Liev Schreiber
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Every year thousands of athletes from across the globe flock to Boston to run the city's marathon, known worldwide as the ultimate test of stamina and endurance. But how do you run 26 miles if you have trouble making it around the block? With good coaching, discipline, and lots of support. Follows 13 sedentary people through a nine-month regimen designed to prepare them for the grueling Boston Marathon.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
20230502
Language
English
Description
Adapted from Sandra Schulberg's monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The Meermin set sail from Madagascar en route to South Africa in 1766 with a Dutch crew and human cargo, slaves bound for hard labor building the Dutch colony, Cape Town. In a dramatic altercation, the slaves mutinied and managed to overpower the Dutch crew. The ship ended up wrecked on a wild, windswept beach 200 miles east of Cape Town. This program tracks the efforts of archaeologists, historians, and slave descendants to discover the full story...
Publisher
Distr. by National Geographic Cinema Ventures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Journey 80 million years back in time to an age when an astonishing assortment of creatures swam the prehistoric oceans. Computer animation, interwoven with ground-breaking fossil finds, recreates the lives of marine reptiles and predators.
45) Pawn sacrifice
Publisher
Bleeker Street Media
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
46) Defiance
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take...
48) To the moon
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story behind the Apollo space program, including the historic walk on the moon in 1969.
49) The new medicine
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A documentary exploring a burgeoning movement taking place in hospitals and clinics across the country: integrating the best of high-tech medicine with a new attitude that recognizes it is essential to the healing process to treat the patient as a whole person, and not a cog in an assembly line.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 1789, a ship left port in London bound for the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. The ship carried precious cargo - women, sent to keep the desperate male colonists from engaging in what their governor called 'gross irregularities.' But these women were hardly quiet homemakers - they were a hardy raucous lot rounded up from London's notorious Newgate prison and other jails around the country, and they did not submit quietly...
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Jim Dutcher and his wife Jamie lived with gray wolves for three years to make this documentary, and their work reveals complex social behavior never before captured on film. You'll observe the dominance of the pack's alpha male and the submissiveness of the omega wolf. You'll see the pack initiate new members, and witness the critical moment when the alpha selects a mate. Perhaps most incredible is the bond developed between the wolves and...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Ray Donovan, Boston bouncer turned Hollywood crisis fixer, can protect just about anything except the unity of his family. As his estranged ex-con father dodges the law, Ray's lonely wife Abby finds herself drawn to a cop. Son Conor may be too close to home while daughter Bridget is slipping away. Can he hold the pieces of his family together while going to bat for celebrities in crisis? In this sharp, edgy second season, Ray finds that what he wants...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Woody Allen's romantic comedy tells the story of college sweethearts, Gatsby and Ashleigh, whose plans for a romantic weekend together in New York City are dashed as quickly as the sunlight turns into showers. When Ashleigh gets an assignment from the school paper to interview celebrated film director Roland Pollard in Manhattan, Gatsby seizes the opportunity to show Arizona-bred Ashleigh his favorite haunts in his home city." --
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Armed with powerful beaks and talons, raptors are nature's killing force'winged predators whose beauty belies their speed. Dramatic footage from cameras mounted on their backs show why falcons, owls, eagles, and hawks are masters of the sky, and why engineers use their abilities and body designs as the basis of aircraft technology." --
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. The nine-part series reveals the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduces viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity, and illumination across cultures." --
56) Last extinction
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Nova investigates a provocative new theory that suggests the extinction of more than 34 types of large prehistoric mega-creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth, was caused not by climate change or the arrival of the first human hunters, but by the massive breakup of a comet over the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,900 years ago." -- WGBH/Nova website.
57) Runaway universe
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This video presents the dramatic quest to unlock the secrets of the universe as two rival astronomy teams search for exploding stars, map gigantic cosmic patterns of galaxies, and grapple with the ultimate question: what is the fate of the universe?
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Get ready to move your feet! Elmo, Abby, and the rest of the team are getting together for a party! And it's not any old party; it's a dance party! Join in the fun as Zoe choreographs a ballet, Nina teaches dances from all around the world, Elmo records a music video, and more!" --
59) Fading gigolo
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Murray talks his friend Fioravante into becoming a gigolo as a way of making some much needed cash after an out-of-the-blue request from his dermatologist. With Murray acting as Fioravante's 'manager,' the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1969 and realizing she missing the sexual revolution Pearl has a passionate affair with a free-spirited young man, but then she has to make a choice between her husband and family or her newfound desires.