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2003
2003x1
Avoiding Armageddon, Part 1, Silent Killers: Poisons and Plagues
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Biological and chemical weapons such as sarin, anthrax, plague, smallpox, and VX gas can claim more lives over greater distances than a nuclear bomb—and are easier to make and use. This .. show full overview
2003x2
Avoiding Armageddon, Part 2, Nuclear Nightmares: Losing Control
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The demise of the Soviet Union put an end to fears of a global nuclear war between the superpowers, but it also means that control of the Soviet stockpile of nuclear weapons and .. show full overview
2003x3
Avoiding Armageddon, Part 3, The New Face of Terror: Upping the Ante
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Nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons have added a horrific new dimension to terrorism, enabling a small group of people to inflict enormous damage—especially if they're willing to .. show full overview
2003x4
Avoiding Armageddon, Part 4, Confronting Terrorism: Turning the Tide
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Explores measures that can be taken to reduce the threat of terrorism, from San Francisco's round-the-clock efforts to protect the Golden Gate Bridge to measures that can be taken .. show full overview
2003x5
The Spartans - A Nation Of Fighters
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THE SPARTANS opens at Thermopylae and with the epitaph of the Three Hundred — and very stirring it is to hear this spoken in the original Greek — before introducing some of the topics .. show full overview
2003x6
The Spartans - The Battle For Supremacy
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This segment begins by exploring at how Sparta and Athens fell out after the Persian Wars, with a look at Athenian politics and society and how these contrasted to Sparta’s. This is a .. show full overview
2003x7
The Spartans - An Enemy Of Change
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The last section of the film opens at Delphi and takes a look at Greek religion and Spartan attitudes toward the gods and oracles before resuming the history of the Peloponnesian War. .. show full overview
2003x13
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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In 1903, Americans considered automobiles practical for short trips only. Horatio Nelson Jackson believed differently. He bet a man fifty dollars that he could drive an automobile across .. show full overview
2003x8
Einstein's Wife
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Casts new light on the relationship between Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric and their collaboration on the theory of relativity.
2003x9
Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World
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Courage, guilt, betrayal and triumph; the story of T.E. Lawrence has it all. How one man inspired an Arab army but could not prevent their betrayal. Filmed in England and the Middle .. show full overview

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