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81) The last rhino
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sudan is the very last male Northern White Rhino. His amazing story is told through the global cast of people involved in Sudan's life of 43 years. He was aged two when snatched from his mom's side in Central Africa and became a prized exhibit in a zoo behind the Iron Curtain while the rest of his kind was poached to extinction. Now Sudan is the focus of an eleventh hour battle to save his sub-species.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The incredible story of a baby elephant who was born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she is suddenly orphaned at one-month-old, it is up to the keepers who look after the herd to keep her alive. This one elephant's tale remains both intimate and epic, a journey of tragedy and triumph, because when her entire species faces extinction, one life means everything.
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's time for a swim with the Wild Kratts! Join Chris Kratt and Martin Kratt as they take Jimmy to his own personal swimming tutor - a sea otter named Coach! Then, catch Chris and Martin in other exciting adventures where they embark on a pirate adventure in the Indian Ocean, search the ocean to find Jimmy's lost keys, and try to find their way back together after getting separated in the ocean.
Series
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Go "Down Under" with the Wild Kratts where the team has to do some crafty adapting to survive the harsh conditions of this wild environment. And Martin and Chris cross the desert on a mission to see Red Kangaroos. They soon discover that 'roos never back down from a kick-boxing fight! With wild creatures and fun characters, the Wild Kratts make learning about nature an educational adventure!
86) Wild Scandinavia
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Immerse in three iconic Scandinavian landscapes: the hauntingly beautiful coast; the magical seasonal forests, and the volcanic and arctic extremes. Surprising wildlife stories of lynx and puffins, orca and wolves reveal the resilient spirit of Scandinavia. Myth and modernity co-exist: Odin and Thor, basejumpers and reindeer herders are all woven into this icy natural world.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Our film begins in high summer in Hudson Bay in Canada's Far North, where polar bears have learned to ambush beluga whales, which visit warm river estuaries to breed. It's a crucial time window, at a difficult time of year. In the vast swathes of tundra, a pair of Arctic foxes gather and bury snow geese eggs, and hunt the chicks, for their fast-growing pups. And in Canada's Bay of Fundy, which has the most extreme tides on Earth, vast flocks of semi-palmated...
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
To the creature rescue! Join Chris Kratt and Martin Kratt as they embark on more than twenty action-packed adventures! Together, the brothers spring into action to rescue an injured endangered Florida panther and recover Aviva's precious family heirloom from the leaping Caracal cat. The fun continues as the Wild Kratts team hosts a Creature Power race to help them uncover the greatest running creatures, and as they come up with a plan after the Tortuga...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After an encounter with a mysterious shaman, Eliza Thornberry is granted the magnificent power to talk with animals. Now she, along with her eccentric and adventurous family, travels the world on a mission to communicate and help the animal kingdom in ways never before possible. Episode highlights include the Thornberrys saving pandas from poachers; Debbie thinking she may be a distant relative of Cleopatra; everyone filming dangerous tiger sharks;...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Far back in the past, monster volcanoes erupted with cataclysmic violence, far greater than Vesuvius, Pinatubo, Mount St. Helens, or any other volcano in recorded human history. Puzzling results from three different laboratories send volcano sleuths on a worldwide hunt for evidence, from Greenland's ice cap to Sumatra's jungles. The clues converge on an astounding possibility: that a single ancient eruption 75,000 years ago blasted ash and rock across...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Shannon is Ireland's greatest geographical landmark and the longest river. It is both a barrier and highway. A silver ribbon holding back the rugged landscapes of the west from the gentler plains to the east. On its journey south, the Shannon passes through a huge palette of rural landscapes; where on little-known backwaters, Ireland's wild animals and plants still thrive as almost nowhere else.
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the 100th birthday of America's best idea. This premium blue-chip event premieres two new hours of the most breathtaking landscapes in the world, featuring stories of our nation's most majestic landscapes and beloved animal characters. Yosemite National Park, set within California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and designated a World Heritage Site, is home to hundreds of wildlife species, and is famed for its iconic mountain vistas, waterfalls,...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Go undercover with a film crew on a perilous journey to the untouched wilderness of biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest. Meet some of the most incredible creatures, from agile pygmy marmosets and boisterous howler monkeys to solitary pumas and mesmerizing leaf-cutter ants, as the wild secrets of the jungle are revealed.
97) Serengeti
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With unique access to a pristine and unspoiled corner of the Serengeti's Pride Lands deep in the heart of Africa, this series captures the drama of the daily lives of and emotional moments faced by lions and lionesses, baboons, elephants, leopards, bison and other creatures commonly found in this national park in Tanzania.
98) Meet the coywolf
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The coywolf, a mixture of western coyote and eastern wolf, is a hauntingly beautiful carnivore found increasingly on the streets of North American cities. Its recent appearance was very, within the last 90 years, in evolutionary terms, a blip in time. The story of how it came to be begins in Canada but by no means ends there.
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