PBS Distribution (Firm)
21) Building wonders
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Building Wonders, Nova presents three groundbreaking shows that investigate engineering mysteries of the ancient world with the help of dramatic hands-on experiments. Modern architects use medieval tools to examine the Lost City of Petra in the middle of Jordan's desert, the vast Roman Colosseum, and Turkey's 1,500 year-old cathedral dome, Hagia Sophia.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Playing games and being active with family and friends is so much fun! Join Caillou as he goes on a pirate treasure hunt with Daddy in order to find a missing piece of a puzzle, and as he and his fellow teammates work to become better soccer players with the help of Caillou2s grandma.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Almost a century ago, paleontologists found the first hints of a monster even bigger than Tyrannosaurus Rex, perhaps the largest predator ever to walk the Earth: fossil bones from a dinosaur dubbed Spinosaurus. Bringing together experts in paleontology, geology, climatology, and paleobotany, this NOVA/National Geographic special brings to life the lost world over which Spinosaurus reigned more than 65 million years ago.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Explore the life and legacy of August Wilson, the playwright some call America's Shakespeare, who chronicled the twentieth-century black experience. Features James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Laurence Fishburne, Viola Davis, new dramatic readings, and rare footage.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage and new research, it reveals how the modern Olympics were shaped by the collaboration of interests between Hitler and ambitious Olympic planners. The grand themes and controversial issues from the 1936 Berlin Games have continued to this day: monumentality, budget overruns, and collusion with authoritarian regimes, corruption, and sometimes even bribery.
26) My bionic pet
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The animals of the world may increasingly need our help with big issues like preserving habitat or species conservation. But sometimes individual animals need our help as well. Left disabled without fins, flippers, beaks, or tails because of disease, accidents, or even human cruelty, these unfortunate creatures need what amounts to a miracle if they are to survive. Luckily for them, sometimes miracles do happen.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 2002, maintenance workers stumbled through an opening in one of the tunnel walls and discovered a previously unknown complex of six small rooms, each stacked floor to ceiling with skeletons. It was a mass grave, locked away for nearly 2,000 years. Who were these people? Why were so many interred in one place, piled atop each other? And most important, what killed them?
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For 75 years, the United Service Organizations (USO) has lifted the spirits of American soldiers and has kept service personnel connected to their families and country while abroad. USO: For the Troops conveys the fast pace and complex logistics of a modern USO tour, and underlines the importance of the organization not just for service people, but for America as a whole.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Soar into the tale of Sleeping Beauty with the Super Readers! When Sleeping Beauty just wants to snooze all day instead of playing outside with her friends, Super Why and the gang use their literacy powers to encourage her to try new things! This adventure-filled DVD also includes stories about a princess and a frog learning how to compromise and play together, Super Why and his friends discovering the secrets of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Language
English
Description
Frontline investigates American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. In collaboration with ProPublica, the film reveals how secret electronic surveillance missed catching the Mumbai plotters, and how Headley planned another Charlie Hebdo-like assault against a Danish newspaper.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Caillou is an inquisitive four year old whose world is filled with learning, fun and imagination and inspires generations of pre-school children to grow emotionally as they explore the world around them. Join Caillou as he learns about all creatures great and small from crickets to lions and everything in between!
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's Valentine's Day in Pinkville. Pinkalicious can't wait to show her classmates just how much she loves them by making homemade collage valentines out of their favorite things. But what will Pinkalicious do when the valentines are accidently destroyed? She must come up with a creative solution fast.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The President of the United States summons Peg and Cat to solve a problem of national importance: Strange signals are coming from space, in a pattern. In part two, Peg and Cat call everyone they know to save the Earth from a planet-sized pig's behind.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It's a stormy Christmas Eve and Kate worries that Dad won't get home in time to put the star on the Christmas tree. In Mimiloo, Kate tells her friends all about Christmas, and everyone is excited to send a wish to Santa Claus. But when a blizzard stops their letters in their tracks, it looks like Christmas will be ruined.
38) Volcano Earth
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An intrepid team of volcano experts leads a daring expedition to reach the Virunga Mountains in East Africa, two of the world's most dangerous, spectacular, and least understood volcanoes. Join a team of volcanologists as they explore one of the world's most active and mysterious volcanoes in central Africa: Nyamuragira. What feeds its frequent eruptions? And what are the other hidden dangers?
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The sky is a challenging place to live, but extraordinary animals do something we only dream of 6 take to the air. Some spend their lives airborne, others only visit, but they all have one thing in common: they only survive by taking to the skies. This three-part series reveals the incredible adaptations that explain how these animals have mastered the sky and why they all need it to survive.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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!