PBS Home Video
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A tale of one family's ambition and of Europe's struggle to emerge from the ravages of the Dark Ages. The Medici used charm, skill, and ruthlessness to garner unparalleled wealth and power, ruling Europe for more than 300 years.
Author
Publisher
Santa Fe Productions
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Dr. Michael Breus explains how genes, environment, job habits, and physiology may hamper sleep and thus dramatically affect waking life. He shows that getting proper quality and quantity of sleep can help rejuvenate the mind and body, improve sex life, increase energy, and help a person lose weight and look younger.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA, all six billion chemical letters of it, read, stored and available for analysis? Reveals that we stand on the verge of such a revolution. Meet a cancer patient who appears to have cheated death and a cystic fibrosis sufferer breathing easily because scientists have been able to pinpoint and neutralize the genetic abnormalities underlying their conditions.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. From Japan's Mount Fuji to the 'Sleeping Giant' submerged beneath Naples to the Yellowstone 'Supervolcano' in the United States, Nova travels with scientists who are attempting to discover how likely these volcanoes are to erupt, when it might happen, and exactly how deadly they could prove to be.
47) Journey of man
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
How did the human race populate the world? A group of geneticists have worked on the question for a decade, arriving at a startling conclusion: the "global family tree" can be traced to one African man who lived 60,000 years ago. Dr. Spencer Wells hosts this innovative series, featuring commentary by expert scientists, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists.
49) Coney Island
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The birthplace of the hot dog and the roller coaster, Coney Island was the Disneyland of its day. Follow the metamorphosis of Coney Island in this fascinating excursion into our past.
51) On our watch
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"The world invoked its vow 'Never Again!' after the genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica. Then came Darfur. Over the past four years at least 200,000 people have been killed, 2.5 million driven from their homes, and mass rapes have once more bee used as a weapon of war in a brutal campaign by Janjaweed militias and the Sudanese government against civilians in Darfur. FRONTLINE asks why the international community and the United Nations...
52) The Civil War
Description
Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
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.
54) E²: Energy
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A six-part film featuring people and places around the globe where efforts are being made to improve our environment for the future.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
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:...
58) Brooklyn Bridge
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
"This award-winning program by filmmaker Ken Burns recaptures all the drama, the struggles and the personal tragedies behind this greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age. As this fascinating program reveals, it was the largest bridge of its era, marked by enormous construction problems and ingenious solutions."--Publisher's website.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A celebration of market houses, market places, and farmers' markets across the United States. Producer Rick Sebak and his team check out crab cakes in Baltimore's Lexington market, sample coconuts and white pineapples in Hilo, Hawaii, and attend a tomato tasting in Asheville, North Carolina. From what may be the oldest market in America in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to the amazing abundance on display every Wednesday morning on the streets of Santa...