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American History for Kids is a 15 part series which reveals some of the most significant developments in our country's past.
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1923 - 1929 At 2:30 a.m. August 3, 1923, while visiting in Vermont, Coolidge received word that he was president. By light of a kerosene lamp, his father administered the oath of office.
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) is the first and last great Impressionist: the man whose painting gave birth to the term Impressionism.
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Poe was born in Boston to actors David and Elizabeth Poe; but his father disappeared when Edgar Allan was three, and his mother died a year later. He was adopted by a family in Richmond, Virginia but was disowned when he was 17. After a brief career as a West Point cadet and soldier, he endured many difficulties but became one of the first great American imaginative writers. His works include The Raven and The Telltale Heart.
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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) had a seemingly effortless natural talent which sometimes disguised his obsessive working and reworking of images.
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Toni Morrison was winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. Her life and work have meant a lot to a whole generation of young African American women. This video reveals a personal portrait of Professor Morrison while analyzing her intentions and techniques of composition. Interwoven are scenes of four students discussing her as a role model.
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Redefining luxury, the Four Seasons empire has grown
to 79 world-class hotels in 33 countries. It began in 1961
with a single motel on Toronto's seedy Jarvis Street.
Since then, founder Isadore Sharp has revolutionized the
hotel business.
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This unique program describes the life and work of Antoni Gaudi, an extraordinary architect whose works are displayed throughout Barcelona. Presented in the guise of an autobiography, "Gaudi: Life and Works" invites us into the mind of a creative revolutionary.
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Impressionism is probably the most well known and most popular style of art today. This eight-part series brings that world alive by looking at the movement through the lives of eight of the greatest Impressionist painters ever - MANET, MONEY, DEGAS, RENOIR, CEZANNE, VAN GOGH, TOULOUSE-LAUTREC and GAUGUIN. This series covers all aspects of "The Impressionists'" lives; their work, the development of their style, their characters, and their friendships. It also looks at a selection of each of the artists' paintings which are representative of their life and work. These paintings are all from a limited number of collections in Britain, Paris and Amsterdam.
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Who is this man with such a lively imagination and so many wacky stsories? Danish movie journalist Helle Retboll Carl went to see John Irving at his Vermont home, just as he hit the news again with the filming of "The Cider House Rules."
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What initially leads a young person to choose cooking as a profession can contrast starkly with the sacrifice and long, hard years of training it takes to become a chef.
Guy Rubino takes an undecided neophyte through the paces of an often arduous career choice. When an unexpected disaster derails a regular workday, the true grit of a committed kitchen staff separates the cooks from the chefs.
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With a request for an all-organic dinner at their restaurant, Michael and Guy Rubino explore their region's purest farmland and learn a thing or two about certified organic food. The Rubinos discover that the philosophy behind organic farming and food production is not so dissimilar from their own quest for food integrity.
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Part 1 - Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan - The earliest maps didn't represent the actual land content of the world. Maps were updated as more of New World was explored. The maps of the Middle Ages, were mostly based on conjecture rather than actual discovery. With the expansion of the spice trade between Asian and Portugal and Spain, the maps began to change once again.
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The earlier explores provided mapmakers with an understanding of the major continents. Part two of this series highlights the voyages of British Explorer James Cook and French explorer Jean Francois de la Perouse. James Cook, an exceptional navigator and cartographer, circumnavigated New Zealand, explored the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and crossed the Polar Circle being the first to understand the icy nature of Antarctica.
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This two-part series gives viewers insight into how maps were drawn and revised based on the voyages of the great explorers. Interviews with historians and cartographers are interspersed with reenactments and the voyages and discoveries.
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Years after the 9/11 terror attacks, Osama Bin Laden, public enemy number one, is still not in American hands. This film helps us understand how the most wanted man on the planet was able to slip through the net of Western powers. Retrace the trail taken by the leader of Al Qaeda since October 2001, the beginning of the American offensive.
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Of all the major Impressionists, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is the man who pushed Impressionism towards a totally new way of representing the world, one which shattered the artistic conventions of five centuries and more.
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Paul Gauguin's life (1848-1903) was as colorful as his painting, a rich and varied melting pot of different styles, ideas and cultures.
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By 1940 Paul Robeson was the most recognized African-American in the world. Key events of his life, politics and career are presented. Robeson used his international acclaim to focus world-wide attention on racial injustices suffered by African-Americans in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. <br><br> By 1950, Robeson's battle for freedom cost him his career. Footage of the legendary entertainer discussing his views, along with clips of his memorable Hollywood movie career are presented. A Morehouse College historian analyses Robeson's impact, and the turbulent times he lived in.
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The work of Pierre August Renoir (1841-1919) is the most sensual and carefree of all the Impressionists.
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The Price of Kings:The careers of three controversial political leaders - Arafat, Perez and Arias and the price of their leadership for themselves and their nations.
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Percy Savage is a maverick. He has led an amazing life in and around the world of designer fashion and influenced the way the industry developed. A Savage Life In Fashion combines and explores the memories he has, the people he knows, the history made to reveal an intimate world of creative expression, societal change, personal failure, collective triumph and the history of an art synonymous with opulence, luxury and refinement.
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"Expect the Unexpected" - The author of this slogan was young French artist Tomi Ungerer. He not only designed this Village Voice campaign and many others, he also published a dozen children's books, created political posters and wrote social satire. It was during a time of Cultural Revolution: the anti-segregation movement, political riots and anti-Vietnam war protests, but also Peace and Love, the Rock revolution and the miniskirt. At the Center of it all, New York, where you could expect the unexpected.
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In many ways Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) has become the most celebrated, and certainly the most mythologized, artist in history, who sold just one painting but whose work now commands record breaking prices.
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