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PBS Distribution (Firm)
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris's iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World's Fair, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest structure on Earth, ushering in a new age of global construction that reached for the skies. How did the engineers do it?
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui - also known as Easter Island - carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has swirled around the iconic ancient statues and the history of the people who created them.
Publisher
itv Studios, WGBH PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After a computer system upgrade, money started to seemingly disappear from British post office branches, and the managers were blamed -- accused of theft, fired, and many charged and sent to prison -- leaving lives, marriages, and reputations in ruins. When Alan Bates was fired, he refused to accept the blame, instead bringing together a group of other wrongly-accused sub-postmasters to form an alliance to fight one of the greatest miscarriages of...
4) MaryLand
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
MaryLand is a story about two sisters, about what binds them together and what has driven them apart. Becca and Rosaline find themselves thrown together by the sudden death of their mother, Mary.
Publisher
BBC, PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
New secrets are revealed from Max and Jake's murky past, threatening to derail their plans to live a 'normal' life, free of each other. Unfortunately, Scotland does not provide as warm a welcome as they hoped, and enemies make them seek incredibly desperate solutions.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" is arguably the greatest single work ever created in the history of Western literature. Explore the mesmerizing story, at once dreamlike and hyper-real, that unfolds within the poem itself; the story of how Dante managed to create it under such unpromising circumstances, and how it has been transmitted over time.
7) Alice & Jack
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Alice & Jack explores perseverance, passion, and the true sense of partnership over the course of a profound fifteen-year relationship. Honest, intimate and surprisingly funny, it asks the seminal question of our time: are the bonds between us stronger than the forces that would tear us apart?
