WGBH Video (Firm)

Part 1 stretches the body, benefitting the legs, hips and back. Part 2 is a series of standing poses that increases leg strength and balance. Part 3 is a guided relaxation exercise that reduces stress and quiets the mind.

Viewers get a rare look at coral spawning as well as various life forms that live in and around the world's largest coral reef, located off the coast of Australia.

Introduces viewers to the inventors, entrepreneurs and industrial scientists whose work fueled the 20th century's technological revolution. Topics include aviation and automobiles, mass media and the computer, and synthetic materials like nylon.

Take to the air in six flight-filled adventures as Chirp tries to fly. Watch Chirp build a special flying nest. Find out if Peep's advice to 'think floaty' gives Chirp the boost she needs. See Chirp finally reach the sky - with the help of borrowed wings.

Find out why Peep lives in a can. Discover some dark secrets about the night. Follow "duck prints" in the snow as Peep tracks Quack. And chase the perfect leaf on a wonderfully windy fall day.

Learn the secrets to foolproof home cooking along with no-nonsense reviews of kitchen equipment and supermarket ingredients.

Includes 26 episodes of Season 9 of America's Test Kitchen, the public television cooking show filmed in the test kitchens of Cook's illustrated magazine.

In the early 1900s, San Francisco stood as a proud and flourishing symbol of America's recent conquest of the once-wild West. But on April 19, 1906, the city would experience an awesome reminder of the uncontrollable forces lying dormant just beneath the splendors of its cosmopolitan surface. Thirty times more powerful than the temblor that decimated northern California in 1989, this earthquake measured a ground-wrenching 8.3 on the Richter scale,...

What holds up the astrodome? Why did the Romans leave a hole in the roof of the Pantheon? Tour the world and trace the 2000-year history of domes with award-winning author/illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay. From Houston's astrodome to Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral, to the geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller, this video introduces ingenious designers, recounts rarely told heroic stories, and reveals amazing triumphs through spectacular...

On the morning of July 25, 1909, Louis Bleriot set out on his epic flight across the English Channel, marking the first long-distance flight over water and the first air crossing of a national boundary. A Daring Flight captures the thrilling formative years of flight, when the French were mad about airplanes and tried everything to fly.