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41) The great war
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as 'doughboys.'...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
What began as a broadcast performance of H.G. Welles' fantasy, The War of the Worlds, turned into one of the biggest mass hysteria events in U.S. history. American Experience examines the elements that together created this frenzy, including our longtime fascination with life on Mars; the emergence of radio as a powerful new medium; and the creative wunderkind Orson Welles, the twenty-three-year-old director of the drama and mischief-maker supreme....
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Warehouse 13 may be closing its doors but our team is going out with a bang as they tackle earth-shattering missions with supernatural artifacts, wild paranormal activity and history-changing time travel. But whatever the future holds for the team, one thing is certain: they'll always be family.
44) A chef's life
Pub. Date
[2014-
Description
A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
Season two hits the road with a new roster of Southern ingredients. Vivian and Ben open a second restaurant, plant heirloom apple trees, go pier fishing, hunt ramps and pick up pecans. Vivian prepares something special...
Pub. Date
[2018],c2018
Description
After five seasons, Vivian hosts The Final Harvest, a farewell feast of epic proportions. The show's most beloved personalities share intimate moments, along with a series-worth of memorable flashbacks. A fitting sign-off to the series, friends new and old take a seat at the final harvest table, bringing to a close this extended love letter to eastern North Carolina.
46) Ancient computer
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
An unpromising lump of metal found in a 2,000-year-old shipwreck turns out to be an extraordinary treasure: the world's first computer. NOVA follows the ingenious detective work that painstakingly discovered the truth about the ancient Greek device: it was an astonishingly sophisticated astronomical calculator and eclipse predictor, unrivaled until the era of modern science and believed to be from the workshop of Archimedes.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard inspector to solve crime in nineteenth century London.
"Set in the same 1850s [that is, 1880s] London society that gave rise to Jack the Ripper, this British detective drama features a fearless, independent heroine ... With her inquisitive mind, Miss Eliza Scarlet has always been more interested in running her late father's detective agency than behaving like a proper lady, much to the chagrin of family...