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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 167 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Includes two programs: Visions of Greece, which covers the most famous cities and sites, and Visions of Greece: Off the beaten path, which features rarely visited locales. Also includes nearly an hour of bonus footage not seen on PBS.
Series
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Dr. Stephanie Dalley as she hunts for the gardens using ancient texts and spy satellite images to uncover evidence to support her theory that the gardens were built 100 years before commonly believed. Her search takes her to one of the most dangerous places on earth in a modern-day adventure story searching to find a site thousands of years old.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Whether it's electric lights, addiction to digital devices, or just the fast pace of modern life, one thing is clear: it seems to be getting harder to get a good night's sleep. Almost 50 percent of Americans say they can't get the zzz's they need. To understand why many are sleep deprived, take a deep dive into the body's control center, the brain, and follow the work of researchers who are unraveling the secrets of sleep.
Series
Formats
Description
The best-selling factual series of all time is now even better! Now, with the addition of all-new commentary and new bonus programs, you can relive this incredible experience all over again!
Planet Earth II is a 2016 multinational nature documentary series produced by the BBC as a sequel to Planet Earth, which was broadcast in 2006. The series is presented and narrated by Sir David Attenborough with the main theme music composed by Hans Zimmer.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the sad history, precarious present, and optimistic future for one of the United States' most endangered wild cats. Wildlife filmmaker Ben Masters documents these rare and elusive animals in South Texas while meeting with the biologists, the ranchers, and the cats themselves.
Publisher
PBS
Formats
Description
In the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst's media empire included 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations and 13 magazines. Nearly one in four American families read a Hearst publication. His newspapers were so influential that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Winston Churchill all wrote for him. The first practitioner of what is now known as 'synergy,' Hearst used his media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Legends say there's a world beneath this one where a dragon lies sleeping. They say be careful how you wake the dragon. The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the most profound change in the history of human enterprise on Earth: the unleashing of the elemental force within uranium, the explosion of an atomic bomb, the unleashing of the dragon. The story of uranium is part science, part history and all epic adventure. From its creation in an exploding...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, science is revealing the truth behind the myth, a saga of adventure, greed, and savagery. Archaeologists have discovered the site of Chief Powhatan's capital, the spot where John Smith met him and his daughter.
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 53 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the Jurassic Coast of England, a remarkable 200-million-year-old fossil is discovered - the bones of an Ichthyosaur, a giant sea dragon. David Attenborough joins the hunt to bring this ancient creature's story to life. Using state-of-the-art scanning and CGI, the team reconstructs the skeleton, creates the most detailed animation of an Ichthyosaur, and unravels an age-old murder mystery.
Publisher
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 164 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
All-access glimpse into the world of advertising in America during the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. It was inspired by the real men and women of Madison Avenue who perfected the art of the sale and transformed American culture in the process.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Through eyewitness accounts, chronicles the events at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in September 1980, when an accidentally dropped socket almost caused a nuclear explosion 600 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
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