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Mass.) WGBH (Television station : Boston
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"NOVA tells the stories of residents who had to flee for their lives during the 2018 California fire season. Scientists race to understand what's behind the rise of the record-breaking megafires and investigate how forestry practices, climate change, and the physics of fire itself play a role in the dramatic increase in wildfires in recent decades."--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Explores how animals understand the world around them through the eyes of three iconic creatures: dogs, birds, and dolphins. As we discover how scientists are pushing the animal mind to its limits, we'll uncover surprising similarities to, and differences from--the human mind.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Many Americans are keeping an important, potentially deadly secret: depression. Approximately 15 million adults in the U.S. struggle with this devastating neurological condition, which affects all ages, races, genders, and socioeconomic groups. Through the voices and stories of people living with depression as well as interviews with doctors and scientists, this film provides an unflinching portrait of the disease while clearly exploring the opportunities...
7) A. Einstein
Pub. Date
[1988], c1979
Description
Presents a detailed account of the life and times of Albert Einstein through photographs, film clips, and the scientist's published writings. Shows the great social and political forces that dominated so much of Einstein's personal life and professional career.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"'Latin music USA' highlights the great American music created by Latinos, and celebrates the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. It's a fresh take on American musical history, reaching across five decades to portray the rich mix of sounds created by Latinos and embraced by all." -- Container.
Series
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Using microphotography to explore the hidden world inside the human body, this program covers three incredible team efforts: the coordination of muscles, bones, heart and circulatory system that makes Mike Powell the world's greatest long jumper; the digestive dynamo that turns a simple sandwich eaten by five-time Olympic gold medalist Bonnie Blair into raw energy for a blistering sprint down the ice; and the ultimate event--the development of a new...
12) Robert E. Lee
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. This film examines the life and reputation of the general, whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy, and who was elevated to almost god-like status by his admirers after his death.
13) Arctic Passage
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Two programs examine quests for the Northwest Passage by 19th and 20th century explorers. The first describes how Sir John Franklin led an unsuccessful expedition searching for an Arctic sea route and the mystery surrounding his disappearance. The second describes how, a half-century later, Roald Amundsen attempted the same expedition, examining the success of Amundsen's voyage due to help he received from the Inuit people of Northern Canada.
14) Country boys
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Acclaimed producer David Sutherland returns to rural America to tell an epic tale of two boys coming of age in Kentucky's Appalachian hills, documenting their struggles to overcome hardship and poverty and find meaning in their lives. It begins in the autumn of 1999, when Chris and Cody begin attending the David School, an alternative high school for troubled teens in David, Kentucky. Cody finds a new sense of belonging, not only in his home life...
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
[2009]
Description
When Charles Darwin's life's work is in danger of being scooped by Alfred Wallace, one of his children is stricken by scarlet fever and one with diphtheria. His wife, Emma, is his rock, helping him through the turmoil. This story brings to life the compelling human story behind the publication of one of history's most influential theories.
18) Kaboom
Series
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Follow an explosive trail through the ages, starting in ninth- century China, and continuing through the discovery of the atomic bomb in the twentieth century.
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
Frontline explores the retail giant's influence on the American economy, noting U.S. job losses and soaring Chinese exports. Interviews with retail execs, trade experts, economists and more, some who credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is driving the overseas shift to China of the production of American consumer goods.
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