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1) The Insiders
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Héctor Muñoz, fleeing from bullies, discovers a magical closet that not only provides him sanctuary, but also unites him with two other kids facing similar problems at their own schools, helping them find friendship and strength in each other.
2) The insiders
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Insiders (Tijan) volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Bailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. But still, normal for her. Then, things happen-a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage. She finds out her father is actually billionaire tech genius Peter Francis, the same guy she's idolized all her life. She learns all this when she meets dark, mysterious, and electrifying Kashton Colello. He's an associate of her father's, and he gives...
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LEGO, the company known by kids and parents alike for its colorful building bricks, is hugely successful. Over the last four years, it has enjoyed double digit growth. Just ten years ago, the company was losing nearly a million dollars a day. Bloomberg traveled to the company’s headquarters in Denmark to get a glimpse into LEGO’s history, its production, its fans, the LEGO family billionaires, and the young boss who rebuilt one of the world’s...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Gregg Wallace visits the biggest cider factory in the world, which produces more than 350 million litres each year. The scale of production blows his mind, as at each turn he's confronted with huge machinery and incredible processes. He visits Birchley Farm in Herefordshire, at the heart of cider country, before heading to the mill at Ledbury to help sort the apples. At the factory itself, he learns about the fermentation process and the critical...
9) Inside China
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
How has China transformed, inside 30 years, from developing nation to the world’s next largest economy after the USA? Includes interviews with historians, eye-witnesses and party officials. This program provides an overview of Chinese history, Chinese industrial development, and China in the 20th century.
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[2016]
Language
English
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A strong work ethic drove Benjamin Brafman from his humble beginnings as the son of working class Holocaust survivors to being one of the most renowned criminal defense attorneys in the world. His firm Brafman and associates has represented prominent figures such as Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Jennifer Lopez, and Michael Jackson. New York Magazine has named him as the best criminal defense lawyer in New York.
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English
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We delve into the world of contemporary Arab art through the inter-connected stories of one man, three museums. We look at his art, his protégés and the people who collect it. From exhibitions in London's British museum to the region's largest ever retrospective to an Arab artist in Qatar, this episode of Inside The Middle East gets to know artist Dia Azzawi.
12) Inside Africa
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English
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Social media is changing how the world works. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Africa's most populous city, Lagos. In this bustling metropolis of an estimated 23 million people, around 10 million are under the age of 25 and their numbers are rising rapidly. Tech savvy and increasingly well connected, they have embraced social media and, in the process, a new generation of high profile and highly paid personalities have emerged. In this episode...
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Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
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English
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Writing in the late 1200s, the Spanish nobleman Ramon Lull listed various duties which no knight could ignore. They included fidelity to the monarch, defense of the Christian faith-and, only slightly lower on the list, maintaining order among the tenants on one's estate. This program examines the means by which such political "ideals" were implemented and enforced during the Middle Ages. Spelling out the similarities between serfdom and slavery, the...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Michael Mosley shows how existence is a struggle and how, minute by minute, from your first breath to your last, your body performs countless small miracles to keep you alive. He meets remarkable people who demonstrate how well the human body adapts to extreme environments: Herbert, world-champion free-diver, who can hold his breath in the depths of the ocean for up to nine minutes; Wim, the Ice Man, who can swim in glacial lakes so cold that would...
15) Inside the EU
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As all 73 British MEPs deal with the possibility of redundancy, thoughts turn to life after Brexit. Tory MEP, David Campbell Bennerman drafts an international trade agreement, former IRA member Martina Anderson fights to reunite all of Ireland, and Scottish Nationalist Party MEP, Alyn Smith battles to save the protected status of iconic Scottish produce, including whisky.
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[2013]
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English
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As a first step in visualizing data, this film focuses on the use of stem plots to understand raw data. The U.S. Army experienced an equipment shortage and as a result used statistics to ensure soldiers are properly outfitted for war. Data from soldiers' foot measurements and Toyota's fuel efficient vehicles are transformed in stem plots.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The latest recruit to join the team of 37 beefeaters begins his career with some testing exams. Chris must learn the extensive history of the Tower by heart, a word-for-word knowledge which he will be tested on by the governor before being let loose alone on the 100,000 visitors who come to the Tower every week. Plus, chief curator Tracy Borman turns her attention to the time of Henry VIII, when the Tower gained its notorious reputation for imprisonment...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Hotel Chocolat has a VIP visitor, the Princess Royal. HRH is partial to dark chocolate, but how will she respond to the offer of the new peanut butter and jelly flavour? CEO Angus is back in New York City. After the success of the company's first store in Manhattan, a second is due to open close to Central Park. But there's a problem. They have been waiting to open the doors for nine weeks, in time for Christmas, but there is an issue with the lease....
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English
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In September 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers was the biggest bankruptcy in history that sent shockwaves throughout the global financial market. Inside The Storm: Lessons from the Boardroom tells the story of what went wrong within America’s oldest investment bank and how it devastated even the common people living in Asia.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As Christie's celebrates its 250th anniversary, this two-part series follows the drama behind iconic art auctions across the globe to reveal how the world's biggest auction house operates. In the first episode, the program goes behind the scenes in London, New York, and Dubai as staff, experts, advisers, and buyers set art trends, prices, reserves, and records.
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