Apograph Productions.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1881, 25 men led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely sailed from the harbor of St. John's, Newfoundland. Their destination was Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world's surface that had been described by a British admiral as a 'sheer blank.' Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny, and cannibalism.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the gruesome culmination of years of unrest in America's most profitable manufacturing industry. Two years earlier, led by a spontaneous walkout in the same factory, twenty thousand garment workers, in the largest women's strike in American history, took to the streets of New York to protest working conditions. They gained the support of both progressives...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history"--Container.
Publisher
[Distributed by] PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (394 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their strategies were militaristic, but more often they were diplomatic,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the assassination and excruciating final months of President James Garfield's life. A brilliant scholar, courageous general, and fervent abolitionist, Garfield never wanted the job of president. But once in office, he worked tirelessly to reunite a nation still divided 15 years after the Civil War. As he lay dying, the North and South came together to pray for his recovery.