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  1. Mayo Clinic, The: Faith, Hope and Science (2018)

    Director
    Ken Burns
    Subject
    History; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 116 minutes), $19.99

    In the wake of a deadly tornado in rural Minnesota in 1883, Doctor Mayo and his two sons enlisted the help of a group of Catholic nuns to care for the wounded. This documentary tells the story of the...

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  2. Prohibition (2011)

    Director
    Ken Burns; Lynn Novick
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 360 minutes), $34.99

    Three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the...

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  3. Grand Role, Le (2004 Film)

    aka: Great Role, The

    Director
    Steve Suissa

    Feature film. A tragicomedy about an actor and his dying wife. Maurice Kurz (Freiss) is a forty-something jobbing actor who has never had a big career break. One day a world-renowned director Grichenberg...

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  4. West, The (4 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Director
    Ken Burns; Steve Ives
    Producer
    Ken Burns; Steve Ives
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, 4 videocassettes. VHS. b&w/col. 180, 180, 192, 210 min., 2000 sale: £16.99 (inclusive) each

    Eight-part television series using photographs, newsreels, journals, music, diaries and artifacts to relate the history of the American West from 1500 to 1914. On four videocassettes: 1) The People...

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  5. American Cinema. Vol 4: The Studio System / Film in the Television Age (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 105 min., 1997 sale: £11.99 (inclusive)

    A 10-part history of seven decades of American cinema, released in five volumes.

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  6. Kerouac (1994 Video)

    Director
    John Antonelli
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    A biographical study of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac combining archive footage, stills, television interviews, interviews with his contemporaries and dramatised events from his life, from his...

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  7. Outrageous Fortune (1987 Film)

    Director
    Arthur Hiller
    Producer
    Ted Field; Robert W. Cort

    Feature film. A female buddy-film action comedy. Two very different women (one bold and brassy, the other a prissy snob) meet at auditions at an acting class given by an eminent Russian director. The two...

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