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2) Radio bikini
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An internationally acclaimed, award-winning (and Oscar nominated) documentary film about the greatest operation to test nuclear weapons ever conducted by the United States. Staged at a remote Pacific atoll called Bikini in the summer of 1946, the tests (code-named Operation Crossroads) were also one of the first great 'media events' of the modern age. Using rare and mostly never-before-seen archival footage, the film unfolds through the eyes of the...
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The True Meaning of Pictures is a feature length documentary which addresses the issue of representation in documentary photography by examining the work of American photographer Shelby Lee Adams.. More specifically, the film seeks to (i) spend time with the subjects of Adam's work, in order to get to know them better and (ii) address the controversy and response Adams' photographs generate, which involves the politics of representation. Both strands...
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On February 4, 1974, college student Patty Hearst (granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst), was kidnapped from her apartment by a terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The SLA, seeking to foment a violent uprising within America's working class, forced the Hearst family to donate millions of dollars in food to the poor. But two months after her kidnapping, Patty emerged in public as Tania, an armed member...
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New Video
Pub. Date
c2003
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[Snowy day] describes the silent wonder of a city snow and little Peter's delight as he slides down snowy mountains. [Whistle for Willie] An animated cartoon about a boy who tries very hard to learn how to whistle so that he can call his dog like a big boy. [Peter's chair] When Peter finds out that his blue furniture is being painted pink for his new baby sister, he takes the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away. [Pet show] When he can't find...
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Distributed by Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
2008
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When Max is sent to bed without supper, he sails off to a world inhabited by weird creatures. Mickey is awakened by noises in the night. Alligators dance and sing through the alphabet. Counting forwards and backwards has never been so much fun. Pierre doesn't care about anything until he meets a hungry lion. Chicken soup with rice can be enjoyed all year long while learning the months.
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Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
2012
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"Each monument represents the utmost in engineering, design and vision. They all stand as mighty symbols of American ingenuity, courage and sacrifice. Find out how these famous structures came to be, who conceived of them, whose sweat built them, and who dismissed them as fantasy. Find out why the Washington Monument took 100 years from conception to execution, why skeptics thought the Brooklyn Bridge wouldn't survive the first gale, and why it...
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A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
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Since the fifteenth century, the area in the Atlantic known as the Bermuda Triangle has mysteriously claimed an untold number of people, ships, and planes. While some people argue that the bizarre disappearances can be explained by the fact that the region is prone to dangerously heavy storms, others believe the explanations are much more paranormal in nature. This program uses advanced computer graphics, highly stylized recreations and underwater...
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Permacology Productions
Pub. Date
2012
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From the creators of the best-selling documentary Food Matters comes another hard-hitting film certain to change everything you thought you know about food and nutrition. It exposes shocking secrets the diet, weight loss and food industries don't want you to know about deceptive strategies designed to keep you coming back for more. Find out what's keeping you from having the body and health you deserve and how to escape the diet trap forever.
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New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
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Curious George rides a bike: The man in the yellow hat gives Curious George a brand new bicycle. The great white man-eating shark: Norvin, a boy who closely resembles a shark uses his talents to scare away all the swimmers at Caramel Cove, except for one female shark in love. Flossie & the fox: Flossie meets up with a clever fox who has been making trouble around town.
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Buzz, flutter and march into three tiny new worlds with Ms. Frizzle.
The Friz and her class explore the sticky home of a bee, the industrious life of an ant and the surprising identity of a caterpillar! Their Magic School Bus can go anywhere and be anything, so each field trip brings a new discovery to those brave enough to step through its doors! Featuring lots of busy bugs, this un-bee-lievable collection of episodes will take your child on a microscopic...
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Three episodes from the television series. In The Magic school bus Gets Lost in Space the students go on a planetarium field trip and are magically transported out of the earth's atmosphere into space where they vist each of the nine planets. In The Magic School Bus Out of This World they learn about gravity and meteors as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth. In the last episode, The Magic School Bus Taking Flight they learn about the basics of aerodynamics...
