N.Y.) WNET (Television station : New York
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Polar bears are living on borrowed time. They are the descendents of grizzlies, long ago evolved to live and hunt on the frozen ice of the Arctic. Winters have become warmer, the ice is disappearing, and food is scarce. Bonus program spotlights a mother grizzly bear teaching her cub how to pluck salmon from near the McNeil River Falls in Alaska.
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"In this chapter of his story, Cloud is one of two fathers who bring up each other's sons. Bolder is Cloud's son by birth-- beautiful and golden, but raised by Shaman, a rival band stallion. Flint, dark and determined, was sired by Shaman, but became Cloud's adopted son. The two sons mature and progress from playful youths into valid contenders for mares and bands of their own. Will one of them rise to take Cloud's place? This poignant and engrossing...
4) Tall blondes
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
This personal odyssey takes a surprising and revealing look at the magnificent giraffe.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Three millennia of Jewish history is brought to life in a celebration of Jewish humanistic and moral heritage. Follow the Jewish people from the heights of Sinai to the shores of the Dead Sea, from a Greek amphitheater in Delphi to the Forum of ancient Rome, out of the ashes of concentration camps to the rebuilt cities and villages of Israel.
Series
Publisher
Questar, Inc. [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Why we love cats and dogs: The connections we form with our pets are often the strongest relationships of our lives. This documentary shows the interactions between humans and their pets.
Underdogs: Two dogs with behavioral problems are taken in hand by a trainer and given a second chance at success.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Across the animal kingdom, some of the most essential lessons, and the most extreme challenges, occur in the first moments of life. From ostrich to orangutan, egg sac to live birth, infanticide to matricide, the diversity of behaviors between parent and progeny is as great as the diversity of life on our planet. Understandably, the process of birthing and raising young is one of the most stressful experiences an animal can endure.
11) Killer flu
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The video discusses the 1918 flu pandemic, its deadly consequences and the possibility that a similar strain could occur today.
Series
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Two incredible stories of two famous apes. "Kusasi: From Orphan to King" is the story of Kusasi, who was orphaned shortly after birth, but became King of the Orangutans. "Snowflake: The White Gorilla" profiles the world's only known white gorilla.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
This film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, thus averting disaster.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A bold and daring red-tailed hawk, nicknamed Pale Male, lives on the cornice of a 4th floor window of an apartment building on 5th Avenue, in the heart of New York City. Watch as Pale Male mates, breeds, and teaches his offspring to fly. This is truly an affirmation of the magical relationship of humans and nature.
17) The 1940s house
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
One modern family takes on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's home front in 1940s house, a re-creation of a World War II household. This time-travel experiment covers the period from the outbreak of war in 1939 to Victory Day in 1945, compressing the events of six wartime years into two months. Though the military threat is metaphorical, the privations are real and the pressures create tensions nonexistent in modern society.
Publisher
PBS Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"In the highly competitive, hot-house atmosphere of the Regency house party, marriage, money, and morals are all up for grabs. For nine sunny summer weeks, a group of eligible men and women take up residence in a magnificent English country estate to live exactly as they did two centuries ago - including the social hierarchy, the lavish lifestyle, the backroom intrigues, and the intricate courtship rituals."--Container.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In the 15th and 16th centuries, a group of men set out on a new crusade to bring the Scriptures to people in their own language for the very first time. In so doing, they would help launch a religious revolution that would ultimately change the course of history in England, America and beyond.