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American Legends: The Life of James Cagney
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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When the American Film Institute assembled a list of its top 100 actors, one of the top 10 was James Cagney, an actor whose acting and dancing talents spawned a career that spanned over five decades and once compelled Orson Welles to call him "maybe the greatest actor to ever appear in front of a camera." Ultimately it was portraying tough guys and gangsters in the 1930s that turned Cagney into a massive star, the kinds of roles he was born to play after growing up rough in Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century.
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American Legends: The Life of James Cagney
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2015
- Language: English
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Trafalgar and Waterloo: The Two Most Important Battles of the Napoleonic Wars
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: James McSorley
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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Over the course of its history, England has engaged in an uncountable number of battles, but a select few have been celebrated like the Battle of Trafalgar, one of the most important naval battles in history. Before the battle, Napoleon still harbored dreams of sailing an invasion force across the English Channel and subduing England, but that would be dashed on October 21, 1805 by a British fleet that was outnumbered and outgunned.
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Trafalgar and Waterloo: The Two Most Important Battles of the Napoleonic Wars
- Narrated by: James McSorley
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2015
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Robert Redford
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Robin McKay
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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When Robert Redford first entered the national spotlight in the early 1960s, he was hardly viewed as a serious actor, and with his red hair, blond complexion, and athletic build, he was seen more as a handsome man than a skilled one. On top of that, he came at a time in which most Hollywood stars were tall, dark, and slender - like one of his most famous costars, Paul Newman - and by comparison, Redford looked more like a surfer.
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American Legends: The Life of Robert Redford
- Narrated by: Robin McKay
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2015
- Language: English
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South Africa
- The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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The Boer War was the defining conflict of South African history and one of the most important conflicts in the history of the British Empire. Naturally, complicated geopolitics underscored it, going back centuries. In fact, the European history of South Africa began with the 1652 arrival of a small Dutch flotilla in Table Bay, at the southern extremity of the African continent, which made landfall with a view to establishing a victualing station to service passing Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) ships.
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Great introduction to a turbulent history
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South Africa
- The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2019
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Billie Holiday
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Edith Moulson
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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If Billie Holiday wanted to become a jazz singer, she chose the best of all eras in which to attempt it. A wave of great jazz and jazz/pop crossover artists swept over the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s, generating a golden age for the genre. Emerging from such a powerful group of talented vocalists was not easy. The woman who has come to represent a model of great, instinctive jazz singing came from nowhere, had nothing, and virtually had no one. She was raw and untrained, but went forward with limited and quirky vocal gifts.
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American Legends: The Life of Billie Holiday
- Narrated by: Edith Moulson
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-07-2015
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Persian Empire
- The History and Legacy of the Macedonian King’s Campaign Against the Persians
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity’s first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon’s accomplishments, while Napoleon aimed to emulate the accomplishments of Julius Caesar. But Caesar himself found inspiration in Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE), the Macedonian king who managed to stretch an empire from Greece to the Himalayas in Asia by the age of 30.
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Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Persian Empire
- The History and Legacy of the Macedonian King’s Campaign Against the Persians
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2020
- Language: English
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French Senegal
- The History of the French Colony and Senegal’s Transition to Independence
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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French Senegal: The History of the French Colony and Senegal’s Transition to Independence examines how France established the colony, and how that colony affected events in the 20th century before Senegal became a modern nation.
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French Senegal
- The History of the French Colony and Senegal’s Transition to Independence
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2020
- Language: English
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Blaise Pascal: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Mathematician and Theologian
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Blaise Pascal: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Mathematician and Theologian examines the life and work that made this unconventionally educated yet brilliant scientist, mathematician, and man of letters one of modern history’s most important figures. You will learn about Pascal like never before.
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Blaise Pascal: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Mathematician and Theologian
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-12-2018
- Language: English
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Claudius
- The Life and Legacy of the Emperor Who Stabilized the Ancient Roman Empire After Caligula
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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Claudius is particularly remembered for the conquest of Britain, as Roman power there had weakened since Julius Caesar had invaded nearly a century before. Beyond this, he established Roman colonies on the frontiers of the empire, annexed several territories in North Africa (including Thrace and Mauritania), and made Judea a province. Claudius’s rule stands out in other aspects as well. He paid great attention to Rome’s judicial system and religious policy, and the Empire’s infrastructure was improved during his reign.
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Claudius
- The Life and Legacy of the Emperor Who Stabilized the Ancient Roman Empire After Caligula
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2018
- Language: English
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The Union Pacific
- The History of America's Most Famous Railroad Company and Its Role in the Transcontinental Railroad
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 2 hrs
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was also the first tentative claim on the vast interior and the western seaboard of North America by the United States. It set in motion the great movement west that began almost immediately with the first commercial overland expedition funded by John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company and would continue with the establishment of the Oregon Trail and California Trail. That quest would reach its ultimate expression ...when the last spike was driven into the Union Pacific Railroad.
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The Union Pacific
- The History of America's Most Famous Railroad Company and Its Role in the Transcontinental Railroad
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 20-02-2019
- Language: English
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British India
- The History and Legacy of the British Raj and the Partition of India and Pakistan into Separate Nations
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors ,to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent, to its eventual hubristic downfall, the East India Company serves as a lens through which to explore the much larger economic and social forces that shaped the formation of a global British Empire.
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British India
- The History and Legacy of the British Raj and the Partition of India and Pakistan into Separate Nations
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-12-2017
- Language: English
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The Panama Canal
- The Construction and History of the Waterway Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dennis E. Morris
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Most people have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but while not as many have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, those who have are aware that the Panama Canal is considered one of them. In a world where few natural rivers carved out over eons of time have reached a length of more than 50 miles, the idea that a group of men could carve a canal of that length seemed impossible. In fact, many thought it could not be done.
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The Panama Canal
- The Construction and History of the Waterway Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- Narrated by: Dennis E. Morris
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-04-2015
- Language: English
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Bob Marley: The Life and Legacy of Reggae's Global Icon
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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In terms of raw popularity, Bob Marley sold over 20 million albums in a brief career that took him around the globe as, "[T]he first international superstar from the so-called third world." Beginning with the more lighthearted ska style, Marley drew fellow Jamaicans as kindred spirits by adding social commentary to the lyrics. His exaltation of the reggae form, couched in the Rastafari, became an instrument of order and a haven for otherwise directionless youth in Kingston and other communities of Jamaica.
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Bob Marley: The Life and Legacy of Reggae's Global Icon
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 27-05-2015
- Language: English
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The Achaemenid Persian Empire's Most Famous Kings
- The Lives and Reigns of Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, and Xerxes I
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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At one point in antiquity, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire the world had ever seen, but aside from its role in the Greco-Persian Wars and its collapse at the hands of Alexander the Great, it has been mostly overlooked. When it has been studied, the historical sources have mostly been Greek, the very people the Persians sought to conquer. Needless to say, their versions were biased.
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The Achaemenid Persian Empire's Most Famous Kings
- The Lives and Reigns of Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, and Xerxes I
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-12-2019
- Language: English
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Ulrich Zwingli: The Life and Legacy of the Swiss Reformer Who Fought the Catholic Church during the Reformation
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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On March 9, 1522, a band of about a dozen rebellious Christians gathered in a printer's workshop in Grabengasse, Zurich, fully resolved to march to the beat of their own drum. These renegades were intent on broadcasting a message to the corrupt and increasingly dishonorable Catholic Church...Ulrich Zwingli: The Life and Legacy of the Swiss Reformer Who Fought the Catholic Church during the Reformation chronicles the reformer’s life and teachings, and the influence he had on religion.
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Ulrich Zwingli: The Life and Legacy of the Swiss Reformer Who Fought the Catholic Church during the Reformation
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2019
- Language: English
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The Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars
- The History of the Russian Conflicts Against the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West has been extraordinarily negative for centuries, at least until recent revisions to the historical record. The Mongols have long been depicted as wild horse-archers galloping out of the dawn to rape, pillage, murder and enslave, but the Mongol army was a highly sophisticated, minutely organized and incredibly adaptive and innovative institution.
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The Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars
- The History of the Russian Conflicts Against the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-08-2020
- Language: English
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The Battle of Red Cliffs
- The History and Legacy of the Decisive Battle Fought Near the Start of Ancient China's Three Kingdoms Period
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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The Battle of Red Cliffs changed Chinese history. It marked the end of the Han Dynasty, one of the greatest in China’s history, and pushed China into the era of the Three Kingdoms, an era of perpetual warfare and chaos. Furthermore, the battle also had a dramatic effect on Chinese culture, media, and literature, and the battle and its major participants remain legendary in China.
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The Battle of Red Cliffs
- The History and Legacy of the Decisive Battle Fought Near the Start of Ancient China's Three Kingdoms Period
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 19-12-2019
- Language: English
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The Fall of France: The History of Nazi Germany's Invasion and Conquest of France During World War II
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Christian Carvajal
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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Of course,Paris was not destroyed before the Allies liberated it, but it would take more than four years for them to wrest control of France from Nazi Germany after they took the country by storm in about a month in 1940. That said, it's widely overlooked today given how history played out that as the power of Nazi Germany grew alarmingly during the 1930s, the French sought means to defend their territory against the rising menace of the Thousand-Year Reich.
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The Fall of France: The History of Nazi Germany's Invasion and Conquest of France During World War II
- Narrated by: Christian Carvajal
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 28-07-2015
- Language: English
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The Chinese Triads
- The History and Legacy of China’s Most Famous Organized Crime Syndicates
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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From running guns to white-collar crimes in cyberspace and illegal seafood, the Triads, the mafia of China, are potent figures in the world of organized crime. Going by enigmatic names like the 14K Triad and the United Bamboo Gang, these criminal groups are enormous, with some organizations boasting memberships ranging in the tens of thousands. A powerful factor in China and throughout Asia, Triads are entrenched in society and the masters of multiple enterprises ranging from extortion, narcotics, prostitution, and white collar crime.
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The Chinese Triads
- The History and Legacy of China’s Most Famous Organized Crime Syndicates
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2020
- Language: English
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Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z
- The History of the Explorer's Mysterious Disappearance in Search of El Dorado
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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The heroes of each generation reflect the conditions, priorities, and goals of the era in which they reside. In the United States and throughout Europe, the wilderness explorer enjoyed widespread public adulation long before leading sports figures, rock stars, and astronauts of later decades. The ingenuity of the Industrial Revolution gave way to early manned flight, and other breakthroughs in communication and travel.
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Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z
- The History of the Explorer's Mysterious Disappearance in Search of El Dorado
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2016
- Language: English
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