LeVar Burton
Publisher
GPN Educational Media [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Reveals some of the ways a story can be told with music, including music videos and dance. Features the book Abiyoyo which tells the tale about a boy and his father who come up with a plan to save the townspeople from the giant of the same name. Reviews other books with related themes.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"At the isolated planet of the Ba'kus (a seemingly simple race of people), the crew of the Enterprise has unveiled an unjust conspiracy between the Federation and the Son'a to exile the entire Ba'ku race from their planet. Ordered to leave and ignore his findings, Captain Picard must choose between obeying Starfleet orders or risking his crew, career and the Enterprise to protect the innocent and uphold his Starfleet oath"--Container.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In season six of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the dangers grew even more dire for the crew of the Enterprise. During a behind-the-lines mission, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) falls into the hands of a seasoned Cardassian torturer. In an attempt to learn the truth about his father, Worf (Michael Dorn) breaks into a Romulan prison compound. James Doohan returns when a transporter malfunction resurrects the original series' Chief Engineer...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The debut season of a Star Trek television series that took place slightly farther on in the future than the iconic original Star Trek did (a future that, unsurprisingly, bore a greater resemblance to the 1980s than that 1960s-flavored future of Kirk and Spock did), the crew of its U.S.S. Enterprise--especially the intrepid, considerably less feckless and occasionally somewhat more pompous Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart--that came...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Collects the original broadcast episodes from the fourth season of Star trek, the next generation. Picking up decades after Gene Roddenberry's original, it follows the intergalactic adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew aboard an all-new USS Enterprise.
Publisher
Distributed by Reel Enterprises
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"Cult leader Reverend Jim Jones' life is chronicled from his days as an idealistis 1960's activist who runs scams and spends his nights as a womanizer, to a self-proclaimed modern day Messiah. The 1978 mass suicide of 913 followers at the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana, in South America is staged in a chilling documentary style of events."--Container
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Nearly 100 stars from television's formative years bring their stories to PBS in a revealing documentary series. Featuring sitcoms, late-night, variety and game shows -- the film melds compelling new HD interviews with archival clips to offer a fresh take on television's first celebrities, with fascinating stories, never-before-seen images and timeless clips that still entertain decades later.
Series
Star trek the next generation movie collection volume disc 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After an epic battle against the Borg (cybernetically-enhanced life forms), Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise follow the Borg Sphere back into the 21st century to prevent the Borg from contaminating Earth's timeline and preventing Earth's first contact.
13) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The early adventures of interstellar exploration continue as Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 learn more of the Temporal Cold War taking place all around them. More first contacts take place, while new threats begin to reveal themselves, including the introduction of the mysterious Xindi race"--Container.