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Pub. Date
2017
Description
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company began with the utopian vision of a Civil War general and grew to become the largest steel mill in the West. By the turn of the 20th Century, it was the largest private landowner and employer in Colorado. Its mines and mill provided steel products critical for the growth of key western industries. A melting pot of ethnic workers kept the machines humming, as CF&I played a pivotal role in the tumultuous history of American...
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Description
Sue Rubin, who is autistic, was diagnosed and treated as mentally retarded until the age of 13, when she began to communicate using a keyboard. She is now a junior in college. This documentary takes the viewer on a jorney into her mind, her daily world, and her life with autism.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"In a chaotic world of plummeting moral standards, The Way to Happiness: a common sense guide to better living reaches out to millions of people across 130 nations with a message of integrity, morality and trust. Now The Way to Happiness has been produced as a powerful feature-length film. And with that adaptation comes a cinematic experience unlike any you have ever seen. For here, running parallel with the full text narration of the book, you will...
Pub. Date
2006
Description
In February of 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which forced more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans and people of Japanese ancestry living on the west coast, to be forced from their homes and moved inland to ten various camps. One of the camps was called Camp Amache and is located in southeastern Colorado. For three years, Japanese-Americans and people of Japanese ancestry were confined at Camp Amache behind barbed...
9) Religulous
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Humorist Maher travels the world interviewing scholars, clergy, and laypeople about God and religion.
10) Inside job
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Publisher's description: Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has...
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
War. The home front. The costs of service to one's country and the ongoing human phenomenon of armed conflict. Explore these universal issues through the eyes of one small Virginia town and the 'boys' of its National Guard unit who 'laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom' as the first to land on D-Day in 1944. Sixty years later, echoes of the past travel with the young, fresh-faced members of that same unit, from the same families and...
12) Buck
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Explores the life and career of real life "horse-whisperer" Buck Brannaman.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The film that helped reopen one of history's most notorious cold case civil rights murders is the result of the director's 10-year journey to uncover the truth. In August, 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley of Chicago sent her only child, Emmett Louis Till, to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that only 8 days later, Emmett would be abducted from his Great-Uncle's home, brutally beaten and murdered for one of the oldest Southern taboos...
17) Off and running
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Follows the emotional struggles faced by Avery Klein-Cloud, an adopted African-American high-school track star who lives in Brooklyn with her two Jewish lesbian mothers and two adopted brothers, as she contacts her birth mother and begins to explore her sense of identity and race.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
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Scientific Anglers Fly Fishing Made Easy Interactive DVD by 3M with Brian and Judith O'Leefe. This DVD is the perfect foundation for anyone who wants to start fly fishing the right way and fast. The interactive DVD format speeds learning and lets you easily repeat sections or skip to specific sequences.Topics and Specs: Lines, Leader, TippetChoosing the right flyRods and reelsProper knot tyingCasting techniquesLocating fishGlossary of termsFlyline...