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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...
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Dara Berger takes us on a journey through the far reaches of the human spirit, beginning with her own lifelong process of grief and acceptance to an exploration of how society views suicide. With Dara we meet family members who have lost a loved one, attempters who have tried to take their own lives, and the doctors who are trying to save them. She leads us through an inspiring movement of activism and advocacy devoted to changing public policy...
Pub. Date
[2004?]
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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
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"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
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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) Inside job
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[2011]
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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
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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...
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"Be an eyewitness to the conflict that divided our nation and changed the very fabric of society. This collection of harrowing and compelling footage traces the evolution of this conflict from a regional military engagement to an ever-expanding war that ultimately spanned three U.S. Presidents. From strategic political move to the immediacy of jungle warfare and the weapons with which the war was waged, Vietnam: America's Conflict captures the sweep...
15) Religulous
Pub. Date
[2008]
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Humorist Maher travels the world interviewing scholars, clergy, and laypeople about God and religion.
Pub. Date
[2005]
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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...
18) Under the sea
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Transports you to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea, and others in the Indo-Pacific region and allows you to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea.
19) Off and running
Pub. Date
[2010]
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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
2012.
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The Titanic set sail from Southampton to New York City on April 10, 1912 on her maiden voyage. The hopes and lives of many were cut short when the Titanic collided with an iceberg five days later. But her story goes beyond the mere facts. The following four programs take the viewer deeper into the legend of the Titanic: Titanic Remembered; The Story of Captain Smith and the Titanic; Echoes of the Titanic; End of an Era; with a bonus documentary Titanic...