Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Nova (Television program). Easter Island.

Title:

Easter Island : origins / a Nova production by Blink Films for GBH ; in association with France Télévisions, NHK, SBS TV Australia and WELT ; written and directed by Mike Ibeji ; produced by Leonore Raab.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, VA] : PBS, [2024]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui - also known as Easter Island - carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has swirled around the iconic ancient statues and the history of the people who created them.

Subjects:

Sculpture, Prehistoric -- Easter Island.

Prehistoric peoples -- Easter Island.

Polynesians -- Easter Island -- Antiquities.

Easter Island.

Easter Island -- Antiquities.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Science television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.