PBS Video
1) Opioids, Inc
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud. With the Financial Times, FRONTLINE investigates how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50-100 times stronger than heroin." --
3) Tom Jones
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as a baby, rescued and adopted by a country gentleman, Tom Jones grows up kind, handsome, free-spirited, and very popular with the ladies. But he cannot escape his lowly birth. When he falls in love with the bright, beautiful heiress Sophia Western, and she falls in love with him, their families unite against the match. They both end up in London, facing the wiles and whims of Sophia's aunt, the beguiling but dangerous Lady Bellaston, who...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Nell Trent lives with her doting grandfather in his London shop. It is a magical place, filled from wall to wall with treasures. Grandfather keeps his nocturnal gambling activities a secret from Nell. He borrows heavily from the evil, profiteering loan shark Daniel Quilp. When Grandfather gambles away what little money they possess, Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of their beloved shop. It seems Nell and Grandfather are left only with...
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Cuba's unspoiled tropical terrain, closed for decades by a U.S. trade embargo, escaped the commercialization of its Caribbean island neighbors. A title wave of hotels, asphalt, and pollution may be just ahead, if tourism experts are right. Look inside the long-closed paradise to see what the future holds for Cuba's unusual species of amphibians, reptiles, and fresh water fish.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A landmark film breaks a world scoop about the deception which fooled Hitler about the Normandy landings of 1944. In a tale of double agents and decoys, the investigation reveals, for the first time, the identity of the most secret of them all: George VI.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Enjoy highlights from the popular public television show, Lidia's Italy. Featuring Lidia Bastianich, known as the beloved doyenne of Italian cooking in America. Lidia shares some of her simplest and most delicious recipes from her travels to all of the regions of Italy. Includes family friendly starters, quick pastas, main courses, and some of Lidia's favorite desserts.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A collection of more than a dozen of Lidia's favorite dry pasta dishes from Lidia's Italy in America. These delicious, simple pasta creations include Italian American favorites, American classics with a Lidia twist, and some of the more contemporary Italian dishes found in the United States.
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Examines Wal-Mart's importation of Chinese goods into the United States. Discusses that while some economists credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living in the U.S.
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The modern music scene was created in 1969, at Woodstock. Half a million fans, dozens of artists, and the politics of the times came together as a big bang moment that eventually would generate billions of dollars. But over the last twenty years, MTV, compact discs, corporate consolidation, Internet piracy, and greed have contributed to a perfect storm for the recording industry. Frontline examines how the business that has provided the soundtrack...
Publisher
DIC Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Liberty's kids is a truly 'revolutionary' children's animated series that entertains 7 to 12-year-olds while introducing them to the exciting stories and people behind the birth of a nation. Set in late 18th-century America, the program unfurls its historical vignettes through the eyes of two teenage apprentices, Sarah Phillips and James Hiller. The two work in Benjamin Franklin's print shop and discover first-hand the great adventures of the American...
13) Frontier house
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three modern families were chosen to learn to survive as if the year is 1883. Using the tools and technology of that time they must make difficult choices and cope with the consequences in the Montana wilderness.
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In 1703 Sarah Cloyce, survivor of the Salem witchcraft hysteria presents her story to a special commission empowered to investigate the trials for witchcraft. The events leading to the trials and the suffering they caused are told in flashback fashion.
15) The new asylums
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number, nearly 500,000, mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: Have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums. The program goes deep inside Ohio's...
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Traces the roots of the Iraqi war back to the days immediately following September 11, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered the creation of a special intelligence operation to quietly begin looking for evidence that would justify the war. The intelligence reports soon became a part of a continuing struggle between civilians in the Pentagon on one side and the CIA, State Department, and uniformed military on the other, a struggle that would...
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Four in five Americans say the U.S. health-care system needs "fundamental" change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care system, or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? FRONTLINE correspondent T.R. Reid examines first-hand the health-care systems of other advanced capitalist democracies -- UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan,...
19) The dark side
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Amid revelations about faulty prewar intelligence and a scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Frontline goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history. In "The Dark Side," Frontline tells the story of the vice president's...
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"The tax shelter was one of corporate America's biggest hidden profit centers in recent years. Shelters have become so lucrative that some experts estimate as much as $50 billion is lost to the U.S. Treasury each year. And ordinary taxpayers wind up footing the bill. Frontline correspondent Hedrick Smith provides an inside look at how big corporations and wealthy individuals cut their taxes with intricate, hidden, and abusive tax shelters and investigates...
