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1) Mark Twain
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Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
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Mark Twain's rich and varied life is eloquently revealed in this documentary. The story spans Twain's career as prolific writer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, drama critic, publisher and world traveler. This Project Twenty production combines rare film and over 1000 period images, robust narration and an orchestral score by Robert Russell Bennett.
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Ken Burns volume 2
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Ken Burns explores the other side of the writer - an American icon who, through tragedy and bad financial decisions, falls hard with failure. In contrast to the wildly successful Twain, Clemens is an inept businessman who squanders his fortunes on pipe dream patents and bad investments. Clemens turns to the lecture circuit and tours extensively, leaving behind his beloved Hartford home and, often, his family, to pay off his creditors.
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Ken Burns volume 1
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Ken Burns takes viewers on a journey through Sam Clemens' early days along the Mississippi River, to the small river town of Hannibal, Missouri. Clemens grows up, stumbling from adventure to adventure until he begins to evolve into Mark Twain, the humorist and writer who would revolutionize the way Americans viewed themselves and their language. The episode ends with the publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel that has been banned in...
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Wow I Never Knew That! volume 7
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In this episode of Wow, I Never Knew That, it's the revolutionary container that keeps your liquids ice cold and your coffee steaming hot. Learn the secrets behind THERMOS' amazing technology!
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Wow I Never Knew That! volume 7
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Learn the secrets behind how a Thermos can keep your beverage hot or cold for hours. How PEZ was initially created to help people to stop smoking? And what Mark Twain's real name is and why he changed it.
7) Mark Twain
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Pub. Date
c2001
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Samuel Clemens rose from a hardscrabbled boyhood in the backwoods of Missouri to become, as Mark Twain, America's best-known and best-loved author. This remarkable film tells the story of Twain's extraordinary life - full of rollicking adventure, stupendous success and crushing defeat, hilarious comedy and almos unbearable tragedy. With fascinating interviews of Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, and William Styron, the story is told primarily through...
8) Mark Twain
Pub. Date
2004
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Tells the story of Twain's extraordinary life, full of rollicking adventure, stupendous success and crushing defeat, hilarious comedy, and almost unbearable tragedy.
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c1993
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Over 1,000 period photos eloquently reveal Mark Twain's rich and varied life. The story spans his career as prolific writer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, drama critic, publisher, and world traveler, while at the same time mirroring the rise of America from frontier days to world power.
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[2013]
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This remarkable film tells the story of Mark Twain's extraordinary life - full of rollicking adventure, stupendous success and crushing defeat, hilarious comedy and almost unbearable tragedy.
Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
14) Mark twain collection: mark twain's roughing it / huckleberry finn / the adventures of tom sawyer
Pub. Date
2014
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Mark Twain's Roughing It Sam Clemens doesn't have a plan for the future, but when his brother, Orion, travels out to Carson City via stagecoach, he decides this might be the path for him. What ensues is an exciting journey-one filled with wild card games, treacherous snow storms, prospecting disasters and more. But when all else fails, Sam falls back on the one skill that the Wild West can't take from him-his power with a pen. Huckleberry Finn Always...
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c2012
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Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. He then attends his own funeral.
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2016.
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The Borrowers: A boy discovers a family of tiny people, The Borrowers, living beneath the floorboards of his Great Aunt's home, -- Little Lord Fauntleroy: From the beloved novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the classic film version of Little Lord Fauntleroy starring Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore and C. Aubrey Smith, -- Where the Red Fern Grows Based on the best-selling children's classic by Wilson Rawls, this inspiring film of faith,...
19) American lives
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[2013]
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Collection of seven biographical documentaries from Ken Burns. Covers Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, Horatio Nelson Jackson, and Jack Johnson.