Channel Four (Great Britain)
41) Meteor strike
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
On February 15th, car cameras and cellphones captured a blinding streak that flashed across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains, followed by an explosion that injured some 1,500 people. The meteor, weighing around 10,000 tons, was the largest object to burst in the atmosphere since 1908. Within days, Nova crews were in Russia following impact scientists as they hunted for debris from the explosion and clues to the meteor's origin.
42) The 1940s house
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000.
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.
43) Longford
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of the devout Catholic British Lord Frank Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, and his controversial, colorful, headline-making friendship with one of Britain's most notorious criminals, child murderess Myra Hindley.
44) Hold the dream
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of Emma Harte, who rose from servant girl to head of an international retail dynasty. At 80, Emma passes control of the Harte-McGill empire to her beloved granddaughter Paula.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When David Vetter died at the age of 12, he was already world famous: the boy in the plastic bubble. Here, serious questions are answered. Did doctors, in a rush to save a child, condemn the boy to a life not worth living and instead kill him?
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Nick Broomfield explores the life of Aileen Wuornos, the prostitute executed in Florida for killing six men. Includes examinations of her childhood, testimony at her trial by Broomfield, and a chilling speech by Wuornos herself.
51) Wyrd sisters
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A sci-fi fantasy tale of sorcery and spells, witches and warts, and a fool who's smarter than he looks.
52) DNA
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This programs tells the story of how researchers have developed radically new ways to treat cancer by tracing it back to its origins: its DNA. The program focuses on two pioneering efforts: the race between Dr. Mary Claire King and Dr. Mark Skolnick, founder of Myriad Genetics to isolate the gene linked to breast cancer, and Dr. Brian Druker's work that eventually led to an anti-cancer drug which cures Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. Also looks at the work...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In central China, a vast underground mausoleum conceals a life-size terracotta army built to serve China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di, in the afterlife. With exclusive access to pioneering research, it reveals how the Emperor directed the manufacture of the tens of thousands of bronze weapons carried by the clay soldiers including lethal crossbows engineered with astonishing precision.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follow six young pilgrims as they make their way from their homes and families on a journey of a lifetime to Mecca, birthplace of the prophet Muhammad. Features the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Alhambra in Spain's Granada, the Great Mosque, the Badshahi Mosque, and more.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Blackbeard was the most feared and infamous pirate of his day. In the early eighteenth century, the former British privateer trolled the shipping lanes of the Atlantic. From the deck of his flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, he commanded the seas. His flagship ran aground off the coast of North Carolina, and had to abandon her to the sea. 300 years later, a group of marine archaeologists have discovered the remains of the ship and their careful preservation...
Publisher
Lion's Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Provocative and chilling true story of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., the son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert who consulted with prisons across the country to make capital punishment more humane. When Leuchter is called in as a high-profile expert in a sensationalistic Canadian trial, his ego, bravado and absurd testimony reaches nation media prominence. Ironically, what Leuchter thought was going to be an apex in his career - only ruins...
57) Pakistan
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Pakistan contains some of Asia's most dynamic landscapes, as well as a kaleidoscope of cultures and ancient civilizations. Neil Gibson begins his journey in the bustling port city of Karachi, then travels north to the Sufi city of Multan where he arrives in time for the Urs Festival. He then visits the cultural and artistic capital of Pakistan, Lahore, before journeying to the frontier city of Peshawar and the legendary Khyber Pass. Then it's on to...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to the very heart of all human behavior." --
Publisher
Wall to Wall Media, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"On February 13, 2010, American-led coalition forces launched the biggest military operation since the beginning of the Afghanistan War. Their target was the town of Marjah, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan ... Journalist Ben Anderson tells the story of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, and its commanding officer, Captain Ryan Sparks"--Container.