Actuality Productions.
1) Milk
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Explores how milk is produced and pasturized. Examines the menagerie of animals that provide milk. Also explores substitute milk products such as soymilk.
2) Hoover Dam
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Comprehensive chronicle of the Hoover Dam, one of the most ambitious engineering projects of all time. Shows the footage that documents every step of the monumental work of taming the Colorado to provide water and power to California, Nevada and Arizona. Includes interviews with the men who worked on the dam.
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Where in Washington DC is the nation's most incredible treasure chest? It's a library unlike any other in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Modern Marvels explodes the myth that this 200 year old institution is simply "where members of Congress borrow books". Viewers are taken beyond the magnificent Jefferson Building Great Hall into the secret vaults where more than 600 miles of shelves hold 130 million items, many of them...
6) The potato
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The potato is among the most versatile, nutritious, and diverse foodstuffs in the world. Learn some new things about this amazing crop, from the potato's mysterious origins in the South American Andes to its prominence in the ethnic enclaves of New York's Lower East Side. In Northern Maine, meet a farmer of exotic potatoes, including blue, green, pink, and dark purple varieties, witness how large-scale potato producers slice, dice, freeze, and dehydrate...
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Eggs are considered by many to be one of the most affordable sources of protein available. Chart the journey of the egg from henhouse to breakfast table. Take a trip to massive Iowa farms, where millions of eggs travel from the hens to the delivery trucks without ever being touched by human hands. Next experience what it's like at cage-free and pasture-raised farms, where chickens have greater freedom and more room to roam. Get a look at the world's...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Doomsday 2012: Explores the prophecy that the world will end on December 21, 2012, as foretold by many oracles throughout history including the Mayan calendar, the Chinese oracle of the I Ching, and even an Internet-based software program.
Mayan doomsday prophecy: Examines the 2012 doomsday prophecy contained in the calendar created by the legendary astronomers and timekeepers of the Mayan civilization.
Doomsday tech: Looks at threats, both natural...
10) Digi-Tech
11) Renewable energy
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Discover how air, water, earth, and fire are transformed into clean, reliable sources of heat, electricity, and even automobile fuel, and take an in-depth look at solar, wind, geothermal, biofuel, and tidal power.