Rediscovering George Washington

Rediscovering George Washington 2002

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This documentary explores the character and accomplishments of George Washington as a warrior, a politician, and a charismatic leader. Also gives views of Washington through modern people and events.

2002

Promontory

Promontory 2002

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Mormon settlement and railroad construction meet when the railroads meet at Promontory Point, Utah.

2002

Prairie Tides

Prairie Tides 2002

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Traces the history of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, from politics to geography, and from the immigrant odyssey to the vision of people like Louis Joliet and Abraham Lincoln.

2002

Lighthouses of the Oregon Coast

Lighthouses of the Oregon Coast 2002

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Video tour through each lighthouse along the rugged Oregon Coast a look at each unique and historic beacon. Includes: Cape Blanco, Coquille River, Cape Arago, Umpqua River, Heceta Head, Yaquina Bay, Yaquina Head, Cape Meares, and Tillamook Rock.

2002

LBJ and Vietnam: In the Eye of the Storm

LBJ and Vietnam: In the Eye of the Storm 2002

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LBJ and Vietnam offers an extraordinary inside view of a presidency in crisis and the personal torment of a man torn between completing the task at hand and the unbearable cost of doing so. LBJ and Vietnam: In The Eye of the Storm is the agonizing story of a leader left to carry on an unwanted conflict.

2002

The Milwaukee Road

The Milwaukee Road 2002

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Experience The Milwaukee Road of the early 1970s as Pentrex takes you on a three-volume video adventure along the Rocky Mountain Division! Explore the entire electrified Milwaukee Road line from Harlowton, Montana to Avery, Idaho in this exciting three-volume combo DVD. Extraordinary films taken by Ed Stimpson have been carefully selected and computer enhanced, and combined with incredible stereo sound recorded on the Milwaukee Road by Don Hunter. Pentrex has painstakingly researched the Milwaukee's electrics in order to bring you the most accurate, factual video ever produced on these marvelous machines. It's some of the most dynamic railroading in the United States!

2002

Yellowstone: A Symphony of Fire and Water

Yellowstone: A Symphony of Fire and Water 2002

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Yellowstone: A Symphony of Fire and Water explains the mystery and explores the beauty of Yellowstone's geysers, the rare and wonderful geothermal features that amaze and delight millions of us each year.

2002

National Parks of the Appalachians

National Parks of the Appalachians 2002

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Explore each park - Clingmans Dome, Linn Cove Viaduct, Skyline Drive. Learn about the folklore of Appalachian settlers with visits to historical sites, including Cades Cove, Oconaluftee, and Mingus Mills, Brinefer and Puckett Cabins, and more.

2002

Gettysburg Battlefield Tour

Gettysburg Battlefield Tour 2002

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Explains the importance of the battle of Gettysburg and concludes with Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

2002

Celebrity Train Layouts Part 2: Tom Snyder

Celebrity Train Layouts Part 2: Tom Snyder 2002

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Tom Snyder has the only multi-level, scale-detailed Standard gauge layout we have ever seen, and it's gorgeous. Never before have classics like the 400E, Olympian, National Limited, and the Hiawatha pranced about in such realistic scenery - mountains, groundcover, tunnels and trees. Accessories include the Power Station, Hellgate Bridge, Terrace Station, and many more - even two loops for the Lionel Race Cars and a Snow Village Christmas scene.

2002

Geheimnisvolle Unterwasserwelt

Geheimnisvolle Unterwasserwelt 2002

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Native animal species in and around water As attractive as nature is above water, the animal and plant life below the surface is just as fascinating. To date, natural science has identified around 20,000 species of fish. Around 60 of these species live in our native waters. In addition, there are countless insects, amphibians, birds and mammals that spend a large part of their lives in or near water. And nowhere else is it easier to recognize the diverse, often almost miraculous adaptations of living creatures to the special conditions of their habitat than here. For example, the film provides an insight into the extremely sophisticated reproductive biology of the bitterling, shows how the mudminnow can survive for months 'in the dry', or how the arctic char were saved from extinction with the help of mud suckers.

2002

Algonquin Park, Early March

Algonquin Park, Early March 2002

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The sublime, seductive landscape in Algonquin Park, Early March 2002 takes shape through a slow zooming out of the camera, starting with a monochromatic white screen (in fact a pure projection of light) and only revealing the full picture at the end. Location, subject, and especially the viewer’s position (a cliff high above a lake), evoke the effects of C. D. Friedrich’s Romantic painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818. The sequence of revelations moves from the pure abstraction of the film’s beginning to the actual scenery and culminates in the final scene of a group of skaters on a small, distant oblong of ice. Even as the movement of the skaters disrupts the contemplation of the motionless landscape, their position off-center reminds us of the background in Pieter Brueghel’s Hunters in the Snow, 1565.

2002