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Napoleon : Steel Monster

Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (45 min., 10 sec)) : sound, color.
Publisher:	[Place of publication not identified] : A&E Networks, [2006]
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸Explore the awesome legacy built by the French from the Medieval Age, through the reign of the last ... Western emperor and into the modern era. Read More

Da Vinci's World

Description:	1 streaming video file (90 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Publisher:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010], c2007.
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸This program travels back to the Italian Renaissance, a time when innovation in the sciences as well ... as the arts saw the revitalization of Italian city-states and an epic level of construction and innovation not seen since the heyday of Rome. Read More

The Aztecs : Engineering an Empire

Description:	1 streaming video file (44 min.) : sd., col.
Publisher:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010], c2006.
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸This program tells the astonishing story of the Aztecs, who, over the course of four centuries, grew ... from a beleaguered band of a thousand to dominate nearly all of Mexico. Read More

The Maya: Death Emprire : Engineering an Empire

Description:	1 streaming video file (44 min.) : sd., col.
Publisher:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010], c2006.
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸This program illustrates how - without the use of metal, pack animals, or even the wheel - the Maya ... engineered sky-high temple-pyramids, ornate palaces, and advanced hydraulic systems. Read More

The Persians : Engineering an Empire

Description:	1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col.
Publisher:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010], c2006.
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸This program is a chronicle of the Persian Empire, a major force that heavily influenced competing ... cultures and achieved scholastic and engineering breakthroughs that were the envy of the ancient world. Read More

Britain: Blood and Stee : Engineering an Empire

Description:	1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col.
Publisher:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c2006.
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸This program explains how Britain used extraordinary engineering feats to become an industrial and ... military titan - and master of an empire that, at its pinnacle, spanned the globe. Read More

Greece : Engineering an Empire

Description:	1 streaming video file (44 min.) : sd., col.
Publisher:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c2006.
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸This program traces 1,500 years of history to shed light on the incredible engineering ... accomplishments of the ancient Greeks - and the leaders who enabled them to happen. Read More

Rome : Engineering an Empire

Description:	1 streaming video file (91 min.) : sd., col.
Publisher:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010], c2005.
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸This program chronicles Rome's spectacular structural history from the rise of Julius Caesar in 55 ... BC to the Empire's eventual collapse in the 6th century AD. Read More