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Uses film excerpts, dramatic readings, and location footage to look at what is known about the life and career of sixteenth-century playwright William Shakespeare, from his youth in Stratford-on-Avon, to his death at age fifty-two.

A group of schoolboys reverts to savagery after their plane crashes on a tropical island.

Examines the differences between the process of testing claims or theories (science) and those claims which can't be tested (pseudoscience).

Learn how swamps, bogs and marshes help control floods, naturally filter water and provide a good home to lots of living things, especially wildlife. Comedy, interviews with scientists and hands-on experiments.

Free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness causes her to leave two unfulfilling marriages and take up with a much younger man.

On July 1, 1863, more than 150,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were drawn into one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. When it was all over, 50,000 men had paid the ultimate price. Today, Gettysburg is known as the turning point of the war and a pivotal event in American history. Featuring some of the most authentic Civil War battle scenes ever committed to film, and outstanding performances by the cast, "Gettysburg" accurately depicts the events, battles and personal struggles of valor on both sides of the Civil War.

A story about teenage hopes, fears, bravery and violent rebellion and living on the right side of the tracks.

Credited with both unifying China and tormenting its citizenry, Qin Shi Huangdi, the "first emperor of China," is one of the most controversial leaders in the nation's history. His reign brought advances such as standardized currencies, weights, and measures, unified written and spoken language and transportation systems. In battle, too, he was centuries ahead of his time, creating assembly lines to mass-produce precision-crafted swords, arrows and other weapons. This documentary examines this ruler's complex legacy, from the brilliant military strategies that created an empire to his plans for the original Great Wall. Bonus disc, China's Wall of Doom, features the discovery of the emperor's 7,000 life-size army of terra-cotta statues and the Great Wall of China.

Presents the 1931 film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel in which Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring destruction to the lives of those he loves; and includes a documentary on the making of the film, a tribute to Boris Karloff, and commentary by film director Rudy Behlmer and historian Sir Christopher Frayling.

A film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel in which the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter finds it difficult and frightening to live in the shadow of her predecessor who died under mysterious circumstances--a situation that is exacerbated by her husband's moodiness, and the presence of sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.