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Sæsoner 2013
2013x1
Devil Clouds: Tornadoes Strike Nebraska
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Jan 28, 2013
Easter Sunday 1913 dawned as a spring-like day of celebration. It ended as a day of mourning. With little warning, seven tornados roared through eastern Nebraska, turning this into the .. show full overview
2013x2
Cuba's Secret Side: Under the Radar
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Feb 01, 2013
Cubans joke that the revolution has had three great successes: education, health care, and social equality; and three failures: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Cuba’s Secret Side .. show full overview
2013x3
Cuba's Secret Side: The Truth Revealed
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Feb 01, 2013
Cuba’s Secret Side also looks at the Cubans themselves for a better understanding of this complicated island. The documentary illustrates Cuban personality through in-depth stories of .. show full overview
2013x4
After Newtown: Guns in America
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Feb 19, 2013
Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th Century immigrant riots to gangland violence in .. show full overview
2013x5
After Newtown: The Path to Violence
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Feb 20, 2013
Ever since the wake-up call that was Columbine, schools and law enforcement have developed multiple strategies to prevent attacks. Indeed, the horror of Newtown must be seen in a context .. show full overview
2013x6
A Norway Passage: The Most Beautiful Voyage
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Feb 27, 2013
A Norway Passage is the story of a voyage - a beautiful voyage along more than 1,100 miles of Norway's spectacular coastline on the Hurtigruten ship Nordnorge. Deep fjords, crashing .. show full overview
2013x7
Battle for the Elephants
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Feb 27, 2013
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2013x8
Brewed in Brooklyn
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Mar 16, 2013
Explore the origins of the brewing industry in Brooklyn from early 1800s and meet modern day craft brewers and home brewers who are helping to transform the borough. The film features .. show full overview
2013x9
Girl Model
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Mar 24, 2013
Girl Model strips away the façade of the modeling industry by following two people whose lives intersect because of it. Ashley is a deeply conflicted American model scout, and .. show full overview
2013x10
Fort Peck Dam
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Apr 01, 2013
Construction of the colossal dam at Fort Peck, Montana manifested the promise of America, as the country faced a human crisis of unprecedented proportions. 75 years after its completion, .. show full overview
2013x11
Pride & Joy: A Southern Foodways Alliance Feature Film
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Apr 14, 2013
In this hour-long documentary, director Joe York on behalf of the Southern Foodways Alliance focuses on the tradition-bearers of Southern food culture. The film presents intimate .. show full overview
2013x12
The Central Park Five
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Apr 16, 2013
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE film explores the story of the miscarriage of justice that engulfed Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise, the black and .. show full overview
2013x13
Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope
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Apr 23, 2013
Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope is the untold story of Colonel Ilan Ramon, a fighter pilot and son of Holocaust survivors who became the first and only astronaut from Israel, .. show full overview
2013x14
Bugging Hitler's Soldiers
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Maj 01, 2013
Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW’s revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that .. show full overview
2013x15
10 Buildings That Changed America
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Maj 12, 2013
10 Buildings that Changed America presents 10 trend-setting works of architecture that have shaped and inspired our American landscape. These aren’t just historic structures by famous .. show full overview
2013x16
Guts With Michael Mosley
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Maj 17, 2013
Join British journalist and physician Michael Mosley to uncover the secret life of the human digestive tract in this eye-opening and detailed exploration of a part of the body we seldom .. show full overview
2013x17
The Ghost Army
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Maj 23, 2013
During World War II, a hand-picked group of American GI's undertook a bizarre mission: create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the Nazi German Army as their audience.
2013x18
Electrified: The Guitar Revolution
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Jun 07, 2013
Featuring professional musicians and historians, this captivating film tells the story of the electric guitar, the instrument that transformed popular music in the twentieth century. In .. show full overview
2013x19
Secrets of Hampton Court: Henry VIII's Palace
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Jun 30, 2013
Hampton Court is the ultimate royal pleasure palace, embodying an indulgent and grandiose lifestyle built by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and furthered by King Henry VIII. Its many rooms chart .. show full overview
2013x20
Magic Skies: A History of Fireworks
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Jul 01, 2013
Fireworks enchant our senses – for a short but wonderful moment. Old family businesses have saved the tradition of fireworks to the present day. The film shows how this art form has .. show full overview
2013x21
Katmai: Alaska's Wild Peninsula
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Jul 05, 2013
A narrow frontier between warm and cold latitudes extends 500 miles from the Alaskan mainland, separating the tempestuous Bering Sea from the Pacific: the Alaska Peninsula, a .. show full overview
2013x22
Secrets of Althorp: The Spencers
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Jul 07, 2013
Step inside the family home of Diana, Princess of Wales. Nestled on over 14,000 acres of English countryside is Althorp House, the childhood home and final resting place of Diana, .. show full overview
2013x23
Secrets of Chatsworth
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Jul 14, 2013
In its 500-year history, Chatsworth has been home to some notable inhabitants, among them the 5th Duke of Devonshire, his wife, Lady Georgiana Spencer, and Lady Elizabeth Foster, who .. show full overview
2013x24
Secrets of Highclere Castle
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Jul 21, 2013
For centuries, Highclere Castle has been the real-life home of the aristocratic Carnarvon family, and has entertained Kings and Queens of England along with a host of nobilities and celebrities.
2013x25
Cosplay: Crafting a Secret Identity
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Jul 28, 2013
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2013x26
Vince Gilligan: Creator of Breaking Bad
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Jul 31, 2013
Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad and producer of The X-Files, is interviewed by Charlie Rose at the Museum of the Moving Image. Vince overviews his history in the television .. show full overview
2013x27
W.L Dow, Architect
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Aug 13, 2013
Wallace Dow has been referred to as the "Builder on the Prairie" and was considered the premier architect of South Dakota in the late 19th century. "W.L. Dow, Architect" is a documentary .. show full overview
2013x28
The Campaign
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Aug 13, 2013
The Campaign follows the people behind California’s historic “No on 8″ campaign to defend same-sex marriage, interwoven with the national history of same-sex relationship recognition .. show full overview
2013x29
The March
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Aug 23, 2013
Called the definitive documentary on the 1963 March on Washington, this commemorative special from PBS marks the 50th anniversary of a landmark moment in the civil rights movement. This .. show full overview
2013x30
Modernist Maverick
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Sep 01, 2013
American architect William L. Pereira designed structures and places around the world ranging from San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: .. show full overview
2013x31
Skeletons of the Sahara
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Sep 25, 2013
Explorer and scientist Paul Sereno made an extraordinary discovery in the middle of the Sahara desert: While prospecting for dinosaur bones, he stumbled across an ancient human cemetery .. show full overview
2013x32
The Illness and the Odyssey
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Okt 05, 2013
A medical mystery, THE ILLNESS & THE ODYSSEY tracks the pursuit of a possible clue to a cure for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological wasting diseases which may be related to .. show full overview
2013x33
Last Will. & Testament
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Okt 15, 2013
Was Will Shakespeare, the grain dealer from Stratford, really the literary icon we celebrate today?
2013x34
Held Hostage:The In Amenas Ordeal
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Okt 22, 2013
Held Hostage is the real and terrifying story of ordinary foreign workers who came face to face with Al Qaeda at the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January 2013. The attack left over .. show full overview
2013x35
Secrets of the Tower of London
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Okt 27, 2013
Unlock doors to secret rooms and learn surprising facts about the famous Tower of London. Standing guard over the city of London for nearly 1,000 years, the formidable Tower has been a .. show full overview
2013x36
Secrets of Selfridges
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Nov 03, 2013
Two words are synonymous with Selfridges: luxury and London. However, Selfridges was the brain child of an American-Mr. Harry Gordon Selfridge-whose life is depicted in the current .. show full overview
2013x37
The Kennedy Half Century
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Nov 04, 2013
Based on Professor Larry J. Sabato’s new book, also titled The Kennedy Half Century, the documentary features interviews with major political and media figures, including Bob Schieffer, .. show full overview
2013x38
Split Rock, The Superior Light
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Nov 12, 2013
Split Rock, The Superior Light relates the saga of the most visited and most photographed lighthouse on the Great Lakes. From the challenges of construction to the isolated life of the .. show full overview
2013x39
Natural Beekeeping
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Nov 12, 2013
To help promote his all-natural approach, 40 year beekeeper Jerry Dunbar participated in the creation of this video series demonstrating his practices and the life cycle of a healthy .. show full overview
2013x40
Secrets of Scotland Yard
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Nov 17, 2013
Get inside the most famous police headquarters in the world. No police institution in the world captures the public imagination in quite the same way as Scotland Yard. Today, the name is .. show full overview
2013x41
Lincoln at Gettysburg
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Nov 19, 2013
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln proved himself a master of a new frontier with his “high-tech” command center — the War Department Telegraph Office, America’s first “Situation Room.” The .. show full overview
2013x42
Comet Encounter - ISON's Brush with the Sun
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Nov 20, 2013
Comets have fascinated, even terrified us for thousands of years. For scientists though, comets are a great opportunity. This year, 2013, a particularly massive chunk of ice and rock is .. show full overview
2013x43
Silent Night
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Dec 13, 2013
The Minnesota Opera’s production of Kevin Puts’ Silent Night, a company commission which earned its composer the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music, recounts a miraculous moment of peace during one of the bloodiest wars in human history.
2013x44
How Sherlock Changed the World Part 1
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Dec 17, 2013
HOW SHERLOCK CHANGED THE WORLD will demonstrate how the legacy of Holmes, as the first crime profiler, was not solely a reservoir of brilliant stories and wonderfully drawn characters, .. show full overview
2013x45
How Sherlock Changed the World Part 2
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Dec 17, 2013
Conclusion. How the investigative techniques used by the fictional Sherlock Holmes influenced real-life criminal investigations. Included: remarks from forensic scientists, including Dr. Henry Lee, and author Anthony Horowitz ("The House of Silk").
2013x46 Sæsonafslutning
Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913
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Dec 17, 2013
Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913 explores an epic labor strike that devastated Michigan's Copper Country-and haunts the American labor movement to this day. Produced and .. show full overview

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