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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Follows the creation of four extraordinary skyscrapers, showcasing how they will revolutionize the way we live, work, and how we protect ourselves from potential threats, both from the environment and terrorist attacks. Episodes include: One World Trade Center; One57; Shanghai Tower; and The Leadenhall Building.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Across America's backyards, individuals have walked away from our modern society to live in backwoods. Follow six people who are living off of the land -surviving on what they can produce with their own two hands and sharp intuition.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This is one the most fearless animals in the world, renowned for its ability to confront grown lions, castrate charging buffalo, and shrug off the toxic defenses of stinging bees, scorpions, and snakes. Our film will follow a team of researchers in South Africa who are searching for the truth behind the honey badger.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The largest masonry dome on earth, Florence's cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, is a masterpiece of ingenuity and a source of mystery. Historians and engineers have long debated how its architect, kept the dome perfectly aligned and symmetrical as the sides rose and converged toward the center. To test the latest theories, a team of U.S. bricklayers will help build an experimental, mini-Duomo, using period tools and techniques.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Renowned as the richest gold strike in North American mining history, the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) set off a stampede of over 100,000 people on a colossal journey from Alaska to the gold fields of Canada's Yukon Territory. The Klondike Gold Rush is an incredible story of determination, luck, fortune, and loss. In the end, it isn₂t all about the gold, but rather the journey to the Klondike itself.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After taking a surprise dip in a cursed spring while on a training journey in China, martial artist Ranma Saotome and his father, Genma, aren't quite themselves anymore. Now Ranma turns into a girl whenever he's splashed with cold water, and Genma turns into a panda. Their new forms cause nothing but confusion at the Tendo dojo, where Soun Tendo is waiting to introduce one of his three daughters to Ranma; as his fiancee! Turns out Genma and Soun arranged...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Season Eight of Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen features the best regional home cooking in the country from host Christopher Kimball and your favorite chefs from America's Test Kitchen as they uncover blue-ribbon regional specialties from across the country and classic fare in need of a makeover. Also includes tips and techniques, food tastings, equipment tests, and printable versions of all 26 recipes.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It's a mystery on a global scale: five times in Earth's past, life has been nearly extinguished, the vast majority of plants and animals annihilated in a geologic instant. What triggered these dramatic events? And what might they tell us about the fate of our world? Joins scientists around the globe as they unravel the mysteries of two of the most dramatic mass extinction.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Explore the life of Jesus and the movement he started, challenging familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence and interviews with the nation's leading New Testament scholars, the series transports the viewer back two thousand years to the time and place where Jesus once lived and preached.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Barney has gone to the dogs-- the birds, the rabbits, the bugs, and the butterflies! BJ shows off his bug collection and learns that having a pet is a big responsibility. Meanwhile, after building a birdhouse for a lucky bird, Barney takes the children on a tour of the park to learn about other animals and their homes.
15) American genius
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The eight-part docudrama, reveals the competitive forces behind history's most remarkable races for innovation. From Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates to the Wright Brothers vs. Glen Curtiss, explores the rivalries, delving into the fierce power struggles, deceit, fluke timing and raw ambition out of which innovation was born. Bold reenactments are woven together with expert interviews to shed new perspective on the backstories of innovation that have shaped...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"This dramatic documentary, with full scale battles, elaborate sets, and a large cast, tells the fascinating story of three world powers - England, France and an alliance of Native American nations - whose struggles planted the seeds for the American Revolution. A central figure is George Washington, then a brash and ambitious young officer in his twenties hoping to make his reputation in the British military, whose blunders actually trigger the war....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two nemeses become bonded jilted wives after their husbands reveal they have been having an affair with each other since the 1990s and now plan to get married. As Grace and Frankie muddle through ups and downs with their business, romantic relationships and families, they must face some realities of aging.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Cutting-edge underwater photography combines with state-of-the-art graphics to reveal the raw drama of the conflicts, subterfuge, battle plans and attack tactics of sharks. Techniques employed in BBC's Predators are used, this time in a new theatre of war; an underwater battleground that plays host to nature's version of submarine warfare.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The world's oldest and most famous spy agency. Home to the legendary Agent 007, James Bond, it has been at the centre of international espionage for over 100 years. Now we reveal the truth behind the covert operations, the tales of treachery and the double-agents who've risked their lives. With interviews from the major players in British espionage we expose the dangerous secret world of real life spies.
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