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1) It's Trevor Noah: born a crime : stories from a South African childhood : adapted for young readers
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"Trevor Noah, the [host of] The Daily Show, shares his ... story of growing up in South Africa, with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child like him to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government"--Publisher marketing.
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As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
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Humans are storytellers, says host Roger Bingham. "Show us the sun, moon, and stars and we'll spin any number of tales about life and death, good and evil. We tell stories to feel at home in the universe." Humans are both mythmakers and scientists. Often, myth and science produce very different stories, different paths to the truth. And yet, they are both products of our brains, trying to make sense of our experience. This program explores the way...
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"In New Domino City, the hottest game in town is the Turbo Duel, fought from blazingly fast motorcycle called Duel Runners. On the outskirts of New Domino City, in a district known as Satellite, a new Turbo Duel hero emerges-- Ysei Fudo! On his custom-built Duel Runner. Ysei takes on all challengers. Fighting for his friends and the future of Satellite! Yusei enters the D1 Grand Prix, hoping for a chance to duel Jack Atlas. There are new rivals and...
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This program follows the magnificent museum exhibition that travels across 33 centuries of Mexican art, from the 12th- to 10th-century B.C. gigantic Olmec heads to Frida Kahlo's self-portrait. The exhibition is divided into four periods: the pre-columbian, whose artistic purpose was to venerate the gods, commemorate the rulers, and give form to the natural world; the Viceregal, whose art was intended to teach the native population about Christianity...
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Shakespeare's Roman play Julius Caesar, one of his first masterpieces, contains some the most famous speeches in Western literature. This 1970 star-studded film adaption stars John Gielgud as Caesar, Charlton Heston as Mark Antony, Jason Robards as Brutus, and Richard Chamberlain as Octavian.
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Amorous sparks fly alongside barbed repartee in this hip adaptation of Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy. A modern television news studio provides the setting, transforming Beatrice and Benedick-played by Sarah Parish and Damian Lewis-into bickering co-anchors. Meanwhile, Don, a jealous studio tech, tries to sabotage the budding love affair between Claude the sports guy and Hero the weather girl. Screenplay writer David Nicholls cleverly weaves...
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In this episode, meet the bold animals who dare to live within the developed worlds of humans. As the most successful and adaptable creature on the planet, man has spread to all ends of the globe. Wherever humans go, they alter the environment in ways that can spell disaster for some creatures and can provide food and water for others. Some wild animals are drawn in to live in the human world, but creatures that manage to thrive in a human environment...
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With the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, America has vastly changed its methods of defense of its borders. This program, from Defending America, examines how U.S. Customs workers are trained, what weapons they use, and how they responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now on the forefront of homeland security, this agency is prepared to thwart future attacks.
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This television adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's classic comic play Henry IV aired in 1949, A fall from a horse leaves a modern aristocrat convinced he is actually Henry IV of medieval Germany. The man's family caters to his fantasy for 20 years, until a doctor comes to cure him of it.
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Attention must be paid to this abbreviated but superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize - winning modern tragedy - starring the incomparable Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock, re-creating their original Broadway roles as the Lomans. In a career-defining performance, Cobb portrays the suffering Willy Loman - the middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope - with Dunnock equally impressive as his patient wife, Linda....
14) Rain Forest
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The tropical rain forests of the world are home to nearly half the animal species on earth and contain some of the most fascinating examples of natural adaptation ever seen. This classic program takes viewers into the rain forests of Costa Rica to witness a richly varied habitat under threat from human encroachment. Here, a basilisk lizard walks on water, howler monkeys bask in the sun, and leaf-cutting ants carry sections of foliage many times their...
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This post - Civil War court-martial drama focuses on the trial of a Confederate officer who ran the notorious prisoner-of-war camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where over 14,000 Union prisoners died from disease, starvation, and neglect. The defendant, Captain Henry Wirz, justified his actions with a plea that he was only following orders. He believed he was relieved of any personal responsibility because he was performing his duty. The Army prosecutor...
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The BBC presentation of the acclaimed Royal National Theatre production, directed by Trevor Nunn, adapted for television. A multi-award winner set in the 1930s with a Berlin film noir look, the production nonetheless preserves every one of Shakespeare's words. Henry Goodman won the Olivier and Critic's Circle Theatre Best Actor awards for his performance as Shylock. Nunn and his masterful team brilliantly transition the stage performance to an outstanding...