Mass.) WGBH (Television station : Boston
81) Augmented
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Augmented, Hugh Herr, a biophysicist working to create brain-controlled robotic limbs, shares his personal journey. At age 17, Herr's legs were amputated after a climbing accident. Frustrated by the crude prosthetic limbs he was given, Herr set out to remedy their design, leading him to a career as an inventor of innovative prosthetic devices. Now, Herr is teaming up with an injured climber and a surgeon at a leading Boston hospital to test a new...
82) War on the EPA
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines how Scott Pruitt went from fighting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rolling back years of policy as the agency's head. Discusses the political forces, such as climate change skepticism and the opinion that there were too many environmental regulations, that led President Trump to select Pruitt for the position.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth, - and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-dege scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed...
86) The feud
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discover the real story behind the most famous family conflict in American history - the bloody backwoods battle between Appalachian clans, the Hatfields and McCoys. This new film goes beyond the myth to show how the feud was ignited.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three new crime dramas based on the best selling books by Henning Mankell - Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Publisher
distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Looks at the health benefits and risks of cannabis. Examines the history of cannabis in the United States, including the stigma that continues to promote challenges to its legalization.
90) Small island
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 3 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
91) The Cazalets
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three generations of the Gazalet family in the shadows of WWII.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
93) Aristocrats
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 293 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Paints an intimate portrait of the 18th-century upper-class life in England and Ireland through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters. Well-educated, strong-minded, and distinctly individual, they take charge of their own lives, tempting scandal with their unconventional ideas about love, marriage, education, and fidelity.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of stubbornness, extreme candor, and arrogance. His life and career were marked by power, scandal, and tragedy.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Uncertain of her future but unwilling to sacrifice her freedom, Bathsheba rejects the proposal of Gabriel Oak only to become his employer. Still in love, Gabriel can only watch as Bathsheba flirts with her neighbor, Mr. Boldwood unleashing a passionate obsession within the reserved Boldwood. Both men forsake their hearts, however, upon the arrival of the dashing soldier Frank Troy. Despite being in love with another woman himself, Troy sees a challenge...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 376 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
These four lavish productions are all-new adaptations of Christie classics. The murder at the vicarage: When the vicar in Miss Marple's village declares in exasperation that anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world a favor, he does not realize that his words will come back to haunt him. The body in the library: Dolly Bantry enlists Miss Marple's help after she and her husband find the body of a mystery woman in their library....
Publisher
Distributed by] Shanachie Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The nephew of a wealthy man begins to nurse suspicions about his uncle's new wife that implicate her in the disappearance of his old school friend, back from Australia in search of his lost wife and child.
Series
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sally Lockhart has started her own financial consulting business. When her client loses a fortune from the unexpected collapse of a shipping line, Sally is determined to find out why so many of their ships have mysteriously vanished without a trace.
100) Ruby in the smoke
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Victorian London, fearless young Sally Lockhart has a mind for numbers and for sleuthing. Recently orphaned Sally is armed with a pearl-handled pistol and her keen mind, uncovers the secrets of her father's death aboard the sunken schooner Lavinia, discovers hidden cursed jewels, and faces England's deadliest villains with bold courage.