PBS Distribution (Firm)
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Six episodes combine history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passion of their celebrated hosts (Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Trevor Nunn, Joely Richardson, and David Tennant) to tell the story behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Profiles twelve contemporary artists from three urban centers: Berlin, Johannesburg, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
The only series on television in the U.S. to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists, this is a Peabody Award winning biennial program that allows viewers to observe the artists at work, watch as they transform inspiration into art, and hear how they struggle with both the physical and visual challenges of achieving...
724) Howards End
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The show follows Margaret and Helen Schlegel, two intelligent, idealistic sisters living together in Edwardian London with their hypochondriac brother, Tibby. Their loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the siblings in line after the death of their parents, but a series of events push the sisters to lead unorthodox lives full of romance, tragedy, and drama.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Endeavour and his colleagues are entering a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year's Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. The case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, forcing the French and British police into an uneasy partnership.
728) Home fires
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Taped 333 feet below ground within the labyrinth of Tennessee's Cumberland Caverns, this program is the second compilation of the best of the twelve-part musical adventure series. Featuring the top established and emerging artists within the bluegrass, newgrass, gospel, roots and American genres.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Will's life has changed for the better. He is happily married to the brilliant Bonnie and due to become a father, but his world is about to be rocked by a terrible accident. He's always preached the word of a compassionate God, but how can he do that now?
732) The Serengeti rules
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The African Americans explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed-forging their own history and culture against unimaginable odds. Black in Latin America examines how indigenous, African, and European people came together to create the rich cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Black in Latin America:...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Explore with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed-forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Wilson: It's 1963, and Alison Wilson returns home to find husband Alexander dead. Soon afterward, a woman arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife.' Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband was, but from their wartime romance to a mysterious period in India, it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest.
Flesh and blood: Helen, Jake and Natalie are thrown into disarray...
736) American epic
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The big bang: At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unsung voices of everyday folk. Blood and soil: America's poor--cotton field slaves, mine workers, sharecroppers--find freedom through music, creating gospel, protest songs, and Delta blues. Out of the many, the one: Exotic cultures spanning America are captured on record for the first time, inventing...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This four part series champions the entertainers who launched an industry. Pioneers of television takes us back to TV's classic days, and chronicles the icons who still keep us laughing, generation after generation. Packed with hilarious clips and nearly 100 new interviews, this series offers television at it's finest.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Each episode melds interviews with archival clips to offer a fresh take on televisions founding celebrities. Season two profiles science fiction, crime dramas, kids' shows, and westerns. The Science fiction episode features clips from The twilight zone, Lost in space, Star trek, The lieutenant and Time tunnel. The Western episode features clips from Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The rifleman, The big valley, Daniel Boone, The wild wild west, Maverick, Support...