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Author
Series
Chinese worlds volume 32
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Documentaries have recently become a favourite format for Chinese state-directed media to present an officially sanctioned view of history. Indeed, this is not confined to Chinese national history. In stark contrast to the earlier self-centred preoccupation with Chinese history, there has been an upsurge in interest in foreign history, with a view to illuminating China's role not only in world history, but also on the global stage today, and in the...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An exploration into America's Independence War. Using interviews with scholars, first-person narratives and historic documents, the series travels back to the passionate, violent and sometimes tragically funny events of the 1770s.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The Best of History, an extraordinary 17-disc set, features an in-depth look at some of the most significant events in U.S. and world history. Follow the industrialists -- Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Morgan -- as they transform America into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen. As small settlements in Jamestown and Plymouth grew into a nation of states, Americans pushed innovation and ingenuity to the very edge...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The Best of History, an extraordinary 17-disc set, features an in-depth look at some of the most significant events in U.S. and world history. Follow the industrialists -- Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Morgan -- as they transform America into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen. As small settlements in Jamestown and Plymouth grew into a nation of states, Americans pushed innovation and ingenuity to the very edge...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In Hollywood, they are home to killer mummies and booby traps. Now, separate fact from fantasy with this tour of the Egyptian Pyramids, which traces the rise of one of the ultimate accomplishments of the Ancient World.
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This film has a review of the many uses of acid, the most widely produced chemical in the world and possibly the most dangerous. The military harnesses acid to make the explosive "Comp B-4." Acid can take the stain out of stainless steel and can be mixed to dissolve precious metal. Acid loving bacteria in Yellowstone National Park may hold the key to a biological industrial revolution. Acid can also hollow out a penny and turn a hot dog to sludge....
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Travel to Egypt and join a team of archaeologists who have uncovered what evidence reveals is the lost fourth pyramid of Giza. Djedefre, son of the great Khufu, would stamp his supremacy by erecting the highest pyramid ever built, towering some 60 feet above Khufu's Great Pyramid of Giza. This is the story of the most powerful, prolific, and arguably, the most cruel and debauched of all Egypt's dynasties.
