Mass.) WGBH (Television station : Boston
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 432 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This special collection presents 18 episodes from Julia's groundbreaking series. In her signature style and with bloopers intact, Julia demonstrates such classic recipes as crepes suzette, omelette gratinee, pate de campagne, and many more.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], 2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (220 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From Spitfire pilots to teenage evacuees, from Coventry firemen to women and children caught up in the horror of the Blitz, Finest Hour recalls in personal, vivid detail the story of that dark time of 1940 when the destiny of the world hung in balance.
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frontline investigates the secret history of the unprecedented surveillance program that began in the wake of September 11th and continues today. As big technology companies encouraged users to share more and more information about their lives, they created a trove of data that could be useful not simply to advertisers, but also to the government. The revelations of NSA contractor Edward Snowden would push Silicon Valley into the center of a debate...
4) The Mormons
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dig deep into the Mormon past to understand the church today. One of America's fastest-growing religions and, relative to its size, one of the richest. Church membership, now at twelve million and growing, sweeps the globe. From the moment of its founding in 1830, the church has been controversial. In the early years Mormons were hated, ridiculed, persecuted and feared. In the past several decades, the Mormon Church has transformed itself from a fringe...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (220 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reappraises Grant's career, from his pre-civil war days as a failed soldier, to his transformation into the greatest Union hero of the Civil War, to his presidency, rocked by scandal and economic depression, and to his last days, when he raced to finish his war memoirs as he was dying of cancer.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Chief Jane Tennison has been transferred to a new station and now has the job of cleaning up the streets of Soho. The team goes into the underworld of teenage prostitution, pornography and runaways.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min., 50 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the intelligence of dogs, dolphins, and octopuses. Episodes include: Dog genius; Creative dolphins; Octopus & cuttlefish; and Profile - Irene Pepperberg and her talking parrot, Alex.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (390 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Welcome again to the home of Cook's Country, a renovated 1806 farmhouse with a full working test kitchen, a live audience, and the odd neighbor who stops by with cooking problems that need immediate attention. Join host Christopher Kimball and the chefs from America's Test Kitchen as they turn their no-nonsense approach to cooking to the American repertoire, turning bad food into great food through careful testing.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Augmenting human intelligence is a lot tougher than it looks, but scientists are edging closer with machines like 'Watson,' an IBM computing system that is gearing up to compete on the game show Jeopardy!, taking on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the show's most successful and celebrated contestants of all time. This program is an updated version of the original broadcast, with additional content added.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Electric cars seem increasingly likely to replace gas-guzzling vehicles. Could a new generation of emission-free electric planes do the same to the polluting airliners in the skies - a major step in the fight against climate change?
14) War on the EPA
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines how Scott Pruitt went from fighting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rolling back years of policy as the agency's head. Discusses the political forces, such as climate change skepticism and the opinion that there were too many environmental regulations, that led President Trump to select Pruitt for the position.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three new crime dramas based on the best selling books by Henning Mankell - Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
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.
18) Buffalo Bill
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundatio
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid 1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque frontier hero. As the frontier was rapidly disappearing, he realized he could market his life as entertainment, and millions around the world would pay for...
19) Prime suspect: 4
Publisher
Home Box Office Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is promoted to Detective Superintendent. Includes three 2-hour episodes: The Lost Child, Inner Circles, and The Scent Of Darkness.
20) Daniel Deronda
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent, young man haunted by secrets that shroud his birth. Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful gambler short on cash. When the two meet, sparks fly.