Mass.) WGBH (Television station : Boston
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Reappraises Grant's career, from his pre-civil war days as a failed soldier, to his transformation into the greatest Union hero of the Civil War, to his presidency, rocked by scandal and economic depression, and to his last days, when he raced to finish his war memoirs as he was dying of cancer.
2) Buffalo Bill
Series
Wild west volume 1
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2008]
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...
3) Great escape
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The feature film The great escape was based on this true event. Over six hundred Allied prisoners dug three highly sophisticated tunnels in a plan to escape from Stalag Luft III. On the night of March 24, 1944 two hundred prisoners began their escape. The German guards spotted the seventy-seventh man coming out of the tunnel, but seventy-six prisoners made their escape.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In the final series, Detective Superintendent Tennison is pushing 60 and facing the death of her father. Alcohol, loneliness, and the job have taken their toll, but she is determined to end her exemplary career by solving one more case."--Cover.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
George Washington, was a social climber, land-hungry Virginia surveyor, and military officer who often blamed others for his own errors. He gradually built a reputation as a gentleman by educating himself in the classics and sciences, entering politics, and marrying one of the wealthiest women in Virginia. The battle of Trenton changed everything with a victory both for America and Washington himself. His skill and bravery transformed Washington into...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
8) Painted lady
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible sword with its maker's name, ULFBERHT, inlaid along the blade. But who Ulfberht was, where the sword came from, and how it was made remained secrets for more than 1,000 years?
10) Jesse James
Series
Wild west volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and the legend of the infamous outlaw Jesse James. Looks at his formative years in a Southern household dependent on slave labor and as a member of a vicious band of Missouri guerrillas during the Civil War. Describes his life as a violent criminal, as he and his gang moved on to robbing banks, stagecoaches, and railroads in the post-war era. Relates how James was eventually killed when one of his own gang members shot him in the...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Natural causes: While Lynley is suspended, pending the outcome of his disciplinary hearing, Havers teams up with a different Detective Inspector, Fiona Knight, to investigate the drowning of a young woman in her car.
One guilty deed: Lynley is reinstated, and he, Havers, and their colleague Detective Constable Winston Nkata are trying to catch a crime boss. But when their star witness is found shot dead at Havers' childhoold holiday retreat, she...
12) Dawn of humanity
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors. Deep in a South African cave, a special team of experts has brought to light an unprecedented wealth of fossils belonging to a crucial gap in the record of our origins that spans the transition between the ape-like australopithecines (such as the famous Lucy) and the earliest members of the human family. The film describes the 2013 discovery,...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Emily Watson stars in this powerful, emotional story about the choice between love and loyalty. As a child, Maggie Tulliver adores her brother Tom and desperately seeks his love and approval, but never receives it. While Tom grows up to be the kind of person the world approves of - dutiful and proud, Maggie becomes the kind of person the world judges harshly. A woman ahead of her time, brimming with intelligence and imagination, Maggie is difficult...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Europeans arrived in North America, they encountered the Native people. Contrary to stereotype, American Indians were not simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land. They were, like all people, an amalgam: charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction...
15) Killer quake!
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Metropolitan Los Angeles is sitting on ground zero. Slicing under the highrises of downtown is a network of potentially deadly faults which could trigger the nation's most devastating natural disaster. Includes 1994 Los Angeles earthquake.
16) Welcome to Mars
Publisher
WGBH Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Documents the most significant events of the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This series chronicles the history of New York City from its beginnings in 1609 as a Dutch trading post, through the depression, onto the turbulent years of change in the following decades after WWII, to its present day status as one of the most important and influential cities in the world. The final episode was created in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Chefs of all ages and abilities can share Julia's love of fine French food and learn to cook some of her most-loved dishes with this collection of eighteen episodes from her original 1960's series. Includes downloadable recipes and a bibliography.
19) Second sight
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This taut psychological thriller introduces Ross Tanner, a hotshot police detective who lives for the thrill of the chase - while desperate to conceal a terrifying secret: he's losing his vision.
20) The Wright stuff
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The all-American story of two Midwestern boys who truly believed they could fly, Orville and Wilbur Wright. Discover little-known facts about these visionary brothers and their flying machines that changed the world.
