Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Publisher
West Encounters East LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the themes of immigration, alienation and assimilation through the works of Japanese-Brazilian artists, descendants of a century-old diaspora that has given São Paulo, Brazil, the largest Japanese population outside Japan.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks in one of the most remote places on earth, the ill-equipped...