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Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From substations to gas stations, boardrooms to military bases - this film tells the story of America's energy industry on the brink of massive change. Whether it fails, prevails or adapts, the outcome will profoundly affect us all. This is the first in a series of new films about the future of the U.S. energy grid from American Resilience Project, producers of award-winning Tidewater.
2) Yesterday
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter... but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie--the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve, they find that laughter, romance, and a little holiday magic will get them through, and change their lives in unexpected ways. A heartless real estate tycoon clings to life in a precarious construction elevator hundreds of feet off the ground. Unexpected relationships bloom for a musician stuck with her dysfunctional orchestra mates.
4) Blackout
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
When the power goes out in the city, a certain family discovers that "not normal" can be fun.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What is the difference between electricity and electronics? Begin your study of modern electronics by examining this distinction, and observe how electronics use the basic properties of electric circuits in a more sophisticated way. Witness firsthand how resistance is described with Ohm's law, and learn how to measure electric power.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on themes of previous lectures - the widespread availability of electric power, the mass production of goods, and consumer distribution channels - this lecture shows you how appliances such as vacuum cleaners and washing machines were invented, how they changed life in American homes, and how they act as symbols for the middle class.
8) Westinghouse
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Westinghouse is a feature-length documentary about the life and times of George Westinghouse, his companies, legacy, personality, partnership with Nikola Tesla and conflict with Thomas Edison. George Westinghouse is considered America's greatest industrialist and the only man who would go up against Thomas Edison, and win. His victory over Edison during the Battle of the Currents set the stage for the entire future of electric power. The Westinghouse...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were jointly awarded the 2001 Pritzker Prize, their profession's highest honour, for combining "the artistry of an age-old profession with the fresh approach of a new century's technical capabilities". Over the past twenty years they have been involved in finding inventive architectural solutions to building a diverse range of projects - domestic, municipal and commercial - from a modest switching...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were jointly awarded the 2001 Pritzker Prize, their profession's highest honour, for combining "the artistry of an age-old profession with the fresh approach of a new century's technical capabilities". Over the past twenty years they have been involved in finding inventive architectural solutions to building a diverse range of projects - domestic, municipal and commercial - from a modest switching...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Tesla v's Edison - What did Tesla know and why did ‘All American hero’ Thomas Edison try to destroy this amazing and prolific inventor? Let there be Light explores inventor, visionary and eccentric Nikola Tesla. The story finds Tesla at a crucial turning point after he had been banished from mainstream science into a life of obscurity and poverty. As one of the most eccentric, misunderstood and humanistic physicists of the 19th and early 20th...
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