PBS Distribution (Firm)
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Spring 1972 brings with it a new start for Morse, having taken time out to deal with the drink. His return to CID coincides with a gruesome discovery in a college garden. The investigation leads him and Thursday to a celebrated orchestra and when a second tragedy hits, they uncover a web of secrets at the company's core.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (310 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (5 hr., 40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"October, 1940. Manchester, England. As valiant Jewish RAF pilot David defends the skies against the Luftwaffe, Harry and Kasia finally arrive home. How will Robina cope with another refugee under roof? When yet another house guest arrives -- Sir James, a civil servant on official business -- he looks set to beguile his host, but will Kasia be charmed as well? Meanwhile, in Berlin, teenager Marga is selected to mother a baby for the Fuhrer, but can...
365) Great white shark
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg travel to South Africa's KwaZulu Natal Coast, where the body of a giant white shark weighing in at over 2,000 pounds and measuring almost 15 feet has been pulled up. It presents an international team of experts with a rare opportunity to explore this hunter's anatomy to find out how it has evolved into the oceans most feared predator.
366) The presidents
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
17 DVDs (ca. 38 hr., 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronciles the lives and accomplishments of presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the "Central Park 5", a documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the adventures of Frankie Drake and her partner Trudy Clarke at Drake Private Detectives, the city's only all-female detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.
370) Breathless
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (4 hrs., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Set in a London hospital in 1961 - when Britain was on the brink of cultural revolution, when abortion was illegal, and the contraceptive pill was relativley new - Breathless follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses working in a busy OB/GYN unit, in which everything and everyone has their place. But underneath the shiny vereer simmers a vast cauldron of lies, deception, and guilty secrets driven by love, ambition, and sex"--Container.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today's Indigenous communities. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century. Each hour explores a core tenet of Native American heritage: the power of Indigenous design, how language and artistry fuel the soul, the diverse ways Native women lead, and the resilience of the...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (390 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An action-adventure comedy that follows the adventures of feisty and resourceful ten-year-old Molly Mabray, an Alaska Native girl, her dog Suki, and friends Tooey and Trini on their adventures in epically beautiful Alaska.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film chronicles 10 of their stories: three of the world's foremost...
375) Dolores
Publisher
Dolores Huerta Film Project, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century--and she continues the fight to this day ... With intimate and unprecedented...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (6 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the spring of 1939. Big changes are happening at Skeldale House and everyone has to learn how to adjust. Tristan is now a qualified vet while James enters a new stage of his life with Helen and at the practice.
378) Hidden volcano abyss
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In January 2022, one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history rocked the Pacific islands of Tonga, sending shockwaves around the world. Through first-person accounts of the disaster and eyewitness footage, experience the terrifying power of the eruption and the devastating tsunami that struck the shores of Tonga. Why was this eruption so big, how did it cause the tsunami, and could another disaster loom?
379) God in America
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the sweeping and dramatic story of religious life in America, examining more than 500 years of American religious history, from the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the 2008 presidential election. Examine this history as it has played out in public life, exploring the complex interaction between religion and democracy in the United States; the origins of the American concept of religious liberty; the dynamics of the ever-evolving American religious...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stars from the formative years of television talk about the shows and people that made history. Each episode melds interviews with archival clips to offer a fresh take on televisions founding celebrities. Season two profiles science fiction, crime dramas, kids' shows, and westerns. The Science fiction episode features clips from The twilight zone, Lost in space, Star trek, The lieutenant and Time tunnel. The Western episode features clips from Gunsmoke,...