Animated Hero Classics
Animated Hero Classics
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Animated Hero Classics

7.2 / 10
1991
2 seasons
20 episodes
Documentary

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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  • Christopher Columbus

    1.Christopher Columbus

    01-06-1991

    While the whole world sailed east on the path to find China, Columbus believed it could be reached in two weeks… by sailing west! Finally, after securing the support of Queen Isabe...

  • William Bradford: The First Thanksgiving

    2.William Bradford: The First Thanksgiving

    TBA

    William Bradford fled with the Pilgrims to the new world, where he discovered that the price for religious freedom was hunger, sickness and death. As a peacemaker, he befriended th...

  • George Washington

    3.George Washington

    TBA

    George Washington, “The father of America,” comes to life in this remarkable story about his extraordinary accomplishments as a military leader. Retrace Washington’s steps from “th...

  • Benjamin Franklin

    4.Benjamin Franklin

    TBA

    High into the stormy sky, a kite with iron points bobs in the wind. Suddenly, lightning cuts through the sky and a spark emits from the key attached to the kite string. As Ben Fran...

  • Abraham Lincoln

    5.Abraham Lincoln

    TBA

    Over a century ago, only one man stood in the way of the disintegration of the United States of America—and he was a gangly, storytelling country lawyer from Illinois with no polit...

  • Thomas Edison

    6.Thomas Edison

    TBA

    Never was genius more fun! Thomas Edison opens up the laboratory of America’s most celebrated inventor and invites you to explore its secrets. This fast-paced, bird’s eye view of E...

  • Florence Nightingale

    7.Florence Nightingale

    TBA

    It was the height of the Crimean War, and English soldiers were wounded and dying by the hundreds. The shocking conditions of British field hospitals only worsened potential recove...

  • Pocahontas

    8.Pocahontas

    TBA

    Except for the raw courage of Native American princess, Pocahontas, the English settlers at Jamestown in the early 17th century would have died from starvation and exposure. Her br...

  • Louis Pasteur

    9.Louis Pasteur

    04-04-1995

    The time is 1860, and cholera is beginning to spread throughout France's chicken population. Louis Pasteur and his assistant, Emile Roux, collect samples and deduce that disease ca...

  • Maccabees: The Story of Hanukkah

    10.Maccabees: The Story of Hanukkah

    TBA

    Journey to Palestine of the second century B.C., where Antiochus, a Syrian-Greek king, rules over the people of Israel, confronting them with a trying test of their faith. They mus...

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