Jay O. Sanders
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a team of forensic archaeologists and historians, who examine the remains of an African-American woman of the first half of the nineteenth century that were uncovered in an expensive iron coffin in Queens, New York, and reveal what the life was like at the time for free African Americans in the North.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In October 2009, a striking portrait of a young woman in Renaissance dress made world news headlines. Though it had been purchased two years earlier for around $20,000, the portrait is now thought to be an undiscovered masterwork by Leonardo da Vinci worth more than $100 million. Did cutting edge imaging analysis help tie the portrait to Leonardo? NOVA meets a new breed of experts who are approaching 'cold case' art mysteries as if they were crime...
35) Why trains crash
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Investigates the dangers of traveling by train, including advances in technology that could help prevent train accidents.
39) The Nero files
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Take a closer look at the life and legend of Nero, the infamous Roman emperor, as a forensics profiler attempts to find out what history may have gotten wrong about his alleged tyranny.
40) The spy factory
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This videodisc exposes the hidden, high-tech workings of the world's largest intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA) and a report on the threat to privacy and the effectiveness of high-tech surveillance in the age of terrorism.