
Animated Hero Classics is an educational Animated television series of programs co-produced by Nest Family Entertainment and Warner Bros. The series, geared toward elementary school aged children, includes twenty biographies of both female and male scientists, inventors, explorers, and social champions from around Europe, North America and the Middle East, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale, Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Benjamin Franklin, Helen Keller, Marco Polo, Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur. The Children's Television Act of 1990 required terrestrial television networks to devote time to Educational and Informative programming for children. Even though Warner Bros' cable networks were not directly affected by these requirements, these programs were debuted on their HBO network's Saturday morning children's block as a show of good faith that the network was committed to quality educational programming for children. The dramatic biographies were meticulously researched by the producers and written to engage both children and adults, providing an entertaining and accessible way to learn about the positive impact that these women and men have had on our world.
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Air Date: 1991-06-01
While the whole world sailed east on the path to find China, Columbus believed it could be reached in two weeks… by s...
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William Bradford fled with the Pilgrims to the new world, where he discovered that the price for religious freedom wa...
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George Washington, “The father of America,” comes to life in this remarkable story about his extraordinary accomplish...
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High into the stormy sky, a kite with iron points bobs in the wind. Suddenly, lightning cuts through the sky and a sp...
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Over a century ago, only one man stood in the way of the disintegration of the United States of America—and he was a ...
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Never was genius more fun! Thomas Edison opens up the laboratory of America’s most celebrated inventor and invites yo...
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It was the height of the Crimean War, and English soldiers were wounded and dying by the hundreds. The shocking condi...
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Except for the raw courage of Native American princess, Pocahontas, the English settlers at Jamestown in the early 17...
Air Date: 1995-04-04
The time is 1860, and cholera is beginning to spread throughout France's chicken population. Louis Pasteur and his as...
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Journey to Palestine of the second century B.C., where Antiochus, a Syrian-Greek king, rules over the people of Israe...