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Adams Chronicles

Adams Chronicles

Produced for America's Bicentennial, The Adams Chronicles scored a rare television hat trick: critical raves, stratoshperic ratings and scholarly recognition.
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All Creatures Great and Small Series 1

All Creatures Great and Small Series 1

Filmed on location in the Yorkshire Dales, All Creatures Great and Small brings the world of veterinarian James Herriot to life with all the warmth and humor of the original stories.

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All Creatures Great and Small Series 2

All Creatures Great and Small Series 2

Filmed on location in the Yorkshire Dales, All Creatures Great and Small brings the world of veterinarian James Herriot to life with all the warmth and humor of the original stories.

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All Creatures Great and Small Series 3

All Creatures Great and Small Series 3

All Creatures Great and Small Series Three brings a rich new trove of James Herriot tales to the screen.

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All Creatures Great and Small Series 4

All Creatures Great and Small Series 4

All Creatures Great and Small Series Four continues the story of James Herriot (Christopher Timothy), his wife Helen (now played by Lynda Bellingham) and his volatile but warm-hearted partner, Siegfried Farnon (Robert Hardy).

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All Creatures Great and Small Series 5

All Creatures Great and Small Series 5

Share more warmth and humor with James Herriot, the world’s best loved veterinarian.

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Artic Passage

Artic Passage

In this two-hour special, NOVA dramatizes two extraordinary sagas in the quest for the Arctic Passage, the legendary Arctic sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific that was the dream of merchants and adventurers for centuries.
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Born Wild: The First Days of Life

Born Wild: The First Days of Life

From the moment of their birth, baby animals in the wild can face almost anything – from a large social group of interested caregivers, to a potentially deadly group of relatives, to one or two devoted parents, to complete abandonment and no available help at all.
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Crime Scene Creatures

Crime Scene Creatures

Forensic entomology, the use of insects to help solve crimes, has been practiced for centuries.

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Critical Condition

Critical Condition

Between 46 and 50 million Americans have no health insurance, and the numbers continue to grow.
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Dogs Decoded

Dogs Decoded

Dogs Decoded reveals the science behind the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs.
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Empires: Empires Collection: The Dynasties

Empires: Empires Collection: The Dynasties

Within the history of civilization are great eras of struggle, triumph, and loss.
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Empires: Great Religions (5 DVD Set)

Empires: Great Religions (5 DVD Set)

Empires Collection: Great Religions is a compilation of five outstanding stories of some of histories greatest religions and religious figures.
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Empires: Islam Empires of Faith

Empires: Islam Empires of Faith

ISLAM: EMPIRE OF FAITH, a three-part series, re-creates the spectacular sweep of Islamic power and faith during its first 1,000 years, from Muhammad's birth to the Ottoman Empire under Suleyman the Magnificent.
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Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

This program offers an intimate perspective on events in 1940, with Europe at Hitler's mercy and Britain standing alone.
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Flight School

Flight School

Whooping cranes are very rare birds.

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Forces of Nature (2 CD-ROM Set)

Forces of Nature (2 CD-ROM Set)

From lightning to locusts, fires to floods, increase your understanding of the planet's raw power with Forces of Nature on CD-ROM.
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Frogs: The Thin Green Line

Frogs: The Thin Green Line

Frogs have been on this planet for more than 250 million years, evolving into some of the most wondrous and diverse creatures on earth.
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From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians

How did Jesus of Nazareth become the Christ of the Christian tradition? And why did the early Christian communities develop different theological images of Jesus? In her exciting book, Paula Fredriksen answers these questions ...
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Global Warming: The Signs of Science

Global Warming: The Signs of Science

This documentary profiles people who are living with the grave consequences of a changing climate, as well as the individuals, communities and scientists inventing new approaches to safeguard our children's future.

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In the Path of a Killer Volcano

In the Path of a Killer Volcano

The Philippines' Mount Pinatubo is about to blow big.

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Invasion of the Giant Pythons

Invasion of the Giant Pythons

Florida’s Everglades National Park is one of the last great wildlife refuges in the United States, home to numerous unique and endangered animals and plants, as well untold numbers of iconic alligators.
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Ireland

Ireland

The story of Ireland's natural history is one of dramatic change in a very short time, of a world transformed again and again by nature and the hand of man.

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Liberty! The American Revolution

Liberty! The American Revolution

Featuring dramatic readings from letters and diaries of the period plus live-action re-creations, this compelling series traces the events leading up to the war and America's fight for freedom.

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Monkey in the Mirror

Monkey in the Mirror

Chimps and primates use tools, language, politics, and even culture.
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Monster of the Milky Way

Monster of the Milky Way

Join NOVA on a mind-bending hunt for a monster lurking at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

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Mummy Who Would Be King

Mummy Who Would Be King

It is a tantalizing idea: a shriveled mummy that has lain neglected on a dusty museum shelf at Niagara Falls could be the remnants of a long-lost Egyptian pharaoh.

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Mystery of the Megavolcano

Mystery of the Megavolcano

A remote lake in Southeast Asia conceals evidence of Earth’s greatest volcanic cataclysm of the last 100,000 years.

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Naturally Obsessed

Naturally Obsessed

What does it take to become a top-notch scientist? An inside look into the heart of scientific research, and three colorful PhD candidates vying to discover the mechanism of a protein that may help in the fight against diabetes and obesity.
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NOVA: Dimming The Sun

NOVA: Dimming The Sun

Thanks in part to the success of Al Gore's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, global warming is a hot issue in scientific discussion.
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NOVA: Secrets of Lost Empires 2: Medieval Siege

NOVA: Secrets of Lost Empires 2: Medieval Siege

Have you ever marveled at the mystery of Stonehenge and the Pyramids? Experts have had the very same musings.
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Nova: Volcano Above the Clouds

Nova: Volcano Above the Clouds

Explore Kilimanjaro—the breathtaking island in the sky.
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Ocean Giants (3-part series) DVD/Blu-ray combo

Ocean Giants (3-part series) DVD/Blu-ray combo

Dolphins and whales may appear to be totally alien to us.
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Paris: The Luminous Years

Paris: The Luminous Years

A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition.
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Perfect Corpse

Perfect Corpse

It was a gruesome discovery: a headless human torso with huge arms, dug up accidentally in an Irish peat bog.

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Ravens

Ravens

Ravens have always been birds with a reputation.

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Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros

Millions of rhinos once roamed the Earth.

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Salmon: Running the Gauntlet (DVD)

Salmon: Running the Gauntlet (DVD)

This film will investigate the parallel stories of collapsing Pacific salmon populations and how biologists and engineers have become instruments in audacious experiments to replicate every stage of the fish's life cycle.
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Savage Seas (4 DVD Set)

Savage Seas (4 DVD Set)

Oceans cover more than 70 percent of our planet and contain 90 percent of life on earth, yet they remain the most treacherous and alien part of our environment.
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Scientific American: Chimp Minds

Scientific American: Chimp Minds

A visit with an engaging if unruly bunch of cousins that we formally broke up with about 6 or 7 million years ago - with whom we share almost all of our genes but not a lot of our lifestyle.
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Scientific American: Dark Side Of The Universe

Scientific American: Dark Side Of The Universe

Alan Alda joins some of the world's leading astronomers as they wrestle with the startling implications of their latest discoveries.

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Scientific American: Hidden Motives

Scientific American: Hidden Motives

If you think you know why you do things, you're probably wrong.
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Scientific American: Hot Planet-Cold Comfort

Scientific American: Hot Planet-Cold Comfort

So you think global warming won't affect you?

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Scientific American: Robot Pals

Scientific American: Robot Pals

To be really useful, robots need to behave as a cooperative partners rather than mindless machines.
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Secret Life of the Brain (3 DVD  Set)

Secret Life of the Brain (3 DVD Set)

THE SECRET LIFE OF THE BRAIN, a David Grubin Production, reveals the fascinating processes involved in brain development across a lifetime.
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Secrets of the Dead IV:  Bridge on the River Kwai

Secrets of the Dead IV: Bridge on the River Kwai

This program tells the story behind the construction and destruction of one of the most heralded World War II engineering feats: the 250-mile River Kwai railway in Thailand.

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Secrets of the Dead V: Gangland Graveyard

Secrets of the Dead V: Gangland Graveyard

On October 6, 2004, FBI agents began digging up a Queens swamp in the hopes of finding the remains of the man who killed John Gotti's son.

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Secrets of the Dead V: Voyage of the Courtesans

Secrets of the Dead V: Voyage of the Courtesans

Voyage of the Courtesans follows the 18th-century women who settled Australia and their raucous journey from England to Australia.

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Secrets Of The Dead: D-Day The Ultimate

Secrets Of The Dead: D-Day The Ultimate

In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of D-Day

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Secrets of the Dead: Deadliest Battle

Secrets of the Dead: Deadliest Battle

The Battle of Stalingrad, the deadliest single battle ever seen, has been lauded as a shining example of Stalin's military genius, and altered the course of World War II permanently.
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Secrets of the Dead: Dogfight at Guadalcanal

Secrets of the Dead: Dogfight at Guadalcanal

In the summer of 1942, two ace fighter pilots, one American and one Japanese, faced off during a dramatic dogfight in the skies over Guadalcanal.

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Secrets of the Dead: Escape From Auschwitz

Secrets of the Dead: Escape From Auschwitz

The truth about the Auschwitz death camp was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Third Reich.
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Secrets of the Dead: Executed in Error

Secrets of the Dead: Executed in Error

In 1910, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged for poisoning and dismembering his wife, after having tried to flee the country with his young lover.
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Secrets Of The Dead: Great Fire Of Rome

Secrets Of The Dead: Great Fire Of Rome

In the early hours of July 19, 64 A.D., a fire struck Rome, engulfing some of the greatest buildings in antiquity and devastating the teeming city.

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Secrets of the Dead: Headless Romans

Secrets of the Dead: Headless Romans

In the back garden of a house in York, England, more than 45 decapitated, Roman-era skeletons are unearthed.

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Secrets of the Dead: Herculaneum Uncovered

Secrets of the Dead: Herculaneum Uncovered

Pompeii, the lost Roman city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD, has long been a source of fascination to archaeologists.

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Secrets of the Dead: Irish Escape

Secrets of the Dead: Irish Escape

It has been called the most outrageous escape story in the history of the high seas.

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Secrets of the Dead: Japanese Super Sub

Secrets of the Dead: Japanese Super Sub

Merging the stealth and tactical advantages of sea and sky, the I-401 aircraft carrier submarine carried three specially designed Seiran attack bombers.
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Secrets of the Dead: Killer Flu

Secrets of the Dead: Killer Flu

This program shows how modern scientists in both the U.

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Secrets of the Dead: Lost in the Amazon

Secrets of the Dead: Lost in the Amazon

In 1925, famed explorer Col.
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Secrets of the Dead: Michelangelo Revealed

Secrets of the Dead: Michelangelo Revealed

More than five centuries ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the darling of the Catholic Church.
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Secrets Of The Dead: Search For The First Human

Secrets Of The Dead: Search For The First Human

This "Secrets of the Dead" special paints a portrait of a missing link in the evolution of humans using forensic techniques.

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Secrets of the Dead: Sinking Atlantis

Secrets of the Dead: Sinking Atlantis

5000 years ago the Minoans, Europe’s first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete.
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Secrets of the Dead: The Airmen and the Headhunters

Secrets of the Dead: The Airmen and the Headhunters

In 1945, as war rages across the world, an incredible drama is unfolding in the remote jungles of Borneo.
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Secrets of the Dead: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists

Secrets of the Dead: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists

The Hunt For Nazi Scientists tells the dramatic, untold story of the race to capture Germany's top scientists during the dying days of World War II and is filled with real-life accounts of the secret raids, rare archival f...

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Secrets Of The Dead: Titanic's Ghost

Secrets Of The Dead: Titanic's Ghost

In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, Canadian rescue ships recovered 328 bodies.
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Secrets Of The Dead: Tragedy At The Pole

Secrets Of The Dead: Tragedy At The Pole

In November 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a British team began a 900-mile trek across Antarctica to reach the South Pole.
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Secrets of the Dead: Umbrella Assassin

Secrets of the Dead: Umbrella Assassin

At the height of the Cold War, the KGB used one of the most ingenious and unobtrusive weapons to murder an outspoken Bulgarian dissident.

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Springs Eternal: Florida's Fountain of Youth

Springs Eternal: Florida's Fountain of Youth

Long ago, Spanish explorers searched Florida in vain, hoping to find the Fountain of Eternal Youth.

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Stephen Hawking's Universe

Stephen Hawking's Universe

Stephen Hawking- the brilliant, imaginative British mathematician- is today the best-known scientist since Albert Einstein.

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The Beauty of Ugly

The Beauty of Ugly

We may think we know what is beautiful and what isn’t, but in the natural world, beauty can be many things – including what we might find completely repulsive.
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The Blitz: London's Longest Night

The Blitz: London's Longest Night

The story of the war's most concentrated aerial attack on London in 1941 and how the city nearly perished under the German barrage.
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The Civil War (5 DVD Set w/ Bonus CD)

The Civil War (5 DVD Set w/ Bonus CD)

Ken Burns' epic documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict.
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The Congress

The Congress

In this elegant, penetrating and moving portrait of the United States Congress, filmmaker Ken Burns profiles an American institution whose ideals and actions affect us all.
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The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's

The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's

This compelling documentary follows the trials and triumphs of researchers battling Alzheimer's Disease.
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The Gorilla King

The Gorilla King

Among the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, Titus reigns as king, a position he gained with extraordinary courage, strategy and determination.
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The Great Escape

The Great Escape

New secrets revealed about World War II's most daring prison escape.

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The Human Spark

The Human Spark

After some three and a half billion years of life’s evolution on this planet – and after almost two million years since people recognizable as human first walked its surface – a new human burst upon the scene, apparently unannounced.
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The Loneliest Animals

The Loneliest Animals

The loneliest animals are the most endangered species on the planet.
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The Music Instinct: Science and Song

The Music Instinct: Science and Song

The Music Instinct: Science and Song provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism and the whole ebb and flow of the cosmos is moved by the undeniable effect of music.
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea (Hardcover)

The National Parks: America's Best Idea (Hardcover)

The companion volume to the new Ken Burns film: a sweeping, magnificently illustrated history of the American national park system from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite, to the m...
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The Shakers: Hands to Work, Heart to God

The Shakers: Hands to Work, Heart to God

Hands To Work.
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The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty

Ken Burns presents the definitive portrait of America's great lady, in a program nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy.
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The Supreme Court (4 DVD Set)

The Supreme Court (4 DVD Set)

It's known as the court of last resort, the Supreme Court, where nine judges appointed for life make monumental decisions that govern our everyday lives, from the contents of the nation's daily newspapers to what we can do in the privacy of our own homes.

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The Supreme Court (Hardcover Book)

The Supreme Court (Hardcover Book)

The Supreme Court is the most mysterious branch of government, and yet the Court is at root a human institution, made up of very bright people with very strong egos, for whom political and judicial conflicts often become personal.

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The Vanishing Lions

The Vanishing Lions

While conservationists were busy worrying about rhinos, elephants and gorillas, something entirely unexpected happened - the African lion began to vanish from the wild in large numbers, even in protected areas.

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The Venom Cure

The Venom Cure

Venom comes in many varieties and offers any number of horrific ways to die - destroying blood cells, dissolving flesh, paralyzing nerves and muscles, and stopping the breath, as deadly doses of coagulants, anti-coagulants, toxins, and poisons shut down the systems of the body.

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Til The River Runs Clear

Til The River Runs Clear

Til The River Runs Clear tells the story of America's environmental flagship, the Clearwater, which has helped effect a remarkable grassroots transformation of the Hudson River over the last four decades.
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Walking the Bible (2 DVD Set)

Walking the Bible (2 DVD Set)

Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible presents one man's epic journey - by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel - through the greatest stories ever told.
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Wisdom of the Wild

Wisdom of the Wild

As humans learn more about animal intelligence, we also are discovering that animals have a lot to teach us.

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