Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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English
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Four-year-old Daniel Tiger invites young viewers directly into his world, giving them a kid's eye view of his life and making them feel like one of his neighbors. Episodes include: Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty; Daniel Goes to the Potty; Daniel Visits School; Daniel Visits the Doctor; Daniel Shares his Tigertastic Car; and more.
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English
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A guide to staying positive during stressful times! National bestselling author Judith Orloff M.D. presents new solutions for dealing with emotions in our hyper-tense world. Your possess the ability to liberate yourself from worry, anger, and fear. True emotional freedom is closer than you think.
5) Zoboomafoo
Series
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English
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A lively mix of animation, guessing games and songs create an energetic learning environment that will engage both parent and child alike.
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English
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Follows the career of Atlantic Records co-founder, Ahmet Ertegun, and examine Atlantic Records impact on the evolution of popular music while offering an insider's look at the recording industry from its infancy to today. Features rare clips, performances, and studios sessions of Atlantic recording artists.
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English
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The little-known story of the last all-black, publicly funded, coeducational boarding school north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In a segregated society, the Bordentown School was an educational utopia and cultural oasis for black citizens in the northeast and beyond for more than 70 years. Founded in 1886, and forced to close in 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the story of Bordentown is also the story of black education in America...
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English
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Daniel is so excited to learn that a new family is moving into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe! Watch as the Tiger Family and the entire Neighborhood welcomes the new arrivals and helps them adjust to their unfamiliar surroundings. Daniel even lends an extra hand to make Jodi Platypus, his new playmate, feel right at home.
13) Muhammad Ali
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English
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He was one of the best-known men of the 20th Century, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion who captivated millions of fans throughout the world with his mesmerizing combination of speed, grace, and power in the ring, and charm and playful boasting outside of it. At the height of his fame, he took American life, the racial prejudices, the religious biases, the role of celebrities, the role of sports in society, and refashioned it in his image....
17) Jackie Robinson
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English
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Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family members and rarely-seen photographs and film footage.
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English
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Tells the story of Whitney Young, who biographer Nancy Weiss Malkiel called 'the inside man of the black revolution.' A social worker who became the executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to his death in 1971, he was denigrated by black power advocates, but by challenging America's business and political communities directly, Young was able to make in-roads where other civil rights leader could not.
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English
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"Explores the expertly gathered opinions of Muslims around the globe as revealed in the world's first major opinion poll, conducted by Gallup, the preeminent polling organization. The poll, a window into the hearts and minds of the world's more than 1.3 billion Muslims in more than 35 predominantly Muslim countries, the US and Europe, provides a way to understand what ordinary Muslims think and why. The film--focused on the Gallup findings regarding...
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English
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"A rich and nuanced portrait of the woman known as a conductor of the Underground Railroad who repeatedly risked her life and freedom to liberate others from slavery. Born in Dorchester County, Maryland 200 years ago -- 2022 marks her bicentennial -- Tubman escaped north to Philadelphia in 1849, covering more than 100 miles alone. Once there, she became involved in the abolitionist movement and, through the Underground Railroad, guided an estimated...