WGBH Educational Foundation
1) The 1930s
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5 videodiscs (267 min., 38 sec.) : sound, color, black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps at the end of World War II, they found unspeakable horrors that still haunt the world's conscience. In 1945, British and American film crews accompanying the troops liberating the camps captured these atrocities firsthand. The resulting film directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock but never finished, was discovered by Frontline in 1984 in the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Sixty...
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1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join the world's most famous aardvark, eight-year-old Arthur Read, and his family and friends as they make their own movies!
Arthur and his friends decide to make their own movie; D.W. plans a fool-proof escape from time-out; D.W. plans to get married.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"In this review of Spanish and update of Destinos, lawyer Raquel Rodriquez, who investigated a mystery for the Castillo family returns. Her colleague, Lucia Hinojosa has been retained by the family to investigate a new mystery and seeks Raquel's assistance. This engaging four-hour video, divided into 15 episodes, takes students through the new case with flashbacks to the original story as Raquel recounts her inquiry for Lucia"--Case.
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1 videodisc (approximately 78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this new routine, Peggy Cappy demonstrates her signature yoga approach in a daily workout for people struggling with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Divided into seven separate segments, the exercises can be done at home, all at once in just over an hour, or 1 segment at a time. A growing body of research suggests that yoga can be helpful for people living with diabetes and/or at risk for it, paired, paired, of course, with the right diet.
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1 videodisc (approximately 68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tal Ben-Shahar shares principles from his popular "positive psychology" course at Harvard University in this program designed to help viewers bring more happiness and satisfaction into their lives.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the United States, more than 2.5 million people lost their jobs last year. Along with losing their livelihood, they lost their health insurance. As the economy continues to spiral downward, the new administration promises to deliver comprehensive health care reform. Investigates the failures and future of the private insurance industry, examing the best and worst of U.S. healthcare by telling the gripping and sometimes tragic stories of ordinary...
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Relying heavily on the correspondence between the second president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail Adams, this joint biography sheds light on the characters of two people who played crictical roles in the history of the United States and on the tumultuous times through which they lived. He was a participant in the Continental Congress and a wartime emissary to France as well as becoming the second President of the United States during its fledging...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences
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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.
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1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gentle yoga program designed to increase range of motion and improve body awareness, divided into seven sections: breathing, seated warm-ups, balance warm-ups, standing poses, sun salutations, floor stretches, and guided relaxation.
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1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
15) Cheney's law
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as the administration asserts executive privilege to head off investigations into domestic wiretapping and the firing of U.S. attorneys, FRONTLINE meticulously traces the behind-closed-doors battle within the administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law"--Container....
Series
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1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Descendants of legendary Native American leader Geronimo tell the story of a half-century of war, displacement, confinement, and finally resistance that ended with the decimation of the Chiricahua Apaches and the loss of their traditional homeland in the Southwest. Geronimo is revealed as a shrewd leader, formidable fighter, and poetic shaman--dedicated to a crusade to keep his ancestral land, repeatedly defying and eluding federal authorities. When...
17) Grand Central
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at New York City's newest landmark. The new Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street housed an underground electric train station that would revolutionize the way people traveled and transform midtown Manhattan. By 1947, over sixty-five million people, the equivalent of forty percent of the population of the United States, had traveled through the station.
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1 videodisc (approximately 54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NOVA and National Geographic take a dazzling dive to explore how and why so many of the ocean's creatures light up, revealing a hidden undersea world where creatures flash, sparkle, shimmer, or simply glow.
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1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
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17 videodiscs (approximately 38 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronciles the lives and accomplishments of presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.