Description |
1 online resource (577 min.) |
Series |
World history in video.
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Contents |
Episode 1. Wright brothers ; Jane Fonda ; Albert Einstein ; Queen Elizabeth II ; Martin Luther King Jr. -- Episode 2. Babe Ruth ; Oprah Winfrey ; Ernest Shakleton ; Barbra Streisand ; Queen Elizabeth II (part II) -- Episode 3. Muhammad Ali ; Indira Gandhi ; Alfred Hitchcock ; Elizabeth Taylor ; Nelson Mandela -- Episode 4. Dame Nellie Melba ; Pablo Picasso ; Richard Branson ; Marilyn Monroe ; Nelson Mandela (part II)-- Episode 5. Rupert Murdoch ; The Beatles ; Simone de Beauvior ; Margaret Thatcher ; Marilyn Monroe (part II) -- Episode 6. Salvador Dali ; Dolly Patron ; Jesse Owens ; Humphrey Bogart ; Margaret Thatcher (part II) -- Episode 7. Anita Roddick ; Charlie Chaplin ; Vivienne Westwood ; Abdel Nasser ; Neil Armstrong -- Episode 8. Amelia Earhart ; George Lucas ; Annika Sörenstam ; Grace Kelly ; Abdel Nassar (part II) -- Episode 9. Vivien Leigh ; Jack Dempsey ; Anne Frank ; Princess Diana ; Jimmy Carter -- Episode 10. Aung San Suu Kyi ; Danny Kaye ; Martina Navratilova ; George Bernard Shaw ; Princess Diana -- Episode 11. Firgure Skating champions ; Guglielmo Marconi ; Audrey Hepburn ; Sir Winston Churchill ; George Bernard Shaw (part II) -- Episode 12. Mother Teresa ; Manolo Blahnik ; Dame Vera Lyn ; Edmund Hillary ; Sir Winston Churchill (part II) -- Episode 13. Rudyard Kipling ; Judy Garland ; Michael Schumacher ; John F. Kennedy ; Luciano Pavarotti -- Episode 14. Edith Piaf ; Tiger Woods ; Eleanor Roosevelt ; Walt Disney ; John F. Kennedy Jr. (part II) -- Episode 15. Diane Keaton ; Pelé ; Frida Kahlo ; Mikhail Gorbachev ; Thomas Edison -- Episode 16. Marie Curie ; Sophia Loren ; Robert Goddard ; Arthur Miller ; Mikhail Gorbachev (part II) -- Episode 17. Golda Mier ; Marcel Marceau ; Julie Andrews ; Elvis Presley ; Arthur Miller (part II) -- Episode 18. Helen Keller ; Barbara Walters ; Bill Gates ; Suffragettes ; Elvis Presley (part II) -- Episode 19. Hanan Ashrawi ; Steven Spielberg ; J.K. Rowling ; Roger Bannister ; Suffragettes (part II) -- Episode 20. David Beckham ; Peter Sellers ; Jean Batten ; William Jefferson Clinton ; Dame Judi Dench -- Episode 21. Mick Jagger ; Noel Coward ; Nancy Astor ; Cary Grant ; William Jefferson Clinton (part II) -- Episode 22. Mahatma Gandhi ; Johnny Cash ; Beatrix Potter ; Benazir Bhutto ; Katherine Hepburn -- Episode 23. Yuri Gagrin ; Patti Smith ; Magic Johnson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Hedy Lamarr -- Episode 24. Bette Davis ; Joe Louis ; Madonna ; Orson Welles ; Benjamin Franklin -- Episode 25. Carole King ; Jack Nicklaus ; Marlene Dietrich ; Paul Robeson ; Yitzhak Rabin -- Episode 26. Woody Allen ; Xanana Gusmao ; Laurence Olivier ; Mary Pickford ; Joe DiMaggio |
Summary |
The greats celebrates the legacy of the world's notable exponents of art, science, entertainment, and pays tribute to those explorers, adventurers and leaders whose world-changing exploits have secured their place in the history books |
Notes |
Previously released on DVD |
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Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011) |
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English |
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Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997
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Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022
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Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
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Clinton, Bill, 1946-
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
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Fonda, Jane, 1937-
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Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich, 1934-1968.
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Gandhi, Indira, 1917-1984 -- Assassination
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination
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Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
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Wright, Orville, 1871-1948.
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Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912.
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SUBJECT |
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 fast |
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Clinton, Bill, 1946- fast |
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Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997 fast |
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 fast |
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Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022 fast |
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Fonda, Jane, 1937- fast |
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Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich, 1934-1968 fast |
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Gandhi, Indira, 1917-1984 fast |
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 fast |
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 fast |
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Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 fast |
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Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 fast |
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Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 fast |
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
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Mount Everest Expedition (1953) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96120624
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Yalta Conference (1945 : I︠A︡lta, Ukraine) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81079448
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom fast |
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Mount Everest Expedition (1976) fast |
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Yalta Conference fast |
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Cold War.
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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
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El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
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Israel-Arab War, 1967.
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Israel-Arab War, 1973.
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Rivonia Trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1964.
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Space vehicles -- Landing -- Moon.
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Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Assassination
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Space vehicles -- Landing
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Suffrage
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Egypt
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Great Britain
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Moon
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South Africa -- Pretoria
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Genre/Form |
Documentary
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History
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Documentary.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Stanton, John, 1944-
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Thomson, Andrew, producer
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