Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[Widescreen?].
Language
English
Description
"Your body is the most sophisticated organism on earth and much about it remains a mystery. This 3-part series uses cutting-edge graphics to reveal the surprisingly beautiful biological processes that keeps you alive. Discover the ingenious ways your body develops, adapts, and endures, and witness the fascinating and finely tuned systems that keep your body motoring - and the scientists guessing."
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Super Why and the Around the World Adventure: With the help of their teacher, Wyatt and his friends have contacted a girl from another school over the computer and are wondering where she lives. The Super Readers take a trip around the world with a wacky explorer named Wobblebottom, who is on the hunt for his friend Sophie. Will they be able to help Wobblebottom find his friend?
Super Why and Naila and the Magic Map: Pig and his friends are playing...
Publisher
[PBS Direct]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Every year, hundreds of new skyscrapers are built around the globe. As nations vie for prestige and developers look to maximize limited urban space, these shimmering towers are rising higher and higher. In China alone, dozens of buildings reach over 1,000 feet, with a few approaching 2,000 feet. But for all their impressive engineering, are these buildings safe?
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Widescreen?].
Language
English
Description
The incredible story of a baby elephant who was born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she is suddenly orphaned at one-month-old, it is up to the keepers who look after the herd to keep her alive. This one elephant's tale remains both intimate and epic, a journey of tragedy and triumph, because when her entire species faces extinction, one life means everything.
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Widescreen?].
Language
English
Description
"Every year, millions of animals embark on epic journeys on an astonishing scale, crossing hostile landscapes, traveling hundreds of miles, overcoming fearsome obstacles, and facing intense dangers in a race to reach their destination. Follow caribou, elephants, and zebra on breathtaking wildlife adventures, journeying across hundreds of miles of Canadian arctic wilderness and African bush."
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Widescreen?].
Language
English
Description
"Baiae... An ancient Roman city lost to the same volcanoes that entombed Pompeii. But unlike Pompeii, Baiae sits under water, in the Bay of Naples. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the city was an escape for Rome's rich and powerful elite, a place where they were free of the social restrictions of Roman society."
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[Widescreen?].
Language
English
Description
"With high-speed camerawork and breakthrough new science, we enter the fast-paced world of hummingbirds as never before. They move faster than the eye can see, and possess natural born super powers that enable them to fly backwards, upside-down, and float in midair. For the first time, we see them mate, lay eggs, and raise families in intimate detail. They are Super Hummingbirds, the smallest, most brilliant birds on earth."
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[Widescreen?].
Language
English
Description
"Unique to North America, the bald eagle is the continent's most recognizable aerial predator, with a shocking white head, electric yellow beak, and penetrating eyes. In the 1960s, this symbol of the United States became an emblem of environmental degradation as the pesticide DDT and other human pressures brought it to the brink of extinction. But following their protection as an endangered species, bald eagles have come roaring back. Photographed...
12) Yosemite
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[Widescreen?].
Language
English
Description
"Join scientists, experts, and adventurers as they trudge through mountains of snow, climb trees as tall as buildings, and soar high in the air to spy just how these global changes are affecting one of America's greatest wildernesses."
13) Poisoned water
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Widescreen?].
Language
English
Description
"NOVA: Poisoned Water Water. Turn on the faucet and it's always there. Without it we perish. But how safe is our tap water? In this special report, NOVA investigates what happened in Flint, Michigan when local officials changed the city's water source to save money, but overlooked a critical treatment process. As the water pipes corroded, lead leached into the system, exposing the community--including thousands of children--to dangerous levels of...
14) Super tunnel
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Follow an army of engineers and designers as they tackle the complex challenge of building Crossrail, a massive new subterranean railway deep beneath the streets of London."--Provided by the publisher.
15) The Swamp
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[Widescreen?].
Language
English
Description
"The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity's attempt to conquer nature. The Swamp, told through the lives of a handful of colorful and resolute characters, explores the repeated efforts to reclaim, control and transform what was seen as a vast wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, and, ultimately, the drive to preserve America's greatest wetland."
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"Ironically, every dead elephant with its ivory intact is a reason to celebrate. It means an elephant died of natural causes, not bullets, snares or poison, and a soul was allowed to be celebrated and mourned by its herd. Award-winning filmmakers, Dereck and Beverly Joubert start with the remains of two bull elephants and through a series of key flashbacks, look at the lives they would have led, the dramas they may have seen, their great migrations...
20) The circus
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A four-hour mini-series that tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. Drawing upon a vast and rich visual archive, the film follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus, recounting the era when Circus Day could shut down a town, and circus stars were among the most famous people in the country.