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This 53 minute program - narrated by actor John Hurt - chronicles the story of Jupiter starting with Galileo Galilei's Jupiter observations in the 1600's through the impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on July 16-22, 1994. Computer animations and information are provided to give the viewer a solid background on the significance of Galileo's encounter with Jupiter. Also featured are interviews with comet discoverers Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy, Caltech planetary scientist Andrew Ingersoll, Galileo Project Manager Bill O'Neil and other members of the Galileo mission team.
This episode will profile the Harrier, the revolutionary jet that hovers. With a camera mounted in the cockpit Wings viewers will get the pilot’s eye view of vertical landing amongst the trees aboard an aircraft carrier. This program will examine the aircafts role in both the war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands and the Gulf War. But mostly focuses on the view of the AV-8B in the U.S. Marines used in the first Gulf war.
This Emmy-award winning film gives a concise and analytical account of the first Nuremberg Trial and its twelve successors. It explores the trials against the background of the emerging Cold War and the shifting allegiances of former wartime allies and enemies in the immediate post-war period. Original black and white photography shot on location in New York, Washington, London and Nuremberg is combined with unseen archive images and the private photographs of prosecutors and defenders to create a memorable account of the trial of the century.
Coursing 4,000 miles through three countries, the Nile River sustains some of the world's richest wildlife habitats and has shaped the ways and beliefs of cultures since the beginning of recorded history. Narrated by Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham, this spectacular film takes you on an odyssey of exploration as you journey down the entire length of the Nile. Nile: River of Gods, an exploration of the Nile, its history and wildlife, is both a journey of discovery from the mountains of Central Africa to the teeming Egyptian Delta, and a voyage through time from the days of the earliest Pharaohs to the present. The life of the great river, depicted on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs, endures in the customs of the peoples of the Nile even today.
An in depth look at life aboard an aircraft carrier. Filmed aboard the U.S.S. Carl Vinson (CVN-70) as it embarked on its 6-month mission to enforce the "No-Fly Zone" over Kuwait.
Documentary re-creating the mysterious sinking of the cargo ship "Edmund Fitzgerald" on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior. Features dramatic re-enactments of events aboard the doomed ship, and actual live-action footage from a descent to the wreck during the summer of 1995.
