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"This award-winning program by filmmaker Ken Burns recaptures all the drama, the struggles and the personal tragedies behind this greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age. As this fascinating program reveals, it was the largest bridge of its era, marked by enormous construction problems and ingenious solutions."--Publisher's website.
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"World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after they meet, they don't want to lose the love they've found" ... container.
5) Ruby Bridges
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When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
7) 21 bridges
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"[An] embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on whom he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all of the city's bridges to prevent any entry or exit from the iconic island"--Container....
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On a rainy August morning in 2018, a massive section of the Polcevera Bridge in Genoa, Italy, collapsed and killed 43 people, despite having withstood fifty years of traffic. All over American and Europe, thousands of bridges are listed as structurally deficient -- how can new technologies and engineering improvements make bridges safer?
9) Bridges
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What enables a simple arch bridge to support such great weight? What holds up a suspension bridge? Bridge the world with award-winning author-illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay, and meet the brilliant designers who dared to extend roads and railways with ingenious but sometimes flawed designs. From the Golden Gate Bridge to some of the world's groundbreaking spans, you'll explore dozens of monumental engineering feats through...
10) Ruby Bridges
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When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
11) Brooklyn Bridge
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Depicts the history of the building and social impact of what was, at the time, the biggest bridge in the world.
14) Massive bridges
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Discover how two bridges were moved from their original locations using two very different, but equally complex, moving methods. Local bridge preservationists in Missouri attempt to transport a 137-ton railroad bridge right through the heart of downtown Kansas City. And in Iowa, the U.S. National Guard rallies to save a 128-year-old bridge using one of the most modern mega-moving tools available today: a Chinook Helicopter. Piece by piece, these massive...
19) State of the art
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The team from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art crisscrossed the nation to find contemporary art happening in unexpected places.
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America's infrastructure was once our proudest achievement. Now its a most dangerous embarrassment. Bridges, dams, levees and highways are crumbling, toppling, being washed away, and putting us all at risk. Features interviews with journalists, noted scientists, whistleblowers who risked their lives to speak out, and politicians from both sides. Exposes the rampant collusion, corruption and cronyism within the government agencies whose very purpose...
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