Documentary

This film by Tony Palmer features Fonteyn in excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Giselle, the Sleeping Beauty, Marguerite and Armand, and the Nutcracker, with Rudolf Nureyev, Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann, Ninette de Valois, Roland Petit.

Few great actors have been so unfairly represented in the public image. Drunk, a wastrel, uncontrollable, unprofessional, besotted with glamor and wealth - just a few epithets dumped on Richard Burton.

Into the Wild.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant worked in a store and considered himself as a failure. WIthin four years he was commanding the Union Army and within eight, he was President of the United States. Return to the trouble times of the...

In March 1931, two white women stepped off a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama, with a shocking accusation of gang rape, by nine black teenagers on the train. So began the Scottsboro case, one of the 20th century's fieriest legal battles. The youths' trial...

The story will follow a wood duck family and discover how a male and female create a bond migrate together across thousands of miles nurture and protect a brood of chicks and come full circle as they head to their wintering grounds.

For more than a century, the Statue of Liberty has offered hope and promised refuge to generations of immigrants. This Ken Burns documentary not only chronicles the history and impact of this enduring American monument to freedom, but also examines the...

An immigrant from Russia named David Sarnoff worked his way up from delivering telegrams to heading RCA. a man named Lee de Forest laid the foundation for the entire electronics industry when he invented the vacuum tube. Fascinating men like these are...

They strove for simplicity and perfection in all they did. They believed in peace, women's rights and freedom from prejudice. They made beautiful architecture, furniture and music. They were known as the Shakers, and this documentary examines this...

Re-release of several Rick Sebak Titles, including: Hot Dog, Ice Cream, Shore Things, and Amusement Parks.

In 2000, Ana Salceda, a young journalist moved from her native Spain to explore the wilds of Panama. She became the caregiver for a tiny orphaned baby sloth, named Velcro. This is the story of Ana's return to Central and South America to see how much has...

Ken Burns profiles a durable American institution in his elegant, penetrating portrait of the U.S. Congress. Narrated by David McCullough, the film uses historic footage and interviews with "insiders" David Broder, Alistair Cooke, and Cokie Roberts to...