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Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Jim Dutcher and his wife Jamie lived with gray wolves for three years to make this documentary, and their work reveals complex social behavior never before captured on film. You'll observe the dominance of the pack's alpha male and the submissiveness of the omega wolf. You'll see the pack initiate new members, and witness the critical moment when the alpha selects a mate. Perhaps most incredible is the bond developed between the wolves and...
Publisher
On Screen Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
The explorer and naturalist Steve Backshall admires poisonous animals and in this episode, he goes to the Amazon jungle to find the most poisonous snakes, ants, scorpions, and toads. See what happens when Steve is left by an animal bite to show us that animals can kill a person in minutes with toxic poisons.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This, the most complete chronicle of the Titanic ever created, is filled with survivor interviews, rare newsreel footage, and photos. It's an incomparable voyage into one of history's most unforgettable tragedies. This title has been repackaged.
7) Billy Graham
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Explore the life and career of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
American serial killers are hardly a phenomenon confined to the 20th and 21st centuries. The Old West was a well-known time of lawlessness. A time when serial killers stalked the mountains, prairies and deserts of North America. A time when men like, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, and the Kentucky cannibal left a trail of victims strewn across the landscape. The ruthlessness of their murders will shock in this feature-length documentary...
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This documentary explores Egypt's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities. As Egypt's pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of land, they pushed their royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imagination and human potential, in effect inventing the science of structural engineering. Follow the empire's development from the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last...
11) Hemingway
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Examine the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers: Ernest Hemingway. Intimate and insightful, the series weaves together Hemingway's biography with excerpts from his work. The film penetrates the myth of Hemingway to reveal a deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure.
Series
Publisher
Questar [distributor
Pub. Date
1999]
Language
English
Description
Presents the complete history of Rome, from its primitive beginnings to the height of its glory and its eventual decline. Combines location footage of ancient monuments, detailed re-enactments, period art and writing, and insights from scholars and public figures.
Series
Publisher
Rhino Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Describes the making of Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours, through archival performance footage and interviews with band members and producers Richard Dashut and Ken Caillat. Features newly recorded versions of Christine McVie's Songbird and Lindsey Buckingham's acoustic version of Never going back again.
14) Tiger
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The rise, fall and epic comeback of global golf icon Tiger Woods is charted in this two-part documentary.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Join Dr. Emily Zarka, who studies literature and film through the lens of monsters, as she deconstructs some of the most significant moments in zombie pop culture over the last 200 years to reveal what these creatures say about people. From our fears and conflicts to political uprisings, stories about zombies offer a way to better understand how ultimately, the monster feared the most is themselves.
18) Baseball
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
It is an epic overflowing with heroes and hopefuls, scoundrels and screwballs. It is a saga spanning the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the transformation of popular culture, and the unfolding of the national pastime. Here is the story of a nation at work and play. Experience it in ten thrilling "innings" from master storyteller and award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles the rich history of an institution at the heart of the African American experience. Beginning with enslavement, traveling through Emancipation, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights movement, and ending in the present-day, Gates takes viewers on a journey through time, focusing on the key events, charismatic figures, political debates, and musical traditions that have shaped, and been shaped by, the Black Church. The series also...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the first Harry Potter book, this documentary visits the real-life magical history behind J.K. Rowling's beloved classics. With footage from the British Library's exhibition and exclusive access to a priceless collection of artifacts, take a tour around the mesmerizing journey creating this global phenomenon. Includes interviews with J.K. Rowling herself as she examines the most exciting items on display....
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