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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
rankie Terris and Mannie Robbins are the two most powerful gangsters in their city. Frankie has a young sister, Louise, whom he has kept at a boarding school away from the stench of his racketeering. Mannie's young son, Joe, is also ignorant of his father's profession. Louise and Joe meet, and Joe tries to make love to her. Frankie interrupts and, in a fight that follows, kills Joe. Mannie vows to get Frankie. The latter, sentenced to Alcatraz, fears...
Pub. Date
©2005
Description
The lives and legacies leaders of the United States from Truman to George W. Bush. Based on the book To the Best of My Ability, The Presidents features insight from journalists, scholars, and politicians, as well as rare and unseen photographs and footage. Volume 3: (1) Truman to Ford: (1945-1977); (2) Carter to George W. Bush (1977- Present; (3) Bonus program all the president's wives
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Born in a Cincinnati zoo, two Bengal tiger cubs - Ron and Julie - have spent the last three years being taught by humans how to hunt and live in the wild. If successfully integrated, they will become the protypes for a bold plan to save the world's population of wild tigers.
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Painter, sculptor, engineer, and scientist, in each field Leonardo da Vinci was both a master and pioneer. Creator of some of the world's great artistic masterpieces , such as the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, he was also a visionare whose fantastic inventions would become reality only hundreds of years after his death. Against the backdrop of 15th century Italian opulence, Da Vinci and the Code He Lived By follows the orginal Renaissance man through...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
This is the story of the men who came home from the Vietnam War and tried to forget. The men who represent a second silent generation. Covered is the time period from the initial massive troop build-up in 1965 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Contains never-before-seen color footage transferred to high definition as well as a soundtrack filled with hits from the era.
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
The famed Egyptian beauty, Queen Nefertiti, was the royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, a mother of six who helped lead a religious revolution that changed Egypt forever. Yet after her death, her enemies destroyed all evidence of Nefertiti's life. Now, a Discovery Channel Quest expedition led by Dr. Joann Fletcher hopes to find out if Queen Nefertiti's mummy has been found in a secret chamber deep in the Valley of the Kings. Includes x-rays to reveal...
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Provides a dinosaur's-eye view of survival in this violent primordial world. White Tip's journey: Follow the desperate trials of a velociraptor cut off from her pack in the desert. Pod's travels: A pyroraptor is swept away in a tidal wave and washes ashore on an island populated by much smaller dinosaurs.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Explore the secret stories behind some of the big screen's most famous specters. Discover how the lights in one movie studio swing unaided from the rafters, and how in the bar of the famous Knickerbocker Hotel, objects move on their own and images of long-deceased stars appear and disappear at random. Whether a series of coincidences or the work of real spirits, Hollywood's historians and eyewitnesses explain why the glamorous ghosts of Tinseltown...
14) Life
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Collects footage, narrated by Oprah Winfrey, of a wide variety of plants and animals from around the world, covering their adaptability and survival tactics.
16) Oceans
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
From majestic great whales and humpbacks to graceful jellyfish and seahorses, the ocean is home to an amazing array of life. National Geographic reveals never-before-seen species and behavior of life under the sea. Programs include Shark Island; The Great Whales; Ocean Drifters; Jellyfish Invasion; Jewels of the Caribbean Sea; and Humpbacks - Inside the Pod.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Presents a discussion of how North American cowboys adapted saddles, ropes, spurs, and other equipment into tools suited for developments in the industry before the twenty-first century utilization of computer chips, DNA evidence, artificial insemination, and imaging devices.
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