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3) The red hen
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English
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Red Hen finds a recipe for a Simply Splendid Cake and asks her friends the cat, the rat, and the frog to help with the preparations, but it seems as though her friends want no part in the cake until it's ready to eat. Will they decide to pitch in, or let Red Hen do all of the hard work?
4) Strega Nona
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English
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When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show people how it works.
8) Strega Nona
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Español
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When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show people how it works.
10) Red Riding Hood
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English
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Presents a story of a little girl who meets a hungry wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.
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English
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As the West unfolded, its legends were even bigger than life. The West was some sort of grand notion where fact and fiction freely intermingled and have all but become inseparable. The tall tales and folklore along with the beliefs and rituals of the Native Americans are as much a part of the legacy of the West as is its history. In this program historians reveal the myths and realities of these romantic and often imaginary tales.
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This episode of the Green Interview features Todd Labrador, a respected and celebrated traditional Mi’kmaq canoe builder who speaks with Silver Donald Cameron about the painstaking process involved in making the traditional birch bark canoes and how he hopes it will help to preserve the knowledge and worldview of his ancestors who lived sustainably on the east coast of Canada for millennia. Labrador is also an artist who paints and makes traditional...
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English
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This documentary from Clash of the Gods explores the 3,000-year-old story of the woman at the heart of the Trojan War. The Greek poet Homer told the tale in The Iliad and The Odyssey, and Hollywood has presented its own versions. Now, we examine the myth of Helen. Conceived from the god Zeus' rape of her mother, she is said to be the most beautiful woman in the world and desired by every man. Modern writers including Camille Paglia and Arianna Huffington...
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English
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This is the story of Samba and the legacy of the four braids, each representing one great truth. Captured and brought before the king, Samba resisted telling the secrets until he realized that the alternative was death. But when he revealed the last of his secrets, that a leader deserves no honor if he is not also a friend to his people, the king understood the message and made Samba his viceroy.
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English
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This program marks the beginning of Michael Wood's quest as he ventures into the world of an exotic and mysterious woman of power. Immortalized in the Hebrew Bible, the Muslim Koran, and in many Christian traditions, the tale of the Queen's journey to meet King Solomon has been told and retold for nearly 3,000 years. Wood's fascinating voyage starts on Easter night in Jerusalem, taking him around the Red Sea to Egypt, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, and to...
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This is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities. Black ASL today conveys an identity and sense of belonging that mirrors spoken language varieties of the African American hearing community. The program highlights the different uses of space, hand use, directional movement, and facial expression, which are ways that Black...