WGBH Video (Firm)
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Nova presents a gripping investigation of what went wrong when two Boeing 747 airliners collided in thick fog on the runway at a tiny airport in the Canary Islands, killing 583 passengers and crew -- the worst loss of life in any air disaster.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Ease into a world of yoga and discover how to incorporate it into your daily routine. Includes warm-up stretches, breathing exercises, standing yoga poses (which can be done with the help a chair), sun salutations and exercises to encourage relaxation.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
With the help of stunningly realistic animation, Nova takes viewers back to the Ice Age to reveal what happened when an enormous ice dam broke, unleashing a titanic flood that swept herds of woolly mammoth and everything else into oblivion.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In August 1914, the people of Europe were swept into the first of the wars that would make this century the bloodiest ever. Soldiers from all sides remember the trenches and the tactics and scale of the slaughter that shattered the old world order.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
On the morning of July 25, 1909, Louis Bleriot set out on his epic flight across the English Channel, marking the first long-distance flight over water and the first air crossing of a national boundary. A Daring Flight captures the thrilling formative years of flight, when the French were mad about airplanes and tried everything to fly.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A four part series portraying the struggles of the African people in America. This series exposes the truth through surprising revelations, dramatic recreations, rare archival photography, riveting first-person accounts and defines the reality of slaver's past through insightful commentary.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, consul to Lithuania during World War II. Sugihara defied Tokyo authorities and wrote transit visas that allowed hundreds of Jewish families to flee Europe through Russia to Japan and other countries. Includes home movies, photographs, film footage, and interviews with Holocaust survivors who owe their lives to Chiune Sugihara.
11) Shtetl
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009] ©1986
Language
English
Description
In 1942, 2,500 Jews from Bransk, Poland died in Treblinka's gas chambers. Their shtetl died with them. Uncover the true story of Jewish life in Bransk before and after WWII. Starting as a pilgrimage by a Holocaust survivor from Bransk to uncover his roots, the quest is joined by a young Polish Gentile historian from Bransk who is also driven to discover the mystery of the last Jewish community.
12) China inside out
Publisher
[Distributed by] WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After 300 years of relative isolation, China is reaching out to the rest of the world looking for resources, food, friends, and safe places to invest its new fortune. Follow this still-unexplored story of the stunning global transformation taking place.
13) Houdini
Publisher
PBS Home Video/WGBH
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Wrapped in chains and encased in a crate, magician Harry Houdini was dropped into New York's icy East River. Horrified onlookers watched him emerge, unharmed, less than 60 seconds later. Easily the world's most famous escape artist, Houdini mesmerized audiences with astonishing acts of magic like the Water Torture Cell. A circus performer turned gifted artist, Houdini confronted humanity's greatest fears: entrapment, pain, and death.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Iwo Jima, a tiny island 660 miles from Tokyo, was defended by 21,000 Japanese soldiers determined to fight to the death. The U.S. campaign, which began on February 19, 1945, was expected to last only a few days. Instead it claimed the lives of nearly 7,000 Marines and lasted for over a month. Features interviews with twenty-one veterans of the 1945 battle and rare combat footage.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are literally fading away. The Archives' curators have detected signs of decay. A five-year project is underway to design new encasements and a new rotunda for the charters.
Publisher
WGBH Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A look at the lives of three Ethiopian women, rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, who leave home in search of seeking treatment for obstetric fistula. The program follows them walking for hours on their journey to transportation to a special hospital in Addis Ababa where they find solace for the first time in years, and stays with them as their lives begin to change.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Shows the actual conception and development of a baby. Looks inside the male and female reproductive organs to show the formation of sperm and the passage of a fertilized egg through the fallopian tube. Uses a microscope to observe DNA, chromosomes, and other minute body details building up to the moment of birth.
19) Evolution
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"Evolution" offers a groundbreaking and definitive view of the extraordinary impact the evolutionary process has had on our understanding of the world around us. Beginning with Darwin's revolutionary theory, this seven-part series explores all facets of evolution--the changes that spawned the tree of life, the power of sex, how evolution continues to affect us every day, and the perceived conflict between science and religion.
20) Fly girls
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The story of aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran and the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) is told by some of the participants and illustrated with archival film and home movies.