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Astronauts: Project Mercury, one of America's greatest milestones in the space race, served as the stepping stone for our knowledge of manned space flight. One of the earliest NASA edited films, this film documents the selection of the original 7 astronauts for the famed project. Watch as Slayton, Glenn, Shepard, Schirra, Grissom, Cooper and Carpenter undergo rigorous testing and training, both psychological and physical, to be among the first men...
162) Confrontation
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Imagine a confrontation of epic proportions that takes place around the globe and across the solar system, with the most powerful nations on earth on one side and a community of a few thousand people on the other. The Darkside Trilogy is born of the headlines of a generation and a tale nearly half a millenium in the making, with Confrontation bringing the story to its inevitable climax. Confrontation concludes a tale that began with a series of mysteries...
163) Undercover history
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Amelia Earhart: (May not be appropriate for sensitive audiences. Concerns plane crash.) Did she survive the crash and live out her final days as a castaway on a remote Pacific island? Did she, as others claim, crash in the Marshall Islands, get captured by the Japanese and get put to death as a spy? Or did Amelia return to the US under an assumed name -Irene Craigmile - yet deny it until the end?
Apollo: In July 1969, 600 million people around the...
164) Techno-logic-al
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How things work: The award-winning Tell Me Why series, based on the books by Arkady Leokum, gives informative and easy to understand answers to the many types of questions that children ask about everyday subjects, in an informative, easy to understand manner, aided by incredible visuals. This program answers questions such as "What is an electric eye?" "How does a television work?" "What makes a car go?" and "How does a washing machine work?"
Communication...
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