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Martin Luther King Jr.: "Rarely has one man done so much to change the politics and conscience of one nation. From the first stirrings of activism in Alabama to his rise as the pre-eminent voice for racial justice in America, Biography brings the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to life through seldom-seen footage and photographs"--Container
Thurgood Marshall: "Thurgood Marshall grew up with a strong sense of right and wrong, and the courage...
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Voices of civil rights: "A group of journalists, photographers, and videographers embark on a 70-day bus trip aound the country, uncovering a trove of civil rights memories and experiences through the small, personal stories of the men, women, and children who lived though those turbulent times"--Container
Mississippi state secrets: "The truth behind the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, an organization created by the Mississippi state legislature...
6) Jane Austen
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Expert interviews and Austen's own words tell the tales of her brief life and her place in the literary world.
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Sparks of discovery fly with this 8-DVD set containing all 52 episodes of the Emmy Award winning animated science-adventure series.
Ride with Ms. Frizzle, teacher extraordinaire, and her enthusiastic, inquisitive students as their Magic School Bus takes them on cliff-hanging field trips to learn about body mechanics, dinosaurs, bats, butterflies, water, microbes, and engines.
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Sparks of discovery fly with this 8-DVD set containing all 52 episodes of the Emmy Award winning animated science-adventure series.
Ride with Ms. Frizzle, teacher extraordinaire, and her enthusiastic, inquisitive students as their Magic School Bus takes them on cliff-hanging field trips to learn about sound, kitchen chemistry, forces, seeds, ants, weather, and volcanoes.
15) On the downlow
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Uncomfortable with being termed gay, as it doesn't correspond with their concept of Black masculinity, four men live "on the downlow"--Straddling two seemingly incompatible worlds--one life on the surface, and another that is hidden below
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Go back to a time before the invention of artificial light and experience a world petrified in the pitch of darkness, when fear ruled the night. Throughout the ages, real and imagined terror existed in the absence of light, and the nighttime was anything but relaxing. Explore all the reasons why the dark was so feared throughout the eras. Viewers go around the globe to places where real night still exits, and examine the modern-day fear factor when...
19) Death masks
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Before the advent of photography, one of the most effective ways of preserving authentic visages of the dead was through the creation of death masks. Some of history's most notable figures left behind detailed casts of their faces, created at their moment of death, to capture their physical memory for eternity. Hear from experts in forensic science and anthropology, who use death masks to provide startling new insights into the persistent mysteries...
20) Billy the Kid
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From his early childhood in Manhattan to his role in the Lincoln County War, The History Channel delves deep to piece together a picture of Billy the Kid, the infamous frontier outlaw, whose real name was Henry McCarty.