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61) You don't Nomi
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A chorus of film critics and fervent devotees explore the complicated afterlife of 1995s biggest film flop, Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, from disastrous release to cult adoration and extraordinary redemption.
Publisher
Dream Big Productions
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Children's fantasies become reality when they get to spend a day with fire fighters, police officers, and rescue workers. Kids will experience how they train, where they live, and how they work. Contains spectacular video images, revealing interviews, special effects, and cool animation that is entertaining, educational, and exciting!
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This three-part series uses cutting-edge graphics to reveal the surprisingly beautiful biological processes that keep one alive. Discover the ingenious ways your body develops, adapts, and endures, and witness the fascinating and finely tuned systems that keep one's body motoring, and the scientists guessing.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walk in the shoes of an unlikely messenger who touched the world. Rare historical footage and compelling interviews with family members, lifelong friends, former presidents, and prominent broadcasters tell the remarkable story of Billy Graham.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women's liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it.
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Through exclusive interviews and rare footage...tells the story with accounts from Lin-Manuel Miranda and the rest of the cast revealing the extraordinary story of the man, the music, the show, and the phenomenon that has inspired the world"--Container.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
71) The booksellers
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers. Official Selection at the **The New York Film Festival**.
Publisher
Distributed by Permacology Productions
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A documentary that takes a look at the trillion dollar worldwide 'Sickness Industry', and exposes a growing body of scientific evidence indicating that nutritional therapy can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than most conventional medical treatments
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Of all continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of its origins than Australia. With help from high-energy host and geologist Richard Smith, we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids. Epic in scope, intimate in nature, this is the untold story of the Land Down Under, the one island continent that has got it all.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to...
76) The cold blue
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stirring tribute to the men of the Eighth Air Force, who flew deadly missions during World War II. Half of the U.S. Army Air Force₂s casualties during the war were suffered by the Eighth. Director Erik Nelson tracked down nine of the surviving Eighth Air Force veterans to recall the harrowing experiences they endured in the summer of 1943.
77) Human nature
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Our DNA can determine attributes from eye color to medical predispositions. An extraordinary technology called CRISPR allows us to edit human DNA, possibly eliminating genetic diseases or choosing our children's features. But how far should we go?
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two groups of plants exhibit such intriguing behavior that a century and a half ago they attracted the attention of Charles Darwin. These same plants, the orchids and the carnivorous plants, still fascinate scientists today. In two, one-hour films, it reveals a world of deceit and treachery worthy of any fictional thriller.
79) Maxed out
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Take a journey deep inside the American style of debt, where things seem fine as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Shocking and incisive, it paints a picture of a national nightmare, which is all too real for most--Container
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the famed biologist's lifelong love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. Wilson's work on ant communication led to his remarkable studies of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and his controversial theories on the role of evolutionary processes in social behavior. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa, brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and humanity's...
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