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Follow the prestigious Explorer's Club - the finest explorers of our century. Experience space, land and the oceans through the eyes of the world's greatest explorers: Fabian Cousteau, Richard Wiese, Adventurer - George Kourounis, Cheetah Conservationist - Dr. Marker, Swedish Conservationist - Joakim Odelberg, Wildlife Conservation - Anish Andherhia, PhD, Paleontologist - Kenneth Lacovara, PhD, Marine Archaeologist - Damien Leloup, NASA Chief Scientist...
42) 16 Bars
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With the United States locking up more of its citizens per capita than any other nation on the planet, one unique rehabilitation program in Richmond, Virginia aims to reduce recidivism rates via the creative process. 16 Bars follows four men who collaborate on an album with Grammy-winning artist Todd "Speech" Thomas to untangle painful memories of the past in order to begin a new chapter in their lives.
Set at the Richmond City Justice Center, De'vonte,...
43) The Money Stone
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Hundreds of feet beneath the jungles of Ghana, thousands of sweat-soaked miners squeeze through tiny crevices to dig the raw gold that feeds an insatiable global industry. Considered outlaws by the government, these galamsey have two options-either get rich quick or die trying. As the surging gold rush draws both local prospectors and eager foreign corporations to the impoverished West-African nation, struggling families must decide whether to put...
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Dr. Kathleen Martinez, criminal lawyer turned maverick archaeologist, searches for Cleopatra's lost tomb. Very little evidence remains of Egypt's last queen, but Kathleen's radical new theory about the real Cleopatra has led her to look where no one else has dared and her hunch is paying off. Could Kathleen be closing in on Cleopatra's final resting place?
45) Babies
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[2010]
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 19 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows four babies from different parts of the globe as they navigate their first year of life. Features Ponijao from Namibia, Bayarjargal from Mongolia, Hattie who lives in San Francisco, and Mari from Tokyo.
47) Big Crow
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By age 14, SuAnne Big Crow had become one of South Dakota₂s best basketball players, leading her Pine Ridge Lady Thorpes to become the first ever Native American state champions. By age 17, her social activism had made her a household name across the Great Plains. Thirty years after her tragic death, SuAnne's pride in her people continues to galvanize the Lakota in their fight to save their language and reclaim their culture.
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In the course of screening Necessity Part I: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance at schools, activist events, and festivals, the team began production on a second part, titled Necessity Part II: Rails, Rivers and the Thin Green Line. Also feature-length, the film is set along the rivers of Oregon and follows activists as they enlist the necessity defense in a jury trial after being arrested for a direct action at Zenith Energy in Portland. This story...
49) Higher ground
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2006
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2 videodiscs (ca. 175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The ultimate skiing and snowboarding footage from around the globe! Chronicles skiers and snowborders in their never-ending search for new and thrilling ways to ride the snow. Features World Cup Champion, Jeremy Bloom.
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2019
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1 videodisc (DVD) (49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. Earth is home to over 1.6 Million known animal species, each playing a role in the symbiotic beauty of nature. Explore the many species of birds, wildcats, fish, elephants, whales, and more which live on this big blue planet we call home.
51) Dark money
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana, a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide, to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
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NECESSITY traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying highly toxic tar sands oil through Native lands and essential waterways in North America. Front line communities--Native Peoples and communities of color--suffer the most immediate and severe consequences of the climate crisis: impacts on physical and mental health as well as territorial desecration and displacement. Yet with painful histories have come deep insights,...
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c2007
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Part 1, The rise of the dog, examines the relationship between dogs and humans, from their initial domestication to the present day. Part 2, Dogs by design, examines the many different breeds of dogs, and how modern technology is changing the science of dog breeding.
55) Victory at sea
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c2005
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3 videodiscs : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea.
56) Grand Coulee Dam
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[2012]
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee in the wake of the Great Depression and the Native people whose lives were changed alongside historians and engineers, the film explores how the tension between technological achievement and environmental impact hangs over the project's legacy.
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In the Kenyan bush, a small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobilize to destroy his trade. When he propositions his younger cousin, a conflicted wildlife ranger who hasn't been paid in months, they both see a possible lifeline. The plummeting elephant population in Africa has captured the attention of the world, and as the government cracks down, both poachers and rangers face their own existential crises - what is the value of...
59) Country boys
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[2006]
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2 videodiscs (ca. 335 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Acclaimed producer, David Sutherland returns to rural America to tell an epic tale of two boys coming of age in Kentucky's Appalachian hills, documenting their struggles to overcome hardship and poverty and find meaning in their lives.
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This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and Lakota. Its exploration into Native American history also takes a hard and detailed look at President Ulysses S. Grant's Peace Policy of 1873, which was, in effect, a convert to Episcopalianism or starve edict put forth by the American government in direct violation of its Constitution. The devastation...
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