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1) Earth
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of three animal families on a journey across our planet - polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. It captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.
2) Man On Wire
Language
English
Formats
Description
On August 7, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York. Academy Award winner. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
3) Oceans
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Features an exhilarating look under the sea through the eyes of those that live there. Incredible state-of-the-art-underwater filmmaking will take viewers breath away as they migrate with whales, swim alongside a great white shark, and race with dolphins at play. Includes first-ever images of elusive deepwater creatures, featurettes, music video, filmmaker annotations, and more.
Series
Publisher
American Animation Studios
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1775 and war is in the air. Egged on by Ellie the Eagle, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson recalls the story of Paul Revere's ride to Lexington to warn colonial leaders that the British were on the march. Half a day later came the 'shot heard 'round the world' and the beginning of our war for independence"--Container.
6) The pianist
Language
English
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
7) Desert
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
A mixture of animation and live footage serves as a background for a narrated introduction to the geographical history of deserts, their animal life and their importance for human culture.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Young at Heart Chorus is based in Northampton, MA. See the final weeks of rehearsal for the group, whose average age is 81, and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music is unexpected, going against the stereotype of their age group, performing songs that range from James Brown to Coldplay. Although the group has toured in Europe and sang for royalty, they are now focusing on preparing new songs, not an easy endeavor,...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Language
English
Description
"This astonishing powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the Water takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart-stopping,...
13) More than a game
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Follows Akron's St. Vincent-St. Mary Fighting Irish high school basketball team (featuring five future NBA players, including superstar LeBron James) as they win their way to national acclaim.
14) Ancient Aegean
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Language
English
Description
Join archaeologist Arizona Smith and a young detective-in-training as they explore the mysteries of the ancient Minoan civilization.
15) Ancient Africa
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Language
English
Description
Join archaeologist Arizona Smith and a young detective-in-training as they unlock the clues of the Great Zimbabwe ruins and trace the history of the Swahili-speaking peoples of East Africa.
17) We sign: Animals
Series
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Combining songs and American Sign Language words, learn your ASL vocabulary for animals and more than a hundred other words.
20) We sign: Rhymes
Series
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Timeless Mother Goose and nursery rhyme classics.
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