Catalog Search Results
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.
84) Human terrain
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Human Terrain' is two stories in one. The first exposes the U.S. effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies.... The other story is about a brilliant young scholar who leaves the university to join a Human Terrain team. After working as a humanitarian activist and winning a Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford, Michael Bhatia returned to Brown University to conduct...
85) Quinceanera
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
As Magdalena's (Emily Rios) 15th birthday approaches her working class family prepares for the all important "Quinceanera"--a lavish coming of age celebration. To help with expenses, Magdalena is forced to wear a hand me down party dress and abandon her dream of arariving in a Hummer limosine. When her father discovers she's pregnant and refuses to believe the incredible truth--she's actually still a virgin--Magdalena moves in with her elderly Uncle...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by their own unique birth experiences, producer Ricki Lake and director Abby Epstein team up to provide a nation of mothers-to-be with insight into the process of childbirth and the various options available when preparing for this special event."--Container. Provides insights into pregnancy and childbirth for parents-to-be. Provides historical insights and comparative statistics for use of midwives and delivery by Cesarean section in the...
87) Hamlet
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's work, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing. This adapation is set in an opulent 19th-century world, using sprawling Blenheim Palace as Elsinore.
88) Higher learning
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
First-term freshmen get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two of the country's leading child psychologists identify the social and emotional challenges that boys encounter in school and show how parents can help boys cultivate emotional awareness, giving them the support to navigate the social pressures of youth.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Examines the building of the transcontinental railroad, from several angles: its financing by enterprising and unscrupulous entrepreneurs; its creation by determined, inventive engineers; its backbreaking construction by laborers from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds; and its devastating impact on the Native Americans whose land the project plowed through.