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Inspired by true events : an illustrated guide to more than 500 history-based films
\"An up-to-date and indispensable guide for film history buffs of all kind, this book surveys more than 500 major films based on true stories and historical subject matter\"-- Provided by publisher.
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PBS newshour. Stephen King reflects on his iconic career and latest release ‘You like it darker’
Fifty years ago, a 26-year-old rural Maine school teacher wrote the horror novel “Carrie.” That man, Stephen King, has gone on to write more than 60 books, and many have been turned into such films as “The Shining” and “Shawshank Redemption.” Jeffrey Brown spoke with King about his latest book, “You Like It Darker,” and the long arc of his career. It's part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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Dante. Part two, Resurrection
Interweaving soaring scenes from the second and third parts of The Divine Comedy with key events of Dante’s biography, Part Two chronicles the poet’s journey up the mountain of Purgatory and the heavenly spheres of Paradise -- then goes on to explore the impact and afterlife of the poet’s great masterpiece, from his death in 1321 down to the present.
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Dante. Part one, The inferno
Part One: The Inferno (1216-1308) explores the turbulent background of medieval Florence from 1216 to Dante's birth in 1265, and chronicles Dante’s childhood, education and early career as a poet and politician -- culminating in his exile in 1302, and his decision to write The Divine Comedy -- plunging from there into the mysterious world of the poem itself, and Dante’s descent into the inferno.
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Beyond the spotlight. LeVar Burton
Inspired by his mother to be 'of service', LeVar Burton entered the seminary at 13 years old. But after deciding the church didn't have the answers to his many questions about life, he changed his focus to theater arts, ultimately becoming known for Roots, Reading Rainbow, and Star Trek.
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Great performances. Episode 3, Aaron Copland : dean of American music
Scott Yoo and friends spend a month each year teaching students, just as Aaron Copland did during his career. Together they'll play Copland's music to learn how he drew from his roots and American folk songs to invent the American sound.
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Great performances. Episode 4, New American voices
Scott Yoo meets and plays with modern masters. Sergio Assad shows him how Brazilian music inspires his work, now staples of the classical canon. Reena Esmail draws from traditional Indian rhythms and scales to create her signature sound.
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Art21. Season 11, Episode three, Friends & strangers
Four acclaimed contemporary artists look inside and outside their immediate social circles to find emotional connection and build community, creating poignant performances, sculptures, drawings and films. Resisting the growing isolation of life in the United States, the artists imagine new stories to tell about themselves and their communities. Includes celebrated filmmaker Miranda July.
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Finding your roots. Season 9, episode 9, Anchormen
Henry Louis Gates introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them. Exploring archives across Europe, America and the Caribbean, Gates takes his guests from cotton plantations in Arkansas to rural villages in Cuba, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that, one day, their descendants might thrive.
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