Traces the origins of video games and discusses the different types of games, such issues as violence and age appropriateness, and their impact on society.

Advertisements haven’t disappeared from TV just yet, but brand wars are now taking place on a different screen. The war being waged is a digital one. No brand can ignore the power of social networks—2 billion users in the world, an unbelievable sounding board. Social media has changed the rules of communication between brands and consumers. The digital era knows no respite, everything happens in real time, there is unrelenting exposure and interaction...

Despite American victories at Trenton and Princeton, the Continental Army remained in dire need of funds and military support. Congress therefore dispatched Benjamin Franklin to France in hopes of creating an alliance that would provide both. This classic program follows Franklin to Europe while also tracking the Crown forces on their march on New England. The upshot? A crushing British defeat at Saratoga and an agreement by France to fight on the...

This program presents the story of the formation of the Constitution, and the following years of the Carranza regime, which featured great difficulties, which included hunger, butchery and a large part of the country at war.

Melissa, a 26-year-old mother of two, has been battling a painful case of irritable bowel syndrome for the past two years. She's seen all the doctors and had all the examinations, but no one has been able to help her. Can the latest science driving Gut Revolution provide any answers? We follow Melissa over her transformational six-week journey as our team of experts designs an intervention that literally changes her life.

Sister Wendy focuses on art before and during the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution. She discusses the British paintings of Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, and Thomas Gainsborough; the Rococo Era and French artists Watteau and Chardin; the Classical style of David and Ingres; the British Constable and Turner; the French Romantics Delacroix and Gericault; and the Spanish Goya.

This program presents the story of those who died in the Revolution, though not all found their demise on the battlefield. For many others during the war, famine, disease and banditry were too much to overcome. Hear from collected oral histories and written testimonies of witnesses as archival film and photos set the stage.

Telling the story of a struggle for independence. Learn about powerful leaders, daring soldiers, bloody battles and weapons of the American Revolution.

This program provides an overview of the most significant impacts on working conditions and the environment during and after the Industrial Revolution. The time period is notorious for its dangerous factory conditions, lack of worker and child labor rights, and for overcrowded, unsanitary and polluted cities. As a result, protests and new laws improved labor and environmental issues, though problems still exist today.

This program provides an explanation of how the twin techniques of gene splicing and cloning are helping to unravel the secrets of variation. Genetic engineering is altering the branching pattern of natural evolution-which proceeds by mutations within a species and sexual recombination within that species-into a network, in which genes are moved within the laboratory from any species to any other species. The program explains the irreversible and...