WGBH Educational Foundation.
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For weeks, the world's eyes have been fixed on the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for Europe. But what is life like for those left behind?
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shows the right exercises and yoga poses to protect your back and improve your posture. Includes a bonus segment for restoring poses using the help of gravity.
Series
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : digital, sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary footage filmed by Allied Forces army cameramen when they entered the Nazi death camps in 1945 and only recently discovered in the archives of the Imperial War Museum in London. Scenes from Bergen-Belson, Dachau, Buchenwald, and other camps.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Instructor leads participants through easy yoga poses for upper and lower body while seated, standing poses for hips and legs with the aid of a chair (if needed), and relaxation and meditation.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Will ease you into the world of yoga-whatever your age or ability-and can become your personal at-home trainer. Discover how easily yoga can be incorporated into your daily routine and how quickly you'll see the benefits for your body and spirit.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A million or more years ago, during the Ice Age, Australia was home to a wide range of extraordinary giant animals. None was quite as bizarre or fearsome as Thylacoleo, the meat-eating marsupial lion. Pound for pound, this creature had the most powerful bite of any mammal, living or extinct. Even though it was at the top of the ancient Australian predators, Thylacoleo was eventually toppled from its throne, dying out along with all the rest of the...
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines trends and developments in world population growth, set to reach 9 billion by 2050. In Japan, Europe and Russia, birth rates are shrinking and the population is aging. In parts of India and Africa, more than half of the still-growing population is under 25.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now, with the help of new spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes, scientists are seeing the Sun as they never have before and even re-creating what happens at the very center of the Sun. Their work will help us understand aspects of the sun that have puzzled scientists for decades. Secrets of the Sun reveals a bright new dawn in our understanding of our nearest star, one that might help keep our planet from going dark.
12) Buffalo Bill
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid 1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque frontier hero. As the frontier was rapidly disappearing, he realized he could market his life as entertainment, and millions around the world would pay for a...
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Retirement Gamble reveals how fees, self-dealing, and kickbacks bring great profits to Wall Street while imperiling the prospects of a secure future for individuals. The film questions who has the consumer's best interests in mind, and whether there is a better way to manage our retirements.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the biblical account of the splendor of his temples and palaces adorned in glittering gold and copper, countless treasure-seekers have set off in search of King Solomon's mines. Yet to date, the evidence supporting the existence of Solomon's mines and other early kingdoms in the Bible has been highly controversial. In fact, there is so little physical evidence of the kings who ruled Israel and Edom that many contend that they are no more...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, San Francisco stood as a proud and flourishing symbol of America's recent conquest of the once-wild West. But on April 19, 1906, the city would experience an awesome reminder of the uncontrollable forces lying dormant just beneath the splendors of its cosmopolitan surface. Thirty times more powerful than the temblor that decimated northern California in 1989, this earthquake measured a ground-wrenching 8.3 on the Richter scale,...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four in five Americans say the U.S. health-care system needs 'fundamental' change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care system, or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? FRONTLINE correspondent T.R. Reid examines first-hand how other advanced capitalist democracies - the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dive beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace provocative new clues to one of the most tragic events of World War II: the sinking of the USS Arizona. For decades, it has been thought that the Arizona was sunk by a bomb dropped by a Japanese aircraft. But the discovery of a group of Japanese midget subs in and around Pearl Harbor has raised questions about the Arizona's final hours.
18) What are dreams?
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins the leading dream researchers as they embark on a variety of neurological and psychological experiments to investigate the world of sleep and dreams. Delving deep into the thoughts and brains of a variety of dreamers, scientists are asking important questions about the purpose of this mysterious world we escape to at night." -- Container.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.