...Harold Washington. Experience the power and powerlessness felt in Miami's Overtown section explodes in rioting when a young black salesman dies after being beaten by police for a traffic violation. Democratic reformers install Harold Washington as Chicago's first black mayor. Ameria's most-watched documentary on civil rights ends with a look back at the courageious people that made the movement a force for and and social change. |
Atlanta's first black mayor, beaten by police, busing, Chicago's first black mayor., discrimination, Harold Washington, integrating schools, Maynard Jackson, Miami's Overtown section, reverse discrimination, rioting, young black salesman dies |
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7 of 7 DVD's. |
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88 |
Eyes On The Prize |
DVD |
1986 |
Color and B&W |
AIN'T SCARED OF YOUR JAILS (1960-1961) Sit-ins...SNCC...Freedom Rides. See young people unite to overcome segregation. Exclusive interviews with student activists, community leaders, and government officials reveal the remarkable human drama behind the lunch counter sit-ins, nationwide boycotts, and formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Black and white freedom riders, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), travel together at great risk to protest bus segregation and challenge the government to protect them from mobs. Strong black support aids in President Kennedy's election. NO EASY WALK (1961-1963) Georgia...Alabama...the march on Washington. Discover the power of mass demonstrations with the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. as the most visible leader of the civil rights movement. REcollections of Southern Christian Leadership conference (SCLC) and Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC) members help chronicle the anti-segregation campaign in albany, GA...the violent reation to the Children's march in Birmingham, AL...the triumphant March on Washington, D.C....and President Kenedy's proposal of the Civil Rights Act. |
AL, boycotts, bus segrefation, Children's March in Birmingham, Civil Rights Act, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), D.C., demonstrations, emergence of martin Luther King, formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), freedom riders, Jr., March on Washington, President Kennedy's election, segregation, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) |
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2 of 7 DVD's |