Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Garfield hosts a look at his nine lives, from Cave Cat all the way through Space Cat. At the end of his nine tales, Garfield points out to God that the circumstances of his last life were stacked unfairly against him and Odie. God agrees and gives Garfield back not just one life, but nine more!
Publisher
Jim Henson Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Features new friends in all shapes and sizes, with catchy songs and all the dinosaur information kids will ever want to know. Preschoolers will be on the fast track to learning when Buddy, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and his adopted family of Pteranodons explore all that their prehistoric world has to offer.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Standing out from the crowd is tough, especially in the animal kingdom. With an estimated 8.7 million species vying for attention, the multitude of contenders must go above and beyond to make it onto top 10 lists. But there is one group that has an unfair advantage, baby animals.
Publisher
Huell Howser Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The Carrizo Plain is a southerly extension of the San Juan Valley, about 20 miles southwest of Bakersfield. Its 250,000 acres allow visitors to imagine what much of California was like 300 years ago. Huell learns about its rare plants and animals, as well as its human history."--Summary from www.calgold.org/goldenparks
6) The Swamp
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity's attempt to conquer nature. This program, told through the lives of a handful of colorful and resolute characters, explores the repeated efforts to reclaim, control and transform what was seen as a vast wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, and, ultimately, the drive to preserve America's greatest wetland.
9) Sealab
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor. The video tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Have you ever wondered what's going on inside your pet's mind? In "What Are Animals Thinking?" find out how a beehive resembles a human brain and whether your dog is really feeling guilty when it gives you that famous 'guilty look'.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 112 min.) : sd., col. , Dolby stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Einstein arrived at his 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are linked. Reveals the roots of this breakthrough in the human stories of scientists Michael Farady, Antoine Lavoisier, and Lise Meitner, whose innovative thinking helped lead to E=mcp2s, and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3 /4 in.
Description
Investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence. The documentary goes inside the efforts of three political insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the Republican Party and crack down on immigration.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
William Segal: William Segal was a philosopher, publisher, writer and painter who searched relentlessly and compassionately for meaning in the 20th century. Segal helped bring Eastern and Western spiritual traditions together, always stressing what connected humanity rather than what differentiated it. In the last decade of his life, Segal befriended the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, and the two collaborated on this trilogy.
Vézelay: "The magnificent...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Almost 40 years after the discovery of HIV, could we be on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic in America? As of 2019, in the US, there were only 34,000 new cases of the disease, a feat that once seemed near-impossible to achieve.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
18) Alps
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Europe's highest mountain range, discover how Eurasian lynx, golden eagles, ibex, griffon vultures and other animals face extreme seasonal fluctuations from thunderstorms to avalanches in an epic two-part documentary event. On every mountain slope, ridge or meadow, a natural world drama plays out as animals fight for survival in the Alps.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the years since Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, there have been countless theories about this Lost city of the Incas, yet it remains an enigma. NOVA joins a new generation of archaeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven't been touched since the time of the Incas and unearth burials of the people who built the sacred site"--Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Not found here": Smooch the sloth and Winslow try to find their new friend, a tadpole named Wartz, not realizing he has turned into a tree frog.
"King of the trees": It's very rainy in the World Tree, and Ick the fish declares he will become king.
"Burdette queen ant": When Burdette learns that ants have a queen, she decides to be queen of the World Tree (where other creatures also live--including marmosets, a tree frog, and an anteater!).
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