WGBH Video (Firm)
21) Shooting stars
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The very sleepy Lion family tries to stay up very late at night, so they won't miss the most spectacular meteor shower of the year. Key word: star. Word family: -ar. Target vowel: r-controlled a. Target consonant: s. Genre: poetry. Themes: challenges.
22) Peep explores
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Find out why Peep lives in a can. Discover some dark secrets about the night. Follow "duck prints" in the snow as Peep tracks Quack. And chase the perfect leaf on a wonderfully windy fall day.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In Japan, Europe and Russia, birth rates are shrinking and the population is aging. In parts of India and Africa, more than half of the still growing population is under 25. The world population is now careening in two dramatically different directions. In this investigation of humanity's future, the first program reveals demographic trends, and the second program looks at China's booming economy and its growing impact on the environment.
24) Binky goes nuts
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Binky discovers that he's allergic to peanuts, he has so many questions: Will he be forced to live without Chinese food? Will he ever again be able to eat with his friends? And most importantly, will his mom ever calm down?
26) The Vikings
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This riveting special investigates a new image of the Vikings that goes far deeper than their savage stereotype as raiding marauders. They were expert shipbuilders, superb artisans, canny merchants, and bold colonizers.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each episode, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder and worry about. Neil will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery. Episode includes: Origins of life: Scientists have long argued that billions of years ago, life emerged on its own, from the self-assembly of non-living matter,...
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"To the ship, to the ship:" Lionel and Walter the pigeon think all pirates were men, so they won't let Leona and Clay join their pirate game. "The hopping hen:" Everyone in the library goes crazy when Lionel puts up the new rules. "Be bop:" When cool, jazzy shoes come out of a book and dances all over the library, everyone gets into the groove.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Join Christopher Kimball and the cast of America's Test Kitchen to learn the basics of great home cooking. This special collection also includes independent reviews of indispensable kitchen equipment, and recommendations for supermarket staples from chocolate and white wine vinegar to inexpensive steaks and tomato paste.
33) Lightning!
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Armed with the latest high-tech mobile radar and computer technology and large amounts of courage, the world's top scientists and meteorologists take part in some of the most dangerous work imaginable.
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Binky's family adopts a baby girl from China. Binky is excited about preparing for her arrival and visiting China. When Fern's parents give her a cell phone for 'emergencies only, ' Fern is uninterested - until Muffy introduces her to the joys of personalized ring tones, texting, and incessant chatting. Brain is the smartest kid in his class, but what his friends don't know is that he was kept back in kindergarten.
35) Skyscrapers
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Why was New York's most famous skyscraper dubbed the "Empty State Building"? How big is Japan's planned "supertower"? Tour the world's most incredible skylines with award-winning author/illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay, and trace the amazing stories of skyscrapers. From France's Gothic cathedrals to Malaysia's record-breaking Petronas Towers, this video introduces courageous creators, recounts little-known history, and reveals...
38) Great escape
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The feature film The great escape was based on this true event. Over six hundred Allied prisoners dug three highly sophisticated tunnels in a plan to escape from Stalag Luft III. On the night of March 24, 1944 two hundred prisoners began their escape. The German guards spotted the seventy-seventh man coming out of the tunnel, but seventy-six prisoners made their escape.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This DVD features the physicist Brian Greene, who discusses the historical quest for a grand unified theory in physics which will reconcile quantum physics and general relativity. He then considers the possibility that superstring theory may bring an end to that search.