Nature: Dogs That Changed the World

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Product Description The award-winning Nature series is the longest-running weekly natural history series on television. Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham narrates this epic story of the remarkable and enduring relationship between dogs and humans, and why dogs have earned a unique and fundamental place in the human heart. More than 750 million of us share our lives with dogs. We love and cherish them. But this most adored of animal companions was once the wild and savage wolf. How did this astonishing transformation take place? In spectacular location footage, Nature shows how indispensable certain breeds have been to their people, from the Arctics native Inuit and their sled dogs to desert dwelling Jordanians and the speedy saluki. Review [This program] is laden with loquacious dog people, lovely scenery from the Scottish Highlands to the jungles of Papua New Guinea and plenty of frisky puppies.... The words in Dogs should scare us into outrage, but its pictures tell a cuddlier story. --New York Times P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Actor F. Murray Abraham is an Oscar-winning actor known for films like Amadeus, Finding Forrester, Mighty Aphrodite, Inside Llewyn Davis and Grand Budapest Hotel. SYNOPSIS - Born on October 24, 1939, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Syrian and Italian ancestry, Abraham went on to attend the University of Texas at Austin. He moved to New York City to pursue acting, studying under Uta Hagen, and developed a stage career with Off-Broadway productions. He later added the F to the beginning of his stage name in honor of his father, Frederick, and because he felt his birth name was not distinctive enough. Abraham landed small parts for TV and on the big screen, appearing in a variety of films during the 1970s, including Serpico (1973), The Sunshine Boys (1975), All the Presidents Men (1976), The Ritz (1976) and The Big Fix (1978). He was also noted for being one of the Fruit of the Loom men in the brands series of television commercials. Abraham continued his screen work into the next decade, landing a part in 1983s Scarface. He simultaneously did filming in Prague, portraying noted Italian composer Antonio Salieri in the 1984 feature Amadeus Abrahams gripping performance earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor, as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award. He continued his prolific output over the ensuing years, with roles in films across various genres. He co-starred with Sean Connery and Christian Slater in another period film, The Name of the Rose (1986), and a few years later made an appearance as a prosecuting attorney in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). In 1991 he played crime boss Arnold Rothstein in Mobsters. By the mid-1990s, Abraham could be seen in a TV adaptation of the Jules Verne classic Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993) and co-starred with Mira Sorvino and Helena Bonham Carter in Woody Allens Mighty Aphrodite (1995), in which he led the films chorus. 1995 also saw Abraham play gangster Al Capone in both Dillinger and Capone and Baby Face Nelson, and the actor ventured further into sci-fi with roles in Guillermo Del Toros Mimic (1997), which also featured Sorvino, as well as 1998s Star Trek: Insurrection. See more