Arts and Entertainment Network.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
1968: in that single year, MLK and RFK were assassinated, Chicago rioted, Nixon triumphed, and Tet exploded. The top music acts were the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Man circled the Moon. From Civil Rights to Vietnam, from rock & roll to rocket science, 1968 stands out as a concentrated dose of everything we think of as the Sixties.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Long before his iconic acting career, Tony Danza received a degree in education. Teach: Tony Danza chronicles the experience of the veteran film, television and stage star as he returns to his roots to take on his toughest role yet, as a first-year teacher at Philadelphia's largest urban high school.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
America's unique form of democracy separates power among three branches of government: the legislative, judicial and executive. The President of the United States, who heads the executive branch, holds the position that most embodies the aspirations of the American people. Join HISTORY for a fresh perspective on how the Oval Office has evolved over the past 200 years through stories about and learn about the 43 men who have served as Commander in...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Every line on the U.S. map tells a great story: California's border was bent to claw onto lucrative gold deposits ... Oklahoma's panhandle reflects a shifting national barometer for legal slavery ... Kentucy, Tennessee and Virginia's shared border traces the scar of a meteor impact. The segments reveal the larger story of what makes America unique: a range of natural resources, a history of social experimentation, and a thriving democracy.
13) Roots
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil war. Based on Alex Haley₂s best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
14) The prisoner
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Four episodes from the television series about a man who, after resigning from a top-secret position, is abducted from his London home and kept prisoner in a mysterious place called The Village.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Where in Washington DC is the nation's most incredible treasure chest? It's a library unlike any other in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Modern Marvels explodes the myth that this 200 year old institution is simply "where members of Congress borrow books". Viewers are taken beyond the magnificent Jefferson Building Great Hall into the secret vaults where more than 600 miles of shelves hold 130 million items, many of them...
16) Big driver
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tess Thorne, a famous writer, faces a long drive home following a book signing. On a lonely New England road, her tire blows out, leaving her stranded. Relieved when another driver stops and offers assistance, Tess quickly discovers her savior is actually a serial killer who assaults her. Left for dead, Tess escapes, determined to find her attacker and seek revenge.
17) The world wars
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Benito Mussolini. Winston Churchill. Charles de Gaulle. George Patton. Before they were the giants of WWII, they were infantrymen and privates in WWI, the war to end all wars. The story of the devastating three decades of twentieth-century world war is told through the eyes of the men whose characters were forged in the trenches before they commanded a world on the brink of disaster.
18) LennoNYC
Publisher
A&E Television Network
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
As the world remembered John Lennon on what would have been his 70th birthday, and the 30th anniversary of his death, a new film takes an intimate look at the time Lennon, Yoko Ono, and their son, Sean, spent living in New York City during the 1970s. Featuring never-before-heard studio recordings and never-before-seen outtakes from Lennon in concert and home movies.