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CAUTION: This Emmy award winning In Search of the Heroes DVD series is intended for mature high school students and adults, and includes scenes which depict real life situations about peer pressure, bigotry, drug and alcohol usage, and mild violence. This is done solely for dramatic effect in order to help teach students positive character values through the lives of both modern day teenagers and heroes of the past. The series stars NEST Advisory Board member Dr. Reg Grant, Professor of Pastoral Studies at the Dallas Theological Seminary and is produced by Greg Vaughn, the Founder and President of the "Letters from Dad" ministry.
Don't miss out on this incredible chance to own all ten of the award winning In Search of Heroes series. These DVDs teach many of life's lessons while helping children learn about famous individuals in our history. Through the eyes of children transported to the past, the stories bring these great individuals alive in a way that will make kids want to watch them again and again.
Included in this set are:
Forget Me Not: The Anne Frank Story - The story of Anne Frank during World War II, told through the eyes of a boy who has fallen into the neo-nazi movement. He has been whisked away into 1944 to live alongside her as a Jew.
The Wild West Story of Buffalo Bill Cody - A girl is challenged with an important decision: does she betray a friend, or does she keep quiet and betray doing what she knows is right? Her lesson is taught by the one and only Buffalo Bill Cody, pony express rider, Civil War hero, and the creator of the Wild West Show.
Sam Houston: Man of Honor - A girl is seeking out a story on Texas history, and finds one of the best people to teach her this story: Sam Houston, himself.
The Cost of Freedom: William B. Travis - William B. Travis, along with just under 200 hundred troops in the Alamo, stood defiantly against over a thousand soldiers in hopes to win freedom for Texas. This powerful story is told through Angie, a girl who stepped into a mysterious library and found herself in the past.
For All Mankind: The Secret of Thomas Edison - Two girls competing for the grand prize in their school's science fair are magically transported to 1878 where they have the opportunity to witness Thomas Edison and his team invent the lightbulb.
The Quest for Freedom: The Harriet Tubman Story - In 1849, a young man from the present finds himself as a slave on the same plantation with Harriet Tubman. It is through him that we see her take her brave steps into the unknown world and seek to achieve her dream of freedom.
Tragedy to Triumph: An Adventure with Helen Keller - A young man learns a powerful lesson in tolerance when he is transported to the past to meet Helen Keller, the amazing woman who had been blind and deaf since she was 19 months old.
The Susan B. Anthony Story - This Emmy award winning story of Susan B. Anthony tells of the courage and powerful role that she had early in the women's rights movement. Through the eyes of a young girl who was catapulted in the past, we learn that the only "lost causes" are the ones we don't fight for.
The Peanut Man: George Washington Carver - George Washington Carver was presented with a choice: to become rich and famous, or to give it all up to do what's right. We see his story through the eyes of Drey Carter, a young man who has recently been arrested for drug abuse, and we see just how Carver's influence helps him make his own choice to do what's right.
Mark Twain's Tragedy in the Graveyard - Angie is willing to lie and steal in order to make sure she passes her English class. However, she didn't expect to find herself trapped in the past with Mark Twain so that she would learn her lesson.
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