MPT Presents

Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace

In 1975, only 30 years after the United States and Japan have been at war, Japan gave 53 priceless bonsai trees to the United States in celebration of the U.S. Bicentennial. Some bonsai were several hundred years old. One had remarkably survived the bombing of Hiroshima. “Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace” chronicles this historic gift, with rare interviews and archival footage.

Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace

27m 16s

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    Barnstorming

    49m 37s

    Barnstorming is the true story of an unexpected friendship that developed between a farm family and two pilots who literally dropped out of the sky. Their friendship has created a new tradition out of an old one long gone: barnstorming. As a story of ordinary people who share one extraordinary day a year, the film is a portrait of rural America, the life of antique airplane pilots, and friendship.

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    U.S. Army Field Band: Sound the Bells

    56m 45s

    The United States Army Field Band performs a concert filled with holiday favorites. Recorded in December 2024 at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, the family-friendly program is hosted by WBAL-TV personality Jason Newton and features a guest appearance by the Singing Sensations Youth Choir.

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    Kory Caudill & Wordsmith: Concert for the Human Family

    54m 6s

    Kory Caudill, a Nashville recording artist, pianist, composer and Wordsmith, a Baltimore songwriter, poet, in an inaugural concert at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, share a variety of musical and cultural traditions, and stories. The Concert for the Human Family serves as a guide through the human experience of love, grief, loss and hope.

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