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Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Travel back millions of years to the time of the dinosaurs in the BBC dino triple feature. The Giant Claw: Computer animation brings therizinosaurus thunderingly alive. Land of Giants: Travel to South America₂s Patagonia, where dinosaurs shook the earth 100 million years ago. Allosaurus: Recreates the life of a dinosaur as he attempts to survive in an absolutely brutal world.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journey to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians, where communities are surrounded by experimental test sites and pesticides sprayed upwind of their neighborhoods. The film details the ongoing struggle to advance bold new legislation governing the fate of their island home.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns, and the blues to its mainstream popularity, viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The catering team consists of a handful of struggling dreamers struck working for tips while struggling to get the life they really want. Each week, life passes before their eyes as they hover around the margins of a different little world (the parties they cater) for a few hours, mingle with its citizens, dabble with their dramas, watch them, judge them, joke about them, envy them, and then move on.
Publisher
S'more Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Lewis lays open his soul, live on television as his personal friend, David Susskind, is given carte blanche to ask anything and everything about Jerry's personal and professional life. Why did he and Dean Martin call it quits after ten years as the most successful comedy team of all time? How much money did he make? When ABC gave him $40 million to make a TV special, and it bombed, who was to blame? These and many more questions are answered....
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the Alaskan wilderness lives a newly discovered family who was born and raised wild. Billy Brown, his wife Ami and their seven grown children--5 boys and 2 girls--are so far removed from civilization that they often go six to nine months of the year without seeing an outsider. They've developed their own accent and dialect; refer to themselves as a 'wolf pack,' and at night, all nine sleep together in a one-room cabin. Recently, according...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ancient fighting arts: Phil Keoghan tries an ancient martial art in India. Correspondents investigate deadly tornadoes, reporters at risk in Cambodia and talking whales.
Border battle: Phil Keoghan experiences a unique border ceremony. Correspondents investigate deadly crocodiles, Red Notices and communication amongst trees.
Digging up dinosaurs: Phil Keoghan digs for dinosaurs. Correspondents examine a global drop in male fertility, embed with...
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
Antisemitism in the US and Europe is rising and worsening, like a virus, it is mutating and evolving across cultures, borders and ideologies making it all but impossible to stop. Explore its infectious behavior and examine the increasing violence, which, when reviewed holistically, paints a terrifying portrait of how this kind of global hatred begins and how easily it disseminates.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are coming to understand fat as a fascinating and dynamic organ - one whose size has more to do with biological processes than personal choices. Through real life stories of hunter-gatherers, sumo wrestlers, and supermodels, Nova explores the complex functions of fat and role it plays in controlling hunger, hormones, and even reproduction.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Alongside the fastest, strongest, smartest animals are nature's misfits, odd, bizarre and unlikely creatures that seem ill-equipped for survival. Somehow they manage to cling to life and in some cases even thrive. Revealing some surprising details about how evolution really works, demonstrating that all animals are remarkably well-adapted to their chosen way of life.
14) The vote
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
One hundred years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in US history.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Every letter of the alphabet is special, and Elmo and his friends explore A through Z in this new collection. There are several pieces dedicated to each and every letter of the alphabet with fun scenes, songs, animations and more. Learning the ABCs has never been so much fun.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hosted and executive produced by Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning actor, William Shatner, this series from History tackles subjects that have mystified mankind for centuries, from Japan's ominous 'Suicide Forest' to strange creatures like the Chupacabra to bizarre Voodoo rituals. With contributions from scientists, historians, and first-hand witnesses, each episode seeks to shed light on how the seemingly impossible can happen, providing answers...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
One of the most breathtaking explorations of the world's oceans ever assembled. Before creating the monumental Planet Earth, the BBC created the Emmy award winning The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, which showed the oceans in a way they had never been seen before.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Follows the Best Friends team of experts and volunteers as they struggle to treat some of the most ill and neglected animals they've encountered to date, including victims of Hurricane Katrina and a special case from country legend Emmylou Harris' Tennessee animal rescue. Includes 10 episodes.
20) The planets
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Among the stars in the night sky wander the eight-plus worlds of the solar system, each home to truly awe-inspiring sights. Volcanoes three times higher than Everest, geysers erupting with icy plumes, cyclones larger than Earth lasting hundreds of years. Each of our celestial neighbors has a distinct personality and a unique story. In this five-part series, NOVA will explore the awesome beauty including Saturn's 175,000-mile-wide rings, Mars's ancient...
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