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The Cherokee community is grateful for blessings and challenges that each season brings. The word otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in the fall with the new year and ending in summer, this story follows a full Cherokee year of celebrations and experiences.
2) Citizen Marc
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Biopic about larger-than-life Canadian pot activist Marc Emery, who served 5 years in a U.S. penitentiary for selling marijuana seeds to Americans over the Internet.
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This is the touching account of Father Damien who went to the Hawaiian island of Molokai in 1872 to minister to the lepers exiled in a labor colony. He became widely known as the "Apostle of the Lepers" or "The Leper Priest" because of the care and sacrifice he made for those forgotten people . Based on a true story.
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Finding Your Roots volume 6
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Many Americans descend from a variety of European ethnicities, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal are textbook examples of Americans with a rich medley of European immigrant stories in their family trees. Delve into their deep American roots in early colonial communities and meet their Eastern European Jewish ancestors, who share almost identical migration stories. From the Mayflower...
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Prince - The Glory Years is a documentary film which reviews and re-captures this golden decade and with the aid of his friends, colleagues, fellow musicians and other notable contributors, helps discover why Prince Rodgers Nelson simply stole the '80s as far as music was concerned.
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It's 1956 and twenty-year-old Delyle Condie is on top of the world. MVP of his college basketball team (University of Utah) and engaged to Emily, his high school sweetheart, life is looking pretty good. That is, until the second round of the NCAA tournament. Midway through the most important game of his life, Emily unexpectedly breaks off her engagement to Delyle. Heartbroken, Delyle makes the spontaneous decision to quit basketball and embark on...
9) Grey Owl
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The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
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Finding Your Roots volume 8
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Sally Field learns that she descends from William Bradford, who arrived on the Mayflower and helped his fellow Puritans establish their new lives in colonial America. Her ancestors sided with the British crown during the war for independence and paid the ultimate price. Deepak Chopra's family made a similar gamble while living under harsh British rule in India - his grandparents pledged their loyalty to the British in hopes of achieving a higher place...
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While Australia may be a very long way from Hollywood, it has produced its own fair share of movie icons. And with the country itself taking centre stage in Baz Luhrman's epic, Australia looks set to become just as big in Tinseltown as it's elegant, Oscar winning, homegrown star, Nicole Kidman. The actress has had ties to the USA longer than most Australian actors however, even before she met and married Tom Cruise. She was born in Hawaii to Australian...
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Meet Dana, a feisty, funny, and charming 25-year-old at a crossroads... but not the kind you might expect. Dana lives with Crohn's Disease so severe that she battles every single day-it is unrelenting and she has been fighting it nearly all her life. Spending as much time in the hospital as out, Dana depends on intravenous nutrition, constant vigilance and a wicked sense of humor to keep her alive. Now she faces the daunting task of deciding how she...
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Monument Men The Road to Rushmore volume 7
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Surrounding Mount Rushmore is a beautiful national park. Explore the landscape, the caves, and the vantages of Mount Rushmore National Park!
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In Search of Shakespeare volume 4
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In the final episode, Michael Wood examines Shakespeare's life in the era of King James I. He unearths Shakespeare's neighborhood in London and visits the current queen's robe-makers for evidence of Shakespeare's role in the royal coronation. Shakespeare's world is transformed in 1605 by the Gunpowder Plot, a Jacobean September 11. The entertainment industry responded, and Shakespeare contributed Macbeth, a daring play about the murder of a king....
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Finding Your Roots volume 7
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Uncover family mysteries about two legends of hip hop, Sean Combs and LL Cool J, through the use of DNA technology that reveals information that shakes their very foundations.
19) Stealing Sinatra
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In 1963, three enterprising, middle-class friends from southern California planned the impossible: the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr. Minute by minute, misstep by misstep, this is the fascinating recreation of a swinging true crime that turned a budding young singer into one of the most famous hostages in history.
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50 Cent has had a tough life. At twelve, he was dealing cocaine. The same year his mother was murdered. Training as an amateur boxer; he conditioned himself to become a champion, which is exactly what he did when he turned to his passion: hip-hop. He has released two number one albums, three movies, two video games and even a clothing line. Yes, the man who made bullet proof vests cool may be very busy, but these days heʼs more concerned with designer...
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