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Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (353 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures
5) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight...
Language
English
Description
History reports that the mighty Inca were swiftly wiped out by a small band of Conquistadors, but new evidence is being unearthed that may help rewrite history. Uncovered remains of those who died in battle along with recently discovered documents suggest that even after forming military alliances with thousands of Indian mercenaries, it took the Spanish many years to defeat the Inca Empire
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The First Alphabet: Follow the evolution of the written word, from millennia-old carvings in an Egyptian turquoise mine to modern-day alphabets. How Writing Changed the World: The printing press transformed the spread of information, igniting the Industrial Revolution. How did technologies, from pen to paper to printing press, make it all possible?
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (353 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Explores the sheer scale and majesty of the largest ocean on Earth, the isolation of its islands, the extraordinary journeys wildlife and humans have gone through to reach these specks of land, and what happened to both after their arrival
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.
Publisher
Insignia Films
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD, NTSC (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammed Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, the richness and diversity of its peoples, and its continuing relevance in today's world
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women's liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it.
17) Galápagos
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution, the Galápagos Islands are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of many species of plants and animals
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (192 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films - Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard's Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) - through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre's revival over the last decade. Touching...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A series of four documentaries that survey China through Chinese eyes to see how history has shaped them, and where the present is taking them. Deals with the governance of China; talks about the past and future for Chinese women; looks at China's environmental challenges; explores China's conflict between personal freedom and governance
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 159 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout the world.
Awakening: An introduction to the main characters...
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