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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Nell was a girl, her parents were regularly evicted from the workers’ cottages they rented around Port Melbourne. Now a great-grandmother with 87 descendants, Nell still lives in the Port. But the cohesion of Nell’s extended family and neighbourhood is threatened by the pressures of modernisation and an influx of young professionals into the area. The old inner city suburb of Port Melbourne is the traditional home of working people whose...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1930s, the Aboriginal people began to organise, and to fight the Aborigines Protection Board. Through old newsreels, archive film, photographs and interviews with Elders, the film weaves a moving account of a hidden history, the early struggle for Aboriginal land rights and self-determination. A meticulous study of how white Australians between the wars consistently broke up Aboriginal families to manufacture a black servant class. "A...
4) Dogfights
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Harnessing the technology from the latest CGI video game flight simulators this puts the viewers behind the cockpit pitted against enemy aircraft in some of modern history's greatest air battles.
5) Gumbo
Series
Jazz volume episode 1
Publisher
PBS DVD Gold
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Beginnings to 1917: Born amidst African-Americans in 1890s New Orleans, jazz blends every kind of music resounding in the streets of the nation's most cosmopolitan city. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
Series
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
This program features 4 vintage episodes of Walt's beloved prime-time program. Take a look back at the origins of the park, beginning with the very first episode of the Disneyland TV series, as Walt leads a tour of the studio and lifts the curtain on a model of the under-construction Disneyland Park.
Publisher
Brigham Young University
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Ten years after signing the Declaration of Independence, England wages a new war of unfair trade and tariffs. Men like James Madison, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin are among the leaders of this new political battle.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Britain is a country that has been forged by centuries of warfare. Eight epic installments cover nearly 2,000 years of British history, charting key battles which could have gone either way, and did much to shape the nation that Britain is today.
15) The sand pebbles
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Explores the architectural and engineering legacies of some of the world's most powerful empires from the past.
Greece: The cradle of Western civilization sustained remarkable technological advancement for over 1,000 years, including such masterpieces as the Tunnel of Samos and the Parthenon.
Greece: age of Alexander: After a century of tremendous accomplishment, Greece's territorial ambitions were stymied by constant warfare -- until Alexander...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Relives the historical first flight of the Wright Brothers in 1903, takes viewers on a ride with the Blue Angels; highlights and salutes a variety of modern aircraft, the people who fly them, and the human potential of training and performance.
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Traces the musical odyssey of B.B. King to Memphis and pays homage to the great blues musicians of the Memphis tradition. Filmed on the occasion of the great reunion in which Memphis musicians returned to honor their roots.
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