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Nonfiction DVDs April 2021
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Beyond The Elements (Nova)
Picking up where he left off in NOVA’s popular special, Hunting the Elements, David Pogue sets out on a worldwide quest to find the key molecules and chemical reactions that have paved the way for human civilization, life, and even the universe as we know it. And along the way, he uncovers the simple principles that produce such a dizzying diversity of matter from elements on the periodic table.
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The Civil War In 15 Objects
This video lecture highlights items from the Civil War that help humanize the time period and illustrate just how tragic and important the war was in history.
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My Mexican Bretzel
The documentary uses home movies and fleeting moments of sound to tell the story of Vivian Barrett, a wealthy Swiss woman, and her husband Léon, a WWII pilot turned entrepreneur whose hearing was partly lost in a plane accident. Years of their lives are chronicled, from the '40s through the '60s, from Le Mans to Hawaïi. Vulnerability, loss, and belief are explored in an indulgently cinematic fashion.
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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well as nearly two dozen interviews with close friends, family members, colleagues, and patients, and archival material from every point in his life.
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Pumas: Legends Of The Ice Mountains (PBS Nature)
In a hidden realm at the end of the world, amidst the massive ice mountains of Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, condors soar, colorful caracaras keep a sharp eye out for prey, graceful guanacos roam, and vivid pink flamingos make a theatrical appearance.
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Some Kind of Heaven
Beyond the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America's largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find comfort and meaning.
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