PBS Home Video.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
People can actually become more fit, both physically and mentally, as they grow older. Join Dr. Henry Lodge as he dispels the myths of American aging and explains the new science of aging. Viewers will learn how to take charge of their biology to become functionally younger, more vibrant, purposeful, and dynamic for years to come.
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Identifies and explains new scientific clues to the origin and evolution of the universe. Combines spectacular special effects, animation and interviews with internationally renowned physicists.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join the Super Readers as they practice spelling, use the power to read, and investigate rhyming words in order to change the outcome of these classic fairytales: Peter Rabbit; Tom Thumb; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; and Rapunzel.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the world's most incredible city, capturing the rich mosaic of the city's Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. Covering a history of over 4,000 years, the film explores the founding of the city, and the birth and convergence of the world's three major monotheistic religions, and the key events in Jerusalem's history as described in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Talmud, the Hagaddah, the Koran, and the Hadith. Highlights include:...
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) ( 525 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The sweeping Downton Abbey saga continues, beginning six months after the unexpected death of Matthew Crawley, heir to Downton Abbey, husband to Lady Mary, and brand new father to a baby boy and successor, in a car accident. Although it is the 1920s, Britain still observes mourning rituals that are almost Victorian in their solemnity. Nonetheless, life goes on at Downton Abbey and the Crawleys are beginning to snap out of it.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British subjects convinced that Great Britain is trying to take away their freedoms fight the Revolutionary War. America founded on the belief that all persons might be free, with a glaring contradiction. The conflict with slavery lead to the Civil War.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Caillou as he explores everyday life, where ordinary daily events spark his imagination. Children will be inspired by Caillou's pretend play, and they will join in the role-playing fun where beds become boats, a garden becomes a jungle, and they can become anything they can imagine. Includes character bios, information for parents, and more.
11) Oswald's ghost
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and how many people still believe that there wasn't a lone gunman involved. Features rarely seen archival footage; interviews; government investigations; and more.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 660 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
After the Pearl Harbor attack, Ben Kuroki would be the first Japanese-American war hero, surviving 58 missions as an aerial gunner. But he found himself at the center of controversy, as the lone spokesman against the racism faced by the thousands of Japanese-Americans.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the scientists striving to understand the forces at work behind last year's tornado outbreak. Could their work improve tornado prediction in the future? Nova also talks to people whose lives have been upended by these extreme weather events in an effort to learn how we all can protect ourselves and our communities for the future.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. demonstrates how experts in various fields (a flutist, a baseball player, and a simultaneous translator) improve their neurological abilities through sustained, continuous, intense practice of their respective skill set and how such consequential neurological findings in experts compare to the average individual.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of the relationship between the Muslim leader Saladin and the Christian Crusader Richard the Lionheart. Battling in the name of different religions, and filled with blinding cultural ignorance, both shared a faith in one god.
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (40 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The price of freedom is an award-winning film that tells the tale of a defferent band of brothers --a small grup of WWII veterans whose bonds go bar beyond surviving combat. The film reveals how these men have joined forces fifty years after the war to defeat one last foe."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The royal tomb of Pharaoh Psusennes I is one of the most spectacular of all the ancient Egyptian treasures. So why hasn't the world heard about it? Archaeologists, using the hieroglyphs inside the tomb, pieced together the identity of the pharaoh, and further investigation reveals political intrigue, a lost city, and a leader who united a country in turmoil and became the Silver Pharaoh.