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Channel Four (Great Britain)
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Video uses prize contests that involve random drawings to demonstrate ideas about mathematical probability. Students will see how tree diagrams determine all possible outcomes. The choice of a snack is used to illustrate relevant calculations for combining probabilities.
Publisher
Channel Four Television Corporation
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Francis Pryor has made ancient history popular in books and television specials. In this three-part series, he uses the myth of the British icon- King Arthur- to explain new discoveries that dispute the traditional view of early Britain.
4) The snowman
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Weaves a spell of magical winter enchantment as a young boy's snowman comes to life and escorts him on a visit to the North Pole.
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
On March 13, 1989, the lights went out across Canada and the eastern seaboard of the United States. One of the most serious power grid failures in American history was caused by a magnetic storm. Nova explores one of the most serious threats to life.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Historian Bettany Hughes goes on search of the real truth about democratic Athens, 2500 years ago. It has been revered as the birthplace of philosophy, art, science and the greatest political idea of all time; democracy.
Publisher
4 Ventures Ltd
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This program looks at two amazing structures: the Millennium Bridge in London and the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. both used revolutionary designs that had been test using the latest technology; but when they were completed, one worked according to plan and the other didn't.
11) Geisha
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
2003, 2000.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in collaboration with Arthur Golden, this program captures the geisha mystique while documenting the experiences of two maiko, geisha-in-training. Additional interviews with clients, patrons and others offer insights into contemporary Japanese culture and a profession that is slowly fading away.
12) GBH
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Language
English
Description
It begins innocently enough: a politician calls a strike, and the headmaster of a local school inadvertently sabotages it. Soon the men are caught in a power struggle of epic proportions.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 2011, a group of amateur historians made an incredible archaeological find: the bones of King Richard III, hunchbacked, with an arrow through the spine. Now, scientists are testing the bones to find out more about the king and also conducting fascinating experiments to determine whether Richard could have fought so ferociously in battle with such a severe deformity.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"An ignorant, wannabe-Jamaican British b-boy; an anti-Semitic, misogynistic but friendly Kazakhstani television reporter; and a homosexual Austrian fashonista--all played by Sacha Baron Cohen--conduct interviews on unsuspecting Americans, who include prominent pundits in the political system and celebrities, that reveal deeply hidden prejudices and challenge social mores within American society."--Internet Movie Database.
Publisher
TLC
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Examination of the engineering, construction and design of the World Trade Center and the reasons for its collapse in the attack of September 11, 2001. Includes historical footage of construction and the attacks in 1993 and 2001, and computer simulations of the structure. Also includes commentary from architects, structural engineers, and the project manager, Guy Tozzoli.
