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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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What goes on behind-the-scenes to get the manners of 1900s Britain exactly right on Downton Abbey? Discover the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did. Includes revealing interviews with leading cast members.
2) Your brain
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Pub. Date
©2023
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English
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How does your brain create your reality? Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Discover the surprising answers based on the latest research in this journey into the human brain with neuroscientist Heather Berlin.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar, Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Language
English
Description
Hummingbirds are the tiniest of birds, yet they are some of the toughest creatures on the planet. Using cameras able to capture over 500 images a second, the hummingbirds' magical world can finally be seen and appreciated. Nature reveals their stunning abilities as they have never been seen before. Narrated by F. Murray Abraham.
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Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are seven billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. On each continent, we track down the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens. Who were these First Peoples? What drove them to the ends of the earth?
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Features interviews with religious leaders and politicians as they are asked what inspires them in these challenging times, as more and more people are turning to religion and spirituality to gain a sense of meaning and understanding with what they are facing.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to...
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Pilot 1. Jamie & Adam test the claim that an Air Force sergeant attached a rocket to the roof of a '67 Chevy Impala, leaving only a blackened crater in the side of a mountain. Then, see if Pop Rocks and soda could have killed Mikey, star of Life cereal commercials; pilot 2. Investigate the story of a woman on an airplane who got stuck on the toilet, forcing it to land. Then, see if it's possible for raw biscuit dough to explode in a hot car; pilot...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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It may be more famous now than any time in its 1,300-year history as the setting of Downton Abbey, but England's Highclere Castle has its own stories to tell. In its heyday, Highclere was the social epicenter of Edwardian England. See how all the inhabitants of Highclere lived, from the aristocrats above to the army of servants toiling 'below stairs'. Also find out from the current inhabitants, Lord and Lady Carnarvon, what life in a fairytale castle...
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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A look at some of the planet's great gatherings, creatures that come together in inconceivable numbers, sometimes in millions, billions, and even trillions. Some gather to breed, migrate, for protection, or simply to keep warm. But in the process, a kind of super-organism is created in which individual intelligence is superseded by a collective consciousness that shares information and moves with a single purpose for the benefit of all.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Following in the footsteps of Planet Earth and Life, this epic eight-part blockbuster is a breathtaking celebration of the amazing, complex, profound, and sometimes challenging relationship between humankind and nature. Humans are the ultimate animals - the most successful species on the planet. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat and reveals how its people have created astonishing solutions in the face of extreme adversity.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Enter stories of the most unlikely cross-species relationships imaginable: a chimp bottle-feeding tiger cub, a giant tortoise snuggling with a baby hippo, a black crow parenting a meerkat. Look at these remarkable relationships first hand, and through caregivers, biologists, and animal behaviorists. Explore what they suggest about the nature of animal emotions.
12) Mr. Tornado
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The Super Outbreak of 1974 was the most intense tornado outbreak on record, tearing a vicious path of destruction across thirteen states, generating 148 tornadoes from Alabama to Ontario, damaging thousands of homes, and killing more than 300 people.
13) The Amish
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Explores the insular religious community, whose intense faith and adherence to 400-year-old traditions have by turns captivated and baffled Americans for more than a century. The film examines the beliefs, lifestyle, and history of the Amish, as well as their complex relationship to mainstream American culture. Beautifully and lyrically photographed, The Amish is part history, part observational documentary that takes viewers into the world of the...
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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America's top gumshoes are back with a full season's worth of proving once again that an object found in an attic or backyard might be anything but ordinary. Wesley Cowan, Gwendolyn Wright, Elyse Luray, Dr. Eduardo Pagan, and Tukufu Zuberi leave no stone unturned as they travel around the country to explore the stories behind local folklore, prominent figures, and family legends.
15) Wild weather
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Language
English
Description
Tornadoes or sandstorms take simple ingredients like air, earth and water and transform them into something spectacular, powerful and incredibly dangerous. And despite scientists studying it for thousands of years, we know far less about how weather works than anyone might expect. This, however, is about to change: by teaming up with maverick experts and renowned specialists from all around the world, a whole range of fascinating new discoveries from...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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A rare 15th-century manuscript in Denmark's Royal Library describes in detail the fighting techniques taught by master of arms Hans Talhoffer, including not only weapons techniques, but hand-fighting, defence and strategy. Also included are numerous illustrations of medieval inventions resembling armored tanks, explosives, and underwater breathing apparatus.
18) The War of 1812
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
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English
Description
A two-hour documentary looking at this important historic event from several perspectives, the American, Canadian, British and Native American. The program will have some limited but very well done reenactments and major historians, authors, and experts.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Music has been a constant in human history, an intermingling of voice and instrument that for all its local variation and increasing sophistication nevertheless endured in more or less the same form for centuries. Then came recording--and music was forever transformed. Soundbreaking, an eight-part event television series, traces this ongoing sonic revolution, and explores the nexus of cutting-edge technology and human artistry that has created the...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c 2012
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Language
English
Description
How Smart Can We Get? How do you get a genius brain? Is it all in the genes? Or is it hard work? Episodes include: Einstein's Brain; Mystery of the Savant Brain; What is Intelligence? and Profile: Sian Beilock.
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