PBS (Firm)
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness sheds light on the fascinating story of a president who knew how to harness the nation's grief over JFK's assassination, and become an unlikely champion of Civil Rights. The film includes rarely seen footage, secret White House tapes, and personal testimony from LBJ's advisors, biographers, friends, and family..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
NOVA presents an exclusive breakthrough in the greatest unsolved mystery in Arctic exploration. In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set off to chart the elusive Northwest Passage, commanding 128 men in two robust and well-stocked Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and Terror. They were never heard from again. Eventually, searchers found tantalising clues to their fate: a hastily written note left on an island, exhumed bodies suggesting lead poisoning,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Four years after one of history's worst nuclear accidents, NOVA reveals the minute-by-minute story of the Fukushima nuclear crisis and its ongoing aftermath, told by the brave workers who stayed behind as an earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The American Masters series and Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES series join forces for the first time to explore the life and work of photographer Pedro E. Guerrero (September 5, 1917 – September 13, 2012), a Mexican American, born and raised in segregated Mesa, Arizona, who had an extraordinary international photography career.. Filmmakers Raymond Telles and Yvan Iturriaga (Latino Americans) showcase an in-depth, exclusive interview with Guerrero...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1948, a British pilot serving in Iraq acquired a clay tablet with an intriguing, 3,700 year-old inscription. The ancient writing tells the story of how the god Enki warns a Sumerian king named Atra-Hasis of a future flood that will destroy mankind; Enki gives him instructions for building a boat to save his family and livestock. If that sounds like a familiar tale, it’s because this was one of several ancient flood traditions that, centuries...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Alzheimer’s disease strikes at the core of what makes us human: our capacity to think, to love, and to remember. The disease ravages the minds of over 40 million victims worldwide, and it is one of the greatest medical mysteries of our time. Join investigators as they gather clues and attempt to reconstruct the molecular chain of events that ultimately leads to dementia, and follow key researchers in the field who have helped to develop the leading...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Red wants to show Whyatt a trick with her new toy, but she can't make it spin and it keeps dropping. To solve her problem, the Super Readers jump into the book The Rhyming Carnival where they meet Aidan, a boy who wants to win a stuffed purple porcupine at the carnival midway. The Super Readers help Aidan slow down so that he can find the rhyming words he needs to win the prize.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
More than a century ago, ornithologist Frank Chapman redirected a Christmas-time tradition of revelers shooting birds to a new holiday recreation: counting birds instead. Now join the annual bird count, the longest-running wildlife census in the world..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Journey into the six decade reign of one of the world's most influential women. Follow Queen Elizabeth II's remarkable life, from her youth--when few expected she'd ever wear the crown--to her uncle Edward VIII's stunning abdication, and her father's subsequent coronation as King George VI. Witness her experiences during World War II, her own sudden ascension to the throne, and her eventful reign of more than 60 years.. She defines the role of a modern...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Colosseum is a monument to Roman imperial power and cruelty. Its graceful lines and harmonious proportions concealed a highly efficient design and advanced construction methods that made hundreds of arches out of 100,000 tons of stone. In its elliptical arena, tens of thousands of gladiators, slaves, prisoners and wild animals met their deaths. Ancient texts report lions and elephants emerging from beneath the floor, as if by magic, to ravage...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dr. David Eagleman explores memory as an important pillar of self, and reveals that rather than being a faithful record of our past, memory is fallible and often unreliable, making our life of memories more personal mythology than digital recording..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Charting artmaking in London, Beijing, and along the United States-Mexico border, this season follows an international mix of innovative visual artists - including Anish Kapoor and Xu Bing - as they create big and bold photographs, paintings, sculptures, films, performances and public artworks that respond to the places where they live and work.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
She was the nation's conscience, a tireless advocate for the disadvantaged, a woman who influenced American social policies for decades and pushed through the first international charter on human rights. Eleanor Roosevelt survived a painful childhood and a difficult marriage to become one of the most admired women in America. Going beyond her public achievements, this intimate two-and-a-half-hour biography explores the secretive and surprising private...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sukkot, or the Feast of the Tabernacles, is one of three great festivals in the Jewish calendar when, in ancient times, Jews from across Israel were commanded to come to the Temple in Jerusalem on pilgrimage. But although Jewish pilgrimage lessened in importance after the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 62CE, Christian pilgrims began coming to Jerusalem and the Holy Land within centuries of Jesus’ death. During the week of Sukkot, host...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
April, 1975. During the chaotic final days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. City after city and village after village fell to the North while the U.S. diplomats and military operatives still in the country contemplated withdrawal.. With the lives of thousands of South Vietnamese hanging in the balance, those in control faced an impossible decision—who...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
E.O. Wilson-Of Ants and Men chronicles the famed biologist love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. His work with ants led to his studies of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and the discipline of sociobiology was founded. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa, brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and humanity's place in it..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Red, Whyatt, Pig, and Princess try to fly Red's kite, Princess keeps playing and being silly. To find an answer to the question of why their kite won?t fly, the Super Readers jump into the book The Silly Word Play. There they find a frustrated Bo Peep trying direct a play with the Nursery Rhyme friends, but a silly Present just wants to party and it's causing chaos. The Super Readers help Present get focused and Bo Peep get her cast to work together...