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2) The brain
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the wonders of the human brain in an epic series that reveals the ultimate story of why people feel and think the things they do. The ambitious project blends science with innovative visual effects and compelling personal stories, and addresses some big questions.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns, and the blues to its mainstream popularity, viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more...
Publisher
StarVista Entertainment / Time Life
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts were a fixture on NBC's Thursday night lineup from 1973 to 1984. In those 11 years, Dean and his panel of pals successfully ridiculed, embarrassed, and made fun of legendary stars like Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, and Dean Martin himself, and America loved it! The DVD brings back all the fun from years gone by, and contains hours of hilarious camp and humor as celebrities are roasted by a who's who of stage, screen, sports,...
Series
Blue planet volume 2
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This bold cinematic experience takes viewers on a magical adventure across the greatest, yet least known parts of our planet - our oceans. Since Blue Planet aired in 2001, our understanding of life beneath the waves has completely changed. Travelling from the icy polar seas to the vibrant blues of the coral atolls, Blue Planet II shares these astonishing new discoveries. Meet the strange octopuses lurking in the depths of the Antarctic ocean. Watch...
6) Mythos
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from Joseph Campbell's last lecture series before his death illustrate his theory of the origin, purpose and history of myth and mythology. As seen on PBS.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the groundbreaking series from National Geographic, where you're invited to probe the inner workings of one of the most fascinating, intricate instruments known to science: the human brain. Through revealing experiments using sensory illusion and even magic tricks, some of the world's leading experts help us understand how we do things like solve puzzles, recognize faces and store memories. Narrated by Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris,...
Publisher
Time Life
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For 50 years, the CMA Awards have spotlighted the top performers of country music, capturing the songs and artists that have provided a soundtrack for our lives. This collection takes you from the early days of the CMA Awards in the late 1960s when Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell dominated the country music scene to today's top country stars including Carrie Underwood, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan and Chris Stapleton. This collection of...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Depression: out of the Shadows tells the dramatic stories of people of different ages, from diverse backgrounds, who live with various forms of depression. Leading mental health experts highlight the latest scientific research and innovative treatments, offering greater understanding and hope for the millions of people living with this complex, but treatable, disease." From container.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 2002, an immense, 200-meter-thick ice shelf the size of Manhattan collapsed into the ocean off the Antarctic Peninsula, shocking scientists and raising the alarming possibility that we may be heading toward an ice-free Antarctica, last seen a million years ago. That would raise world sea levels so high that New York City would be flooded up to the level of the Statue of Liberty's shoulders. But could this really happen? Is Antarctica's surprising...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In 1972, Liza Minnelli and Broadway legend Bob Fosse took the Oscars by storm for Cabaret. That same year, the two paired up once again to create the spectacular musical special Liza with a Z, making television history and carting home four Emmys in the process. In 2000, Showtime presented a restored version of the special.
Publisher
Walt Disney
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Directed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, this is a three-part documentary series that takes audiences back in time to the bandb2ss intimate recording sessions. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, and is compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours of unheard audio, all of which has been brilliantly...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-chapter documentary series, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone. Do Americans really know and understand the country's shared and complicated history? How are the small details and forgotten players that influenced some of the biggest events from America's past recalled? Will children actually get the whole story from reading history books? And how will it affect the future of the country?
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt created the nation's first National Monument destination. The purpose was to preserve all of America's significant pieces of history. Now viewers can take a journey through the ecology, geology, and beauty of the Great Plains, the geologic West, and the historic South in an adventure never to be forgotten.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up ... and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place...
20) Influenza, 1918
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1918, an army private reported to a hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, an illness that doctors knew little about. By the end of WWI, America was ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people.