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4) Factomania
5) Hello World
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Business journalist Ashlee Vance hosts this series that explores how technology is shaping the future.
7) Photographer
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How can we argue in good faith? How can we communicate with confidence? How can we uncover new ideas by engaging in debate? Journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author Mehdi Hasan has made a career out of doing just that. In his book Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking, he seeks to sharpen those skills among its readers and relay the intrinsic value--and pleasure--of debate. In this conversation, Open to Debate...
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The Gene: An Intimate History interweaves the story of the thrilling revolution in modern genetic science with powerful stories from the frontlines of medicine, featuring patients suffering from rare genetic diseases and the leading researchers racing to identify and treat, even cure, the errors in their DNA that afflict them.
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The second part of the four-hour series The Gene: An Intimate History begins with the story of the signature scientific achievement of our time: the mapping of the human genome. As scientists learn to read the genetic code, they grapple with the dangers inherent in increasingly sophisticated and easily available methods of intervening in the very essence of what makes us human, our DNA.
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Shot in high definition, Visions of Italy: Northern Style offers the ultimate vacation postcard of Italy--the sights and scenes immortalized in literature, movies, and art for centuries--seen as never before. This video includes stunning aerial footage and evocative Italian music from Luciano Pavarotti to Connie Francis showcase views of Siena, Florence, Pisa, Venice, Lake Como, the Alps and more.
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Johann Strauss' waltz, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, is considered Austria's secret national anthem. First performed 150 years ago in Vienna, the composition from the Strauss "waltz factory" became an instant hit worldwide. This film by Eric Schulz looks behind the scenes of the "waltz factory" of the Strauss family. Historic film footage is combined with waltz impressions from Vienna's Musikverein and an unusual collection of mobile phone 'selfie'...
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This interview with gun activist Cody Wilson questions how printable firearms may change the dynamic of political power. Wilson fired a shot heard around the world when he created The Liberator, a plastic pistol he made on a 3D printer, and then put the 3D-printing files (or CADs) up on the Internet for free. To folks interested in cutting-edge technology and decentralized experiments in living, Wilson's gun symbolized an age of uncontrollable freedom....
18) No small matter
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No Small Matter is the first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for good in America today: early childhood education.
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The Lion Queens is a series like no other. It takes you right into the lion kingdom and records some of the jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring close ups with the lion. The programs follow the courageous work of the Lion Queens who are helping the Asiatic Lion make a comeback. Riding on motorbikes, and often on foot, a brigade of girls patrols the jungle fearlessly. They chase down heavily armed poachers, capture leopards who stray in to the human settlements,...
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Rainbow Quest was a TV series hosted by Pete Seeger and filmed in the mid 1960s when folk music had enormous popularity. This episode features the Stanley Brothers and Doc Watson. The Stanley Brothers were one of the great classic bluegrass groups. While Ralph Stanley has enjoyed newfound popularity following "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", Carter Stanley died within a year of filming this show, and this is the only Stanley Brothers performance available...
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