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"After 60 years this game-changing war still resonates today with the US troop presence in South Korea and the nascent nuclear threat from the North. This collection of documentary footage chronicles the roots of the conflict as it blossomed into a protracted war that took a heavy toll in American blood and treasure. The immediacy of combat and major conflicts are brought vividly to life capturing the impact of this war on a generation and an entire...

This video story not only traces the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Maya, but also follows the journeys, in 1839, of New York explorer John L. Stephens to these strange and wonderful cities. Using computer graphic reconstruction, animated maps, classic art, reanactment and beautiful on-location cinematography, the viewer sees Teotihuacan, Cholula, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, Tenochtitlian, Tikal, Copan, Uxmal, and Palenque as they might have looked...

The Salem witch trials were a series of prosecutions of men and women accused of witchcraft in the Massachusetts colony between February 1692 and May 1693. The townspeople accused more than 200 of their neighbors, finding 30 guilty and executing fourteen women and five men by hanging. At least five additional people died in jail. Delve deep into the case surrounding the deadliest example of witch hunt hysteria in the history of colonial North America,...

The Negro Leagues bring baseball to towns the major Leagues ignore. To delight the fans they develop an elaborate warm-up routine in pantomime; throwing and hitting an invisible ball. It's called "shadow ball."

The 1960s is a turbulent time for baseball as one by one its "sacred" institutions fall. First with Bill Mazeroski bringing down the the mighty Yankees with one dramatic home run. In 1961 Roger Maris pursues Babe Ruth's "untouchable" record. In 1962 the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants are replaced by the New York Mets who compile the worst single season record of the century.

In 1894, sportswriter Byron Bancroft Johnson takes over a struggling Western League and turns it into a financial success. In 1900, he changes its name to the American League and begins talking about challenging the National League. In 1903, the first World Series is played between the American League Boston Pilgrims and the National League Pittsburgh Pirates.

Immigrants to America eagerly root for baseball, but baseball is trying to endure a decade that includes the meanest, vilest, angriest player ever to step onto a field and a scandal that almost destroys the game.

A virtual walking tour of Venice, passing through many well-known locales, including Santa Croce, Dorsoduro, San Polo, Castello, San Marco, and the Grand Canal.

In a world filled with noise, there is another sound worth hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers. This introduces the world to the life and music of the multitalented 23-year-old musician and composer Rachel Flowers.

Examines the highest levels of research and evidence behind the safest known, therapeutically active medicine humanity has: cannabis.