Mass.) WGBH (Television station : Boston
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Language
English
Description
Suave, sophisticated Detective Inspector Lynley and his prickly, plebian sidekick Detective Sergeant Havers are back with two new gripping mysteries in this sixth and final series. But with Lynley struggling to cope with his wife's death -- and Havers struggling with her partner's heavy drinking -- will they be able to focus on solving crime?
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The largest masonry dome on earth, Florence's cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, is a masterpiece of ingenuity and a source of mystery. Historians and engineers have long debated how its architect, kept the dome perfectly aligned and symmetrical as the sides rose and converged toward the center. To test the latest theories, a team of U.S. bricklayers will help build an experimental, mini-Duomo, using period tools and techniques.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Mighty, elemental forces, fiery eruptions, titanic floods, the grinding of great ice sheets, and massive impacts from space molded North America. This spectacular road trip through our nation's tumultuous past sets out to answer three fundamental questions: How was the continent built? How did life evolve here? And how has its spectacular landscape shaped human lives and destinies?" --
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The story of the tumultuous years after the Civil War during which America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and, at the same time, how former slaves could be brought into the life of the country.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth, - and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-dege scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway.
14) Prime suspect 3
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Jane Tennison has been transferred to a new station and now has the job of cleaning up the streets of Soho. The team goes into the underworld of teenage prostitution, pornography and runaways.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The true story of feminist writer Vita Sackville-West's tortured, public affair with her childhood friend, novelist Violet Keppel. Though Vita and her husband of 50 years, diplomat Harold Nicolson, knowingly cheated on each other, Vita's relationship with Violet was the only one that threatened their marriage.
16) To play the King
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Urquhart's manipulative mastery of greed and corruption have finally brought him to the pinnacle of power as the leader of his party. But at his moment of villainous triumph, the succession of a King opposed to his policies challenges Urquhart's authority--and compels him to take up one final challenge to his absolute political socereignty.
18) The American
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Christopher Newman is a 19th-century 'new man' who has amassed a fortune in California, and heads to Paris to learn its ways and find a wife. There he finds a young widow whose beauty ignites desire in the American.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Documents the 72-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. It illuminates the alliances, infighting, betrayals and defeats that paved the way for victory in the battle for women's right to vote. Historical footage is enhanced with vocal performances, and interviews with historians provide the viewer with both current and historical perspectives.
20) The holy thief
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2002, c1998
Language
English
Description
Flood waters make it necessary to disinter the cherished bones of Saint Winifred leaving Brother Cadfael to solve the mystery of their theft and a murder at the Abbey in Shrewsbury in 1144.