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Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Explore the life of Jesus and the movement he started, challenging familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence and interviews with the nation's leading New Testament scholars, the series transports the viewer back two thousand years to the time and place where Jesus once lived and preached.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
Examines the career of FBI agent John O'Neill, focusing on the time when he was in charge of counter-terrorism. His study of the issues convinced him that something like the September 11 attacks was likely to occur. After leaving the FBI, he became head of security at the World Trade Center, where he was among the victims killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The modern music scene was created in 1969, at Woodstock. Half a million fans, dozens of artists, and the politics of the times came together as a big bang moment that eventually would generate billions of dollars. But over the last twenty years, MTV, compact discs, corporate consolidation, Internet piracy, and greed have contributed to a perfect storm for the recording industry. Frontline examines how the business that has provided the soundtrack...
4) The Mormons
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest-growing religions and, relative to its size, one of the richest. Church membership, now at over 12 million and growing, sweeps the globe. Nevertheless, from the moment of its founding in 1830, the church has been controversial. Within a month, it had 40 converts and almost as many enemies. In the early years, Mormons were hated, ridiculed, persecuted, and feared. Yet in the...
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
A death in Tehran: At the height of the protests following Iran's presidential election, a young woman named Neda Soltani was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death was filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web, quickly becoming an international outrage. Frontline investigates the life and death of the woman who remains a symbol for those wanting to keep the movement alive. Unanswered questions in the aftermath of the greatest...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Frontline investigates the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Vladimir Putin's reign in Russia. Tracing his career back over two decades, Putin's Way reveals how the accumulation of wealth and power has led to autocratic rule and the specter of a new Cold War.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An intimate exploration of the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their parents. Through moving, personal stories of children, parents, and doctors, the film examines new medical interventions increasingly being offered at younger ages.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Journalist and author Paul Greenberg (Four Fish; American Catch) spends a year eating only fish. From farmed fish in Norway to the biggest wild fishery in the world off Peru, he travels to investigate the health of the ocean, as well as his own.
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