New Video Group.
1) Detropia
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century: the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now, the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. With its vivid, painterly palette and haunting score, sculpts a dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering on the...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The teacher from the Black Lagoon": On the first day of school, a young boy expects the worst when he discovers that his new teacher is the "monster", Mrs. Green. "What's under my bed?: Mary Ann and Louie are convinced there is something scary under their beds. "By the light of the Halloween moon": A spying cat, a watchful witch, a hobgoblin sprite, all are scary companions who plan to gobble up a young girl. "The three robbers": Three robbers terrify...
4) The plague
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
It began like the common cold but quickly progressed to something more sinister, wiping out half of Europe's population in three years. Take a look at how the plague brought devastation and what would happen if such an epidemic were to happen today.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The towering 80-ton statues on Easter Island and the 800-ton trilithon stones of the Roman God of Thunder's Temple are examples of ancient engineering miracles that would appear to be too heavy to move. Scientists and engineers search for clues and set out to unearth the secrets behind some of the most famous and impressive feats of primitive load-shifting.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Dr. John Provan has spent most of his adult life researching airships, and is considered among the world's foremost experts on the Hindenburg disaster. His guidance is key in the retelling of this truly iconic event in a way never shown before: from the inside. To re-create the tragedy, he takes a team of documentary producers to his home in Germany to show them all things airship for the final re-creation. Will one of history's most iconic events...
8) Enola Gay
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Enola Gay: Get a look inside the bomber that helped bring WWII to a stop, development of the atomic bomb, and the aftermath. Hiroshima: Fifty years after America dropped the first atomic bomb, this documentary looks at the events leading up to its use in the light of new information about a hidden agenda. Did top military officials order the attack despite knowing that Japan was willing to surrender? Did a political motivation drive Truman to defy...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Might the stories of the Bible have their basis in ancient scientific fact? How big was the giant Goliath, and what was the tech of the sling that brought him down? We'll demonstrate that the tower of Babel could have been as tall as two miles in height. Create fire from water as Elijah may have done. And in a never before attempted investigation, watch as archeologists fully levitate a replica of the Ark of the Covenant.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Explore the secret stories behind some of the big screen's most famous specters. Discover how the lights in one movie studio swing unaided from the rafters, and how in the bar of the famous Knickerbocker Hotel, objects move on their own and images of long-deceased stars appear and disappear at random. Whether a series of coincidences or the work of real spirits, Hollywood's historians and eyewitnesses explain why the glamorous ghosts of Tinseltown...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Go back to a time before the invention of artificial light and experience a world petrified in the pitch of darkness, when fear ruled the night. Throughout the ages, real and imagined terror existed in the absence of light, and the nighttime was anything but relaxing. Explore all the reasons why the dark was so feared throughout the eras. Viewers go around the globe to places where real night still exits, and examine the modern-day fear factor when...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Get a rare insight into the world and physiology of some of the most lethal, terrifying, and bizarre creatures to roam the planet. This program uses the latest science and technology combined with expert interviews to examine how prehistoric animals adapted to survive, and why they do not exist today.
15) Primal fear
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history, psychology, and science behind what scares us most. Examines the roots of each fear, when the fear flourished, how the fear has changed over time, and how many of these fears have been manipulated to create mass hysteria.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What happens inside the Vatican continues to compel millions of people, but few get to see it. Provides a revealing look at the inner workings of the Vatican, from the secret archives to the Swiss guards, as well as some of the treasures locked inside. See what is housed under the 110-acre site as an ongoing excavation of an ancient cemetery that the Vatican was built upon uncovers priceless artifacts, including the bones of St. Peter himself, and...
17) How life began
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the dinosaurs existed. Single-celled organisms inundated the oceans, and the soil swarmed with living creatures. Where did it all come from and how did it go from a single-celled organism to a trillion-celled organism like Man? Cutting-edge science is testing out answers about life's origins and how life can be...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Examines the possibility of a tsunami hitting the eastern United States, an event that could be provoked by a volcanic eruption off the coast of Africa. An in-depth and chilling look at a little-known menace that could devastate the nation's eastern coastline.