WGBH Educational Foundation.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
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.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Now, with the help of new spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes, scientists are seeing the Sun as they never have before and even re-creating what happens at the very center of the Sun. Their work will help us understand aspects of the sun that have puzzled scientists for decades. Secrets of the Sun reveals a bright new dawn in our understanding of our nearest star, one that might help keep our planet from going dark.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible sword with its maker's name, ULFBERHT, inlaid along the blade. But who Ulfberht was, where the sword came from, and how it was made remained secrets for more than 1,000 years?
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't stop and haven't been able to fix." -- Container.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Frontline traces John O'Neill's awareness of the threat against America by Islamic fundamentalists. An FBI agent, he was no longer with the agency on September 11. He had taken a job as director of security at the World Trade Center, where he died.
70) Fly girls
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of World War II, the call went out: women with flight experience were needed to fly for the military. All over the country, young women postponed their weddings, put their educations on hold, and quit their jobs to respond, becoming Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs. Led by Jacqueline Cochran, America's foremost female aviator, more than 1,000 women were trained to ferry aircraft, test planes, instruct male pilots, and even tow...
72) Poisoned waters
Series
Frontline volume Season 27 \ Episode 12
Publisher
WGBH Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, two iconic waterways -- the great coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay -- are in perilous condition. With polluted runoff still flowing in from industry, agriculture and massive suburban development, scientists fear contamination to the food chain and drinking water for millions of people. A growing list of endangered species also is threatened in both estuaries. [This film] examines...
75) Coney Island
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2006], c1991]
Language
English
Description
In scale, in variety, in sheer inventiveness, Coney Island was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and eventually, everyone came to see it. At the turn of the century, Coney Island exploded in a forest of glittering electric towers and a riot of rides, restaurants, recreated disasters, freak shows, and historical displays when three vast amusement parks -- Steeplechase, Luna Park, and Dreamland -- were built. Indicative of its overwhelming popularity,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
There is a startling gap between the glamorous television world of 'CSI' and the gritty reality of the forensic crime lab. In Forensics on Trial, Nova investigates how modern forensics can send innocent men and women to prison, and sometimes even to death row. Nova will investigate today's shaky state of crime science as well as cutting-edge solutions that could help investigators put the real criminals behind bars.
77) Digital nation
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained? This in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world continues a line of...
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In a special 4-hour investigation, Frontline tells the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and the unprecedented and uneasy partnership between government leaders and titans of finance that affects the fortunes of millions of people around the world.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
An exciting new investigation of the Red Baron's death presents newly discovered documents that overturn the conventional theory of von Richthofen's demise. Featuring thrilling re-enactments of hair-raising duels between fragile fighters of World War I.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The medical procedure, lobotomy, was considered a groundbreaking procedure that promised hope to the most distressed mentally ill patients and their families. What began as an operation of last resort was soon being performed at some fifty state asylums, often with devastating results. The neurologist, Walter Freeman, in little more than a decade after his rise to fame, was decried as a moral monster, and that the lobotomy was one of the most barbaric...