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NOVA: A Man, a Plan, a Canal - Panama

Actor: David McCullough
ASIN : B0002F6AJ8
Sales Rank : 23456
Director : Carl Charlson
Studio : WGBH Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593751692
ISBN : 1593751699
UPC : 783421285590
Release Date : December 29, 2004
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Running Time : 60

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A 30-year dream. A 50-mile shortcut. A timeless achievement.

A 50-mile shortcut to the Pacific lying just north of the equator is one of the most extraordinary human achievements ever. The building of the Panama Canal was a massive feat of engineering and ingenuity that cost millions of dollars and thousands of lives. NOVA offers a unique opportunity to explore the mind-boggling undertaking through historic film footage, rare archival photographs and insightful narration from author David McCullough.

Get an unprecedented look at the Canal's dangerous 30-year construction and wondrous present-day operation. Meet the persevering pioneers whose vision and determination overcame tremendous physical—and fiscal—obstacles. Understand why France abandoned the project after ten years and 20,000 deaths. Work alongside the builders who turned a fantastic dream into a fascinating reality. See immense steamshovels carve the earth. View the amazing "water elevators" that lift huge vessels 85 feet. Watch high-speed photography capture a lock passage. And much more!

On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 full frame.

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NOVA - Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

Actor: Stacy Keach; Peter Thomas (VI); Don Wescott
ASIN : B000C8STO4
Sales Rank : 19356
Director : Nova
Brand : WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Studio : WGBH Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593755737
ISBN : 1593755732
UPC : 783421408692
Release Date : December 28, 2006
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Running Time : 120

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At a time when heretics were burned alive for dissent, scientist Galileo Galilei risked his life to advance his revolutionary concepts of the universe. British actor Simon Callow (Shakespeare in Love, Four Weddings and a Funeral) brings Galileo to life, humanizing the great thinker’s passion, intelligence, and arrogance while depicting his frustrations with fellow philosophers and scientists, and with Roman Catholic church leaders.

Based on Dava Sobel’s best-selling biography Galileo’s Daughter, this two-hour film offers a vivid re-imagining of Galileo’s incredible achievements that forever changed the way we view our place in the universe. It also investigates the momentous personal and spiritual conflicts Galileo faced- most especially in defending the controversial theory that the earth revolves around the sun.

Join noted Galileo authorities and experience the remarkable life behind the discoveries, and see letters from his illegitimate daughter, Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, have shed new light on Galileo’s pioneering telescopic observations, his fateful Inquisition trial for heresy, and life in the seventeenth century.

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American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl

Actor: Stacy Keach; Peter Thomas (VI); Don Wescott
ASIN : B000MZGN5Y
Sales Rank : 6158
Brand : WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Studio : WGBH Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783421418196
UPC : 783421418196
Release Date : December 24, 2007
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Running Time : 55

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In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains--the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico. Topsoil that had taken a thousand years per inch to build suddenly blew away in only minutes. One journalist traveling through the devastated region dubbed it the "Dust Bowl."

This American Experience film presents the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease--even death--for nearly a decade. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California, typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," the Dust Bowlers who stayed overcame an almost unbelievable series of calamities and disasters.

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America's Test Kitchen: Season 8

Actor: America's Test Kitchen: Season 8
ASIN : B0019LLEWC
Sales Rank : 38086
Director : Herb Sevush
Studio : WGBH Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783421426399
UPC : 783421426399
Release Date : December 15, 2008
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Running Time : 696

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Join Christopher Kimball and the cast of America s Test Kitchen, the most-watched cooking show on public television, to learn the basics of great home cooking. From Baked Manicotti to Sweet and Saucy Grilled Salmon, New York-Style Crumb Cake to Beer-Braised Short Ribs, these recipes will work the first time you try them, thanks to the dozens of test cooks who develop, refine, and test recipes again and again until they arrive at the very best versions.

In addition, this collection includes honest tastings of supermarket ingredients, detailed ratings of indispensable kitchen equipment and tools, and helpful kitchen science tips so that you can make informed choices when shopping. Simply put, learning to become a better cook has never been this foolproof or fun!

Season 8 includes 26 programs:
Disc 1: Rainy Day BBQ Pork Chops, Lemon Layer Cake, Italian-American Classics, Cookie Jar Favorites, Kansas City BBQ, French Classics, and Coffeehouse Treats.
Disc 2: Asian Take-Out at Home, Holiday Beef Tenderloin Dinner, Pasta and Tomatoes, Reimagined , A New Way with Turkey, French Apple Tart, White Chicken Chili Supper, and Chicken in a Skillet.
Disc 3: Pizza Party, Old-Fashioned Breakfast Cakes, Bistro Steak Dinner, Lightening Up Chocolate Desserts, Fish on the Grill, and Indian Favorites Simplified.
Disc 4: Grilled Cornish Hens, Easy Skillet Suppers, Four Cheese Lasagna, Two Ways with Shrimp
Drive-In Specials, and Favorite Slow-Cooker Classics.

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Between the Lions Season 1

Actor: Between the Lions
ASIN : B000V6FVKM
Sales Rank : 21829
Brand : WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Studio : Wgbh Boston
Region Code : 0
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783421420397
UPC : 783421420397
Release Date : December 08, 2008
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Running Time : 780

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Visit your favorite family of lions in their library like no other! In BETWEEN THE LIONS the doors swing open to reveal a magical place where characters pop off the pages of books vowels sing and words take on a life of their own. Independent studies show that kids who regularly watch BETWEEN THE LIONS learn key reading skills faster than kids who don t watch.Featuring opera star Denyce Graves Chicken Jane Martha Reader and the Vowelles the What s Your Name? song Gawain s Word Cliff Hanger the Information Hen Monkey Pop-Up Theater Arty Smartypants B.B. the King of Beasts and more BETWEEN THE LIONS favorites!This set contains all 30 episodes of the acclaimed Season 1 of BETWEEN THE LIONS!Special DVD features include: downloadable materials: a guide for kindergarten teachers; Designated Reader materials; reading tips; practice sheets and more; downloadable family activity guides in English and Spanish; access to the BETWEEN THE LIONS Web site closed captions and described video for the visually impaired.System Requirements:TRT: 780 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/WGBH BOSTON UPC: 783421420397 Manufacturer No: WG42039

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Between the Lions is an Emmy Award-winning, PBS children's television show that focuses on phonics and early reading skills in an entertaining format featuring puppetry, animation, live action, and plenty of music. Lion puppet parents Theo and Cleo, with some help from their children Lionel and Leona, run the local library for human and animal patrons alike, vowing always to be helpful, designated readers who never eat their customers. Each of season one's 30 episodes begins with the Lion family reading a story--anything from classic Greek myths, to Old West stories and tongue twisters--with animated pages that spring to life and spark the imagination of young reader Lionel and his pre-school-age sister Leona. Click, the ever-helpful computer mouse, often clicks and drags a main character from the featured story right into the library where it interacts with the Lion family and helps take reading, imagination, and comprehension to a whole new level for the young lions as well as young viewers . Lots of fast-moving, regular segments punctuate each episode--there's the animated "Adventures of Cliff Hanger" where the hero is perpetually hanging from a branch on the side of a cliff and must use his decoding skills to read a survival manual and save himself, "Martha Reader and The Vowelles" where vowel sounds are celebrated and sung on-stage in full voice, and "Word Doctor" with the real Dr. Ruth (Wordheimer) dedicating herself to helping puppets sound out impossibly long words and empowering simple words to exchange a letter or two for a whole new meaning in life. There's also "Gawain's World" which features two armored knights adorned with letters and letter combinations who crash into one another to form new words, animated "Chicken Jane" stories that read like updated "Dick and Jane" readers with words highlighted as they are spoken, the silly clown "Arty Smartypants" who combines single words to form compound words by shaking them around in his oversized clown pants or by invoking his own special magic word, a live-action writer Babs Caplan who frequents the library looking for a quiet place to write and a little help polishing her stories, and a host of other regularly recurring segments that kids love. Music of every imaginable genre including jazz, rock, Broadway, country, and folk permeates every episode and plays an integral part in both aural learning and as a memory aid. Far more than a simple phonics lesson, Between the Lions is a wonderful program that aspires to make every young viewer a life-long lover of reading. Aimed squarely at Kindergartners, Between the Lions is also appropriate for preschoolers through first- and second-graders. --Tami Horiuchi

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NOVA: Dying to Be Thin

Actor: Susan Sarandon
ASIN : B0001ZDLTG
Sales Rank : 13458
Director : Larkin McPhee
Brand : WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593751685
ISBN : 1593751680
UPC : 783421290495
Release Date : December 29, 2004
Publisher : WGBH BOSTON
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Running Time : 60

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A 14-year-old looks at her image and says, "I see somebody that is fat and ugly and a disappointment." She is like a growing number of young American girls afflicted with such eating disorders as anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Tormented by an irrational fear of being fat, an estimated eight million young women are torturing themselves—sometimes to death.

It’s no wonder eighty percent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. Driven by the waif-like images flooding the media of popular actresses, models, dancers and celebrities—who can weigh nearly twenty-five percent less than the average American woman—young girls are obsessed with an unattainable image of perfection.

Dying To Be Thin introduces you to students, ballet dancers, fashion models and other young women who are seeking recovery or have conquered their disease. Plus, you’ll discover how leading eating disorder specialists are making dramatic advances in the diagnosis and treatment of these two devastating diseases. Go behind the scenes with NOVA for a courageous and candid look at America’s body obsession.

On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 full frame.

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Degrassi Junior High - The Complete Collection

Actor: Darrin Brown; Billy Parrott; Nicole Stoffman; Byrd Dickens; David Armin-Parcells; Tammy Campbell; Astra Crosby; Adam David; Ken Hung; Rahnuma Panthaky; Kirsten Bourne; Rose Newlove; Chrissa Erodotou; Vincent Walsh; Tyson Talbot; Anne Thornley-Brown; Lisa Williams (IV); Andrew Lockie; Christopher Charlesworth; Niki Kemeny
ASIN : B0009OL8ZI
Sales Rank : 25281
Director : Philip Earnshaw
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593753498
ISBN : 1593753497
UPC : 783421390997
Release Date : December 25, 2005
Publisher : WGBH BOSTON
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Running Time : 1092

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Go to school with the show in a class by itself- and get real! Hailed as "groundbreaking," "powerful," and "totally authentic," Degrassi Junior High confronts it all-friendship, puberty, rumors, sports, studies, and more-with a refreshing ensemble cast and a unique teen’s-eye-view of life. Sometimes moving, sometimes shocking, but always believable, Degrassi Junior High is a classic for teens of all ages. All your favorite characters and storylines are waiting-find your seat-school’s open!

Includes all 42 episodes of Degrassi Junior High on 9 discs. DVD bonus features include Degrassi Between Takes--a documentary made during the filming of the original Degrassi Junior High series; bonus Degrassi Talks videos on topics such as drinking and drugs, trivia quizzes for all three seasons, downloadable computer wallpaper, and printable materials for educators.

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Rebecca

Actor: Anthony Bate; John Branwell; Jonathan Cake; Tom Chadbon; Lucy Cohu; Charles Dance; Zulema Dene; Frank Doherty; Faye Dunaway; Emilia Fox; John Horsley; Geraldine James; Denis Lill; Ian McDiarmid; Kelly Reilly; Diana Rigg; Patrick Romer; Robin Soans; Jonathan Stokes; David Webb
ASIN : B00008DDRZ
Sales Rank : 36027
Director : Jim O'Brien
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781578079735
ISBN : 157807973X
UPC : 783421366695
Release Date : December 25, 2003
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Running Time : 176

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Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of romance, suspense and jealousy, Rebecca, is brought to you in this lavish adaptation. Set in elegant Monte Carlo and dramatic Cornwall in the 1930s. this drama stars Charles Dance (Gosford Park, The Jewel in the Crown)as the sophisticated Maxim de Winter and Emilia Fox (Pride and Prejudice) as the young woman who becomes the second Mrs. de Winter.

When Maxim de Winter proposes to such a young woman nobody is more surprised than the circle of society friends who learn the intriguing news, especially as his new wife is the opposite of Maxim's first wife, the beautiful Rebecca, who mysteriously died in a tragic drowning accident.

After Maxim takes his new wife back to his home, the ancient and magnificent Manderley, it soon becomes evident that the shadow of Rebecca is all-pervasive, nurtured all the more by the sinister gothic housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Diana Rigg, The Avengers, Mother Love, A Hazard of Hearts).

The new Mrs. de Winter beings to uncover the darkness of the past that taints the present and threatens to haunt her future...

Special DVD features include: Q&A with Diana Rigg; select cast filmographies; Masterpiece Theatre poster gallery; access to Masterpiece Theatre web site; scene selection; English audiotrack; and closed captions.

On one DVD9 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Full screen

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World War II: The Epic Battles

Actor: Worl War 2-Epic Battle
ASIN : B000RPCJPM
Sales Rank : 15554
Director : -
Studio : WGBH BOSTON
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783421420496
UPC : 783421420496
Release Date : December 28, 2007
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Running Time : 396

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This 3-dsic DVD set includes:

Finest Hour The Battle of Britain (previously unreleased) - With the same combination of flawless research and extraordinary narrative that has earned Stephen Ambrose universal acclaim, Finest Hour recreates the tensions and uncertainties of the events of 1940...months when the fate of the world truly did hang in the balance. This film combines more than 100 original interviews and literally thousands of primary contemporaneous documents with a fresh and often controversial account of the swirling political intrigues and betrayals of the period.

Battle of the Bulge - An examination of the biggest and most bloody battle ever fought by American soldiers as seen through the eyes of the soldiers and combat officers charged with holding the line and closing the bulge. In their own words, they describe the events leading up to the attack , the unpreparedness and surprise of the Allied forces, the grueling physical and psychological conditions under which they fought, and the memories that still haunt them.

Iwo Jima - Red Blood, Black Sand - Transforming scenes from over 40 reels of combat footage into a timeless tribute for all veterans who fought during World War II, Iwo Jima: Red Blood/Black Sand brings the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history to life. For the veterans who survived the ordeal, the memories are painful. In Iwo Jima: Red Blood/Black Sand, many talk for the first time about a battle that has haunted them for almost half a century.

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NOVA: A Man, a Plan, a Canal - Panama

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NOVA - Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

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American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl

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Broadway's Best at Pops

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America's Test Kitchen: Season 8

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Between the Lions Season 1

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NOVA: Dying to Be Thin

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Degrassi Junior High - The Complete Collection

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Rebecca

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World War II: The Epic Battles

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