Summary: A profile of the city of New Orleans, focusing especially on its pre-Katrina history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2007

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Public Service Broadcasting (Musical group)

Contents: Inform-educate-entertain -- Spitfire -- Theme from PSB -- Signal 30 -- Night mail -- Qomolangma -- roygbiv -- The now generation -- Lit up -- Everest -- Late night final.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Test Card Recordings 2013

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Public Service Broadcasting (Musical group)

Contents: Every valley -- The pit -- People will always need coal -- Progress -- Go to the road -- All out -- Turn no more -- They gave me a lamp -- You + me -- Mother of the village -- Take me home.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Public Service Broadcasting (Musical group)

Contents: CD 1: The race for space -- Sputnik -- Signal 30 -- Theme from PSB -- Night mail -- London can take it -- Valentina (featuring Smoke Fairies) -- Korolev -- E.V.A -- CD 2: If war should come -- Spitfire -- Lit up -- The other side -- Go! -- Tomorrow -- Gagarin -- Everest.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009

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Summary: Tour the best Ireland and Scotland have to offer with Public Television's most famous traveler, Rick Steves.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Back Door Productions 2009

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Summary: Examines the life and career of the inspiring actor and entertainer, Raul Julia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Mark Rothko is considered one of the most renowned figures of the abstract expressionists, though he refused to adhere to any art movement. For Rothko, both painting and viewing his work were considered a spiritual experience. The film profiles the life and work of a man who often wrestled with great sadness even as he transformed the course of American art with his uncompromising vision.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2003

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Summary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man who's life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004

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Summary: The first year of life is the toughest. Four cinematographers follow six iconic baby animals as they face the challenges of surviving their first year on Earth. For these animal babies, it is the story of what it takes to survive in the wild.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Sir David Attenborough drops in for tea at the modest suburban home of Neville and Sally Hollingworth, both amateur fossil hunters in southern England. He's there to look at some of the unusual objects that decorate their living room, including giant tusks and massive molars that belonged to extinct mammoths and a hand-axe shaped by Neanderthals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Louisiana Red

Contents: CD 1 : Announcement Lousiana (Louisiana) Red -- The whole world -- I wonder who's been loving you tonight -- Midnight rambler -- When my mama was living -- Red's dream no. 2 -- Red's boogie -- Crime emotion -- Good god woman -- Alabama train -- Soon one morning -- Travelling boogie -- Death of ealase

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Hamburg 2019

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Summary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Join the cast as they reveal the test kitchen's secrets to foolproof cooking at home. From simple combinations to more complicated ones, these recipes will work the first time you try them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: "The film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas ... an honest on-the-ground portrait of the financial, emotional, and physical challenges they all face"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Media Distribution 2017

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Summary: Join Bill Moyers for conversations that touch on pressing issues in our post-9/11 world: the increasing politicization of faith, the perceived gulf between science and religion, the tension between tolerance and free expression, and more. Original voices such as Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, and Mary Gordon add a personal dimension as they talk openly about their most heartfelt...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2010

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Summary: Explore the life of Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, whose visionary buildings include St. Louis's Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center in Michigan. Travel with his son as he showcases the architect's body of timeless work, which continues to inspire amongst renewed interest in 20th century architects and artists who exploded the constraints of the past to create a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: An epic labor strike that devastated Michigan's Copper Country in 1913 haunts the American labor movement to this day. Among the notable elements of that strike was the death of 73 children at a union Christmas party, a tragedy immortalized by Woody Guthrie in his ballad "1913 Massacre", performed in the film by Steve Earle. The event remains the deadliest unsolved manslaughter in U.S. history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Rick Stevens is your perfect travel partner, guiding you through 60 hours of discoveries in his favorite European cities, villages, and off-the-beaten-path destinations. The complete DVD set brings you every one of Rick's half-hour TV shows- plus his highly acclaimed, hour-long TV specials.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Rick Steves takes you off-the-beaten-path of some of his favorite European cities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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