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2) Bulletproof
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The documentary explores the complexities of violence in schools by looking at the strategies employed to prevent it. The film observes the longstanding rituals that take place in and around American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements, and math class. Unfolding alongside these scenes are a collection of newer traditions: lockdown drills, teacher firearms training, metal detector screenings, and school safety trade...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Across the west, wildfires have never been more destructive. Oregon's record-breaking 2020 wildfire season killed at least eleven people, destroyed more than 5,000 homes and businesses, and burned over one million acres of land. Today's fires are vivid and deadly evidence of the new wildfire realities that can no longer be ignored. Built to Burn explores a pattern of growing fire risk emerging from a confluence of factors decades of aggressive fire...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With three out of four Americans regularly experiencing stress, there's never been a better time to begin a yoga practice. Yoga instructor Peggy Cappy leads this yoga routine to ease stress and anxiety.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Demonstrates how to safely and easily use resistance bands when you're over 50 using standing and sitting exercises (no floor exercises). Muscles and bones respond well to the variation and force of resistance bands to quickly build strong muscles to help slow down bone loss and prevent falls.
7) Hellfighters
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chance Buckman is a Texan who tames out-of-control oil well infernos in exotic locations around the world. Between blazes, Chance carries the burden for Madelyn, the wife who left him 20 years earlier because of his dangerous lifestyle.
8) Wildlife
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Description
A meticulously crafted portrait of the American nuclear family in crisis charts the rift that forms within a 1960s Montana household when the father and breadwinner abruptly departs to fight the forest fires raging nearby, leaving his restless wife and teenage son to pick up the pieces. A deeply human look at a woman's wayward journey toward self-fulfillment in the pre-women's liberation era and a sensitively observed, child's eye coming-of-age tale....
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Muscles tighten in your 50s, inhibiting the full range of motion and making a regular flexibility program more important than ever to improve posture, prevent injury and relieve stress. A complete flexibility workout that includes insights into the importance of flexibility training, ; exercise tips for achieving maximum results; 40-minute core routine; introductory Pilates and yoga workouts; Q & A session.
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The documentary film PlantPure Nation tells the story of three people on a quest to spread the message of one of the most important health breakthroughs of all time. After renowned nutritional scientist and bestselling author Dr. T. Colin Campbell gives a stirring speech on the floor of the Kentucky House of Representatives, his son Nelson, and Kentucky State Representative Tom Riner work together to propose a pilot program documenting the health...
11) Pave the road
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Appears on list
Description
DVD-R. Influencing large oil and gas companies, this award-winning documentary inspired the paving of 45 km of road in Costa Rica using new Green Pavement technology.
12) Eyeborgs
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the near future as fear of terrorism escalates, privacy is a luxury of the past. Now, in people's homes, on the streets, in the workplace, everyone is constantly being watched by mobile robotic cameras known as 'Eyeborgs.' But are the cameras just watching, or are they up to something else? As an increasing number of people die in bizarre ways, federal agent Gunner Reynolds is determined to find out after he realizes that a camera has recorded...
13) Contagion
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Malaria is one of humanity's oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sickens or kills millions of people each year. What if it could finally be defeated? Now, scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough with a promising new vaccine.
15) Breakthrough
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines cutting edge developments in science, technology, and medicine, covering a variety of topics that include: new findings in pandemic research; cyborg technologies; new developments in understanding the brain; the latest advances in extending human life; innovations in energy resources; developments under way to countervail potential water shortages.
16) Stay
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Henry, a college student, plans to kill himself in three days, unless psychologist Sam can save him. After his first encounter with Henry, Sam finds he's losing his own grip on reality, as he is thrust into a nightmarish place between life and death.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A series of laboratory and field experiments demonstrated that stress, long thought to be an exclusively psychological phenomenon, is measurable and dangerous on a physical level. Stanford neurobiologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky studied baboons (Papio) on the Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya, measuring their levels of stress hormones caused by social hierarchies. Sapolsky found that the hormones adrenaline and glucocorticoid increase in subordinate troop members,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (64 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the stories of how guns, and the billions made off of them, affect the lives of everyday Americans. It features personal stories from people across the country who have been affected by gun violence, including survivors and victims' families. The film exposes how the powerful gun companies and the NRA are resisting responsible legislation for the sake of profit-- and thereby putting people in danger. The film looks into gun tragedies that include...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (648 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With a paranoid president facing investigation and the country tearing itself apart, Carrie and Saul must determine who they can trust in the gripping seventh season. As President Keane finds herself under threat from forces outside the government and within, Carrie embarks on a mission to unravel the truth and bring down a harrowing conspiracy.
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