Primary Education / Innovation & Discovery

Airplanes: A First Film (Rev.)
Airplanes: A First Film (Rev.)
How do airplanes fly? How does a jet engine work? This revised edition of Norman Bean's "Airplanes: A First Film" answers the basic questions of a...
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Amerindian Legacy
Amerindian Legacy
Amerindian Legacy explores the many important contributions first made by the Amerindians, including their contributions to the world’s economy, the...
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Antonio, and His Flamenco Guitar
Antonio, and His Flamenco Guitar
Antonio is twelve.  He lives in Jerez de la Frontera in southern Andalusia.  Born into a Gypsy family of flamenco artists, he dreams of...
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Arts and Crafts in West Africa
Arts and Crafts in West Africa
The arts and crafts of West Africa have an ancient heritage. Like those of most societies, they have developed in response to the need for domestic...
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Beyond the Moon
Beyond the Moon
An imaginary trip through the solar system introduces the viewer to the planets, asteroids, and some of the planetary satellites. Important features...
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Bobby May: Great American Juggler
Bobby May: Great American Juggler
Bobby May was obsessed with his art.  The pleasure he received from his profession is obvious even in his descriptions of his most famous...
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The Boyhood of George Washington Carver
The Boyhood of George Washington Carver
Born a slave, George Washington Carver became one of America’s most honored scientists. This portrait of his early years in Missouri demonstrates how...
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The Boyhood of Thomas Edison
The Boyhood of Thomas Edison
Filmed on location at Edison’s childhood home in Milan, Ohio, and at his famous laboratory in New Jersey, this program dramatizes some of the...
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Carlito, The Child King of Vallenato
Carlito, The Child King of Vallenato
Carlito is eleven years old.  He lives in Valledupar in the Colombian tropics.  It’s the land of “Vallenato” which is a musical style born...
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Elementary Energy Series
Elementary Energy Series
In these four adventures our animated caveman Zog ponders basic questions about energy as understood from a scientific viewpoint: where energy comes...
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The Erie Canal
The Erie Canal
On November 4th, 1825, Governor DeWitt Clinton stood on the deck of a packet boat and poured a keg of Lake Erie water into the New York Bay. This...
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Global Forecasting
Global Forecasting
This program examines the global network of radar stations — hundreds of remote spots as well as weather satellites in orbit from which...
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