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American Experience - Alexander Hamilton
American Experience - Alexander Hamilton - 1 DVD - 120 Minutes Episodes - DVD Street Release Date: May 15, 2007 - dvdtvshows.com status: In Stock Item. - One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of stubbornness, extreme candor and arrogance. His life and career were marked by a stunning rise to power, scandal and tragedy. But his contributions survive. As Secretary of the Treasury during the tumultuous early years of the republic, Hamilton led the transformation of the young country into industrial powerhouse. / Rating:NR / List Price: $24.99 | SAVE NOW Click Here to See Current Discount Prices - Shipped by Amazon.com |
American Experience - Annie Oakley
"American Experience - Annie Oakley - 1 DVD - 60 Minutes - DVD Street Release Date: November 14, 2006 - dvdtvshows.com status: In Stock Item. Usually ships on the next weekday. - Described as ""the greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever produced,"" Annie Oakley thrilled audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her daring shooting feats. Over time she became an American legend. But that legend had little to do with the real Annie Oakley. /" List Price: $19.99 | SAVE NOW Click Here to See Current Discount Prices - Shipped by Amazon.com |
American Experience - Ansel Adams
American Experience - Ansel Adams - 1 DVD - 90 Minutes - 1 Episodes - DVD Street Release Date: September 28, 2004 - dvdtvshows.com status: In Stock Item. Usually ships within 2 days. - Few American artists have reached a wider audience, or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime, than Ansel Adams. None has had more profound impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent, or done more to transform how people think and feel about the meaning of the natural world. The timeless photographs of Ansel Adams have made him one of the most recognized and admired names in art. A staunch environmentalist, the pictures that Adams took reflected a larger world view the photographer held to strongly. This intimate look at the artist and his work was produced for the PBS series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and was directed by Ric Burns, who created the powerful series on the city of New York. Narrated by David Ogden Stiers. / From 2002 / List Price: $19.99 | SAVE NOW Click Here to See Current Discount Prices - Shipped by Amazon.com |
American Experience - Ansel Adams
ON MORATORIUM - Sorry, The Studio Has Withdrawn This Title - We can no longer get it for you. - Please see the replacement PBS Paramount Title - American Experience - Ansel Adams - 1 DVD - 90 Minutes - 1 Episodes - DVD Street Release Date: January 14, 2003 - dvdtvshows.com status: ON MORATORIUM - Sorry, The Studio Has Withdrawn This Title - We can no longer get it for you. - Please see the replacement PBS Paramount Title - Few American artists have reached a wider audience, or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime, than Ansel Adams. None has had more profound impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent, or done more to transform how people think and feel about the meaning of the natural world. The timeless photographs of Ansel Adams have made him one of the most recognized and admired names in art. A staunch environmentalist, the pictures that Adams took reflected a larger world view the photographer held to strongly. This intimate look at the artist and his work was produced for the PBS series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and was directed by Ric Burns, who created the powerful series on the city of New York. Narrated by David Ogden Stiers. / From 2002 / List Price: $15.98 | SAVE NOW Click Here to See Current Discount Prices - Shipped by Amazon.com |
American Experience - Donner Party
"American Experience - Donner Party - 1 DVD - 82 Minutes - 1 Episodes - DVD Street Release Date: September 28, 2004 - dvdtvshows.com status: In Stock Item. Usually ships within 2 days. - From the PBS series 'The American Experience' comes this harrowing tale of survival. Like many others with the pioneering spirit, the Donner party headed west for California in 1846, following their American Dream. Hitting difficult terrain and even more difficult weather, they were forced into some of the most excruciating survival techniques known to man, and their name has become synonymous with their hardship and their curse. Of all the 19th-century pioneer stories, none exerts such a powerful hold on the American imagination as the tale of the Donner Party in the high Sierra Nevadas in the winter of 1846. That June, George and Jacob Donner, James Frazier Reed, and their families headed for the ""Promised Land"" in California, 2,000 miles away. Theirs was a prosperous caravan that would swell to more than 87 men, women, and children. / A film by Ric Burns. / From 1992 /" List Price: $19.99 | SAVE NOW Click Here to See Current Discount Prices - Shipped by Amazon.com |
American Experience - Jesse James
American Experience - Jesse James - 1 DVD - 60 Minutes - DVD Street Release Date: November 14, 2006 - dvdtvshows.com status: In Stock Item. Usually ships on the next weekday. - The story of Jesse James remains one of America's most cherished and wrong-headed myths. Less heroic than brutal, James was a product of the American Civil War; a Confederate partisan of expansive ambition and cunning, who helped invent his own valiant legend. A member of a vicious band of Missouri guerrillas during the war, James sought redemption afterwards, but, rode further from it, redeeming instead the glorious memory of the Old South. / List Price: $19.99 | SAVE NOW Click Here to See Current Discount Prices - Shipped by Amazon.com |
American Experience - New York - Center of the World
"American Experience - New York - Center of the World - 1 DVD - 180 Minutes - 1 Episodes - DVD Street Release Date: September 28, 2004 - dvdtvshows.com status: In Stock Item. Usually ships within 2 days. - American Experience - New York - Center of the World – 1946-2003 - A film by Ken Burns - / Includes: 1. Prologue: The Center of the World [4:16] / 2. Introduction: The Twin Towers [10:20] / 3. New World Order [3:38] / 4. Saving Lower Manhattan [8:03] / 5. The Port Authority Takes Charge [9:17] / 6. The New Jersey Problem [3:47] / 7. The Tallest Buildings in the World [14:09] / 8. ""Here Lies Mr. Small Businessman"" [12:53] / 9. Into the Air [15:43] / 10. Topping Out and Bottoming Out [14:48] / 1. Among the Clouds [16:07] / 2. The Center of the World [11:37] / 3. 9/11 [33:29] / 4. Epilogue [15:53] /" List Price: $24.99 | SAVE NOW Click Here to See Current Discount Prices - Shipped by Amazon.com |
American Experience - RFK (Robert F. Kennedy)
"American Experience - RFK (Robert F. Kennedy) - 1 DVD - 120 Minutes - 1 Episodes - DVD Street Release Date: October 5, 2004 - dvdtvshows.com status: Special Order, may be ordered now. Please allow an additional 3 days for delivery. - RFK, a new biography of Robert F. Kennedy written and directed by David Grubin for American Experience, takes as its theme lines from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory: ""He who learns must suffer."" This program looks at his remarkable and tragic life and the pivotal roles he played in many of the major events that defined the 1960s including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement, and the war in Vietnam. / Rated PG /" List Price: $19.99 | SAVE NOW Click Here to See Current Discount Prices - Shipped by Amazon.com |