PBS Home Video
1) The Shakers
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This revealing and poignant film by Ken Burns portrays 200 years of Shaker life in America, guided by the recollections of the three surviving members of the faith, along with a wealth of archival material from over 40 collections. Explore every aspect of this strange and noble sect that produced some of the greatest architecture and furniture in American history.
2) Huey Long
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"No modern politician has captured the American imagination as has the Kingfish--Huey Long. Two years in the making, Ken Burns' documentary traces Long's spectacular career from the 1920s when he burst out of Louisiana's red clay hills to smash the state's power structure under the banner "Every Man a king.""--Publisher's website.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"In March 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement."--Container....
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded the first eight cars. In the ninth rode the body of Abraham...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns portrays the drama, the struggles and the personal tragedies behind this greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age. It was the largest bridge of its era, marked by enormous construction problems and ingenious solutions.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This videodisc exposes the hidden, high-tech workings of the world's largest intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA) and a report on the threat to privacy and the effectiveness of high-tech surveillance in the age of terrorism.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Thousands of Allied soldiers faced death on the Bataan peninsula in 1941 and only 500 prisoners in the Cabanatuan prison camp lived to be rescued. With testimony from both captive and liberator their valiant struggle is remembered.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of women's suffrage in the United States through the dramatic, often turbulent friendship of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony. Part 1 covers the years from their youth up to the establishment of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1868. Part 2 spans the period from 1868 to the passage in 1919 of the 19th amendment to the Constitution which gave women the vote.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret initiative - the Manhattan Project. This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America's most influential scientists.
Publisher
Carnival Film & Television
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
11) Thomas Jefferson
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Explores the 65-year effort to identify, prosecute, and punish the 20th century's most notorious murderers. In the face of apathy, obstruction, and violence, the men and women who pursued Nazi fugitives not only brought a measure of dignity to the victims of the Holocaust, they also reminded the international community that enemies of humanity must be punished, if humanity is to survive.
13) Coney Island
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2006], c1991]
Language
English
Description
In scale, in variety, in sheer inventiveness, Coney Island was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and eventually, everyone came to see it. At the turn of the century, Coney Island exploded in a forest of glittering electric towers and a riot of rides, restaurants, recreated disasters, freak shows, and historical displays when three vast amusement parks -- Steeplechase, Luna Park, and Dreamland -- were built. Indicative of its overwhelming popularity,...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A documentary of the American Revolution. Chronicles events leading up to the war, the revolution, and the writing of the Constitution. Features dramatic readings from letters and diaries of the period, comments by historians, and live-action recreations.
17) Thomas Jefferson
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A tribute to the icons of early television and an entertaining retrospective on the golden age of television comedy. Includes footage from shows such as "The Milton Berle show", "The Ed Sullivan show", "The Jack Benny show", "The Red Skelton show", "I love Lucy", and "The Honeymooners." Six years in the making, the program features exclusive in-depth interviews with an unprecedented collection of TV's early stars.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Ken Burns traces the life and turbulent career of one of America's best known and least understood painters. A bittersweet portrait combining rare archival material, commentary by those close to him, and a collection of his stunning paintings.
20) The war
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
