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22) Life
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Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
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Oprah Winfrey and Bob Greene tell you exactly what to do every day, physically and mentally, to start looking and feeling fantastic. Oprah shares personal stories of her own weight loss battles and together she and Bob provide loads of encouragement and advice as they walk you through their ten simple steps towards a healthier and happier existence.
24) Belief
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Belief explores humankind's ongoing search to connect with something greater than ourselves by inviting viewers to witness some of the world's religious and spiritual journeys through the eyes of believers.
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Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
26) The Color Purple
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A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
27) Life
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Explores the variety of tactics plants and animals use to survive in their environments.
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"Some of us start over willingly, and others are forced by circumstance-but everyone who finds herself back at square one could use a dose of courage and comfort. Readers will discover both in O's Little Guide to Starting Over, a collection of stirring pieces on the topic of beginning again"--Amazon.com
29) Selma
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
30) Serving life
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Takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. It documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for their dying fellow inmates. In doing so, they embark on a journey that may end in personal rehabilitation.
32) For one more day
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Chick Benetto, a broken-down former baseball player who has collapsed into alcoholism and despair, returns one night to his small hometown with plans to take his life. At the final moment, he is magically granted one more day with his departed mother, Posey Benetto, who illuminates the secrets of both their lives and shows him a way to redemption.
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An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature
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After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him
"...doesn't detract from the emotional resonance that shines throughout."--Toronto Star
"As a clarion call for young people rising up against the forces of cynicism, corruption and wanton cruelty..."--Washington Post
"What holds A Wrinkle in Time together...is the strength of family feeling at its center."--Boston...
35) Tina
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Profiles the life and career of Tina Turner, featuring her personal reflections, archival interviews, and contributions from others.
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"Ante la mirada de un mundo sobrecogido tras la invasin̤ del Capitolio de los Estados Unidos, Amanda Gorman tom l̤a palabra a continuacin̤ del presidente Joe Biden. Era la poeta ms̀ joven que recitaba en una ceremonia de investidura, como antes lo hicieron Robert Frost o Maya Angelou, y cautiv a̤ millones de personas que vea̕n en ella la luz de una esperanza, y en los versos de La colina que ascendemos la inauguracin̤ de una nueva era."--
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37) Life
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Collects footage, narrated by Oprah Winfrey, of a wide variety of plants and animals from around the world, covering their adaptability and survival tactics.
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Fifty years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, To Kill a Mockingbird remains a beloved best seller and quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th century. Mary McDonagh Murphy's Hey, Boo explores the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon and unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, including why she never published again. It also brings to light the context and history of the novel's Deep South setting and the social changes...
40) The Water Man
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Gunner's mother is very ill, but he believes a local legend about "the Water Man" who knows how to live forever, so he and a mysterious girl named Jo set off into the Wild Horse forest in order to hunt down the legend. The deeper the go into the woods, it becomes more strange and more dangerous, but Gunner's father is coming after them and will stop at nothing to rescue his son.
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