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New Frontiers
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During the 20th century, humans have built increasingly complex systems, fed billions of people, reshaped the landscape and re-engineered the human body. This documentary explores how hybrid corn e...
During the 20th century, humans have built increasingly complex systems, fed billions of people, reshaped the landscape and re-engineered the human body. This documentary explores how hybrid corn enabled population growth while the atomic bomb threatened our destruction. Engineering innovations and hard work completed the Alcan Highway construction against the odds. The first heart transplant in 1967 illustrated our capacity for scientific and medical breakthroughs, while a national broadcast of the Selma civil rights protests showed the power of mass communication to promote freedom and democracy.
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- Creator
- A&E Networks (Firm)
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- New Frontiers
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- [Place of publication not identified] : A&E Networks (Firm), [2012]
- New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2017
- ©2012
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (44 min., 15 sec)) : sound, color
- digital
- video file
- Originally released by A&E Networks (Firm), 2012.
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 09, 2017.
- Streaming video file.
- Closed-captioned.
- Hybrid Corn (4:03); Increasing the Food Supply (2:32); Alcan Highway (3:52); Engineering Feat (4:03); Hiroshima Mission (3:51); Atomic Bomb (4:35); First Heart Transplant (5:07); Medical Breakthrough (2:27); Selma (4:05); Civil Rights Confrontation (1:31); Breaking TV news (2:46); Defining Humanity (4:07)