GO BEHIND THE SCENES OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS WEDDINGS OF ALL TIME IN “VICTORIA & ALBERT: THE WEDDING” AND UNCOVER NEW, UNKNOWN, AND UNUSUAL FACTS IN FOUR NEW DVD RELEASES FROM NOVA, NATURE AND PAUL G. ALLEN’S VULCAN PRODUCTIONS THIS MARCH FROM PBS DISTRIBUTION

GO BEHIND THE SCENES OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS WEDDINGS OF ALL TIME IN

“VICTORIA & ALBERT: THE WEDDING”

AND UNCOVER NEW, UNKNOWN, AND UNUSUAL FACTS IN FOUR NEW DVD RELEASES FROM NOVA, NATURE AND PAUL G. ALLEN’S VULCAN PRODUCTIONS THIS MARCH FROM PBS DISTRIBUTION

 

 

Arlington, VA – February 11, 2019 – This March, PBS Distribution will be releasing five new programs on DVD “VICTORIA & ALBERT: THE WEDDING,” “NOVA: APOLLO’S DARING MISSION,” “USS INDIANAPOLIS: THE FINAL CHAPTER,” “NATURE: EQUUS: STORY OF THE HORSE,” and “NOVA: PLUTO AND BEYOND.” Information about each of the programs is listed below.

VICTORIA & ALBERT: THE WEDDING

This two-part British drama produced by BBC Studios for PBS and BBC gives an insider’s look into the elaborate planning that went into one of the most famous weddings of all time: the romantic 1840 union of Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert. Host and Royal historian Lucy Worsley, along with a team of experts, oversees the meticulous recreation of the most important and fascinating elements of the wedding celebration, from the food and the music to the tiered cake, exquisite white wedding dress, and more. Scouring all available materials, including Victoria’s own diaries for details, the program reveals how the pomp and pageantry secured the nation’s unwavering attention as Victoria gained favor with her subjects and invented the modern ideal of marriage.  

-       Street Date: March 26, 2019

-       Run Time:  120 minutes

-       SRP: DVD, $24.99

-       Format: DVD, Digital

-       Genre: British Drama

NOVA: APOLLO’S DARING MISSION

In this program, Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon in 1968. The U.S. space program suffered a horrific

setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a pre-launch run-through the year before. In disarray, and threatened by the prospect of a Soviet Union victory in the space race, NASA decided upon a radical and risky change of plan: turn Apollo 8 from an earth-orbit mission into a daring sprint to the moon while relying on untried new technologies. Fifty years after the historic mission, the Apollo 8 astronauts and engineers recount the feats of engineering that paved the way to the moon.

-       Street Date: March 19, 2019

-       Run Time:  60 minutes

-       SRP: DVD, $24.99

-       Format: DVD, Digital

-       Genre: Science & Nature: Astronomy & Space

USS INDIANAPOLIS: THE FINAL CHAPTER

In the waning days of World War II, less than three weeks before the Japanese surrendered, the U.S. Navy experienced a catastrophic disaster. The USS Indianapolis, the pride and joy of the U.S. Navy, had just delivered the components of the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima when she is sunk by a Japanese sub. 300 sailors go down with her, and the 900 survivors drift for four and a half days, battling the sun, thirst, sharks, and their own fear. Ultimately, only 316 of them are pulled from the sea alive. The sinking of Indianapolis remains the U.S. Navy’s worst single loss of life at sea. The program flashes back and forth in time between the Indianapolis’ history and her ultimate fate, and 2017, when explorers finally found the ship’s remains 18,000 feet below the surface of the Philippine Sea. Viewers will hear first-hand accounts from survivors about those horrific days trying to survive and how they feel today, now that the USS Indianapolis has been found.

-       Street Date: March 19, 2019

-       Run Time: 90 minutes

-       SRP: DVD, $24.99

-       Format: DVD, Digital

-       Genre: History: War & Military

NATURE: EQUUS: THE STORY OF THE HORSE

Ever since the beginning of time, humans and horses have had an extraordinary and unusual partnership. As a result, horses have helped shape the human world. In this program, viewers join anthropologist Dr. Niobe Thompson and equine experts on a two-part adventure around the world and throughout time to discover the origins of the horse and what makes us so perfect for each other. In part one, Origins, viewers experience a stunning 3D reconstruction as a realistic animation of the 45 million-year-old ancestor of the horse, the Dawn horse, rises from a fossil bed and begins a transformation into the magnificent animal we know today. Viewers discover why horses have almost 360-degree vision and gallop on a single toe. In part two of the program, Chasing the Wind, viewers encounter extraordinary horse breeds from Saudi Arabia to Kentucky to Serbia. They also meet the horses of Sable Island that are truly returning to the wild ways of their ancestors, and how horses have evolved to be able to survive the most extreme climates on earth – from the bitter cold of the Siberian Arctic to the scorching heat of the Arabian Desert. Filmed over 18 months across three continents, the program not only explores the horse and its biology but how humans have partnered with the horse throughout the centuries, creating more than 400 breeds found all around the world. 

-       Street Date: March 26, 2019

-       Run Time:  106 minutes

-       SRP: DVD, $24.99

-       Format: DVD, Digital

-       Genre: Science & Nature: Animals

NOVA: PLUTO AND BEYOND

When the New Horizons spacecraft whizzed by Pluto in 2015, we Earthlings were dazzled by the breathtaking images it beamed home. They revealed a never-before-seen alien landscape - a world of mountains made of ice mixed with plains of frozen-solid methane and nitrogen. After more than two years of poring over the data, NASA has made remarkable new discoveries about everyone’s favorite dwarf planet. But New Horizons didn’t stop there. On New Year’s Day 2019, the probe flew by an object known now as Ultima Thule, believed to be a primordial building block of the solar system. This is the most distant flyby in NASA’s history - 4 billion miles from Earth. If successful, it will shed light on one of the least understood regions of our solar system: the Kuiper Belt. NOVA was embedded with the New Horizons mission team as the team uncovered in real time the secrets of what lies beyond Pluto.

-       Street Date: March 26, 2019

-       Run Time:  60 minutes

-       SRP: DVD, $24.99

-       Format: DVD, Digital

-       Genre: Science & Nature: Astronomy & Space

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