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Biographical television programs. Documentary television programs. Feature films. Historical television programs. Instructional television programs. Made-for-TV movies. Nonfiction television programs. Television cooking shows. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: Discover the latest thinking from solar enthusiasts and skeptics as it investigates cutting-edge research developments. The program introduces viewers to the scientists and businesspeople who are racing to make solar power practical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOLSummary: Tal Ben-Shahar shares principles from his popular "positive psychology" course at Harvard University in this program designed to help viewers bring more happiness and satisfaction into their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HAPSummary: The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. This program highlights the ingenious breakthroughs that cracked the code, unleashing a flood of dramatic new insights about the ancient civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRASummary: Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents archeological scholarship from the Holy Land to explore the beginnings of modern religion and the origins of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament. This archeological detective story tackles some of the biggest questions in biblical studies: Where did the ancient Israelites come from? Who wrote the Bible, when, and why? How did the worship of one God--the foundation of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIBSummary: In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands, even millions of dollars, from bowls that burped. "Tupperware ladies" fanned out across the nation's living rooms, selling efficiency and convenience to their friends and neighbors through home parties. The secret behind Tupperware's success: the women of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds who discovered they could move up in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TUPSummary: "Will ease you into the world of yoga-whatever your age or ability-and can become your personal at-home trainer. ... discover how easily yoga can be incorporated into your daily routine and how quickly you'll see the benefits for your body and spirit."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 YogCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Exe YSummary: Explore the mind boggling construction of the Panama Canal through historic film footage, rare archival photographs, and insightful narration from David McCullough.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Eductional Foundation 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MANSummary: Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVSummary: "[This program] looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement -- from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's incendiary bestseller 'Silent Spring' to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EARSummary: NOVA and National Geographic take a dazzling dive to explore how and why so many of the ocean's creatures light up, revealing a hidden undersea world where creatures flash, sparkle, shimmer, or simply glow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRESummary: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Hard 2005Summary: It is 1935. Three years have passed, and as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution. As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. With help from the scheming Cynthia, Ralph faces the most pivotal year of his career. Alice's husband has followed her to India, and Aafrin's ascending career may be in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD IND NOT RATEDSummary: Every year, a million visitors are drawn to the Salisbury Plain in southern England, to gaze upon a mysterious circle of stones. Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Now investigations inside and around Stonehenge have kicked off a dramatic new era of discovery and debate. Who built Stonehenge? What was its purpose? How did prehistoric people quarry,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECSummary: "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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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WESummary: In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MEDSummary: Join Ming Tsai on the Emmy-nominated 'Simply Ming' as he and a great group of guest chefs find inspiration from his East-West pantry and from surprise ingredients that range from exotic fruits and vegetables to meats and fish. Ming highlights techniques to help you at home, from filleting a fish to sharing a technique for cooking veggies kids will love. Includes six episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 SIMSummary: "An astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHISummary: Weaves the lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln; Abraham, the dirt-farmer's son turned Great Emancipator, and Mary, the emotionally fragile daughter of wealthy Southern slave-owners. Together, they ascended to the pinnacle of power at a crucial time in the nation's history. Abraham Lincoln's legacy reshaped the nation while the tragedy of his death left Mary reclusive and forgotten.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ABRSummary: Join Christopher Kimball and the cast of America's Test Kitchen to learn the basics of great home cooking. Learn recipes that will work the first time you try them, thanks to the dozens of test cooks who develop, refine, and test recipes again and again until they arrive at the very best versions. Learning to become a better cook has never been this foolproof or fun!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 AMESummary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITSummary: LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso. He rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus, like something from Shakespeare, filling the stage -- 10, 12 characters in one. He is admired and he is detested. But the real measure of a leader is what he gets done, the size of the problems he faces. Before Lyndon Johnson, we were essentially a segregated society. Inequality...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LBJSummary: Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005