Items 0 - 0 of 59
-
- (2012)
- Starring: Ken Burns
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 11/20/2012
- Features: DVD
- During the Roaring Twenties farmers overproduced on their land, eroding the top soil and depriving it of needed nutrients. When the great droughts of the 1930s hit, the entire southern Midwest turned... more
-
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 12/10/2019
- Features: DVD
-
- (2007)
- Starring: Earl Burke, Glenn Frazier
- Genre: Documentary, Special Interest-War
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 10/20/2017
- Features: Boxed Set
- Keith David narrates this fine 7-part presentation by Ken Burns whose now legendary research and unique recording skills demonstrate how WWII impacted Americans and their families. With his... more
-
- See more choices
- (1990)
- Starring: Sam Waterston, Julie Harris
- Genre: Documentary, Special Interest-War
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 10/13/2015
- Features: Boxed Set, Anniversary Edition
- The epic mini-series from Ken Burns, now in a beautifully restored 25th Anniversary Edition, revisits the defining war which divided America's house into two…so it ultimately could become one. This... more
-
- (2011)
- Starring: Paul Giamatti, Patricia Clarkson
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 1/2/2012
- Features: Widescreen
- More than glamorous mobsters and bootleggers, the outlawing of alcohol in 1920 was also a violent attempt by a segment of society to legislate morality in the U.S. It was an event fraught with... more
-
- (1987)
- Starring: Julian Bond
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 4/6/2010
- Features: DVD
- This critically-acclaimed, television documentary series on the American civil-rights movement, features rare archival footage and pertinent interviews. It begins in the '50s with the Mississippi... more
-
- Starring: William Cronon, Natalie Bober
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 10/25/2005
- Features: DVD
- Some of history's most compelling figures come alive through the masterful filmmaking of Ken Burns. This exceptional set of seven acclaimed Ken Burns' documentaries includes Thomas Jefferson... more
-
- (1996)
- Starring: Adam Arkin, Matthew Broderick
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 9/28/2004
- Features: Boxed Set
- Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns captures the magic, spirit, legends and myths of the West from early frontier settlements to the present day in this epic mini-series. 5 DVDs.... more
-
- See more choices
- (2017)
- Genre: Documentary, Special Interest-War
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 1/1/2019
- Features: Boxed Set
- Over a decade in the making, this exhaustive and compelling consideration of America's most divisive foreign military conflict from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick tells the story primarily from the... more
-
- See more choices
- (2014)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 9/16/2014
- Features: Boxed Set
- For the first time, Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor's stories are told together as a cohesive narrative. This huge documentary series follows the giants of American politics in the early 20th... more
-
- Starring: Aiden Turner, Eleanor Thompson
- Genre: TV Drama, British-Television
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 11/12/2019
- Features: Boxed Set
- Aidan Turner, Heida Reed, Eleanor Tomlinson. Presented on Masterpiece Theatre, this ravishing remake of the hit 1970 series revisits the story of British soldier, Ross Poldark. Ross, presumed dead,... more
-
- See more choices
- (2019)
- Genre: Documentary, Country
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 9/17/2019
- Features: Boxed Set
- Ken Burns. Documentarian Ken Burns chronicles the complete history of that most American art form, country music. From diverse origins to centralization in Nashville to the iconic innovators,... more
-
- (2020)
- Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Audra McDonald
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 8/11/2020
- Features: 2 Pack
- One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and... more
-
- (2009)
- Starring: Adam Arkin, Kevin Conway
- Genre: Documentary, Special Interest-Nature
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 4/22/2020
- Features: Boxed Set
- Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns helms this six-part miniseries chronicling the development of America's national parks. Teaming with writer Dayton Duncan ("Mark Twain"), Burns spins compelling... more
-
- Starring: Mark Addy, Jodie Comer
- Genre: TV Crime, British-Television
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 8/1/2017
- Features: DVD
- Michael Palin, Mark Addy, Jodie Comer. An elderly man living in a supposedly haunted home fakes a fall in order to be sent to a nursing home. But when mysterious events take the lives of nurses at... more
-
- (2016)
- Starring: Finn Atkins
- Genre: TV Drama, British-Television
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 4/11/2017
- Features: DVD
- Finn Atkins, Charlie Murphy, Chloe Pirrir. Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bronte lived troubled lives together. The patriarch of their family blind, and unable to turn to their depressed brother, the... more
-
- (2001)
- Genre: Documentary, Jazz
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 9/28/2004
- Features: Boxed Set
- From the creator of The Civil War, Baseball and many other acclaimed documentaries comes this epic series celebrating that most American of art forms, jazz. From its blues and ragtime roots through... more
-
-
- (2019)
- Starring: Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash
- Genre: Country, Music Video (Concert/Performance)
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 12/10/2019
- Features: DVD
- Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, Brenda Lee, Kathy Mattea, Ricky Skaggs. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns hosts this glorious evening of traditional country... more
-
- See more choices
- (2019)
- Genre: Documentary, Special Interest-Space
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 8/27/2019
- Features: 2 Pack
- The four planets closest to the sun, called the rocky planets, were born from the same material in the same era. Only on Earth do we find the unique conditions for life as we know it. But why only... more
-
- (2019)
- Genre: Documentary, Rock
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 8/6/2019
- Features: DVD
- This documentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was soon presented on PBS, examines the personal and cultural effects of Woodstock. The festival took place just days after the moon... more
-
- (2004)
- Starring: Adam Arkin, Carolyn McCormick
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 1/11/2005
- Features: Widescreen
- The son of two former slaves, Jack Johnson endured the hardships of late 1800s Jim Crow America and eventually fought his way up the ranks to become the first African-American to become the... more
-
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 7/21/2020
- Features: 2 Pack
- In this two part, four hour look at the life and presidency of George W. Bush, follow his unorthodox road to the presidency through the contested election of 2000, when a Supreme Court ruling... more
-
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 9/24/2019
- Features: DVD
- Join the historic 1969 journey of Apollo 11. Seamlessly blending mission audio featuring conversations between Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins with news footage, NASA archive, and... more
-
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 3/17/2020
- Features: DVD
- At the turn of the 20th century, government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley took on the nation's powerful food manufacturers to banish new and untested chemicals in foods that were threatening consumers'... more