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"Through Professor Hale's vibrant commentary and extensive field footage, you discover monumental ancient cities, classical ruins, temples, shrines, fortresses, stadiums, theaters, churches, and palaces. In each site, you explore the critical history and culture that defined them and the ways in which they influenced our modern world. In their compelling historical and visual detail, the lectures offer both a rich resource for travelers preparing...
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A thirteen-hour travelogue that is a passport to truly cosmopolitan adventures. Presenting the most dazzling destinations on the globe, it provides in-depth exploration of all the sights on the civilized traveler's bucket list. Featuring stunning footage and valuable insights into each capital's distinctive customs, cuisine, architecture and landscape. It pairs friendly, knowledgeable narration with the folkloric music that captures the heartbeat...
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Touring Australia brings home some of the world's greatest natural wonders, and most dynamic cosmopolitan cities. You'll visit Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, Perth and Adelaide. Touring New Zealand is like a dream come true, visiting more than 100 sites on the North and South Islands.
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Fiji and Thiti, both exotic and beautiful, feature colorful similarities and dramatic historical differences. A former British colony, Fiji is now an independent nation with a diversified economy. Tahiti is even more scenically dramatic than Fiji. Although Polynesian culture has been suppressed for more than a hundred years of French influence, Tahiti is still a fascinating place to visit.
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This non-stop, groundbreaking adventure takes the viewer on a historic journey throughout Israel, at the intersection of the world's three great religions. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Peter Greenberg explore Israel as it has never been seen before, through the eyes of its leader.
13) An idiot abroad
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In this hilarious series, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, co-creators of The Office and Extras, send their friend Karl Pilkington around the world. Karl thinks he's visiting the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World but along the way the 'Little Englander' must endure camel rides, jungle treks, tribal customs, and local oddballs while dining on toads and testicles, and searching for a clean bathroom.
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Experience Yosemite's awe-inspiring wonders, including such icons as the granite monoliths El Capitan and Half Dome, and the spectacular Briday Veil and Yosemite Falls. Learn about Yosemite's remarkable history as the first land set aside for preservation. From its sweeping landscape to the incomparable high-country that inspired John Muir and Ansel Adams; you'll discover why Yosemite is called on the the Crown Jewels.
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Starting in St Petersburg, once the capital of Russia under Peter the Great, our tour takes us to Ukraine and to Uzbekistan before returning first to Moscow and then to St Petersburg. The Russian composer Tchaikovsky had a mastery of the smaller forms demanded by ballet, with its series of relatively short scenes.
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"In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers, drawn together by outrage, take a sixty-day road trip from New England to New Orleans. Along the way they meet evacuees and witness the loss, dignity, perseverance and humor of people who have become exiles in their own country. The breakdown of trust between a government and its citizens, the influence of race, class, and gender, as well as the ethics of documentary filmmaking itself, form the...
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It takes audiences into the secret wilds of China to reveal the beauty of its hidden kingdoms. With unique access to locations across the country, viewers go on a journey through these magical realms, exploring five very different worlds. "Stars" of these kingdoms include iconic and charismatic animals, sharing their worlds with other fascinating creatures.
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