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Publisher
DPTV Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Originally aired on public television, this fourteen-part series explores the history, treasures, and secrets of the Vatican. Includes the television special "Discovering secrets of the Vatican highlights" with an interview of Father Michael Collins, Vatican authority and author.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
David Starkey examines the story of the English crown from the fall of Rome to the 1660s. Starkey covers nearly 250 years, from Charles II to Victoria. Replete with infidelities, betrayals, and rivalries, English history emerges as a compelling family saga.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Part 1, The rise of the dog, examines the relationship between dogs and humans, from their initial domestication to the present day. Part 2, Dogs by design, examines the many different breeds of dogs, and how modern technology is changing the science of dog breeding.
5) Leonardo
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley travels back in time to the Tudor Court of England's Henry VIII to witness some of the most dramatic moments in the lives of his six wives. Combining drama based on eyewitness accounts and historical sources with Lucy's own contemporary historical commentary, it is these women's stories that Lucy sets out to uncover, witness, and explore.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2009, 2008
Language
English
Description
"The film features interviews with leading astrophysicists and cosmologists from the world's renowned universities and observatories, who explain concepts ranging from Galileo's act of revealing the cosmos with a simple telescope, to the latest discoveries in space, including startling new ideas about life on other planets and dark energy - a mysterious vacuum energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe." - Container.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Nova investigates a provocative new theory that suggests the extinction of more than 34 types of large prehistoric mega-creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth, was caused not by climate change or the arrival of the first human hunters, but by the massive breakup of a comet over the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,900 years ago." -- WGBH/Nova website.
9) Jerusalem
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Join structural engineer Steve Burrows and his team of laser-scanning experts as they set out to explore the epic building legacy of Jerusalem. Their focus is on two of the most impressive engineering creations of the ancients: the Temple Mount, a holy icon larger than 20 football fields, and the man-made mountain of Herodium, an opulent palace built on top of millions of tons of hand carved rock.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ducks are true originals. There are more than 120 different species of ducks in all, a fantastical group of complex characters. Ducks have a talent for survival, and life stories filled with personality and charm. Each bird is more fun than the last, and will leave you wanting more.
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Civil War double feature from History includes two compelling films that provide a unique perspective of the Civil War. Gettysburg depects one of the war's most significant battles through the eyes of the soldiers fighting on the ground. Raw, immersive and emotional, the groundbreaking film puts viewers inside the epic, three-day battle in which 50,000 men lost their lives. Produced with the cooperation of leading Civil War historian Winston Groom,...
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