PBS Distribution (Firm)
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 60 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alzheimer's disease ravages the minds of over 40 million victims worldwide. The cause of Alzheimer's and whether it can be stopped is one of the greatest medical mysteries of our time. Join courageous patients participating in clinical trials, and then go behind the scenes of the major drug trials to see how researchers target and test therapies that may slow and even prevent Alzheimer's.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt ever for signs of life on Mars. For the first time, in February 2021, a rover will attempt a risky landing in Jezero Crater, the coveted site of an ancient river delta that could possibly be a cradle of life.
Publisher
PBS distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This two part special details the impact of the arts on the human brain across a person's lifetime and explores its role in early human development. Stories are shared showing how the arts can improve children's school performance and reveals cutting edge science that explains the powerful, positive impact of the arts on the human brain.
Publisher
PBS DIstribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rare look at the over four-decade intimate relationship Ken Burns has with his America and beloved community of Walpole, NH, and the importance that a "sense of place" and belonging has in one's life. That the essential American fabric of patriotism and goodness are woven through each of us, and often, the road less traveled is a good decision.
7) The Amish
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
C2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the insular religious community, whose intense faith and adherence to 500-year-old traditions have by turns captivated and baffled Americans for more than a century. The film examines the beliefs, lifestyle, and history of the Amish, as well as their complex relationship to mainstream American culture. Beautifully and lyrically photographed, The Amish is part history, part observational documentary that takes viewers into the world of the...
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, the Mecca for creative talents. On-camera, dramatic and historic moments are recalled by participants in these legendary events e.g. Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, and many more. Traces who came to Paris and why, whom they met, what they made there, and how being in Paris transformed them and their work.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this new routine, Peggy Cappy demonstrates her signature yoga approach in a daily workout for people struggling with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Divided into seven separate segments, the exercises can be done at home, all at once in just over an hour, or 1 segment at a time. A growing body of research suggests that yoga can be helpful for people living with diabetes and/or at risk for it, paired, paired, of course, with the right diet.
10) Earth emergency
Publisher
PBS Distrbution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Listen to the scientists. That's the refrain of climate activist Greta Thunberg. Climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth's own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950's America, it would be decades before Ms. Tan would come to fully understand how her mother's self-destructive tendencies were rooted in watching her own mother kill herself after being forced into the former marital system of concubinage. This painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. An interweaving of archival imagery, artful animation and live performance...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chris Morgan has tracked large predators in some of the wildest and most remote places on Earth. He now embarks on a challenge that would fulfill a lifelong dream - to find and film a Siberian tiger living in the wild and free in Russia's far eastern forests.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A highly imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing epochs in human history: when the 'Old World' first encountered the 'New World.' Travel from Granada in Spain to Machu Picchu in Peru, and from Mexico to Madrid in Spain. Explores how the collision of these two sophisticated but different worlds led to the birth of an entirely new Latino culture.
15) Triangle fire
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...
16) Jackie Robinson
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Elsa, an orphaned lion cub raised by George and Joy Adamson then released back into the wild, captivated audiences around the world, and became a symbol for all animals' right to live free. But behind the film and book lies the real story of the Adamsons' life with Elsa. Their diaries, home movies and detailed records reveal an intimate look into their pioneering work and unique relationship with lions. Recollections of the actress who portrayed Joy...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (450 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspector Robert Lewis and his partner, the enigmatic detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the idyllic Oxford countryside and colleges in five new thrillers, forcing the pair to revisit the past and to reconsider the future.
19) Machu Picchu
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Using cutting-edge, 3D laser-scanning technology, structural engineer Steve Burrows leads his team of experts into the Peruvian jungle to scan the sacred Inca city of Machu Picchu, asking three main questions: How did the Inca build a city atop a mountain ridge? How were the terraces constructed? And how did they supply water to the city? Join the team as they turn back time and decode the past.
20) The Vietnam War
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (approximately 18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.