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Africa : The Making of Africa

The story of an epic, eight hour television series in the making. This is the story of a team of filmmakers who set out to tell the story of Africa through the people who live there. The Making of Afr...

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Length: 52:00mins

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Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2001

Production code: 65039
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AMAZON BRONZE

Felipe Lettersten is a sculptor forging statues of native peoples who may one day be no more. He searches the Americas for indigenous tribes that have so far held on to their traditional costume and c...

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Length: 23:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art

Year produced: 1994

Production code: 91A33
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America's Endangered Species: Don't Say...

Follow two young photographers intent on creating portraits of the one hundred rarest and most endangered species in America - pictures that create an urgent poignancy, as we may have to say goodbye t...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1998

Production code: 10996
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Arizona Rock Art

A story on the rock carvings in Arizona's Verde Valley. Peter Welch talks about the people who made the rock art and what the images may symbolize....

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Visual Arts
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Assignment : Great Grizzlies

NGM photographer Joel Santore gets very close and very personal with the great bears of the North....

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2001

Production code: 20136
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Assignment : Killer Pigs - Madidi

Welcome to Madidi National Park in Bolivia, where even the pigs can kill you. This spectacular wildlife reserve is one of the last untouched places on earth, where breathtaking landscapes and an abund...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1999

Production code: 21198
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Assignment: Blue Nile

Shrouded in myth, the Blue Nile is one of Africa's greatest rivers. From its source in the Ethiopian highlands, the Blue Nile plunges a vertical mile in its 840 mile course to the plains of Sudan, car...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2000

Production code: 20056
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Barcelona Street Life

A story about street life on La Rambla in Barcelona. Shots and sequences on street performers, musicians, dancers, and residents....

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music

Year produced: 0000
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Battle of the Arctic Giants

As springtime dawns on the frozen landscape of Canada's high Arctic, Adam Ravetch sets off in search of one of the region's most massive and misunderstood animals - the walrus. Known as "The ...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 30090
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Cairo Belly Dancers

Brazilian Soraia Carvalho and Egyptian Fawa Wozzy rehearse and perform belly dancing in Cairo, though some Islamic conservatives believe it is taboo. Lute maker Eid Mohammed Ali and dance teacher Heb ...

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Length: 03:00mins

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Music
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CAIRO UNVEILED

In Egypt, it is sometimes said you could take away the pyramids, you could take away the Nile, but you could never take away belly dance. Lucy grew up in a poor section of Cairo, and all she ever want...

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Length: 25:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Music

Year produced: 1992

Production code: 91A52
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Camels - Chris Johns

Photographer Chris Johns discusses his thoughts about the infatuation with mystery and abstraction in photography. Using his photo of camels walking in the desert, he talks about how viewing his work ...

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Length: 01:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Visual Arts
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CAMERAMEN WHO DARED

Cameramen scale mountains, swim with sharks, and fend off angry wildlife charging the lens, often proving more adventurous than the adventurers they film. Documentary cameramen dare to be different; t...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1989

Production code: 88A38
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Crittercam Chronicles - Series

In each 30-minute episode, Dr. Heithaus and National Geographic's Crittercam team will take you on a wild adventure, partnering with world experts to deploy Crittercam on species as varied as humpback...

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Length: 30:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 63207-07
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Crittercam Chronicles - Series

In each 30-minute episode, Dr. Heithaus and National Geographic's Crittercam team will take you on a wild adventure, partnering with world experts to deploy Crittercam on species as varied as humpback...

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Length: 30:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 63207-11
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Crittercam Chronicles - Series

In each 30-minute episode, Dr. Heithaus and National Geographic's Crittercam team will take you on a wild adventure, partnering with world experts to deploy Crittercam on species as varied as humpback...

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Length: 30:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 63207-13
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Crittercam Chronicles - Series

In each 30-minute episode, Dr. Heithaus and National Geographic's Crittercam team will take you on a wild adventure, partnering with world experts to deploy Crittercam on species as varied as humpback...

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Length: 30:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 63207-01
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Crittercam Chronicles - Series

In each 30-minute episode, Dr. Heithaus and National Geographic's Crittercam team will take you on a wild adventure, partnering with world experts to deploy Crittercam on species as varied as humpback...

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Length: 30:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 63207-09
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Crittercam Chronicles - Series

In each 30-minute episode, Dr. Heithaus and National Geographic's Crittercam team will take you on a wild adventure, partnering with world experts to deploy Crittercam on species as varied as humpback...

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Length: 30:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 63207-05
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Crittercam Chronicles - Series

In each 30-minute episode, Dr. Heithaus and National Geographic's Crittercam team will take you on a wild adventure, partnering with world experts to deploy Crittercam on species as varied as humpback...

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Length: 30:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 63207-08
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Crittercam Chronicles - Series

In each 30-minute episode, Dr. Heithaus and National Geographic's Crittercam team will take you on a wild adventure, partnering with world experts to deploy Crittercam on species as varied as humpback...

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Length: 30:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 63207-03
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Cuba Hip Hop

Hip hop music is becoming increasingly popular in Cuba. Interview with hip hop producer Pablo Herrera, who promotes the group Cien Porciento....

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music
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Diving with Seals

Seals - they dive to half-mile depths and cover the earth, from polar icecaps to tropical reefs. On islands and ice shelves, in masses and sometimes millions strong, we've seen seals make an uneasy tr...

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Length: 26:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1998

Production code: 30197
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Elements Music Change HDCAM

"Sunrise to Sunset" features aerial footage focusing on sunrises, sunsets, sunlight, clouds and storms over rural or natural landscapes and some water....

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Visual Arts

Year produced: 2010

Production code: SWK1320
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Eye Trick Town

A story about traditional trompe l'oeil painting on building exteriors in Camogli. Interviews with painters Raffaella Stracca and Carlo Pere....

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Visual Arts
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Florence Artisans

A story on artisans and workshops in Oltrarno, Florence. Silversmith Donato Zaccaro works on sterling silver vase. Artisans work on marble inlay table top. Narration on the history of inlay and scagli...

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Length: 02:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art

Year produced: 0000
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Freeze Frame: An Arctic Adventure

National Geographic's award-winning producer, Lisa Truitt, takes viewers behind-the-scenes on her filming adventure in the Arctic in this episode of ON ASSIGNMENT. Truitt and her National Geographic f...

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Length: 26:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1996

Production code: 20295
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Full Body Tattoos

A story on horimono, the art of Japanese full body tattoos. Various shots and sequences include: artists tattooing; history of horimono and its link to yakuza, Japanese gangsters; the symbolic meaning...

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art

Year produced: 0000
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Garden-Blu-Ray

Colorful, macro views of a father's front garden and the insects, pond, and plants that call it home....

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Length: 06:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Visual Arts

Year produced: 2010

Production code: MFG1409
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Geishas

A story on geishas in Kyoto, what it takes to become a geisha, the training involved, the performances, the history, and the clientle....

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art

Year produced: 0000
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Geo Greats

A great photograph should speak for itself, but that doesn't mean there aren't great stories behind it. Learn what happened behind the lenses that captured some of the best recent adventure shots....

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Length: 47:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Visual Arts

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 63212
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Glass Harp

In this short, Alexander Zoltan plays the glass harp for pedestrians on the Charles Bridge in Prague. Glass harps are instruments formed by wine glasses filled with water, which are "played&a...

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music

Year produced: 0000

Production code: GEOPP06
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HIDDEN PEOPLES OF CHINA

The fifty-five officially recognized minorities of China gather to celebrate their diversity and preserve their ways in a dazzling display of sport and cultural pride. These performers are the keepers...

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Length: 25:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music

Year produced: 1987

Production code: 86A31
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High Road to Shangri-La

In the 1920's, National Geographic introduced the world to a unique explorer - Joseph Rock. His life's work of documenting traditional Tibetan culture is unparalleled. Today, National Geographic follo...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2001

Production code: 20110
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History of Film

Discusses the history of filmmaking, from the medium's origin in the late 19th century to the modern era. Covers the evolution of film-viewing technology and the expansion of filmmaking, both within a...

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Length: 03:00mins

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Visual Arts
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Hula

A story on the hula in Hawaii, including its history, halaus, and the Merrie Monarch festival hula competition....

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Length: 03:00mins

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Art
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HULA: DANCE OF LEGENDS

In the shadow of Hawaii's volcanoes, the ancient hula dance enjoys a renaissance by contemporary performers. The traditional dance is accompanied by music, chants, and rhythmic drumming....

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Length: 15:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Music

Year produced: 1986

Production code: 86A21
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Inside NFL Films: The Idol Makers

It should come as no shock to an American that the Superbowl is the single most-watched television broadcast each year with audience sizes close to 180 million. Here's a story not so much about the sp...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1998

Production code: 22796
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IT'S MAGIC

The tiny Michigan town of Colon is transformed into the magic capital of the world during an annual "Magic Get-Together" of magicians, near-magicians, and fans of magic. Probably the...

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Length: 15:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art

Year produced: 1992

Production code: 92A11
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Journal : Assignment : Cuba

Cuba - it's just 90 miles from U.S shores, yet for nearly 40 years it has been off-limits, a sparkling Caribbean island shuttered from the world. Just opening up once again, it reveals its treasures a...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1999

Production code: 20033
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Journal : Dinosaur Egg Hunt

National Geographic photographer Louis Psihoyos embarks on a dinosaur egg world tour. Join him as he explores the latest research on dinosaur eggs, embryos and parenting....

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1996

Production code: 93496
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Journal : Tiger's Eye

Its five o'clock in the morning in India's Bandhavgarh National Park, and National Geographic magazine photographer Nick Nichols is looking for a tiger and riding on the back of an elephant is the bes...

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Length: 24:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1997

Production code: 93997
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Just One Frame: Whale Shark

Underwater photographer Tom Campbell discusses the challenge of trying to predict the behavior of his wild subjects when photographing them. In particular, he focuses upon a single photograph he made ...

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Visual Arts

Year produced: 0000
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LAST OF THE DANCING BEARS

In parts of Greece and Turkey, tourists pay for pictures of themselves with performing bears. They don't understand the pain and suffering that propels these beautiful creatures in their awkward dance...

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Length: 29:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art

Year produced: 1994

Production code: 93A18
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Let the Games Begin

In honor of the Atlanta Olympics, three National Geographic photographers travel the globe and document the cultural roots of sport. From the frigid inlets of Greenland to the plains of Punjab, photog...

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Length: 21:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1996

Production code: 20795
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Living with Leopards

EXPLORER steps behind the camera with acclaimed African wildlife filmmaker Kim Wolhuter as he and his family spend two years in the bush following a young leopard's journey into adulthood....

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Length: 23:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2002

Production code: 30091
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Lizardman

A story on Eric Sprague, the lizardman at a tattoo convention in New York. Sequences include a fan getting tattooed, Sprague discussing individuality and his efforts to become the lizardman, including...

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art
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Making of the Afghan Girl

This captivating documentary takes us behind the scenes to meet the team responsible for one of National Geographic's most exclusive interviews to date. In 1985 the front cover image of the Afghan Gir...

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Length: 26:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2002

Production code: 20184
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Marrakesh

A story on street performances in Djemaa el Fna, the last square in Morocco where street performance culture flourishes....

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Length: 02:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Music
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Martin Guitars

A visit to the Martin Guitars factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania....

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Length: 02:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music
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Molokai

Native Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians enjoy peaceful island life on Molokai, including Friday night Kanikapili, or music jam sessions....

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Length: 04:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music
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Mt. Fuji

In Japan, people pay an annual tribute to Mt. Fuji, to celebrate and pay tribute to the goddess of the volcano. Over 400,000 people climb Mt. Fuji to hold a fire and water festival, a national bonding...

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Length: 03:00mins

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Visual Arts
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MYSTERY OF THE CROP CIRCLES

Wiltshire County is a mystical countryside still haunted by mysteries of an earlier age. It is home to the Westbury White Horse, the cryptic Silbury Hill, and the most famous and intriguing spot, Ston...

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Length: 36:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art

Year produced: 1991

Production code: 91A37
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NEW ORLEANS BRASS

Young musicians join their elders in reviving the vibrant, vivacious tradition of New Orleans brass marching bands. New Orleans has always been a town driven by music and now a new generation of brass...

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Length: 25:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music

Year produced: 1990

Production code: 90A02
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Out There : Sky Shooter

Most people have difficulty jumping out of an airplane, let alone jumping out with four cameras strapped to various parts of your body. But for Tom Sanders, aerial cinematographer extraordinaire, it's...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1999

Production code: 21798
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PORTRAIT IN RAWHIDE: DUFF SEVERE

Duff Severe is an artist in leather. His finished canvass is a bronc saddle or a cowboy saddle. Duff has been making saddles for 40 years, but he contends that he learns something new every day. He's ...

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Length: 11:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art

Year produced: 1991

Production code: 90A79
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Renaissance

The Renaissance was a period of great achievement in fine art, literature, and learning. This short discusses the history and achievements of the Renaissance period, and how it impacted all of Europe....

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Length: 05:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art

Year produced: 0000

Production code: EDU06
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Renegade Lions

There is trouble in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. To fight it, a lion gang bands together for life, finding in brotherhood the strength necessary to survive the harshness of this formidable land....

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Length: 26:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2001

Production code: 30035
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Rock Art

A story on rock art of the Aboriginal people in Australia. Shots and sequences include Kakadu National Park, rock artist Thompson Yulidgirru, ancient art on walls, and modern Aboriginal artists....

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Length: 03:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art
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Sao Tome Music

A story about the Sao Tome band Grupo Tempo that fuses modern and traditional music. Two of its members also paint to express their culture....

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Length: 02:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music, Visual Arts

Year produced: 0000

Production code: GEOPP06
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Sideshow

A story about sideshow performers in Toronto, focusing on a sword-swallower....

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Length: 04:00mins

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Art
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St. Petersburg Opera

At the Mariinsky Theater, conductor Valery Gergiev, director Vladimir Mirzoyev, choreographer Kim Frank, and set designer George Tsipin put on the first Russian production of Wagner's Ring Cycle in ov...

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Length: 02:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Drama/Theater
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Steel Drums

A story on steel drums in Trinidad and Tobago, its history and the culture surrounding steelband music....

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Length: 02:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music
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TANGO

The tango is Argentina's national dance. It is a dance that defies description. It can be fast or slow, intricately choreographed or completely improvised. Sometimes it has the stylish elegance of a b...

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Length: 26:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Music

Year produced: 1993

Production code: 92A08
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Tanzania : Best of Wildlife Filmakers

Two wildlife filmmakers demonstrate the finer points-and difficulties-of their craft. Travel deep into the Serengeti in Tanzania, Africa, where the filmmakers struggle to capture shots and magically t...

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Length: 18:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1998

Production code: 20698
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THE GREAT KITE FIGHT

Five days of tug-of-war ensue as teams battle with huge kites on the banks of a Japanese river. Teams compete from opposite sides of the river, going through as many as eighteen kites over the course ...

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Length: 13:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music

Year produced: 0000

Production code: 86A35
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The Richardsons' Profile

Who are the Richardson's? What are they trying to do? Lynne and Phil Richardson are a husband and wife filmmaking team from South Africa. How did Lynne and Phil meet? They have traveled across Zimbabw...

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Length: 18:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2002

Production code: 20064
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The Witness

Photographer Mark Brecke and colleagues documented the humanitarian crisis in Darfur in a photo exhibit called Darfur/Darfur....

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Length: 05:00mins

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Art, Visual Arts
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Transexual Cabaret

In Thailand, ladyboys, or men who live as women, perform as popular cabaret singers. Interview with famous ladyboy Day....

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Length: 04:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art
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Tribal Tattoos

Photographer Chris Rainier travels to Borneo to document traditional Iban tattoos. Mingan receives a tattoo. Interview with Ernesto Kalum, who runs a tattoo shop with uses Iban designs....

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Length: 05:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Visual Arts
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Two Years In the Galapagos

In May 1995, filmmakers David Parer, Elizabeth Parer-Cook and their three year-old daughter Zoe, arrived in the Galapagos Islands to document the islands natural beauty for television. During their tw...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 2000

Production code: 26297
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Urban Art

A story on graffiti art in Washington D.C. Graffiti artist Nick Posada and Govinda Gallery owner Chris Murray each speak about what graffiti has done for public art, as well as the community....

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Length: 02:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Art, Visual Arts
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Wild Passions : Creepy Crawlies

Wild passions captures some of the most remarkable natural history sequences ever recorded and goes behind-the-scenes with filmmakers and cinematographers to hear the stories of what it takes to becom...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Media/Multimedia Production

Year produced: 1998

Production code: 20298
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World Music - Stories Behind the Songs

Produced in conjunction with Real World Records and Peter Gabriel, National Geographic will set off to an international stage west of London to film twelve artists at the World of Music and Dance Fest...

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Length: 52:00mins

Education Subject areas:
Music

Year produced: 2001

Production code: 65047

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