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41) Bulletproof
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
How do you stop a speeding bullet? From body armor to armored cars and trucks, we review the history of the race between the bullet and a successful way to stop it.
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Mediterranean Sea, the place where three continents meet. A turbulent water frontier. An ever changing landscape. A territory where the clash of civilizations, cultures and interests have been shaping for centuries the course of history. This is the sea of great naval powers, corsairs and pirates, the sea of trade, diplomacy and religion. From the 15th until the 19th century, the Mediterranean was ruled by piracy. This series fully explores the...
43) The Lie Detector
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the early 20th century, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a machine. Popularly known as the “lie detector,” the device was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. Instead, the lie detector became an apparatus of fear and intimidation. The Lie Detector is a tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.
44) Diamond Mines
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Half a mile below the earth's surface, men mine for rough diamonds--a pure carbon substance. Brilliant when cut and polished, they are marketed as the most precious gem in the world. From the earliest mines of the 4th century B.C.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lt. General Michael Flynn: from elite soldier overseas to waging “spiritual war” in America. With the Associated Press, examine how Flynn emerged as a leading conspiracy theorist, from QAnon to “Stop the Steal” and his ties to Christian nationalism.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Haing S. Ngor was forced into labor camps by the Khmer Rouge, little did he know he would escape four years of torture and be called upon to recreate his experiences in a film that would earn him an Academy Award®. For the Chinese-Cambodian doctor, “Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That’s who I am.” And little did anyone know that some twenty years later,...
48) Once Removed
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young woman travels to China to meet her mother’s family after a 50-year separation. She discovers that her intellectual relatives faced persecution, imprisonment, and even murder during China’s convulsive political movements. Interweaving dreams, archival footage, and scenes from her relatives' lives, she meditates on the complications of historical memory.
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
One great legend chases another: National Geographic master photographer Michael Yamashita reveals the maritime Silk Road, as he retraces the epic journey of China's Zheng He, the world's greatest naval explorer, whose rise & fall is a cautionary tale for all nations
50) Safe Haven
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Weaves together powerful stories of U.S. war resisters who sought refuge in Canada during wars in Vietnam and Iraq. The film shows how Vietnam era resisters participated in a movement to support the younger generation of U.S. soldiers. SAFE HAVEN exposes realities and myths of Canada as refuge.
51) In Their Name
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
December 1941: a group of women and a 10-year-old girl named Sorella Epstein are photographed after being ordered to take their outer clothing off in freezing temperatures. Humiliated and silenced, they are among 3,640 Latvian Jewish women and children massacred by Nazi troops and their Latvian collaborators at Skede Beach, Latvia. Almost 80 years later, Ethel Davis, a 90-year-old Jewish Australian, is till haunted by this massacre. She is the author...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — pressured President Nixon to cancel what he called his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam, including a threat to use nuclear weapons. At the time, protestors had no idea how influential they could be and how many lives they may have saved.
55) Paper Lanterns
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The story of atomic bomb survivor, Shigeaki Mori, and his life long calling to tell the story of Normand Brissette, Ralph Neal, and the ten other American POWs killed by the bombing of Hiroshima.
56) Deprogrammed
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her stepbrother’s experience of being “deprogrammed” in 1991, director Mia Donovan delves into the little known history of a controversial underground movement led by the notorious anti-cult crusader, Ted Patrick. His practice of "deprogramming", also known as "reverse brainwashing", started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultist-turned-deprogrammers and...
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the legacy of Princeton physicist and space visionary, Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, who wrote the 1977 book, The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. The book and O’Neill’s subsequent activism sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space in order to solve Earth’s greatest crises; a vision that is still alive today. Through old stories of “Gerry” as many called him, and the social impact he made on the world,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Yasmin El Shazly and Mahmoud Rashad travel across Egypt, hoping to answer some of the many questions surrounding the life and death of Tutankhamun. They speak with leading scholars, enjoy exclusive access to the tomb British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered 100 years ago in the Valley of the Kings, and visit several active dig sites--they even see the face of the pharaoh!
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The political leaders and choices they made have undermined and threatened American democracy. This 2 hour documentary special examines how officials fed the public lies about the 2020 presidential election and embraced rhetoric that led to political violence.
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