Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley explores the impact that multi-tasking has on our safety, our memory, our education, our careers, and our personal lives. He delves deeply into attention, distraction, the myth of multi-tasking, and how to use the latest research to possibly improve our skills and abilities at any point during our lives. While the brain can seem almost boundless in its potential, it has limitations, such as processing speed,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (375 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (375 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 470 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Sandra Pullman heads a team of aging detectives pulled out of retirement for a job they're uniquely qualified to do: tackle cold cases--some of them decades old.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë face a bleak future, with their father half-blind, and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. This is the story of the sisters' great novels and their extraordinary battle for recognition.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst's media empire included 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations and 13 magazines. Nearly one in four American families read a Hearst publication. His newspapers were so influential that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Winston Churchill all wrote for him. The first practitioner of what is now known as 'synergy,' Hearst used his media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NOVA and National Geographic take a dazzling dive to explore how and why so many of the ocean's creatures light up, revealing a hidden undersea world where creatures flash, sparkle, shimmer, or simply glow.
Publisher
Goldfarb and Koval Productions
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Standard version. Letterboxed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (219 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This program chronicles the emergence of the powerful Roman Enpire from a chaotic period of violent coups, assassination, overarching ambition, civil war and clashes between the classes as well as the sexes.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 345 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
12) Vienna blood
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1900's Vienna is a hot bed of philosophy, science, and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses.
13) Birdsong
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Birdsong is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire. They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. He must learn to endure the ravages of war and make peace with his feelings...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Letterboxed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Join NOVA on a mind-bending hunt for a monster lurking at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers are closing in on one of the most destructive objects in the universe--a supermassive black hole--and it's hiding right in the center of our own galaxy. Eventually, it will blast jets of radiation millions of miles into space, incinerating everything in its neighborhood, including planet Earth. For a long time, black holes were dismissed as pure...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023].
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (49 min.) : sound, color with black and white seqences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A world scoop about the deception which fooled Hitler about the Normandy landings of 1944. In a tale of double agents and decoys, the investigation reveals, for the first time, the identity of the most secret of them all: George VI, as well as how the royal family managed to lose one of Britain's greatest secrets.
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes in-depth interviews of U.S. President Richard Nixon by Sir David Frost in May, 1977 regarding the infamous Watergate scandal. Features footage from 2007 of Frost discussing the impact this interview had on history, his reactions, and more.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brothers Max and Jake couldn't be more different. Max is wealthy with a perfect life. Jake scrapes by, running a record shop. Driving home late one night, they accidentally kill an old man on a darkened street. They manage to conceal their crime, but when others suspect the death wasn't as innocent as it first appeared, they brothers' lives start falling apart. As their guilt takes them into a dangerous world where everyone seems to have a hidden...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (367 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desert victory: Documents the clash of Germany's General Rommel and Britain's General Montgomery as their militaries collide in battle under harsh desert conditions. Britain's defeat at El Alemein is only a stumbling block on the road to victory as they ultimately conquer the Germans at Tripoli. Utilizes actual German footage of Rommel and Hitler that was confiscated during the skirmish by the British.
The Nazis strike: Masterfully compiled by Col....
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
©2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 240 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Get inspired by today's most compelling artists and discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind their work in the ART21 documentary series Art in the Twenty-First Century. This Peabody Award-winning series takes viewers behind the scenes into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide intimate access to their lives, creative processes, and sources of inspiration. Join host Claire Danes for Season Eight, featuring sixteen artists from...