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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 390 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The test cooks search the world over for techniques that can add a little kick and convenience to everyday American cooking as they follow the journey from first bite to kitchen-tested recipe. The series is filmed across the world, from Thailand to Mexico, Peru to London, and in the kitchen of their headquarters on Milk Street in Boston.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible...
Series
Publisher
Team Marketing
Language
English
Formats
Description
An essential examination of the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson, and parallels between his incredible story with that of race in America. This critically-acclaimed documentary series reveals how he first became a football star, why America fell in love with him off the field, what happened in the trial for his ex-wife's murder, and finally, why he is now sitting in jail for another crime 20 years later.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (220 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the final weeks of the Vietnam War, American servicemen and others begin the difficult mission of evacuating as many friends, family members and South Vietnamese collaborators as possible before Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese.
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
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An international team of scientists is using state-of-the-art CT-scan technology to unveil the truth of what happened 3000 years ago and unravel the mystery of King Tut's curse.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation, PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
DNA testing companies are trending nationally, with over 30 million Americans hoping to receive clues to family origins and forecasts of their future health -- not knowing the results can be misleading, or not considering that family secrets can tear apart relationships. The biggest risk, however, may be what these companies do with our information once they have it, so this program objectively explores the promise and peril of consumer DNA testing....
Publisher
National Broadcasting Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
50th anniversary collector's ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 11 hr., 30 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Collection of 26 documentary television broadcasts about World War II. Features the high points of the war on land and sea from September 1939 to September 1945 as recorded in footage taken by Allied and enemy combat photographers.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Retraces some of the world's most ancient, meaningful and challenging religious pilgrimages. Viewers travel alongisde contemporary seekers as they explore breathaking locations, fascinating history, and ancient religious traditions.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This program visits early human archaeological sites and uses computer animation to explore the daily life of the first humans in North America. Reenactments portray how humans lived approximately 12,000 years ago as a tribe hunts a mammoth to sustain them through the winter.
16) Oswald's ghost
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 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.
17) Power of art
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and...
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
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
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Berliner once again uses his own life as a laboratory in his lifelong obsession with insomnia. A brilliant blend of the hilarious and the personal, this gives behind the scenes footage of a brutally honest self-portrait of a sleep-deprived man.
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