PBS Home Video
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Taped 333 feet below ground within the labyrinth of Tennessee's Cumberland Caverns, contained is a compilation of the best of the twelve-part 'musical adventure' series. Featuring the top established and emerging artists within the bluegrass, newgrass, gospel, roots, and Americana genres.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In October 2009, a striking portrait of a young woman in Renaissance dress made world news headlines. Though it had been purchased two years earlier for around $20,000, the portrait is now thought to be an undiscovered masterwork by Leonardo da Vinci worth more than $100 million. Did cutting edge imaging analysis help tie the portrait to Leonardo? Nova meets a new breed of experts who are approaching 'cold case' art mysteries as if they were crime...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The personal and professional life of Saint-Gaudens is traced from his birth in Dublin, to his death in Cornish, New Hampshire. His story is woven through six of his major works of art, which include the Standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago; Shaw Memorial on Boston Common; Sherman Monument in Central Park; the serenely beautiful Diana in the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Adams Memorial in Washington DC. Includes featurettes.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join historian Bettany Hughes as she explores the different beliefs and practices that form the core of the Buddhist philosophy and investigates how Buddhism started and where it travelled to, through visits to seven of the most spectacular monuments built by Buddhists across the globe.
86) The pill
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Featuring personal accounts from the first generation of women to have access to the Pill, this films show how harnessing female hormones into a little pill unleashed a social revolution unlike any other in our history"--Container.
87) Time of fear
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Publisher
Rob Child & Associates
Pub. Date
2002 ;
Language
English
Description
Using a letter written by Union officer, Lt. Frank A. Haskell to his brother, as well as other accounts from soldiers on both sides, this film tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg as experienced by the soldiers who were there.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Can the designers of the Druk White Lotus School in remote Ladakh, India, help preserve the region's cultural identity for future generations? Could architect Thom Mayne's new San Francisco Federal Building be the prototype for tomorrow's workplace? Enrique Pe~nalosa, the former mayor of Bogota, Colombia, transformed one of the world's most chaotic cities into a model of sustainable and civic-minded urban planning. Third-generation develop Jonathan...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni as he works to provide design solutions to regions suffering from social and humanitarian...
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
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
Publisher
PBS
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...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive look at the Churchill legend, revealing the complexity of the real man who was a soldier, adventurer, politician, author and arguably the greatest Englishman of the 20th century. Features never-before-seen family photographs and new film material.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In Moscow, more than 40 countries compete at the International HairWorld Championships in timed tests of hairstyling skill. Follow team USA as they embark on months of rigorous training until finally their dreams unfold on the competition floor.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This documentary profiles people who are living with the grave consequences of a changing climate, as well as the individuals, communities and scientists inventing new approaches to safeguard our children's future. Filmed across the U.S., Asia and South America, this program brings the reality of climate change to life and offers viewers a variety of ways to make a difference in their own communities.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Wars of the future will be fought over water, as they are today over oil, as the source of all life enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling fresh water supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Will ours too?"--Container.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The modern music scene was born at Woodstock in 1969, where half a million fans, dozens of artists, and the politics of the times came together in a big bang that would eventually generate billions of dollars. Over the last twenty years, however, MTV, compact discs, corporate consolidation, Internet piracy, and greed have contributed to a perfect storm for the recording industry. Frontline talks with musicians, record industry insiders, and journalists...