Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDSummary: Physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking poses enduring scientific questions to teams of non-scientists to test their problem solving skills and summon their inner-genius, covering topics such as time travel, the existence of life on other planets, how the universe came to be, and the origins of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GENSummary: Created, written by, and starring Scott Aukerman, and based on Scott's popular podcast of the same name, the show infuses celebrity appearances and comedy sketches with a tinge of the surreal. In each episode, Aukerman engages his guests with unfiltered and improvisational lines of questioning, punctuated by banter and beats provided by his bandleader, one-man musical mastermind Reggie Watts....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COMSummary: Naturalist and nineteenth century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. The program brings to life his timeless paintings with dazzling footage of the living birds he immortalized, and celebrates visually the natural world he described in his writings. Interviews reveal the man, explore his art, and put his groundbreaking work in modern perspective.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AUDSummary: This program explores the pros and cons of California's controversial program to slash carbon dioxide emissions and promote energy efficiency, which could be adopted nationwide during the Obama administration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIGSummary: Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects: the car, the airplane, the smartphone, the rocket, the robot, and the telescope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BRESummary: World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new-but no less deadly-threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: Almost 40 years after the discovery of HIV, could we be on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic in America? As of 2019, in the US, there were only 34,000 new cases of the disease, a feat that once seemed near-impossible to achieve.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ENDSummary: Diseases that were largely eradicated in the U.S. a generation ago - including whooping cough, measles, mumps - are returning, in part because nervous parents are skipping their children's shots. This takes viewers around the world to track epidemics, explore the science behind vaccinations, and shed light on the risks of opting out. The vast majority of Americans - more than 90% - vaccinate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VACSummary: In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions as a way of exploring the solar system's outermost planets, capturing images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons. "The farthest" documents Voyager's journey, including first-hand accounts of the men and women who built the ships and guided their missions. Bonus film "Second genesis" explores the scientific quest to find life, or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 919.9 FARSummary: "Every year, over a million babies are born worldwide with a hereditary disease; most are serious, and many are fatal. For most of the history of medicine, doctors could only treat symptoms. Now an elite cadre of pioneers, gene doctors, is starting to target root causes. Through intimate stories of families whose lives are being transformed, the film takes viewers to the frontlines of a medical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GENSummary: When top predators disappeared from Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, other animals fell into unusual patterns. Now scientists are reintroducing wild dogs to restore the park's 'landscape of fear' and with it the natural balance of the ecosystem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021