WGBH Video (Firm)
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Peep, Chirp, and Quack as they dive into six new fun-filled adventures. Sail a toy boat, see the power of duck feet in action, help fish understand the world 'up there,' make boats float and sink, and much more!
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 696 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes 26 episodes of Season 9 of America's Test Kitchen, the public television cooking show filmed in the test kitchens of Cook's illustrated magazine.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of High Camp at 26,000 feet. World-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears, who aided the rescue efforts back in 1996, now returns to Everest to tell the fuller story of what really...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the formation and battlefield heroics of the first all-black Union regiment, the Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry. Highlights of this documentary include archival daguerreotypes, tintypes, lithographs, and commentary by various historians.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shows the right exercises and yoga poses to protect your back and improve your posture. Includes a bonus segment for restoring poses using the help of gravity.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents two yoga workout designed to help adults of all ages and abilities improve their overall health and flexibility while protecting their joints and bones.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Peep, Chirp, and Quack find the finniest things! Visit Peep's big wide world and join in the search. Discover a flashlight, a bouncing weasel, a stand-offish duck, and the very last flower of summer. Explore the wonders of a mirror-and enjoy the comic spell it casts on a certain blue duck. This animated series gives the innovative ides of teaching science to young children.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Peep, Chirp, and Quack as they explore the big wide world of animals. Meet an eager beaver, three shy bunnies, a frisky cat, a colorful butterfly, and Hoot the Owl.
9) Pollyanna
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pollyanna becomes an orphan and moves in with her aunt in a little English town. Everyone is affected by Pollyanna's big heart. They get the opportunity to repay Pollyanna for her goodness when she has a terrible accident.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005], c2001
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lionel lion refuses to read "Fuzzy wuzzy" to his little sister Leona because it's a "baby" book, but his parents (who work in the library) become interested in Fuzzy and soon the patrons join in--forming a chanting conga line through the stacks. The young shepherd from "Boy who cried wolf" jumps out of the book, and as a thin paper cutout, follows Lionel as the young lion gets a book on "How to watch sheep." "Chap with caps" is a retelling of the...
11) Great escape
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arthur and his friends encounter the joys and difficulties that all kids experience. From keeping secrets to going to the hospital, Arthur manages to handle each situation with imagination, kindness and humor.
13) Kidnapped
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's coming-of-age adventure is back and breathtaking, in this widely heralded presentation bursting with scoundrels and scallywags, villains and heroines, and two memorable heroes who will stop at nothing in their quest for justice.
14) Jane Eyre
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jane finds herself in love with an unlikely master of the house she is the governess of. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Featuring eyewitness testimony, Nova takes an in-depth look at what made Hurricane Katrina so deadly and analyzes how, despite technically sophisticated flood and storm defenses, this event has resulted in unprecedented destruction for the Gulf Coast. In less than 12 hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana coast, leading to more than a thousand deaths and transforming a city of over one million into an uninhabitable swamp....
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Behind the shutters of a Victorian family's home lies a lethal potion of lust, corruption and greed... The Blackheath Poisonings, based on the best-selling mystery novel by Julian Symons, and adapted by Simon Raven (Edward and Mrs. Simpson), boldly and brilliantly redefines the Victorian era."--Container.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elizabeth George's crime-cracking duo from opposite sides of the tracks are back in four intriguing new mysteries. The fifth series begins with Lynley suspended from duty for alleged police brutality, and Havers with a new boss. Can they still function as a team, now that they're apart?" --Container.
Language
English
Formats
Description
All seven episodes from the first series of the Edwardian costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in a stately home prior to the outbreak of WWI. The Grantham family, long time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the 'Titanic'. With his three daughters unable to inherit by law, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), the current Earl of Grantham, must try and marry his eldest...