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World in the Balance: The Population Paradox (2004)

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Part 1: The People Paradox: Startling trends in population are discussed as the program looks at the aging populations of Japan, Europe, and Russia. But in parts of Africa and India, more than half of the still growing population is under 25. The conclusion: the world population is careening in two dramatically different directions.

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World in the Balance: The Population Paradox

Hunt for the Supertwister: Chasing Nature's Most Powerful Tornadoes (2004)

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Little on this earth can withstand the violent fury of an F5 tornado. A churning vortex with winds over 300 miles an hour, these tornadoes create immense swaths of death and destruction in a matter of seconds. But today, experts are exploring the supertwister's complex inner working in bold new ways in the hopes of one day being able to accurately predict the occurrences of tornadoes.

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Hunt for the Supertwister: Chasing Nature's Most Powerful Tornadoes

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 2 (1986)

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Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961): Covers lunch counter sit-ins and their impact on the Kennedy and Nixon presidential race of 1960, the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the freedom rides of 1961. No easy walk (1961-1963): Visits the cities where the tactics of nonviolent protest met both success and failure.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 2

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 3 (1986)

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Mississippi: is this America? (1962-1964) : Focuses on the right to vote. Tells how the black citizens who had been denied the right to vote stepped forward and demanded a place in the political process. Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and others, died trying to help them.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 3

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 4 (1990)

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The time has come (1964-1966): Malcolm X...Stokely Carmichael..."Black Power". After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is on the horizon: the insistent call for power. Two societies (1965-1968): Chicago...Detroit...the Kerner Commission.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 4

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 5 (1990)

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Power! (1966-1968): Across America, the call for "Black Power" mobilizes communities for change in strikingly different ways as told through the perspectives of Black Panther Party members, teachers, and politicians. Promised land (1967-1968): Hear leaders and activists reflect on Martin Luther Kings, Jr's crusade to overcome the fragmenting civil rights movement.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 5

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 6 (1990)

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Ain't gonna shuffle no more (1964-1972): A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanizes Black Americans.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 6

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 7 (1990)

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The keys to the kingdom (1974-1980): Famous and lesser-known participants recount the remedies used to solve the problems of discrimination in schools and the workplace. For blacks and whites in Boston, court-ordered busing proves an unpopular means of integrating schools. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson pursues affirmative action to help combat the city's poverty rate.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 7

Gandhi

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Sir Ben Kingsley stars as Mohandas Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's riveting biography of the man who rose from simple lawyer to worldwide symbol of peace and understanding. A critical masterpiece, GANDHI is an intriguing story about activism, politics, religious tolerance and freedom. But at the center of it all is an extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence, and set an entire nation free.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch - the Academy Award®-winning performance hailed by the American Film Institute as the Greatest Movie Hero of All Time. based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about innocence, strength and conviction and nominated for 8 Academy Awards®, this beloved classic boasts hours of unforgettable bonus features.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

El Norte

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Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It's a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava's groundbreaking El Norte, the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism.

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El Norte

20th Century Presidents - Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 (2005)

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Jimmy Carter aspired to make government "competent and compassionate," responsive to the American people and their expectations. His achievements were notable, but in an era of rising energy costs, mounting inflation, and continuing tensions, it was impossible for his administration to meet these high expectations.

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20th Century Presidents - Jimmy Carter 1977-1981

20th Century Presidents - John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 (2006)

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On November 22, 1963 - when he was hardly past his first 1,000 days in office - JFK was killed by an assassin as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. JFK was the youngest man elected to the presidency.

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20th Century Presidents - John F. Kennedy 1961-1963

20th Century Presidents - William J. Clinton 1993-2001 (2005)

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During the administration of Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic wellbeing than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since FDR to win a second term in office.

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20th Century Presidents - William J. Clinton 1993-2001

The Crucible

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The setting is 17th century Salem, Massachusetts. A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. But instead of love, Abigail Williams (Winona Ryder) wishes for the death of her former lover's (Daniel Day-Lewis) wife. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax!

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The Crucible

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