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Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed to capture the earliest observable "snapshot" of the Big Bang. Then watch as astronomers test a new way to detect distant planets that may harbor life, and discover...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Between the blue sky above us and the infinite blackness of space lies a frontier full of enigmas that scientists have only just begun to investigate. It takes viewers on an exploration to probe the earth-space boundary zone, which is home to some of nature's most puzzling and alluring phenomena: the shimmering aurora, streaking meteors, and fleeting flashes that shoot upwards from thunderclouds, known as sprites.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Transports viewers to places we didn't know existed a year ago. From death stars to ringed planets, star clusters to space wars, The Universe uses new discoveries and more advanced CGI to help explain the mysteries of space.
6) Big history
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
A collection that turns history on its head, breaks down the walls between history and science, and tells the story of the universe from the Big Bang through today. Crisscrossing through time and space, each episode reveals the transformative relationships between science and history that viewers many not have even kmown existed.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Physicist Brian Greene discusses the historical quest for a grand unified theory in physics which will reconcile quantum physics and general relativity, and considers the possibility that superstring theory may bring an end to that search.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
From robotic rovers on Mars to NASA probes slamming into comets and deep space telescopes capturing violent images of the birth of stars, season five of this illuminating series explores how these discoveries were made and who made them. Dramatic CGI and interviews with expert cosmologists, astronomers and astrophysicists bring the history of the heavens down to earth and provide a glimpse into our future.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Tour the surface of Earth's life-giving star. Mars may be the future of humanity - uses data collected from probes and robotic rovers. Scars on the planet's surface and in its fossil record illustrate the threat posed by meteorites, comets, and asteroids that routinely collide with Earth. Two and a half times the size of all the other planets in the solar system combined, and half a billion miles from Earth, Jupiter is a colossal riddle.
Disc...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c1974
Language
English
Description
"The Androids of Tara": Doctor Who takes time out of his busy fishing schedule to pick up the fourth segment of the Key to Time.
"The Armageddon Factor": Doctor Who and Romana go to Atrios, a planet teetering on the brink of destruction in order to find the sith segment of the Key.
"The Power of Kroll": "Swampies," octopoids and a host of other pitfalls beset the Doctor as he travels to the moon of Delta Magna to find the fifth segment of the Key.
Doctor...
Series
Criterion collection volume 699
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014], c1991.
Language
English
Description
Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled...
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