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  • Premiered: Feb 1964
  • Episodes: 464
  • Followers: 15
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Season 2005
2005x16
Do You Speak American?
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Jan 05, 2005
Journalist Robert MacNeil travels across the USA to observe the current state of the spoken American English language.
2005x2
California Dreamin': The Songs of 'The Mamas & the Papas'
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Mar 01, 2005
California Dreamin': The Songs of the Mamas & the Papas is a one-hour documentary prepared for public television, to be shown during pledge drives to get those baby boomers to call in .. show full overview
2005x3
Great Cities of Europe
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Mar 05, 2005
Explore some of the very best sites, sounds and tastes Europe has to offer. This series takes you from one European hot spot to the next, introducing you to famous landmarks as well as great places to sleep, eat and soak up the culture.
2005x17 Season finale
Krakatoa
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Apr 26, 2005
Using dramatic recreations and CGI, the program brings the May 20, 1883, eruption to life. The eruption reduced the island of Krakatoa to a third of its former size and sent waves that .. show full overview
2005x5
St. Helens: Out of the Ash
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May 17, 2005
It was the "perfect mountain", a shapely peak dubbed the Fuji of the West. 9,677 feet of snow-capped grandeur in the heart of the Cascade Range. On May 18, 1980 Mt. St. Helens captured .. show full overview
2005x6
Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk
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Jun 23, 2005
In this revealing documentary, veteran correspondent John Merrow takes you behind the ivy-covered walls of our colleges and universities to see if they are delivering on their promise.
2005x7
Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest
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Sep 28, 2005
Since the early 20th century, musicians have come together in the name of human rights to fight war, hunger, corruption, oppression, AIDS, apartheid, and Third World debt. From single .. show full overview
2005x8
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation
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Sep 29, 2005
A defining chapter in America's past, the '60s shaped a generation and sculpted a political landscape that can still be seen today. The story of the '60s is illuminated with images of .. show full overview
2005x9
Helen of Troy
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Oct 12, 2005
Acclaimed presenter of historic documentaries, Bettany Hughes, embarks on a journey across the eastern Mediterranean to discover the truth about HELEN OF TROY, the woman blamed for .. show full overview
2005x10
A Cemetery Special
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Oct 26, 2005
A Cemetery Special is a 2005 PBS television documentary film by Rick Sebak of WQED. The documentary profiles cemeteries and cemetery-related businesses and events across the United .. show full overview
2005x11
Global Warming: The Signs and the Science
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Nov 02, 2005
This documentary profiles people who are living with the grave consequences of a changing climate, as well as the individuals, communities and scientists inventing new approaches to .. show full overview
2005x12
Guns, Germs and Steel: Out of Eden
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Nov 07, 2005
Jared Diamond’s journey of discovery began on the island of Papua New Guinea. There, in 1974, a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question: “Why is it that you .. show full overview
2005x13
Guns, Germs and Steel: Conquest
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Nov 07, 2005
On November 15th 1532, 168 Spanish conquistadors arrive in the holy city of Cajamarca, at the heart of the Inca Empire, in Peru. They are exhausted, outnumbered and terrified – ahead .. show full overview
2005x14
Guns, Germs and Steel: Into the Tropics
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Nov 07, 2005
So far, Jared Diamond has demonstrated how geography favoured one group of people – Europeans – endowing them with agents of conquest ahead of their rivals around the world. Guns, germs .. show full overview
2005x15
Window to the Sea
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Dec 28, 2005
A portrait of 4 US aquariums: Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois; Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California; New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts; and Waikiki Aquarium in Honolulu, Hawaii. Nararted by Phil Knoerzer

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