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  • 2020
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    Power Trip: The Story of Energy

    Power Trip: The Story of Energy

    1 2020 HD

    Uncover the hidden energy that is embedded in our modern way of life, revealed as the underlying force behind water, food, wealth, cities,...

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  • 2018
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    Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

    Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

    2.00 2018 HD

    Bitter Rivals illuminates the essential history - and profound ripple effect - of Iran and Saudi Arabia's power struggle. It draws on scores of...

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  • 2016
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    Natural Born Hustlers

    Natural Born Hustlers

    1 2016 HD

    When it comes to the most important goals in the animal kingdom, learning how to survive and raising the next generation are right at the top of the...

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  • 2022
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    Making Black America

    Making Black America

    6.00 2022 HD

    A chronicle of the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people—beyond the reach of the “White gaze.”...

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  • 2015
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    Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine

    Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine

    8.00 2015 HD

    Jonathan Phillips attempts to find the answer to the question: How did Christianity grow and develop from just a small, Jewish sect to the largest,...

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  • 2001
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    The Roman Empire in the First Century

    The Roman Empire in the First Century

    1 2001 HD

    Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the world was ruled by Rome. The Roman Empire struggled with problems which are...

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  • 2005
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    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    1 2005 HD

    The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win a title and his struggle to live as a free man.

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  • 2005
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    Minnesota: A History of the Land

    Minnesota: A History of the Land

    1 2005 HD

    Brings to life the epic story of the people and landscapes of Minnesota - from the retreat of the last ice sheets to the growth of today’s...

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  • 2019
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    Wild Metropolis

    Wild Metropolis

    1 2019 HD

    A diverse cast of animals adjust to life in the newest and fastest changing habitat on the planet -- cities -- as more and more wild animals make...

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  • 1987
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    The Struggles for Poland

    The Struggles for Poland

    10.00 1987 HD

    This 9-episodes documentary series extensively examines the history of Poland in the 20th Century, telling the story through archival films,...

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  • 2022
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    Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness

    Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness

    1 2022 HD

    First-person accounts from young people ranging in age from 11-27 about living with mental health conditions.

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  • 2021
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    Philly D.A.

    Philly D.A.

    7.00 2021 HD

    A groundbreaking inside look at the long shot election and tumultuous first term of Larry Krasner, Philadelphia's unapologetic District Attorney, and...

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  • 2002
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    Mary Lou's Flip Flop Shop

    Mary Lou's Flip Flop Shop

    1 2002 HD

    Mary Lou's Flip Flop Shop, a children's television series featuring Olympic champion gymnast Mary Lou Retton, was created to motivate young children...

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  • 1980
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    High Feather

    High Feather

    1 1980 HD

    High Feather is a 10-episode educational television show which ran on PBS in the 1980s; each episode was 30 minutes long. The program's name came...

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  • 2024
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    Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation

    Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation

    1 2024 HD

    How Chicago and its suburbs helped devise the nation’s most sweeping system of racially segregated communities, and how these policies...

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  • 2001
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    Sister Wendy's American Collection

    Sister Wendy's American Collection

    1 2001 HD

    Sister Wendy Beckett, a cloistered nun and Oxford-educated art scholar, takes an art appreciation tour across America, visiting six major art museums...

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  • 1971
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    Jean Shepherd's America

    Jean Shepherd's America

    1 1971 HD

    In these humorous and affectionate television poems, humorist Jean Shepherd celebrates America in all its richness and diversity -- from cars to...

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  • 2019
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    Women, War & Peace II

    Women, War & Peace II

    10.00 2019 HD

    In a year when women are mobilizing and running for office in unprecedented numbers, see how some of the biggest international stories of recent...

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  • 2024
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    The Invisible Shield

    The Invisible Shield

    6.00 2024 HD

    This four-part documentary series, reveals a little-known truth: that public health saved your life today and you probably don’t even know it....

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  • 2013
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    Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild

    Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild

    1 2013 HD

    Nature photographer Michael Forsberg examines the remaining “wildness” in the Great Plains of North America. Featuring stunning imagery,...

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