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Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Did a daring Chinese admiral sailing the world's largest wooden armada reach America 71 years before Columbus? This program examines the mystery surrounding the sailing exploits of the legendary Admiral Zheng He and his 30-year command of a Ming fleet.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Did a number of explorers discover the New World long before Christopher Columbus staked his claim in 1492? Explore the possibility that the Chinese, Japanese, Polynesians, Norse, Welsh, Irish, Ancient Hebrews, and the Solutreans all made it to the Americas earlier than Columbus. Rebuild the ships, trace the routes, test the artifacts, and analyze blood evidence to finally learn the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of all time: who really discovered...
Publisher
A&E Television Network
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After Columbus discovered America came the men to make a conquest. From all corners of the world, explorers reached the shores of the New World to reap untold riches, seek new routes to the Far East, and gain the most elusive glory of all - a place in history. A sweeping saga of bravery, cruelty and pure folly, these are the stories of adventurers who stopped at nothing to conquer an unknown land and its peoples. Led by legendary cities of gold and...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
America's Greatest Animals: Africa has a name for the most magnificent beasts on the continent. The legendary Big Five include the elephant, lion, water buffalo, rhino and leopard. But now there are other giants that must be recognized. Half a world away, there is an ensemble of creatures born of equal power and majesty. A new Big Five: the titans of North America.
Super Bear: In this National Geographic special, viewers get a closer look at a variety...
7) Up
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Sloan is on the fast track to success at her public relations firm. However she will discover that her unethical ways need to change when a deceased client becomes her personal ghost of Christmas past, present, and future, and a jilted lover from her past enters her life once again.
Publisher
Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A "Planet Earth" of the heavens, this film takes the world's most famous scientific mind and sets if free, powered by the limitless possibilities of computer animation. In three spellbinding hours, the renowned Stephen Hawking gives us the ultimate guide to the universe, a fantastic adventure based on real science-spanning the whole of space and time.
12) Smooch
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Percy is a prince engaged to a woman he doesn't love. When he gets amnesia and is taken in by Zoe, a young girl who loves romantic fairytales, Zoe convinces him that he is a frog turned prince that she rescued. Percy falls in love with her mother Gwen, discovering that love is the magic ingredient needed to make any relationship special.
13) Echoes of war
Publisher
Arc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In post-Civil War Texas, two neighboring families are grieving tragic losses while they struggle to survive in this rural drama. The cattle-ranching McCluskeys have lost both a son and their entire herd to the war. The Rileys, mourning the loss of wife and mother Mary to illness, eke out a living trapping animals and selling their pelts. When Wade (James Badge Dale,�The Lone Ranger, Iron Man 3) returns from fighting for the Confederacy, he discovers...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How to train your dragon: Hiccup and Toothless must protect the peace when they find a cave that is home to hundreds of wild dragons.
How to train your dragon 2: When Hiccup and Toothless discover a secret ice cave filled with hundreds of wild dragons and a mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of an epic battle to save the future of men and dragons!
15) Remember
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[Spanish subtitled version]
Language
English
Description
A suspense-filled story of Zev, an Auschwitz survivor who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some seventy years ago; is living in America under an assumed identity. With the aid of a friend, Zev sets out on a gripping journey that tests both his will and his fading memory as it brings him closer to the retribution he seeks.
16) Mammal
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Reveals the most amazing facts and folklore about our favorite furry animals. Towering or tiny, ferocious or friendly, mammals trot, hop, swim, and soar. Meet the creatures that make up this huge and varied family.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
18) The island
Publisher
Dreamworks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Two residents of an isolated, high-tech compound discover they're actually clones, and worth more dead than alive. They stage a daring escape. Battling and unfamiliar environment and an armed team of mercenaries in hot persuit, they'll risk their lives and freedom to save those they left behind--and reveal the truth about the compound.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
The Bettyfied edition.
Language
English
Description
Betty Suarez isn't like any of her coworkers at Mode, a high-fashion magazine. She's smart, sweet, and hardworking, but she's not thin and beautiful. As the publisher's son's secretary, she earns his respect as she guides him through the world of fashion.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story behind the beloved Christmas carol and its author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Known as America's Poet, Henry leads an idyllic life, until the day his world is shattered by tragedy. With a nation divided by the Civil War and his family torn apart, Henry puts down his pen, silenced by grief. But it's the sound of Christmas morning that reignites the poet's lost voice as he discovers the resounding hope of rekindled faith.
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