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Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman return in this eighth installment of the popular television series Mythbusters. Using modern day science to test everyday myths and urban legends, the special effects experts determine which myths are busted and which are plausible.
82) Human planet
Series
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Following in the footsteps of Planet Earth and Life, this epic eight-part blockbuster is a breathtaking celebration of the amazing, complex, profound, and sometimes challenging relationship between humankind and nature. Humans are the ultimate animals - the most successful species on the planet. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat and reveals how its people have created astonishing solutions in the face of extreme adversity.
83) Natalee Holloway
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A carefree night turns tragic for a teenager when she fails to show up for her return flight home to Alabama during a 2005 high school class trip to Aruba. With no clue as to her whereabouts, her mother becomes launched into a frustrating search that spans more than four years, and provides a backdrop for a cautionary tale about the dangers of international travel. Includes featurette.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
With a cumulative audience of over 50 million viewers and shot in stunning HD, season three of this hit franchise utilizes breathtaking footage from NASA and state-of-the-art CGI graphics to bring the beauty and mysteries of the cosmos home to viewers.
89) The rise of ISIS
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In The Rise of ISIS, Martin Smith (Gangs of Iraq; Beyond Baghdad) draws on in-depth interviews with Iraqi politicians, and American policymakers and military leaders to explore and explain how the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) became a major force so quickly. What does it mean for the U.S. to be back in Iraq, fighting a new war on terror, less than three years after American troops pulled out of the country? Smith delivers a revelatory look...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Across four sixty-minute episodes, Baker Boys takes us straight into the heart of an Al Qaeda hotbed a few kilometers outside of Baghdad, for the last ninety days of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry battalion, Baker Company's tour of duty. The series follows the men from this farthest outpost in enemy terrain until they return back home to Fort Benning, Georgia, and then chronicles the war inside that they bring home in the form of post-traumatic stress,...
91) Colosseum
Publisher
A&E / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Miniseries showcasing the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the Colosseum, one of the most exhilarating and brutal arenas in the history of humanity.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Captures the entire arc of one of the world's great battles, with four complete full-length programs. A comprehensive compilation that fully renders the valor, the tragedy, and the humanity of one of the most monumental events of WWII.
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Follow the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ongoing struggle to end Japanese whaling. Season 3 gives you an up close view of the latest action from Antarctica as the battle over whaling heightens.
The third season of Whale Wars follows Sea Shepherd's 6th Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign, named Operation Waltzing Matilda in honor of Australia s unofficial national anthem, on the three-month journey to the South Ocean Whale Sanctuary to stop illegal...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
1966, drought and an exploding population confronted India with the imminent threat of a severe famine, a potential disaster that many scientists and intellectuals feared only presaged global catastrophes to come, as the world's population outstripped its ability to produce food. In search of a lasting solution, India turned to Norman Borlaug, an unassuming plant breeder from Iowa whose combination of scientific knowledge and raw determination had...
Publisher
WWE Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From the ashes of the Monday Night War, a new era is born - Ruthless Aggression! For the first time ever, hear the true stories from those who lived it, and witness the emergence of an entirely new generation of Superstars, who would change WWE forever.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Uncover more astonishing new evidence of extraterrestrial intervention on Earth than ever before, including an aluminum object that resembles the foot of a lunar lander. But the object inexplicably dates to over 40,000 years ago. In India, a thousand-year-old mask is discovered that looks identical to the face of a grey alien. Newly uncovered records from Russia indicate that in 1948, an ancient rocket was discovered in Kiev.
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.
98) Farmingville
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Documentary film about the next group of immigrants, the Mexicans, that are following in our long history of immigration. It looks at the people of Farmingville, New York, and at how they are dealing with the influx of about 1,500 Mexican workers.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
Historians explain the causes and effects of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase agreement between France and the United States that doubled U.S. territory. Relevant letters and diary excerpts from Napoleon, Jefferson, Madison, and Talleyrand help put the purchase in perspective.
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