Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rival group of adults that calls itself Weird Team arrives with a gadget that fixes any odd problem. As a result, Odd Squad is run out of business and all the agents are forced to disband and go back to their lives as regular kids. Using math skills and teamwork, the kids discover Weird Team isn't actually solving problems, but just covering them up.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Features some of the 21st century's most provocative and innovative public space architecture in North America. Each hour-long episode is organized around a central building typology theme, such as Performance Spaces or Art Spaces, and profiles three buildings.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Michael Mosley and botanist James Wong celebrate the physics, chemistry, and biology hidden inside every bite of a next meal. Learn how the hidden chemistry of food keeps bodies fit and healthy; take a global culinary adventure to reveal the science that makes food taste delicious; and discover how the chemistry in food affects the brain and creates the deepest cravings.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Favorite PBS Kids characters learn all about allergies in five stories. Join Binky as he works to understand his peanut allergy in an Arthur story and Daniel Tiger as he tries a peach for the first time and discovers he's allergic to the fruit.
5) Little Bird
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (750 min.) sd., col. and b&w 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Each episode focuses on a great composer, tracing the creation of their masterpieces and the profound, lasting cultural impact of their music while exploring little known or recently discovered works and new music they inspired.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celebrated violinist and conductor Scott Yoo crosses the country, exploring the diversity of American musicians, cultures and landscapes to discover how regional and ethnic music has inspired America's greatest composers: Amy Beach, Florence Price, Aaron Copland and two of today's masters, Sergio Assad and Reena Esmail.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow chef Marcus Samuelsson as he immerses himself in diverse immigrant communities and cuisines in cities across the US. In each hour, Marcus will travel to a different city and dive into a new food culture. He'll discover the important immigrant histories - and delicious culinary traditions - that shape the way America eats today.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this three-part travelogue, a young Muslim American couple discovers America's Muslim roots on Route 66. From Chicago to St. Louis to Amarillo, Texas, and across the Southwest, rap-star Mona Haydar and husband Sebastian Robins enjoy the iconic highway's well-known roadside attractions, and along the way discover its overlooked Muslim American story. Who knew that Muslims arrived in the 1500s, or that a Civil War-era Syrian camel driver helped survey...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
UK edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 7 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Summer 1939. Harry, a translator at the British Embassy in Warsaw, is falling in love with Polish waitress Kasia. When German tanks roll into Poland, and Britain declares war on Germany, Harry and Kasia face terrible choices. With her life in grave danger, can Harry help her, and if he can, how will he ever explain himself to Lois Bennett, the girl he left behind in Manchester?
13) The Swamp
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity's attempt to conquer nature. This program, told through the lives of a handful of colorful and resolute characters, explores the repeated efforts to reclaim, control and transform what was seen as a vast wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, and, ultimately, the drive to preserve America's greatest wetland.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of South America lies one of the most spectacular geographical secrets of the natural world. Over three miles long and 300 feet high, Iguacu is the greatest waterfall on earth.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Premiering on PBS, Vivian travels the changing South in search of the dishes that connect all, dumplings, hand pies, porridge and more, but which are expressed in delightfully different ways across cultures. Along the way, she meets new friends and teachers, and as she says, she discovers how breaking bread and sharing a meal can create a comfortable place to have meaningful, memorable conversations.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1971, graduate student Penny Patterson began teaching sign language to a gorilla named Koko. What started out as a scientific experiment evolved into an intimate friendship, which for almost half a century has challenged the way we think about animals and changed the course of many lives. It is a unique window into this incredible relationship.
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this landmark living history series, a Victorian tenement in the heart of London's East End has been painstakingly brought back to life. Host Michael Mosley joins a group of 21st century families as they move in and experience the tough living and working conditions of the Victorian poor.
19) First peoples
Publisher
Wall to Wall Media Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approx. 6 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are seven billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. On each continent, we track down the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens. Who were these First Peoples? What drove them to the ends of the earth?
20) The Adirondacks
Publisher
WNED
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at one of the largest parks in America, with 6 million acres that is divided between privately owned land and protected wilderness. Features the history, landscape, and the Adirondacks of today.