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Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Henry James wrote the novella The Beast in the Jungle in 1903 and the epic love story where Fate is the strongest character is regarded as one of his foremost works. Clara van Gool places dance at the center of her interpretation of James's novel. May, featuring the dancer Sarah Reynolds, and John, performed by Dane Hurst, glide through the story of unrequited love that spans two centuries in her interpretation. John is convinced that his fate is...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Recent discoveries indicate the presence of massive ancient civilizations in the Amazon. Survey the evidence, starting with the Beni region's elaborate systems of mounds, causeways, and canals. Continue with the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon, noting wide areas of human-enriched soil, towns ringed by moats, geoglyphs, and pottery dating to 6000 B.C.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Visit Copan, a beautifully preserved city on the edge of the Maya world. This illustrious site has been continuously excavated since the 19th century, and Dr. Barnhart himself did fieldwork helping to unearth tombs of the city's most notable rulers.
Publisher
9 Story Media Group
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Wibbly and Big Pig both want to be tigers - and they have painted their faces with stripes to prove it. But when Stripe - a real tiger - turns up they realise there is more to being a tiger than just having a stripy face! Stripe teaches them to growl and prowl and pounce - travelling all through the jungle as he does so. In the jungle there are lots of creatures, and when they all meet an elephant in the jungle it isn’t Stripe who turns out to be...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for World Cinema/Dramatic, and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema, I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE follows a young linguist into the jungles of Mexico as he tries to learn about and preserve a mysterious indigenous language. A language, as he discovers, at the point of disappearing since the last two speakers had a fight fifty years ago and refuse to speak a word with each other. Trying...
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
New York grad student and anthropologist Gloria, her brother Rudy, and their friend Pat, travel to a remote part of the Amazon jungle to find and disapprove the local theory of cannibalism among the local tribes when they run into something far worse: a cruel and sadistic, streetwise drug dealer, named Mike Lawson, and his partner, Joe, hiding out in the jungle from murder and drug-dealing charges in back in New York and whom are presently using the...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
June 29, 1966. During a routine patrol in the jungles of Vietnam, a platoon of US soldiers stumbles upon a much larger enemy force. Outnumbered nearly 10-to-1, the platoon is savagely attacked. The triple-canopy jungle is dense and muddy, impeding the possibility for rescue.
12) Tikal
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tikal, the Mayan ceremonial center in the Peten lowlands of Guatemala, is famous for its pyramids and stelae. But surrounding the monuments, hidden in the jungle, are countless thousands of house mounds where a millennium ago, the worshippers and workers lived.
13) Nenette
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Born in the jungles of Borneo, Nénette is a 40-year-old orangutan, and the oldest (and most beloved) inhabitant at the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Nénette is a captivating study of an enigmatic animal and our relationship to her.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
From the countryside of Wales to the jungles of the Amazon, this episode follows the stories of Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin who had the same idea simultaneously - evolution by natural selection. Their ideas helped others to probe the nature and origins of life.
Publisher
Signed Stories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Elmer the patchwork elephant is off to visit Grandpa Eldo, and Elmer enjoys reminding him of all the fun things they used to do together in the jungle. But is Eldo really as forgetful as Elmer is led to believe? After all, elephants never forget, do they?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A modern day quest to find the truth behind one of exploration's greatest mysteries: What happened to famed adventurer Col. Percy Fawcett who went looking for a city of gold--the Lost City of "Z"--in the Amazon in 1925 and disappeared in the jungles of Brazil forever?
18) Type Hunters
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Typography is at the heart of our contemporary culture. The film plunges us into the “typographic cauldron” of the great modern metropolis. We are taken on safaris through some of the great European cities by typographers who will decipher for us the “jungle” of typefaces swarming all around us.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
The epic true story of Sir James Brooke, the British adventurer who became King of Sarawak in the 1840's and embarked on a lifelong crusade to end piracy and head-hunting - only to face charges of murder and piracy himself. In 1839, Brooke flees Victorian England to explore Borneo. After a pirate attack, Brooke allies with rival princes to seize a rebel fort. To save prisoners from beheading, Brooke agrees to be crowned Rajah. James begs the Royal...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A boy in the woods, raised by wolves and living by the law of the jungle: This story is familiar to us, thanks to Rudyard Kipling's classic stories and the later Disney film. Revisit the original stories to see what they tell us about humanity, morality, imperialism, and political responsibility.
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