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1) Conquest of America: Vitus Bering, Peter Menendez, Francisco Coronado, Henry Hudson, Jean Ribault
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the campaigns of Bering, Menendez, Coronado, Hudson, and Ribault to explore and subdue the New World.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nine scientists embark on a journey to Antarctica on a sailboat. This story is an intimately human account of what it means to live and work under relentless conditions.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the efforts by a Canadian team to salvage the recently discovered Erberus, lost during the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition, whose mission was to chart the Northwest Passage. Sheds new light on the expedition's demise.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They were pioneering warriors, expert seafarers, and colonists of the North Atlantic realm. The Vikings even claimed in their sagas to have reached America. Now, renowned archaeologist Sarah Parcak uncovers new clues about their legendary expeditions and settlements.
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1898, a Minnesota farmer uprooted a large stone covered with mysterious runes allegedly dating back to 1362. Initially thought to be a hoax, new evidence suggests the find could be real, and a clue that the Knights Templar discovered America 100 years before Columbus, perhaps bringing with them the Holy Grail. Follow the clues as experts use erosion studies on the rune stone and match symbols in Templar ruins all over Europe to support this theory....
Author
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 19 min. 11 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance. Non-Aboriginal histories of Australia generally regard Captain Cook as the person who discovered Australia, although historical records show that he was not the first European to step onto Australian shores. Contemporary Aboriginal accounts of Captain Cook that survive bear little relationship to this history upheld by non-Aboriginal...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An all-star cast and directors present an epic film about the American movement westward, focusing on the life of one family and its dreams of land, gold and glory.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the headwaters of the Amazon, archaeologists are on the trail of a tribe which was lost centuries ago. The Chachapoya left hidden necropolises and Kuelap, one of the largest fortresses in the Americas. After decades of reasearch, a German professor believes he is able to solve the mystery of the Chachapoya. The hypothesis asks: Was it possible for Celtic warriors who joined forces with daring sailors from Carthage to arrive in Peru two millenia...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Biographical drama which follows the adventures of British explorers Richard Burton and John Henning Speke as they set out across Africa to find the source of the Nile.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
Can six people endure Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic rescue mission today? Using a replica boat, and the same equipment and clothing as would have been used in 1914, explorer Tim Jarvis and his crew attempt to follow in Shackleton's wake, going beyond the point of no return, using their firsthand extreme experience measured against historical accounts to unlock the secrets of Shackleton's survival.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Did a daring Chinese admiral sailing the world's largest wooden armada reach America 71 years before Columbus? This program examines the mystery surrounding the sailing exploits of the legendary Admiral Zheng He and his 30-year command of a Ming fleet.
15) Into the Amazon
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks in one of the most remote places on earth, the ill-equipped...
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