Peter Coyote
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SAVING ATLANTIS follows one of the most consequential issues of our time: the dramatic decline of global coral reef ecosystems and the impact on human populations that depend on them. Produced by a team of award-winning filmmakers and researchers, the film follows those who are fighting to uncover the causes of coral decline and find solutions before it's too late. It is an emotional exploration of some of our planet's greatest natural wonders at...
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This mutli-award winning film exposes the little-known environmental and health costs of the dirty oil that would flow through the proposed Keystone Pipeline. Canada is the number one foreign supplier of oil to the United States. Most of the oil imported comes from the Tar Sands of Northern Alberta, the second largest known oil reserve in the world outside of Saudi Arabia. But this is not a traditional oil field. The oil must be extracted and processed...
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Ken Burns volume 2
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In the second episode of Ken Burns's DUST BOWL, experience the gradual relief as the families of the plains seek new lives in California and government conservation efforts - and a break in the drought in 1939 - eventually stabilize the soil and bring the farms back to life, but with dangers of another Dust Bowl facing future generations.
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Ken Burns volume 1
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In the first episode of Ken Burns's THE DUST BOWL, feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America's history as survivors recall the terror of the dust storms, the desperation of hungry families and how they managed to find hope even as the earth and heavens seemed to turn against them.
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Country Music A Film by Ken Burns volume 7
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Defining country music is debated as never before, and the argument sparks a vibrant era. Dolly Parton crosses over to mainstream success. Willie Nelson finds creative freedom in Texas. Emmylou Harris influences a new generation of artists.
8) The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: 03-The River Styx (January 1964-December 19)
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With South Vietnam in chaos, hardliners in Hanoi seize the initiative and send combat troops to the South. President Johnson escalates America's military commitment, authorizing bombing of the North and deploying ground troops in the South.
10) The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: 08-The History of the World (April 1969-May)
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With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. As news breaks of an unthinkable massacre committed by American soldiers, the public debates the rectitude of the war.
12) The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: 09-A Disrespectful Loyalty (May 1970-March)
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Ken Burns volume 9
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U.S. airpower makes the difference in halting a North Vietnamese offensive. After being re-elected, Nixon announces Hanoi has agreed to a peace deal. American prisoners of war will finally come home-to a bitterly divided country.
14) The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: 05-This Is What We Do (July 1967-December 1
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Ken Burns volume 5
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American casualties mount as they face deadly North Vietnamese ambushes and artillery. Hanoi lays plans for a massive surprise offensive, and the Johnson administration reassures the American public that victory is in sight.
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Country Music A Film by Ken Burns volume 4
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In Memphis, the confluence of blues and hillbilly music at Sun Studios gives birth to "rockabilly," the precursor of rock and roll. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash are at the forefront. Nashville has become Music City USA.
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American Buffalo A Film by Ken Burns volume 1
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For thousands of years, America's national mammal numbered in the tens of millions, sustaining the Native people of the Great Plains, whose cultures became spiritually intertwined with the animal. By the 1880s the buffalo had been driven to the brink of extinction by newcomers to the continent. Ken Burns recounts the collision--and tragic consequences--of two opposing views of the natural world.
20) The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: 06-Things Fall Apart (January 1968-July 196
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Ken Burns volume 6
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On the Tet holiday, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch attacks on cities and military bases throughout the South, suffering devastating losses but casting doubt on Johnson's promise that there is "light at the end of the tunnel."






