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Moyers & Company: Between Two Worlds—Life on the Border
Item# 49109
© 2012
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-018-3
No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea. His own life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a Mexican father and Anglo mo...
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End and Beginning: Meeting Wislawa Szymborska
Item# 50428
© 2011
55 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-224-5
“After every war, someone has to clean up...someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road so the corpse-filled wagons can pass,” wrote Wislawa Syzmborska in “The End and the Beginning.” Calle...
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The Devil We Know: An Objective Look at the Prince of Darkness
Item# 49442
© 2011
48 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-715-1
Where does the familiar image of Satan come from? Does it predate the writing of the Bible? Or did the Devil’s persona develop after the New Testament and organized Christianity appeared? This absorbi...
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Landscapes of Memory: The Life of Ruth Klüger
Item# 49672
© 2011
83 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-580-5
Ruth Klüger grew up in fascist Vienna, survived three years in Nazi concentration camps, and went on to become a college professor and a recognized authority on German literature. She also wrote Lands...
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Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
Item# 48954
© 2011
90 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-977-9
When Niccolò Machiavelli penned The Prince—a heartless guide to creating and retaining autocratic political power that makes no place for idealism and lofty virtues—he came to be widely regarded as th...
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Secrets of The Arabian Nights
Item# 44795
© 2011
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-211-4
Since their appearance in Europe some 300 years ago, the stories of The Thousand and One Nights have entranced Western readers with visions of an exotic, magical Middle East. In this program, actor an...
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Myths and Legends of Lost Civilizations
Item# 44888
© 2011
25 Min.
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Story traditions reveal as much about long-vanished societies as any ruin or artifact—perhaps more so. This program recounts myths and legends from early civilizations as it travels to ancient archite...
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Placing the Author: Wordsworth, de Quincey, and Dove Cottage
Item# 48286
© 2010
20 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-680-8
Determined to live a life of “divinity and truth,” William Wordsworth took up residence in a rustic cottage to make real his romantic notions about nature and poetry. Shot on location at Dove Cottage,...
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Albert Camus, Journalist
Item# 47368
© 2010
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-301-2
Far from embracing the existentialism he is often associated with, Albert Camus was a social activist and staunch believer in the positive potential of the human race. In this program, excerpts from p...
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Beowulf
Item# 45468
© 2009
45 Min.
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The oldest story in the English language, Beowulf is the Norse epic saga of good vs. evil and man vs. monster. The famous Viking warrior battles invaders, monsters, and a fire-breathing dragon. This e...
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