PBS Home Video
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...
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the home of Cook's Country, a renovated 1806 farmhouse with a full working test kitchen, a live audience, two barns, and the odd neighbor who stops by with cooking problems that need immediate attention. Join host Christopher Kimball and your favorite chefs from America's Test Kitchen as they turn their no-nonsense approach to cooking to the American repertoire, turning bad food into great food through careful testing.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This documentary looks not only at how his talent, style and imagination have shaped all of our lives, but also at the influences that shaped and molded the man himself. Through interviews with the people who worked closely with him or chronicled his life, we gain unique insight into what made him tick. In a never before broadcast, exclusive interview, Steve Jobs expounds his own philosophy of life, and offers advice to us all on changing our own...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
He's been dead for more than 5,000 years and poked, prodded, and probed by scientists for the last twenty. Yet Otzi the Iceman, the famous mummified corpse pulled from a glacier in the Italian Alps, continues to keep many secrets. Now, through an autopsy like none other, scientists will attempt to unravel mysteries about the ancient mummy, revealing not only the details of Otzi's death but also an entire way of life.
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.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The four-part series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the "White gaze." The series recounts the establishment of the Prince Hall Masons in 1775 through the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, destinations for leisure, and the social media phenomenon of Black Twitter. Professor Gates...
15) 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
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Explores the period between the 16th and 19th centuries in Japan by examining the lives of shoguns, samurais, geishas, and the very few westerners allowed into Japan . Japan was then a world unto itself, closed to outsiders, and ruled by shoguns with absolute control. During this period, Japan transitioned from chaos and violence to a land of ritual refinement and peace.
17) Brooklyn Bridge
Language
English
Description
"This award-winning program by filmmaker Ken Burns recaptures all the drama, the struggles and the personal tragedies behind this greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age. As this fascinating program reveals, it was the largest bridge of its era, marked by enormous construction problems and ingenious solutions."--Publisher's website.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
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
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Packed with ingenious scientific work and spectacular fossils, Nova's Ice Age Death Trap reveals intimate secrets of the life and death of North America's most exotic and extreme creatures: mastodons, saber tooth cats and camels, giant bison with six-foot horns, and ground sloths as big as elephants. Most tantalizing of all, the excavation, organized by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, unearths startling and controversial evidence of what...