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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stonehenge is the grandest and most enigmatic of Europe's prehistoric monuments, and has inspired countless theories to explain who built it and why. Over the last decade, archaeologists have analyzed the bones of human remains buried there 5,000 years ago and remnants of huge feasts that fed the laborers at the site. Viewers will learn intimate details of the Stonehenge people and why their power began to fade soon after they raised the mighty stones....
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2002, c1996
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom Bodett takes viewers through the routes used by the pioneers, mountain men, and gold hunters who worked and settled the American frontier, from New England's Old Post Road to the Natchez Trace and on to the Yukon Gold Rush Trail visiting historical landmarks along the way.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discover exciting new insights as historian Neil Oliver digs for clues. Travel to archaeological sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where Norsemen launch expeditions and raids. Watch in amazement as the warriors settle Britain, Iceland and Greenland and transform themselves from illiterate pagans into Christian farmers, statesmen and kings; all in less than 200 years.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1971, graduate student Penny Patterson began teaching sign language to a gorilla named Koko. What started out as a scientific experiment evolved into an intimate friendship, which for almost half a century has challenged the way we think about animals and changed the course of many lives. It is a unique window into this incredible relationship.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Part Renaissance prince, part medieval tyrant, Henry VIII is the most famous of English kings. Venture beyond the facade of his glamorous court to understand the danger and intrigue that routinely cost courtiers their heads.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discover how researchers on the cutting edge of mind-control can implant, change, and even erase memories. On this thought-provoking journey into the mind, NOVA investigates the mysterious nature of how we remember.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Union's USS Monitor was a decisive factor in the Civil War. Today it rests in the nation's first marine sanctuary. Join a team of Navy divers as they attempt to recover priceless artifacts; meet the ship designer who built the Monitor; see a realistic reenactment of the battle that changed the course of the Civil War; and discover a powerful military past as the secrets of the Monitor's service emerge from the deep.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The world is full of inspiring places just waiting to be discovered and explored. This new, epic series goes on a timeless journey around the planet, revealing the world's greatest cities, natural wonders, animal encounters, monuments, islands, journeys and adventures.
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the legacy and sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II, the discovery of its wreck site, and the story of its captain, Charles Butler McVay III, who was court-martialed following the loss of the ship.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stories of Viking conquests are the stuff of legends. What is lesser known, however, is the indelible influence these raiders had on the British Isles. Far from conquering and leaving, genetic testing reveals that the Vikings never completely left. This 100 minute documentary follows the progress of Danish Viking King Canute, who built his North Sea Empire across Britain and Scandinavia.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The hippopotamus has long been an enigma: an aquatic mammal that cannot swim, a vegetarian that is also the most dangerous animal in Africa. All hippos are utterly dependent on water, but in Botswana, hippos face an unparalleled challenge as deep floodwaters dry to dust in a matter of months. The documentary goes beneath the surface to show how hippos protect their families and face their enemies, revealing an animal that is highly sensitive and surprisingly...
16) Civilizations
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. The nine-part series reveals the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduces viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity, and illumination across cultures. Narrated by Liev Schreiber.
17) Grand Coulee Dam
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Features the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam and the impact it had on Americans.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on our planet. Stretching just over 1200 miles in length and made up of 3000 individual reef systems and hundreds of islands, Australia's Great Barrier Reef is breathtakingly beautiful. Given world heritage status in 1981, it is one of the wonders of the natural world. This programs offers a definitive guide to the secrets of the reef - how it was created, how it works, the...
19) The last ice
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada and Greenland, development here threatens to upset the delicate balance between their communities, land and wildlife.
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