PBS Home Video
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Daniel is so excited to learn that a new family is moving into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe! Watch as the Tiger Family, and the entire Neighborhood welcomes the new arrivals and helps them adjust to their unfamiliar surroundings. Daniel even lends a hand to make Jodi Platypus, his new playmate, feel right at home! Join Daniel as he becomes Jodi's 'first-day friend' to help her feel comfortable at her new school, as he goes to play at Jodi's house...
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From birth to weaning, from territorial disputes to courtship and mating, from brush fires to drought, gum trees are what determine a koala's success or failure, survival or mortality. This film will explore the remarkable bond between the koala and the eucalypt trees it so depends upon. By following individual koalas from a small social group on an Australian island, NATURE will reveal just how a koala manages to survive and thrive on a diet poisonous...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Red and her friends are having a picnic in the park, but she has no energy to join in the fun. Could it have something to do with her unhealthy snack choices? Super Why and his friends head into the story of Hansel and Gretel to meet the equally tired and grouchy witch. They convince the witch to trade in her gingerbread house for something both delicious and nutritious.
7) Tiny trouble
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
8) Origins
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Science odyssey is a chronicle of twentieth century scientific adventure. Highlights include: Age and orifgins of Earth, volcanoes, earthquakes, Alfred Wegener, plate tectonics, human origins, Louis and Mary Leaky, DNA, and origins of life.
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Science odyssey is a chronicle of twentieth century scientific adventure. Highlights include: George Ellery Hale and the Mount Wilson telescope ; Henrietta Leavitt ; Edwin Hubble ; Albert Einstein ; Niels Bohr and the Quantum Theory of Matter ; The structure of the atom ; Jocelyn Bell and pulsars ; The size of the universe ; The Big Bang ; Black holes ; Quarks ; Super colliders ; Unified field and strign theories.
12) Krakatoa
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Using dramatic redcreations and CGI, this program brings the May 20, 1883 eruption to life. The eruption reduced the island of Krakatoa to a third of its former size and sent waves that tipped 100 feet high, killing 36,000 people.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In the 100 years since the Wright brothers first took to the air, the airplane has evolved from a tentative eye in the sky into the ultimate weapons delivery system. Its role in warfare has grown dramatically through the ages, and as it has taken on new functions, the very way countries wage war has been trasnformed. Warplane explores the evolution of the warplane, and highlights the people and stories behind the key technological advances that have...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Alaska is warming up. It's now a few degrees warmer than it was a century and a half ago, and the trend seems to be accelerating. Already the landscape is changing dramatically -- permafrost is thawing, glaciers are melting, forests are succumbing to drought and insect attack. Alan Alda meets Alaskan scientists who are working to find out if these are the first signs of global warming and what the future may hold.
15) Prohibition
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight....
16) Martin Luther
Language
English
Description
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his treatise to the doors of the Wittenberg Cathedral and forever changed the Christian world. This previously obscure German monk unleashed forces that would plunge Europe into war and chaos. He offered the Christian world a new vision of man's relationship with God and, in turn, redefined man's relationship with authority in general, bringing the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
George Washington, was a social climber, land-hungry Virginia surveyor, and military officer who often blamed others for his own errors. He gradually built a reputation as a gentleman by educating himself in the classics and sciences, entering politics, and marrying one of the wealthiest women in Virginia. The battle of Trenton changed everything with a victory both for America and Washington himself. His skill and bravery transformed Washington into...
19) What are dreams?
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins the leading dream researchers as they embark on a variety of neurological and psychological experiments to investigate the world of sleep and dreams. Delving deep into the thoughts and brains of a variety of dreamers, scientists are asking important questions about the purpose of this mysterious world we escape to at night.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The royal tomb of Pharaoh Psusennes I is one of the most spectacular of all the ancient Egyptian treasures. Discovered in 1939 by French archeologist Pierre Montet, why hasn't the world heard about it? Archaeologists, using the hieroglyphs inside the tomb, pieced together the identity of the pharaoh, and further investigation reveals political intrigue, a lost city, and a leader who united a country in turmoil and became the Silver Pharaoh.