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The greats

Title
The greats / by Merran Williams, Andrew Thomson and John Stanton.
Published
Geelong, Australia : World Wide Entertainment, 2007.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (577 min.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Previously released on DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011).
English.
Access and use
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Summary
The greats celebrates the legacy of the world's notable exponents of art, science, entertainment, and pays tribute to those explorers, adventurers and leaders whose world-changing exploits have secured their place in the history books.
Variant and related titles
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2019
Contents
Episode 1. Wright brothers ; Jane Fonda ; Albert Einstein ; Queen Elizabeth II ; Martin Luther King Jr.
Episode 2. Babe Ruth ; Oprah Winfrey ; Ernest Shakleton ; Barbra Streisand ; Queen Elizabeth II (part II)
Episode 3. Muhammad Ali ; Indira Gandhi ; Alfred Hitchcock ; Elizabeth Taylor ; Nelson Mandela
Episode 4. Dame Nellie Melba ; Pablo Picasso ; Richard Branson ; Marilyn Monroe ; Nelson Mandela (part II)
Episode 5. Rupert Murdoch ; The Beatles ; Simone de Beauvior ; Margaret Thatcher ; Marilyn Monroe (part II)
Episode 6. Salvador Dali ; Dolly Patron ; Jesse Owens ; Humphrey Bogart ; Margaret Thatcher (part II)
Episode 7. Anita Roddick ; Charlie Chaplin ; Vivienne Westwood ; Abdel Nasser ; Neil Armstrong
Episode 8. Amelia Earhart ; George Lucas ; Annika Sörenstam ; Grace Kelly ; Abdel Nassar (part II)
Episode 9. Vivien Leigh ; Jack Dempsey ; Anne Frank ; Princess Diana ; Jimmy Carter
Episode 10. Aung San Suu Kyi ; Danny Kaye ; Martina Navratilova ; George Bernard Shaw ; Princess Diana
Episode 11. Firgure Skating champions ; Guglielmo Marconi ; Audrey Hepburn ; Sir Winston Churchill ; George Bernard Shaw (part II)
Episode 12. Mother Teresa ; Manolo Blahnik ; Dame Vera Lyn ; Edmund Hillary ; Sir Winston Churchill (part II)
Episode 13. Rudyard Kipling ; Judy Garland ; Michael Schumacher ; John F. Kennedy ; Luciano Pavarotti
Episode 14. Edith Piaf ; Tiger Woods ; Eleanor Roosevelt ; Walt Disney ; John F. Kennedy Jr. (part II)
Episode 15. Diane Keaton ; Pelé ; Frida Kahlo ; Mikhail Gorbachev ; Thomas Edison
Episode 16. Marie Curie ; Sophia Loren ; Robert Goddard ; Arthur Miller ; Mikhail Gorbachev (part II)
Episode 17. Golda Mier ; Marcel Marceau ; Julie Andrews ; Elvis Presley ; Arthur Miller (part II)
Episode 18. Helen Keller ; Barbara Walters ; Bill Gates ; Suffragettes ; Elvis Presley (part II)
Episode 19. Hanan Ashrawi ; Steven Spielberg ; J.K. Rowling ; Roger Bannister ; Suffragettes (part II)
Episode 20. David Beckham ; Peter Sellers ; Jean Batten ; William Jefferson Clinton ; Dame Judi Dench
Episode 21. Mick Jagger ; Noel Coward ; Nancy Astor ; Cary Grant ; William Jefferson Clinton (part II)
Episode 22. Mahatma Gandhi ; Johnny Cash ; Beatrix Potter ; Benazir Bhutto ; Katherine Hepburn
Episode 23. Yuri Gagrin ; Patti Smith ; Magic Johnson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Hedy Lamarr
Episode 24. Bette Davis ; Joe Louis ; Madonna ; Orson Welles ; Benjamin Franklin
Episode 25. Carole King ; Jack Nicklaus ; Marlene Dietrich ; Paul Robeson ; Yitzhak Rabin
Episode 26. Woody Allen ; Xanana Gusmao ; Laurence Olivier ; Mary Pickford ; Joe DiMaggio.
Subjects
Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997.
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
Clinton, Bill, 1946-
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Fonda, Jane, 1937-
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich, 1934-1968.
Gandhi, Indira, 1917-1984 > Assassination.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 > Assassination.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Assassination.
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013.
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948.
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912.
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
Clinton, Bill, 1946-
Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-
Fonda, Jane, 1937-
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich, 1934-1968.
Gandhi, Indira, 1917-1984.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013.
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948.
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Mount Everest Expedition (1953)
Yalta Conference (1945 : I︠A︡lta, Ukraine)
Cold War (1945-1989)
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
El Alamein, Battle of (Egypt : 1942)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981)
Israel-Arab War (1967)
Israel-Arab War (1973)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Mount Everest Expedition.
Rivonia Trial (Pretoria, South Africa : 1964)
Yalta Conference.
1900 > 1999
Cold War.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
Israel-Arab War, 1967.
Israel-Arab War, 1973.
Rivonia Trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1964.
Space vehicles > Landing > Moon.
Suffrage > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Assassination.
Space vehicles > Landing.
Suffrage.
Egypt.
Great Britain.
Moon.
South Africa > Pretoria.
Genre/Form
History.
Documentary.
Alexander Street Video.
Documentary
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