WGBH Video (Firm)
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Car of the future: NPR's Car talk co-hosts Tom Magliozzi and brother Ray examine America's four-wheeled future, exploring everything from a Detroit auto show to the homebuilders of Boston's AltWheels Festival, from a hydrogen-powered bus fleed in Iceland to a green think tank in Colorado.
Saved by the sun: Examines efforts to make solar power more efficient and affordable, from individuals installing solar panels on their roofs to industrial-scale...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The Defense Department is offering two million dollars to the builders of the first robotic vehicle to cover a 210-mile stretch of desert. NOVA goes behind the scenes as top engineering teams struggle to solve the problems of making a vehicle like this.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the 1996 disaster that took eight climbers in a single day, scientists follow a team of hikers to measure, for the first time ever, the toll high-altitude climbing takes on the heart, lungs, blood, and brain. Why do seemingly rational people make poor, sometimes fatal decisions as they approach the peak? and much more.
Publisher
WGBH Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A look at the lives of three Ethiopian women, rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, who leave home in search of seeking treatment for obstetric fistula. The program follows them walking for hours on their journey to transportation to a special hospital in Addis Ababa where they find solace for the first time in years, and stays with them as their lives begin to change.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"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
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Shows the actual conception and development of a baby. Looks inside the male and female reproductive organs to show the formation of sperm and the passage of a fertilized egg through the fallopian tube. Uses a microscope to observe DNA, chromosomes, and other minute body details building up to the moment of birth.
11) Inspector Lewis
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Following the death in 2000 of his eponymous mentor in Inspector Morse, Sergeant Lewis was promoted to Inspector and took a two-year sabbatical in the British Virgin Isles. Newly widowed, he now returns to Oxford and soon finds himself in charge of his own murder case. But it is notes that Morse made on an earlier case which help Lewis solve his case.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Looks back at the events of 9/11 and reviews the major investigations into the causes of the collapse of the World Trade Center. Compares the collapse of the Twin Towers with the destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Discusses the structural features and fireproofing methods that made these buildings vulnerable and the costs, practicality, and possibility of completely correcting these weaknesses. Features two new buildings...
15) Casanova
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
The original unedited British version, this mini series alternates between the gripping love triangle involving the young Casanova and the swan song of the world's most notorious lothario.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Physicist Brian Greene discusses the historical quest for a grand unified theory in physics which will reconcile quantum physics and general relativity, and considers the possibility that superstring theory may bring an end to that search.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A factual account of the ill-fated Apollo 13 space mission to the moon. Replete with moving interviews with the astronauts, their families and the scientists who worked on the mission. Shows how the ground controllers who had to solve the impossible problem of how to get the men back with limited air, water and electricity. The explanations are technical, but still quite understandable. A valuable bit of history and is a testament to human resiliency,...