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Pocahontas

1995
Profiles the young Native American woman who intervened with her people to save the Jamestown colony from starvation and exposure.

Equal rights for all

1996
Tells the story of the Bill of Rights, the abolitionists, Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Susan B.Anthony--describing their roles in protecting human rights.

Degas and the dancer

1999
In 1874 Paris, painter Edgar Degas is struggling with debt after his father's death. He takes a job illustrating a small book on opera and becomes inspired by a young ballerina named Marie.

Goya

awakened in a dream
2002
A young girl helps her friend and teacher, the great artist Francisco de Goya, thwart the tyranny of the Spanish Inquisition.

Winslow Homer

an American original
2002
Two misfit teenagers help American artist Winslow Homer refocus when he returns disillusioned from the Civil War.

Cort?s & Pizarro

2000
Describes Hern?n Cort?s's and Francisco Pizarro's conquests and explorations in Mexico and Peru, discussing the sophisticated Aztec and Inca civilizations and the role of European diseases in their destruction.

Hiawatha

1995
Verses from Longfellow's epic poem depict the boyhood of Hiawatha.

The Wright brothers

how they invented the airplane
1992
Recounts the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, from their childhood, tinkering and building their own printing press, to owning the Wright Cycle Company, to inventing the world's first powered, controlled airplane. The self-trained engineers worked side by side to solve the most complicated problems in the history of flight.

King Midas and the golden touch

1991
King Midas, a misguided monarch learns there are some things in life more precious than gold.

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