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Film, Video1964
1964 | Nineteen sixty-four | Nineteen hundred sixty-four Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammad Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based...- Contributor: Margolis, Jon - PBS Distribution (Firm) - Wgbh (Television Station : Boston, Mass.) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Ives, Stephen - Pollak, Amanda - Platt, Oliver - American Experience Films - Insignia Films
- Date: 2014
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Film, VideoThe big burn
American experience Catalog Record Only Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th...- Contributor: PBS Distribution (Firm) - Wgbh (Television Station : Boston, Mass.) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Pollak, Amanda - Ives, Stephen - Young, Andrew L. - Platt, Oliver - American Experience Films - Insignia Films - Egan, Timothy - Rundquist, Peter
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoThe poisoner's handbook Catalog Record Only Tells the story of the dawn of forensic investigation, focusing on a number of cases of death by poisoning as well as accidental death by exposure to deadly chemicals. Examines the pioneering efforts of New York's first medical examiner Charles Norris and his assistant, toxicologist Alexander Gettler.
- Contributor: Wgbh (Television Station : Boston, Mass.) - Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) - Apograph Productions - Ferrari, Michelle - Blum, Deborah - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - PBS Distribution (Firm) - Platt, Oliver - American Experience Films - Rapley, Rob
- Date: 2014