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Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
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Learn 2D animation techniques to express personality, body type, and attitude in a walk cycle, and turn walks into full-on runs.
Once you've completed a basic walk cycle, it's time to add character. Animator Dermot O' Connor shows how to take a basic walk and go beyond, building in personality, exaggeration, and attitude. Learn how to animate bipedal motion, stomps, sneaks, and goofy walks, and turn walks into full-on runs. Dermot also shows how...
7) Rosie's walk
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Tells the story of a little chicken who takes a walk, never knowing that a fox is chasing her the whole time.
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This disturbing and controversial documentary presents a raw glimpse into the world of female heroin addicts. Filmed in Vancouver and told through the images of renowned photographer Lincoln Clarkes, the poetry of award-winning writer Susan Musgrave, and the experiences of six "heroines," the program creates a harsh collage of personal stories that share common themes of abuse, rape, and addiction. Like all of Clarkes' powerful photos, Heroines humanizes...
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The flight crew of the Challenger space craft consisted of Francis R. Scobee, Michael John Smith, Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith Arlene Resnik, Ronald Erwin McNair, S. Christa McAuliffe, and Gregory Bruce Jarvis. Their death in the tragic accident shortly following the shuttle's launch led President Ronald Regan to appoint a committee to investigate shuttle safety, and he postponed future space flight.
11) Funny Walk
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Security cameras don't always get the clearest image, so some scientists are analyzing the way people walk in the hopes of using that as a means of identification.
12) Rosie's Walk
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Against the strains of a catchy barnyard tune, a single-minded fox stalks an unsuspecting hen.
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In this final episode we go back 30,000 years to the middle of an ice age. The landscape is dominated by the mighty mammoths, living side by side with woolly rhinos, giant deer and two separate species of human. This program follows the fate of a herd of mammoths in their annual struggle against the harsh ice age conditions. They spend summer on grassy plains in the north, but every winter they are forced to head for the less exposed valleys to the...
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One million years ago, South America was a continent of exotic oversized creatures found nowhere else on earth; nine foot terror birds, giant ground sloths and spiky-tailed relatives of the armadillo as big as cars. But the deadliest animal of them all was Smilodon, the largest of all the sabre tooth cats, with canines like carving knives. This program follows the fortunes of an individual male - Half Tooth. Ousted from his clan by a pair of rival...
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It is 36 million years ago, and mammals have taken over the world. They are no longer small furry animals, they have grown enormous and dominate the planet. This is an era of animals like Andrewsarchus, the biggest mammal carnivore ever to walk on land, and the Brontotheres, small brained bulldozing herbivores. It is in the sea, however, that the most monstrous mammals of all can be found. This program follows the fate of a female Basilosaurus, a...
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The dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, but what on earth happened next? This first episode of the sequel to Walking with Dinosaurs, drops in on our planet 49 million years ago to find it has fully recovered from the extinction and is covered in a mysterious forest. This is a time that the world has almost forgotten: Germany was a hot, sweaty jungle, birds ruled the Earth and preyed on miniature horses, and the ancestors of the whales walked...
17) Walking Thunder
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In the 1850s, a young boy and his family on their way west become stranded in the Rockies. With the help of a local mountain man, a Sioux medicine man, and a legendary bear known as "Walking Thunder," the boy learns to become a man, and his family's survival is secured.
18) Dead man's walk
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The prequel to Lonesome Dove finds Gus and Call on a deadly trail to Santa Fe facing outlaws, bandits, and the notorious Buffalo Hump, a vicious warrior.
19) Trees that Walk
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The campfires of our ancestors, the ships with which we first explored the globe, instruments, artwork, buildings, furniture, these are only some of our innumerable uses for wood. From cradle to coffin, we owe much to the second life of trees. But are we doing enough to protect them? Trees That Walk is a meditative, intricate exploration of the deep and enduring bonds between trees and people, thought-provoking, haunting, and wise
20) The Long Walk
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During the spring of 1864, more than 6,000 Navajos were marched in the snow to Fort Sumner in New Mexico. They had been starved into submission by volunteer armies of the same settlers led by the famous Indian fighter Kit Carson. Carson's troops, earlier that year, made the first military passage through Canyon De Chelly because the Navajos had been raiding whites who had settled Indian lands in the recently acquired New Mexico territory. The journey...