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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2009
Language
English
Description
The Mythbusters explore urban legends, including if a penny dropped from a skyscraper could kill a pedestrian below, and if using a cell phone at the gas station could cause the pump to explode.
"In each episode of this fascinating disc, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, the MythBusters, set out to expose three urban legends. Can a penny be dropped from a skyscraper kill a pedestrian walking below? Can a bullet made out of ice kill someone and then...
Publisher
www.micromarketing.org
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"Embark on a sinister travelogue taking you to haunted places few would suspect exist. Armed with video cameras and hiking bags, two Ghost Hunters explore the grandest, oddest and most haunted buildings to ever exist in Europe. Surrounded by darkness and abandoned for centuries; these most haunted houses are still standing and beckoning those brave enough to enter. However their ghosts don't like to be disturbed. From the safety of your home, embark...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
The U.S. and the Holocaust examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century....
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This film "examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a 'nation of immigrants,' but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured...