Daniel B. Polin
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Up to 30,000 Jews may have fled to Europe's forests, arming themselves to fight the Nazis, with rebellions in other ghettos and in some camps. Rare archival footage, historical photographs, and original artwork by partisan fighter Alexander Bogen document the lost history.
2) Building Alaska ; co-producer, Libby Kreutz ; executive producers, Kenneth Mandel, Daniel B. Polin
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"From the Emmy Award® winning and Oscar® nominated producers of the four-part PBS series Great Projects: The Building of America, now comes Building Alaska, a century-long journey with the dedicated and visionary men and women who built Alaska's great engineering projects in the coldest, most remote and forbidding part of the United States. This feature-length documentary tells the stories of the great railroads and highways of the late 19th and...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Language
English
Description
An account of the United States' war with Spain beginning in 1898 which eventually led to U.S. control of Cuba and the Philippines, and later resulted in the independence of those two countries. Explains the United States' experiment in imperialism, which it later decided against.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the trial of Saddam Hussein and the conflict between Iraq's new political leaders, who wanted the former dictator tried, convicted, and executed as quickly as possible and the American lawyers sent to provide guidance in establishing a lawful judicial system and conducting a fair trial. Includes trial footage, secretly recorded cell-phone videos, and interviews with trial participants.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This landmark documentary series highlights major achievements of engineers in the progress of America. From the dazzling statue of New York's George Washington Bridge to the immense, awe-inspiring expanse of Nevada's Hoover Dam, viewers will be inspired by the triumph of technology over landscape and its impact on our daily lives.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"... examines the colorful characters and historic events surrounding this 100-year-old war and its relevance through the 20th century. Using reenactments, interviews with noted authors and popular historians, and more than a dozen newly arranged popular songs from the period, Crucible of empire looks at the influence of race, economics, new technologies and the news media on America's decision to go to war"--Container.