PBS (Firm)
2) Hillary
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sir Edmund Hillary was a bee-keeper, mountaineer, war veteran, explorer, philanthropist, husband, father, and the first person to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest. From his childhood in South Auckland, New Zealand, to the plane crash that killed his wife and daughter, this intriguing drama portrays the life, loves, and losses of one of the most famous explorers of all time.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It is blatant, it is cheap, it is the apotheosis of the ridiculous. But it is something more; it is like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone Park; it is a national playground, and not to have seen it is not to have seen your own country," said Reginald Wright Kauffman in 1909 of Coney Island, the tiny spit of land at the foot of Brooklyn that, at the turn of the century, became the most extravagant playground in the country and one of...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews with canal workers and firsthand accounts of life in the Canal Zone, unravels the remarkable story of one of the world's most significant technological achievements..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The epic story of the rise of Christianity. The four hours explore the life and death of Jesus, and the men and women whose belief, conviction, and martyrdom created the religion we now know as Christianity...Drawing upon historical evidence, the series challenges familiar assumptions and conventional notions about Christian origins. Archaeological finds have yielded new understandings of Jesus' class and social status; fresh interpretations have...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Ecologist Chris Morgan travels to far eastern Russia, in search of the Siberian tigers that hold rank in the frozen forests. The film features the work of Korean cameraman Sooyong Park, the first individual ever to film Siberian tigers in the wild. Park spent years in the forest tracking and filming the world’s biggest cat.. Park’s tracking technique was unconventional, but produced more than a thousand hours of wild tiger footage and captured...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Get ready for sleep with your child’s favorite Someplace Else pals and DONKEY HODIE BEDTIME STORIES. In this series of shorts, Donkey Hodie, Purple Panda, Duck Duck or Bob Dog snuggle into bed, wind down and read viewers one of their beloved books before turning out the lights and saying goodnight. DONKEY HODIE BEDTIME STORIES supports children and grownups in the transition to sleep.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Why are people so devoted to birds? Meet a variety of bird enthusiasts, including a 16-year-old artist whose work features birds, a birdsong expert, children in Nicaragua and Washington D.C. who are part of a migratory bird education and conservation program, and many others, all of whom share a passion for birds in their infinite variety..
10) Human Footprint
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Earth has never experienced anything like us: a single species dominating and transforming the planet. Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton travels the globe to explore our impact. Because while we may tell ourselves what it means to be human, the clearest vision of who we are emerges from what we do. In that way, Human Footprint tackles the biggest story of all – the story of who we really are.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Super Why, along with Power Paige, the newest Super Reader, save the day (and the story!) from literacy villains and other anomalies in Reader Valley. Set in a visually fantastic 2D comic book world, these musical adventures expand preschool and kindergarten literacy skills through catchy new songs that break down big skills for early readers.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This new PBS town hall meeting, moderated by Gwen Ifill, explores the many issues around race relations that have come to the fore during this tense few months, after a white gunman shot and killed nine African-American parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, and the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds that followed..
14) The War on Disco
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco unseated rock as America’s most popular music by the late 1970s. But many diehard rock fans viewed disco as shallow and superficial. The hostility came to a head on July 12, 1979, when a riot broke out at “Disco Demolition Night” at a baseball game in Chicago.
16) Jackie Robinson
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball’s color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. A fierce integrationist, Robinson used his immense fame to speak out against the discrimination he saw on and off the field, angering fans, the press, and even teammates who had once celebrated him for "turning the other cheek."After baseball, he was a widely-read newspaper columnist, divisive political activist and...
17) Reel South
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Season seven of Reel South is a study in survival and belief. With a formidable cast of unforgettable women (and one enlightened mortician), these films offer audiences a look past the specter of our present. Difficult jobs and hardened communities shape their stories, but with an assured vision for a future of their own making, these Southerners offer a powerful argument for perseverance.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government's massive and controversial secret surveillance program--and the lengths they went to trying to keep it hidden from the public.. Part one goes inside Washington to piece together the secret political history of "The Program," which began in the wake of Sept. 11 and continues today -- even after the revelations of its existence by Edward Snowden.. Part two...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The premiere episode sets the stage for the intense and emotional stories to come. Dr. Scott Adzick, Surgeon-in-Chief at the elite Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and a pioneer of fetal surgery, explains his own conviction: if you can get to babies earlier, while they are still inside their mothers, you can stop some of the damage of birth defects before it is too late..