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Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility amidst one of the largest, tallest, and most unnatural places on earth. This film examines the creation of America's great city parks in the late 1800s through the enigmatic eyes of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary urban planner and landscape architect. In his own words, Olmsted and America's Urban Parks weaves together Olmsted's engaging and poignant personal story with those of the lasting masterpieces he left for us today, featuring Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline as the voice of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Celebrates master engineer Ralph Modjeski. A tribute to innovative engineering, fabricators and bridge workers during two eras of transit. Taking a deeper look at the scientific mind and artistic soul of a Polish-born Paris-trained immigrant who contributed to the building of a modern America.

Changes are essential to progress even if there is a price to be paid. This is the theme of the two videos in this set. The first video highlights the consequences of living in modern housing schemes-isolation and frustration. It also focuses on the benefits of housing schemes, the need to replace slums with modern homes and the hope that proper planning would prevent problems in the future. The second video is about the long-term benefits of industries, it also talks about the consequences of modernization-heritage buildings being destroyed to create space for car parks and stores being relocated to the suburbs. See how America was transformed and how the people reacted to the change!

The history of Chicago's African-American community told like never before -- through the voices of its leading citizens, scholars, artists, politicians, and business leaders.

In urban America, the bush of Africa, the war zone of the Congo, and in closed nations there are women who are living outside their own cultures, society, and comfort level to care for orphans, build schools, liberate addicts, feed the poor, and love the broken. These ordinary women are reaching into hopeless situations of people and creating hope.

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.