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  1. Paris - The Luminous Years: Toward the Making of the Modern (2011)

    Director
    Perry Miller Adato
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $24.99

    A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition in the visual arts, music, literature, dance, theatre and beyond....

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  2. Making Stuff: Stronger, Smaller, Cleaner, Smarter (4 Parts) (2011)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 4 x 60 minutes), $19.99

    We are facing a revolution in the science of materials. From carbon nanotubes to spider silk, sticky gecko feet to bulletproof foam, scientists are combining high-technology with nature’s most incredible...

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  3. These Amazing Shadows: The Movies That Make America (2011)

    Director
    Paul Mariano; Kurt Norton
    Subject
    Film studies; Librarianship
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 88 minutes), $24.99

    This documentary tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflect the diversity of film and the American experience itself. It covers the...

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  4. Secrets of the Divine: The Altarpiece of Ciudad Rodrigo (2011)

    Producer
    Soyoon Lee
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

    The film chronicles the five-year research project that explored the origins and mysteries of the Altarpiece of Ciudad Rodrigo at the University of Arizona. Veiled for centuries behind a curtain on the altar...

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  5. Nova: Power Surge - Are we Finally on the Brink of a Clean Energy Revolution? (2011)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

    A Nova investigation into emerging technologies that might help defeat global warming, such as artificial trees as well as green reboots of familiar technologies like coal and nuclear energy.

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  6. 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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  7. Breaking News, Breaking Down (2011)

    Director
    Mike Walter
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 40 minutes), $14.99

    This film looks at how the mental health of journalists can be affected by the nature of the stories they are covering: so-called ‘Trauma Journalism’. Mike Walter covered the events at the Pentagon on...

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  8. Ancient Marvels (2011)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 324 mins. ), $44.99

    A 5-DVD set with six videos from PBS’ series NOVA transmitted between 2000 and 2001. The videos look at the engineering and construction methods of some of the world’s most famous structures. Each video...

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  9. Finding Life Beyond Earth (2011)

    aka: Finding Life Beyond Earth: Moons and Beyond

    Director
    Oliver Twinch
    Subject
    Earth Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £9.99

    Do other life forms exist outside of our atmosphere? Modern telescopes and unmanned space missions have revealed a wide range of dynamic environments: atmospheres thick with organic molecules, active...

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  10. To Secret Rosies (2011)

    aka: Rosies: The Female Computers of Wwii

    Director
    LeAnn Erickson
    Subject
    History; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.00

    In 1942 soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the US military. Top Secret...

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