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Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation, PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DNA testing companies are trending nationally, with over 30 million Americans hoping to receive clues to family origins and forecasts of their future health -- not knowing the results can be misleading, or not considering that family secrets can tear apart relationships. The biggest risk, however, may be what these companies do with our information once they have it, so this program objectively explores the promise and peril of consumer DNA testing....
2) Wild Hawaii
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From its hot molten core to the mega sized waves battering its coast, Hawaii is an untamed and very wild bit of paradise that continues to transform itself and challenge expectations.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Krill are tiny, shrimp-like creatures crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem and, maybe, to the future of all oceans. Join the research ship Polarstern in the vast Antarctic ice pack in search of ice caves and juvenile krill.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Los arqueólogos están investigando los años primitivos de los antiguos Mayas para mostrarnos una cultura más dinámica y sofisticada que nunca se ha creído que exista, caracterizada por increíbles ciudades, poderosos reyes y magníficas pirámides antes de tiempo de Cristo. Hay una evidencia que le dinastía de los reyes Mayas existió por más de 1000 años. Los nuevos descubrimientos han mostrado el arte primitivo, la escritura y más: La...
5) Jungle eagle
Publisher
Nature
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harpy eagles are the most powerful birds of prey in the world. Standing three feet tall, with a six-foot wingspan and razor-sharp talons the size of bear claws, these birds are the heavyweight hunters of the South American rainforest. But scientists know very little about harpy eagles because their numbers are few, their habitat is large, they never soar above the trees, and they rarely come to the ground. Nature enters their secret world with wildlife...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The show offers a blue chip, continent-wide series ranging from the land's highest snow peaks to the depths of the frigid and wild southern seas; from its last populations of wild numbats to its largest diorama of giant cuttlefish. It's a land of diverse beauty, that delights, and surprises. The series both entertains and deepens our understanding of how the natural world is made up of not just unique species, but distinct individuals, whose lives...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (645 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Captures rare action, impossible locations, and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest, and most elusive creatures. From the highest mountains to the deepest rivers, [the program] takes you to places you've never been to experience sights and sounds never before captured on film. Prepare to be overwhelmed by the beauty and majesty of 'Planet Earth'.
13) The Civil War
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (700 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"It's February 1953 - the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. Little does Her Majesty know she is about to be deployed in a U.S. plot to topple Iran's last democratic leader in favor of an all-powerful Shah. Planned by Britain's M16 and then executed by America's C.I.A., the coup d'état which follows will destroy Iran's last democracy, and relations between Iran and the West until the present day. Most shocking of all, the truth about...
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