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Series
Publisher
Questar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Anjelica Huston narrates this look at Queen Cleopatra from the Egyptian perspective, portraying her as a visionary ruler and brilliant strategist motivated by a genuine concern for her people. Includes original location footage and interviews with historians.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
This video story not only traces the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Maya, but also follows the journeys, in 1839, of New York explorer John L. Stephens to these strange and wonderful cities. Using computer graphic reconstruction, animated maps, classic art, reanactment and beautiful on-location cinematography, the viewer sees Teotihuacan, Cholula, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, Tenochtitlian, Tikal, Copan, Uxmal, and Palenque as they might have looked...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Tom Bodett hosts this series on the trails that extended America's frontiers. Follow in the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explore, settle, and work the new land.
The Great Wagon Road: As the colonists outgrew the settlements along the eastern sea-board, they looked west and south for new homesteads. The Great Wagon Road carried the hopeful settlers...