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Film Posse (Firm)
1) The Swamp
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity's attempt to conquer nature. This program, told through the lives of a handful of colorful and resolute characters, explores the repeated efforts to reclaim, control and transform what was seen as a vast wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, and, ultimately, the drive to preserve America's greatest wetland.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (appoximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Author Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work challenges assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had been defined by the field in the 19th century. She gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, but Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their...
3) American Oz
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 110 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
L. Frank Baum was 44 when he published the first book about Oz, having spent most of his life reinventing himself with each new career in pursuit of the American Dream. When in Chicago, his observations of an uncertain nation during the Gilded Age informed his magical tale of survival, adventure, and self-discovery which went on to become a quintessential classic.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2011, c2004
Edition
Blu-ray widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 blu-ray discs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the book by physicist and author Brian Greene, his film takes us to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time, and the universe. With each step, audiences will discover that just beneath the surface of our everyday experience lies a world we'd hardly recognize, a startling world far stranger and more wondrous than anyone expected.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (223 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using humor, everyday examples and computer animation for the more abstract concepts, author and physicist Brian Greene explains complex theories of the universe and the focus of his research, string theory.
