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Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the moment humans mounted horses 6,000 years ago, these magnificent animals helped shape the world by allowing mankind to explore, conquer, and flourish on horseback. Join anthropologist Niobe Thompson on a global journey to examine the evolution of horsepower, discover the mysterious origins of the incredible partnership, and witness the enduring love of 400 breeds of horses today.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five years ago, filmmaker Colin Stafford-Johnson traveled to Sulawesi in Indonesia and fell in love with the Crested black macaques (Macaca nigra). These feisty monkeys are beach bums with punk hairstyles, expressive faces, copper colored eyes, and some very unusual habits, making them some of the most charismatic of all monkeys. Learning that their numbers have dropped dramatically, he returns to find out why and to see if he can help.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Hard core science is effortlessly integrated with a light-hearted look at how plants behave. Scientist J.C. Cahill reveals an astonishing landscape where plants eavesdrop on each other, talk to their allies, call in insect mercenaries and nurture their young. It is a world of pulsing activity, where plants communicate, co-operate and, sometimes, wage all-out war.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A look at some of the planet's great gatherings, creatures that come together in inconceivable numbers, sometimes in millions, billions, and even trillions. Some gather to breed, migrate, for protection, or simply to keep warm. But in the process, a kind of super-organism is created in which individual intelligence is superseded by a collective consciousness that shares information and moves with a single purpose for the benefit of all.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Series Three of Doctor Who sees the Tenth Doctor unite with a new companion, Martha Jones, to fight against fearsome foes both old and new. From an encounter with Shakespeare in Elizabethan England to a trip to New New York in the far future to 1930s Manhattan suffering from an invasion by the evil Daleks, this set of episodes provides some of the Doctor's greatest adventures yet!
8) Little Bird
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
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