Search Results

In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Frontline investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza left behind a trail of death and destruction, but little else. His motives, and his life, remain largely a mystery.

Shortly after learning of Princess Diana's death in a car crash on August 31, 1997, Mary Robertson was inspired to document her memories of the princess in order to balance the "mean-spirited and critical comments about her in the media coverage and certain books." The Diana Robe...

A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special." When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belo...

Describes the architectural achievements of the ancient world known as the Seven Wonders of the World. Discusses Callimachus, The Pyramids at Giza, The Hanging Garden of Babylon, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, The Statue ...

Battles of Chief Pontiac: Chronicle of the events following a proposed peace treaty between the British and Chief Pontiac, who has become mistrustful of the white man's word.

Harry Faversham is one of a group of close friends in the British Regiment. When he abruptly resigns his commission, his friends and fiancě each give him a white feather which is the symbol of cowardice. He then had to struggle to regain his reputation.

From 1963 to 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Shooting in gorgeous black and white, Lerner juxtaposes performances with snapshot interviews with artists...

A collection of seventy-seven poems of Canadian authors including some Eskimo chants, poems about Canadian lakes and cities, and the ballad "The Shooting of Dan McGrew."

Chief Sitting Bull and his tribe prepare to battle the U.S. government while one military official tries to prevent the impending bloodshed.

When a deadly bubonic plague breaks out on a coastal steamer ship, four passengers steal a lifeboat and set sail on a mission of survival. They land on a remote Malayan island and soon shed all trappings of their former selves. But when their native guide is suddenly murdered, th...

A human child raised by elves at the North Pole, learns of his human family and goes to live with them in New York City.