N.Y.) WNET (Television station : New York
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Focuses on 1955, the last year of James Dean's life, when he made the three films that brought him fame: East of Eden, Rebel without a cause, and Giant. Uses film clips, behind-the-scenes footage, archival photos, and on-camera interviews with colleagues, including Mark Rydell, Martin Landau, Eartha Kitt, Lois Smith, Dennis Stock, and Corey Allen, to reveal the person behind the archetypal on-screen adolescent rebel.
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Wolves hunted buffalo across the vast plains until the westward settlement saw the virtual extinction of these vast herds and their eternal predators, the wolves. However, this ancient relationship continues uninterrupted in just one location-in a place called Wood Buffalo National Park. By getting to know the individual wolves in a specific pack, and following them as they hunt, viewers will get a sense of how these two animal species coexist in...
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Contemporary Americans and Britons spend five months on an isolated stretch of the Maine coast recreating the life of American colonists in the year 1628. The modern colonists struggle to create a functioning and profitable colony using only the tools and technology of that era. Extensive research went into recreating this 17th-century environment in which the colonists negotiate personal and communal challenges as they deal with the demoralizing...
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The Himalayas are defined by superlatives. They defy both description and comprehension while at the same time teaching us about the awesome power and grandeur of nature. Born during the ice ages, they form the highest mountain range in the world, and reach across Asia for two thousand miles. The mountains themselves are considered sacred. These are mountains that will take your breath away!
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Beginning in the '50s, American and Soviet scientists engaged in a dangerous race to see who could build and detonate the world's largest bomb. The results exceeded all expectations about how big a bomb could be built. Following is an epic story where the United States led the way, but then left the field clear for the Soviet Union to break all records.
10) Tall blondes
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This personal odyssey takes a surprising and revealing look at the magnificent giraffe.
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Climb on board the cruise ship Oceanos as it rapidly sinks in tumultuous water near South Africa. Explore the treacherous boundary between oceans and land where wind surfers risk their lives in the shark-infested waters near Maui. Watch as U.S. Coastguard students are put to the test in the deadly waves of Cape Disappointment. And meet the terrifying tidal bore called the Black Dragonin China.
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Oceans cover more than 70 percent of our planet and contain 90 percent of life on earth, yet they remain the most treacherous and alien part of our environment. In this program, see a tornadic water spout smash through buildings in Florida, witness a frantic search for a tiny baby who was swept from a woman's arms during a mudslide in Southern California, learn the tragic details of a vicious cyclone in Bangladesh that caused the raging sea to swallow...
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Enter stories of the most unlikely cross-species relationships imaginable: a chimp bottle-feeding tiger cub, a giant tortoise snuggling with a baby hippo, a black crow parenting a meerkat. Look at these remarkable relationships first hand, and through caregivers, biologists, and animal behaviorists. Explore what they suggest about the nature of animal emotions.
20) Penguins
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Well-loved and well-dressed, the penguin is popularly known as awkward and comical. But the complete story is not so black and white. The closer you get to penguins, the more these "strange birds" will surprise you.