Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

The ultimate in armchair travel to Italy, offering a unique aerial view shot from a helicopter, via a mounted camera, to showcase the country's breathtaking scenery and abundant architectural wonders, with informative narrative and a soundtrack of traditional regional music.

Cadfael, a Benedictine monk at an abbey in Middle Ages Shrewsbury, helps clear the name of a novice brother in the death of a girl who was frozen at the bottom of a brook.

Four-year-old Daniel Tiger and his family welcome a baby girl.

Dr. Eleanor Bramwell is the public health heroine of 1890s London, and David Calder is her society doctor dad, Dr. Robert Bramwell. Feisty and unconventional, Eleanor's desire to take the medical profession out of the dark ages often draws her into conflict with the medical establishment, her colleagues and friends. In this season, Eleanor continues her volatile love affair with the charismatic Dr. Finn O'Neill, now a widely acclaimed figure in the...

One of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot, and faithful advocate of democracy. But in his own time, critics denounced Walt Whitman as a "lunatic raving in pitiable delirium". This "American experience" production tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit...

The story of the tumultuous years after the Civil War during which America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and, at the same time, how former slaves could be brought into the life of the country.

Four-year-old Daniel Tiger invites young viewers directly into his world; giving them a kid's eye view of his life and making them feel like one of his neighbors.

Follows a group of seven doctors for 21 years, from their first day at Harvard Medical School in 1987. The trials and tribulations as these individuals struggled to become doctors and balanced time at work and at home are documented in the difficult years of classes and clinical training, internship and residency, marriage and divorce. In the second part, Nova returns one last time to get an update on the kind of doctors and people they have become....

Take an enchanting, exhilarating journey through one of the continent's last great wildernesses. Features fascinating people, visionary architects, and heroic feats of engineering that transformed western Canada forever.

With on-the-spot interviews, newsreel footage, and quirky archival imagery, hear the tale of exploitation, preservation, the changing nature of love in America, and the way Man has related to Nature over centuries. From daredevils to honeymooners, millions of visitors come each year to see what early Americans saw as America's first great symbol - an emblem for the vast, untamed continent.