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Based on Philip Roth's acclaimed novel, this limited series brilliantly imagines an alternate American history during WWII. Told through the eyes of the Levins, a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, the six-part limited series charts the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
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"A newly transferred and restored picture and soundtrack release of six-time Academy Award winner Billy Wilder's recreation of the struggles and success of the pioneering flyboy who, like test pilots and astronauts to follow later, had the 'right stuff' of aviation heroism. On May 21, 1927 the world changed. 'Lucky Lindy' landed outside Paris. And people who previously talked about the limitations of air travel suddenly dreamed of its limitless possibilities"--Container....
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NOVA is reopening one of the most confounding crime mysteries of all time: the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. In the aftermath of his 1927 solo transatlantic flight, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, a.k.a. Lucky Lindy, became the most famous person on Earth. But on the evening of March 1, 1932, Lucky Lindy's luck ran out when kidnappers snatched his baby son, Charlie, from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey. Negotiations with...
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The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
The Stratton story: The true story of Chicago White sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating hunting accident which leads to the amputation of one leg. Learning to walk with an artificial limb, he struggles to resume his career.
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious...
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In the 2017 high-definition program, learn all about the incredible contributions Charles Lindbergh made to aviation. What were the significant events of Charles Lindbergh₂s early years? What was the Spirit of St. Louis? What were the noteworthy events of Lindbergh₂s life after his historic transatlantic flight and in his later years? The answers to all of these questions are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video....
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Climb into the cockpit of an exact replica of the fabled Spirit of St. Louis to experience a riveting, hour-by-hour reenactment of the danger, doubts, and fatigue endured by the young Charles Lindbergh on his record-shattering flights across the Atlantic. From exclusive, rarely-seen archival footage to the high suspense of Lindbergh's down-to-the-wire race against a formidable field of foreign competitors to be first across the Atlantic, it's an unforgettable...
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In Flights of courage, take a trip back to the first cross-country daredevil pilots of the U.S. Air Mail Service. In the Red Baron, a biography of the World War I ace known as the Red Baron, who shot down eighty Allied planes before he was killed. Lindbergh & the Spirit of St. Louis tells about Charles Lindbergh's thirty-three hour flight from New York to Paris on May 10, 1927. Extra features cover the beginnings of aviation with the Wright Brothers'...
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