Your Guide To The Best PBS DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

Starring: Barbara Castle
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: Greg Barker
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2002-07-30
Running Time: 360 minutes

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy confronts head-on Americans' critical concerns about the new interconnected world. Based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, this groundbreaking series explores our changing world—the great debate over globalization and the future of our society.

Commanding Heights reunites the team that c... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online

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NOVA: Secrets of the Mind

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: Christopher Rawlence
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2007-01-09
Running Time: 56 minutes

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Yoga for the Rest of Us with Peggy Cappy

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Wgbh Boston
Release Date: 2004-03-23
Running Time: 70 minutes

"You don't need to be thin, young, and a contortionist to do this program," says instructor Peggy Cappy. Yoga for the Rest of Us is a yoga practice for people who might be inflexible, out of shape, or feeling aches and pains. Cappy presents three 20-minute routines that work separately or together. Part 1 is a series of warm-up seated stretches. Part 2 presents standing poses, holding a cha... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pbs Paramount
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Running Time: 660 minutes

The most successful public-television miniseries in American history, the 11-hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the "Ken Burns approach," its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramati... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Starring: Edward Herrmann
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: Lynn Novick
Created By: Buddy Squires
Studio: Pbs Paramount
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Running Time: 153 minutes

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As Time Goes By - Reunion Special

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pbs (Direct)
Release Date: 2006-01-10
Running Time: 120 minutes

The lyrically funny romance of Jean and Lionel continues its whimsical course in the Reunion Specials as Jean Pargetter's (Dame Judi Dench) great anticipation for grandchildren is revealed much to husband Lionel's (Geoffrey Palmer) dismay. With son-in-law Alistair and daughter Judy having problems things don't look too promising. But will Jean's dream of becoming a grandmother come true when Sandy... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Starring: Adam Arkin
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pbs Paramount
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Running Time: 240 minutes

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Broadway: The American Musical

Starring: Richard Costas
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pbs Paramount
Release Date: 2004-10-12
Running Time: 360 minutes

Like its fellow PBS series Ken Burns' Jazz, Broadway: The American Musical is an ambitious and absorbing exploration of a unique American art form that has always been best experienced in live performance. Hosted and narrated by Julie Andrews, the six-part, six-hour documentary traces the history of musical theater from its roots in vaudeville, operetta, and minstrel shows, to the da... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Carrier

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS (DIRECT)
Release Date: 2008-05-06
Running Time: 600 minutes

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American Experience: Truman

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS Paramount
Release Date: 2006-02-14
Running Time: 260 minutes

Ponder the dilemmas faced by the plain-speaking politician from Missouri. Thrust suddenly into the presidency, Harry Truman faced down some of the greatest crises of our time. Track the unlikely rise of an American original who ended the Second World War, used the atomic bomb on Japan and confronted the expanding Soviet threat.... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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