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Afghanistan : 12 years of violence / Discovery Channel School ; a BBC/TLC co-production.
Penn Museum Library - Media DVD DS371.3 .A342 2002
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Assignment Discovery (Television program)
- Assignment: Discovery
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.
- Bin Laden, Osama.
- Taliban.
- Afghanistan--History--1989-2001.
- Afghanistan.
- History.
- Afghanistan--Politics and government--1989-2001.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Educational television programs.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Educational films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (26 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Silver Spring, MD : Discovery Communications, Inc. ; New York, NY : Insight Media, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Chart the history of Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion to civil war between ethnic tribes to the the rise of the Taliban. This war-torn country was once home to many sophisticated, educated, artistic people. But by the late 1990s, it became an international center for smuggling drugs and precious stones--and the headquarters of Osama bin Laden."--Container.
- Participant:
- Reporter, John Simpson.
- Credits:
- Produced by Caroline Pare, Tom Giles and Katharine Quarmby; reported by John Simpson ; film camera, Peter Jouvenal ; graphic design, Kaye Huddy and Julie Tritton.
- Notes:
- Special features: teacher resources.
- ISBN:
- 1593808992
- 9781593808990
- OCLC:
- 232609301
- Publisher Number:
- 743252055137
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