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- An eccentric teacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magic school bus.
- Three kids, Jackie, Matt, Inez, and their bird friend Digit, must save cyberspace from the evil Hacker with the use of strategy and math skills.
- Levar Burton introduces young viewers to illustrated readings of children's literature and explores their related subjects.
- A group of characters who live at a library turn into superheroes and then go into books; using early reading skills to save the day. They later use a problem from the story one of them faced and apply it to their own lives.
- Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.
- Kids compete in challenges in this game show, hosted by an animated dog.
- Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
- Scientist/comedian Bill Nye explores various aspects of science for young viewers.
- Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
- A children's show explaining various principles of science and their applications.
- A group of older children do arts and crafts, cooking, science and technology, and games sent in by viewers.
- A kids anthology show that humorously illustrates various elements of mathematics.
- Middle School students teach kids how to do cool tricks.
- An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard.
- Journey to the south polar landscapes of Antarctica hundreds of millions of years ago. Join Antarctic scientists on a quest to understand the ice continent's profound transformation, and predict the future as humans drive dramatic change.
- A group of fish explore the ocean, learning and making new friends along the way.
- When ocean explorer and filmmaker Mike deGruy dies unexpectedly in an accident, his wife returns to the edit room to make a film.
- Uncover the complicated truth behind our sense of taste.
- Dr. Cecilia and her assistant Mike discover a mammoth frozen in a glacier. After being defrosted, Phil narrates the tales of Cro, a cave boy who uses simple engineering and physics concepts to solve everyday problems.
- Take a once in a lifetime journey across the South Pacific for a spectacular IMAX adventure. Joy, ecstasy, a spiritual high: these words describe the exhilaration of diving a pristine coral reef, and ocean explorers Howard and Michele Hall bring their love of the ocean into action. With Jean-Michael Cousteau, deep reef scientist Richard Pyle and Fijian diver Rusi Vulakoro, they explore and capture on film the dazzling underwater world of coral reefs, magical places here on Earth. This tropical excursion through the South Pacific will surprise and delight you as you fall in love with the reefs, and your heart will ache at the tragic, irretrievable loss of these fragile worlds.
- The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq.
- We follow a family from dawn to dusk as they go about their daily routines. But this is no ordinary story. This is the tale of what takes place beneath the skin-a tale that allows us to see the accomplishments of our everyday lives.
- Marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin, from the Smithsonian Institutions's Museum of Natural History, and her first trips to the famed Galapagos Islands.
- Meet Dr. Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach. These women are compelled to push their limits in hostile environments. They are cavers who risk fatal danger for the thrill of discovery. Barton and Aulenbach are extreme athletes and extreme scientists - scientists who gather their data in treacherous places where few dare to follow. In Journey Into Amazing Caves they travel to caves in Arizona, Greenland and Mexico searching for discoveries that may lead to cures for human disease.
- Get inspired. Get wired. Get totally fired up! Get into the PBS Kids reality show Design Squad! This season, two teams of high school kids face off, converting toys into dragsters, inventing fashion for the runway, and creating summer sleds for L.L. Bean. And with only two days to execute these challenges, they need to think smart and design fast. Then the Design Squad-ers put their products to the test, all while keeping their cool when things get hot and their eyes on the grand prize - a $10,000 college scholarship.
- Series exploring the natural history of Antarctica.
- Scientists visit the remote surface and undersea locations to study various species of whales in their natural habitat.
- Crittercam unveils the remarkable survival of the Emperor Penguin in Antarctica's frozen expanses, offering an intimate look into their extraordinary lives.
- A documentary in which an ax fight breaks out during a dispute between tribes in a Yanomami village.
- A travel by the wonders of the universe as brief as unforgettable.
- Narrated by Donald Sutherland, this thrilling, feature-length documentary chronicles the brave group of scientists on board the Sedna IV as they explore the Earth's most fascinating and isolated continent.
- An authentic record of the life of the Netsilik Inuit of the Pelly Bay region of the Canadian Arctic during their last migratory camp. It shows the old Inuit culture and their complete adaptation to their environment.
- The movie takes a close look at the discovery of a gigantic crater deep in the ocean floor, one that is possibly tied to a theory about the end of dinosaur life.
- Travel back to late 18th century Lowell, MA, now infamous for its textile mills and its "Lowell Girls," the poor, barely-educated waifs who helped turn those mills into sweatshops.
- Follow the people who follow the storms. Prepare to take a ride inside some of the most extreme weather conditions experienced on earth.
- This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film explores life in Antarctica, both for the animals that live there and the scientists that work there.
- Professor Hans Rosling shares his excitement with statistics, and shows how researchers are handling the modern data deluge.
- A look at the Drake equation, developed by Dr. Frank Drake as a way to think about the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy that could exist and communicate with us.
- A documentary series about brain science.
- A spectacular and unforgettable journey into the heart of the remote and far-flung rainforests of Australia, Costa Rica, French Guiana and Malaysia, this globally important adventure explores these disappearing jungle habitats and gives us a rare, intimate look at the lush foliage and incredibly diverse array of inhabitants.
- Uses advanced computer animation to discuss the problem of turning a sphere inside out by passing the surface through itself without making any holes or creases. Illustrates the homotopy with a sequence of models, showing the crucial stages in the motion.
- Scientists and engineers who built the world's largest solar telescope and launched the first solar probe into space help predict and prepare the planet for solar storms.
- Otherwise known as Cocos Island, this underwater mountain--an Island of the Sharks--is a migratory gathering place for a dazzling array of sea creatures including sharks, manta rays, sea turtles, and dolphins.
- Presents an insightful and richly textured examination of the various influences that shape us as individuals and as members of the families and societies in which we are raised. Through the observation of 12 families on 5 continents, the series looks at childhood from a number of perspectives--personal, scientific, historical, and cultural. Includes documentary sequences, provocative historic films, and vivid clinical illustrations with on-screen commentary by experts.
- Solarmax is a 40-minute giant-screen documentary that tells the story of humankind's struggle to understand the sun. The film will take audiences on an incredible voyage from pre-history to the leading edge of today's contemporary solar science.