Channel Four (Great Britain)
Publisher
Channel Four Television Corporation
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Francis Pryor has made ancient history popular in books and television specials. In this three-part series, he uses the myth of the British icon- King Arthur- to explain new discoveries that dispute the traditional view of early Britain.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"July 1969. America made history and sent the first humans to the moon. Now, for the 50th anniversary, high-quality NASA footage and extensive news broadcasts bring this sensational moment in history bursting back into life. Witness the drama, the excitement, and the triumph as if it was unfolding right before the eyes." --
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
National Geographic explores the extraordinary and fragile world of twins, triplets, and quadruplets in utero. Featuring amazing 4-D ultrasound images and revolutionary new fetal imaging techniques, this remarkable new special travel inside the womb.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With special access to the site of the San Jose, Chile, mine, the mining engineers, and the miners' families, NOVA chronicles the miners' 69-day ordeal and the work of a global team of engineers who struggled tirelessly around the clock in a desperate bid to bring the trapped miners safely to the surface.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In these twelve episodes, the Time Team set to work on sites from the era of the Roman occupation in the first centuries CE. From a mysterious cluster of stones in London's Greenwich Park to a vast ancient complex beneath a Cotswold field, the crew digs deep to solve some of Roman Britain's enduring mysteries.
14) Warlords
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed four-part documentary telling of the psychological duels fought among the four key players in WWII by using the diaries and memoirs of Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Hitler to reveal what they did to get what they wanted.
17) Why ships sink
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Picking up from this winter's Costa Concordia disaster and looking both back to the Titanic disaster a century ago, and into the future of sea travel, Nova looks at questions about cruise ship safety and the science of the ships' buoyancy.
18) Manor house
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating look at the grand and grueling British class system of the early 1900s. Another adventure in placing contemporary people into the lifestyle of a previous historical era."
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Fifty years after World War II, a team of divers discovered an unidentified German U-boat off the New Jersey coast. What boat was it? And what secret mission had brought it there? This video also traces the history of submarines and undersea warfare from the American Revolution through World War II.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
With perceptions of strange practices that include self-mortification, brainwashing, and coercion, Opus Dei has been described as cultish, manipulative, and unethical by its critics. Go inside Opus Dei itself to untangle fact from fiction.