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  • 2018
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    The Dictator's Playbook

    The Dictator's Playbook

    7.50 2018 HD

    Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century. How did they seize and lose power? What forces were against them?...

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  • 1993
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    Katie and Orbie

    Katie and Orbie

    1 1993 HD

    Katie and Orbie is a Canadian animated television series aimed at preschoolers, originally broadcast in Canada from June 2, 1997 by Family Channel...

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  • 2019
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    Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

    Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

    8.00 2019 HD

    Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science,...

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  • 2010
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    FutureStates

    FutureStates

    5.50 2010 HD

    What will become of America in five, 25, or even 50 years from today? This series of independent mini-features explores possible future scenarios...

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  • 1993
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    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    1 1993 HD

    A 7-part series telling dramatic and diverse stories of struggle and survival during the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. From the producers of...

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  • 1978
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    Mourning Becomes Electra

    Mourning Becomes Electra

    4.50 1978 HD

    In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.

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  • 2022
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    Raggs

    Raggs

    6.00 2022 HD

    Raggs stars five members of a canine band, Raggs, Trilby, Pido, B. Max and Razzles, and their wise-cracking pet cat, Dumpster.

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  • 2013
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    A Chef's Life

    A Chef's Life

    10.00 2013 HD

    A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left...

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  • 1992
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    Storytime

    Storytime

    1 1992 HD

    Kino's Storytime, also known as Storytime, is a children's reading television series aired on Public Broadcasting Service Public television from June...

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  • 2011
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    Women, War & Peace

    Women, War & Peace

    10.00 2011 HD

    What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women mattered? These two questions were at the heart of...

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  • 1992
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    Behind the Scenes

    Behind the Scenes

    6.00 1992 HD

    Behind the Scenes was a 10-part television miniseries aimed towards 8- to 12-year-olds about various aspects of the arts, that was broadcast on PBS...

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  • 2003
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    Franny's Feet

    Franny's Feet

    7.20 2003 HD

    Franny's Feet is a Canadian animated series for children. It is produced by DHX Media/Halifax Film in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and created by Cathy...

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  • 1995
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    Transatlantic Sessions

    Transatlantic Sessions

    10.00 1995 HD

    Folk musicians from both sides of the Atlantic come together in what have been called “the greatest backporch shows ever.” Collaborative...

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  • 2022
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    Rosie's Rules

    Rosie's Rules

    4.00 2022 HD

    Follows the adventures of Rosie Fuentes, an inquisitive and hilarious 5-year-old girl just starting to learn about the wow-mazing world beyond her...

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  • 1989
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    Summer's Lease

    Summer's Lease

    7.50 1989 HD

    Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and...

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  • 1976
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    Visions

    Visions

    6.00 1976 HD

    Weekly anthology series of original dramas, often with period settings.

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  • 2012
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    Treasures of New York

    Treasures of New York

    1 2012 HD

    Treasures of New York is a documentary series exploring New York City's premier cultural establishments, from The New York Botanical Gardens, to the...

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  • 1970
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    In Other Words

    In Other Words

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2009
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    The National Parks: America's Best Idea

    The National Parks: America's Best Idea

    7.90 2009 HD

    Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand...

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  • 1987
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    Mathnet

    Mathnet

    7.00 1987 HD

    Mathnet is a segment on the children's television show Square One Television, of which five seasons were produced. This parody of Dragnet featured...

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