Title |
CATASTROPHE! [DVD videorecording] / PBS. |
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Publication Info. |
[Arlington, VA] : PBS Home Video, [2006] |
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Description |
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
Series |
Secrets of the dead
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System Details |
DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. |
Note |
Closed-captioned. |
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Title from container. |
Performer |
Host, David Keys. |
Note |
Originally broadcast on PBS television in 2000. |
Summary |
Were the early Dark Ages triggered by a natural event of cataclysmic proportions around 535 A.D.? A therory exists that a a volcanic explosion equal to two billion Hiroshima-size bombs caused an environmental calamity affecting human civilization from Mongolia to Constaninople, precipitating plague, famine, death, great migration, the Anglo-Saxon victory over the Celts and perhaps even the rise of Islam. |
Subject |
Europe -- History -- 392-814.
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Disasters -- Europe, Eastern.
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Volcanic eruptions -- Europe, Eastern.
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Environmental disasters -- Europe, Eastern.
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Plague -- Europe, Eastern.
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Famines -- Europe, Eastern.
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Genre |
Television programs.
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Documentary television programs.
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Video recordings for the heaing impaired.
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Documentary -- Television series.
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Added Author |
Keys, David.
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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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PBS Home Video.
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Added Title |
Secrets of the dead (Television program)
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ISBN |
$19.99 |
Music # |
SEDE601 PBS Home Video |
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ISBN |
$19.99 |
Music # |
SEDE601 PBS Home Video |
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