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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Join Dr. Emily Zarka, who studies literature and film through the lens of monsters, as she deconstructs some of the most significant moments in zombie pop culture over the last 200 years to reveal what these creatures say about people. From our fears and conflicts to political uprisings, stories about zombies offer a way to better understand how ultimately, the monster feared the most is themselves.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Earth's landforms: With HD footage from all over the world, this program shows young viewers all of the various types of landforms found on our planet. Animation segments demonstrate how land formations are created by movement of the Earth's plates, volcanoes, weather and erosion.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
It takes a lot of work to keep the city running, but these tough machines are on the job! Explore a real fire truck and see how it works. Find out where the garbage goes, and watch enormous tractors roll it into place. Follow street sweepers and tall tree trimmers as they keep the city clean and green.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. This film, using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews with canal workers, and firsthand accounts of life in the Canal Zone, unravels the remarkable story of one of the world's most significant technological achievements.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Featuring programs from hit series "Brain games," "Duck quacks don't echo," and "The numbers game," it combines science and entertaining, interactive experiments and games to reveal the amazing inner-workings of the crown jewel of the human body. The Brain Games sizes up the human brain through mind-boggling experiments, optical illusions, and brainteasers. Duck quacks don't echo assesses the validity of weird, unusual and over-the top hypotheses...
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Well, how about that, it's a brand new adventure with the Cat in the Hat! Making a bird's nest, hey that's pretty neat! Babysitting an egg? Now that is a treat! Meet a tree expert named Dr. Twiggles, and play games with Fish; there are sure to be giggles! In a collection of natural science adventures, follow along with the Cat, Nick, and Sally as they learn how to build a robin's nest, find the mother of a lost egg, and meet a plant expert who teaches...
92) Go green!
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Kids will learn how their favorite Nick Jr. friends are going green and caring for the planet. Features over two hours of entertainment with episodes from Dora the explorer; Go, Diego, go!; Wonder pets!; Yo gabba gabba!; Blue's clues; and Ni Hao Kai-lan.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In this double feature, National Geographic explores the amazing and secret world of the great apes. Mystery gorillas: Join primatologist Mireya Mayor at the heart of the jungle to explore the great apes' secret world. Search for the great apes: Join Dian Fossey and Birut�e Galdikas to better understand the mountain gorilla and the elusive orangutan.
94) Life
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
Series
Baby Signing TIme volume Volume 3
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Alex, Leah, and Hopkins join Rachel Coleman to teach the signs for nature, weather, directions, and more. Songs include A new day, I'm a bug, Starry night, and Tiny hands.
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Presents a reading of the book "Alistair's time machine" by Marilyn Sadler which tells the story of Alistair who enters a science competition and invents a machine that takes him to many places and time periods. Film clips show some wild inventions that never made it. LeVar meets "Thomas Edison" who shows him his inventions of the light bulb and the phonograph. Reviewed books are "Find Waldo now" by Martin Handford, "The many lives of Benjamin Franklin"...
Series
Magic School Bus volume 8
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Flexes its muscles: Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a field trip to R.U. Humerus's (Tony Randall) Body Shop!
Butterfly and the bog beast: The class needs a new mascot for its soccer team. Phoebe suggests butterflies, but everyone thinks they're wimpy, until The Fritz flutters in!
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