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The War: A Ken Burns Film $7.98 The soundtrack for The War, documentarian Ken Burns’s 2007 PBS series on World War II, alternates between earlier, wartime, and postwar material, all designed to complement the narrative. The material was clearly selected to evoke the mood of the era: Benny Goodman’s sextet tears off a hot 1942 “Wang Wang Blues,” and Count Basie lets fly with “Basie Boogie” (1941) and the prewar “How Long Blues.”… |
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American Photography – A Century of Images [VHS] $29.99 Time travel at its best! American Photography: A Century of Images is a remarkably complete, high-caliber PBS presentation of who Americans were and are, using 20th-century images that capture everything from the everyday to the once-in-a-lifetime. While of course you’ll see many photographs, some familiar and some new, you’ll also learn about the history of our relationship with photography and t… |
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The American Experience – The Wizard of Photography [VHS] $19.98 In the 19th century photography developed into an art form, but it was restricted to professionals because the cameras and chemicals required to take pictures were both complicated and unwieldy. A young American, George Eastman, vowed to change that, and in the process he changed the world. As dramatically portrayed in this documentary, an installment of PBS’s American Experience series, Ea… |
