Documentary

The aurora - It's always struck people in the polar regions with awe. This is a visual journey around the globe. A journey departing from ancient myths and legends about the aurora, to scientific explorations of this natural spectacle. When the sun's...

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In the early 20th century the average American medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest. There was radioactive radium in health tonics thallium in depilatory creams*and morphine in teething medicine and potassium cyanide in cleaning...

From Wall Street to Washington Heights, down Fifth Avenue, over bridges, and across the grid, Visions of New York City celebrates the irresistible attraction of the little island that has captured the hearts of millions. Aerial and ground footage...

American Experience: The Perfect Crime DVD

When film crews for the Allied Expeditionary Force entered Nazi concentration camps they found atrocities beyond their imagination. Kept in a vault at London's Imperial War Museum since 1945, the film shows tragic images of the genocide including scenes...

Frogs have been on this planet for more than 250 million years, evolving into some of the most wondrous and diverse creatures on earth. Today, they are at the center of one of the greatest mass extinctions since the dinosaurs. It is an environmental...

This story is told in the words of Gertrude Bell-sometimes called the female "Lawrence of Arabia." Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I. Advisor to Winston Churchill and critic of...

Slavery & The Making Of America DVD

My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes DVD

His radio Fireside Chats were heard in millions of living rooms. His picture hung on the walls of home and businesses. His wife was the most admired woman in America. He restored hope to a country that had lost it, led the nation during the greatest war...

Two and a half millennia ago a new religion was born in northern India generated from the ideas of a single man the Buddha a mysterious Indian sage who famously gained enlightenment while he sat under a large shapely fig tree. The Buddha never claimed to...