Documentary

THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Menacing black...

Ancient Roads From Christ To Constantine DVD

Nothing is more fascinating to US than well us. Where did we come from? What makes US human? Nova's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned...

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise - DVD - In this series, BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars,...

Civilizations Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. This nine-part series reveals the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduces viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity, and...

In Building Wonders, NOVA presents three ground- breaking shows that investigate engineering mysteries of the ancient world with the help of dramatic hands-on experiments. Modern architects use medieval tools to examine the Lost City of Petra in the...

Brian Greene is going to let you in on a secret: We've all been deceived. Our perceptions of time and space have led US astray. Much of what we thought we knew about our universe-that the past has already happened and the future is yet to be, that space...

200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are 7 billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and...

Experience the fairy tale beauty, natural wonders, and rich history of southern Germany. Then, journey to Austria, and see the essence of what was called Central Europe's crown jewel. Shot in high definition from a helicopter-mounted camera, each tour...

Take an in-depth look at the fascinating stories and inner workings of four of Scotland's most magnificent country estates, through the eyes of not only the current owners and the ghillies, gardeners, and housekeepers that keep them running, but also...

T BONE BURNETT, Robert Redford and Jack White offer up this extraordinary documentary about how America learned to make audio recordings. In the 1920s, music scouts were using a raw, but ground-breaking, technology to capture America's voices, including...

Smithsonian: Hell Below DVD