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- Convinced his thesis will have him graduate with honors from Harvard University, a stuffy student finds himself at the mercy of a homeless man's demands when he holds the papers hostage.
- When a tornado takes her meteorologist husband's life, his wife and colleague devotes her own life to prove his theories that violent twisters are predictable.
- The Game Changer tells the story of how Dr. Tim Nugent changed the world for people with disabilities. Nugent fought against prejudice to establish the first college program for people with disabilities at the University of Illinois. Nugent, who is known as the "Father of Accessibility," was also a pioneer in the wheelchair sports movement.
- Documentary traces the history of Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Covers the earliest days of football at the university, to early concepts for a stadium, World War I, honoring the true Fighting Illini and the first games at the arena built in the early 1920's. Historical film and photographs are mixed with interviews from noted Illinois football players, architects, historians, contractors, veterans and their families, college marching band directors, newspaper reporters and broadcasters.
- Educational documentary course series detailing facts about stars, nebulae and galaxies and interstellar matter.
- Marty Malone smokes pot and cuts his mouth on a Pepsi bottle. Then he starts on heroin and ends up in rehab.
- The story behind the creation of the transistor, one of the 20th century's most important inventions.
- Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
- A look at the construction and opening of Montréal's Victoria Bridge, a one-mile iron tube.
- A two-hour special narrated by Sandra Oh about a generation of female primatologists and their study of our closest relatives, the great apes.
- 1979–TV Episode
- What destroyed America's first great empire? Was it a drought? A civil war? Or a natural disaster of biblical proportions?
- Helen examines the hottest natural phenomenon on Earth - lightning. She explains how specialist photography is revealing how lightning travels through the air and high-speed cameras are showing upward lightning.