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Artist Not ProvidedSummary: Featuring classic characters as Interplanet Jane and Mr. Morton, this collection of 10 new cartoons focuses on ways to save the environment, like water conservation and biodiversity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD SCHSummary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVSummary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE THRSummary: The first season of this series examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DESSummary: Hannibal, one of history's most famous generals, achieved what the Romans thought to be impossible. With a vast army of 30,000 troops, 15,000 horses, and 37 war elephants, he crossed the mighty Alps in only 16 days to launch an attack on Rome from the north. In Hannibal in the Alps, a team of experts conclusively proves for the first time that Hannibal's army did indeed cross the Alps.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HANArtist Not Provided
Summary: Kids learn about recycling and the machines in a scrap yard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lolo Productions 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOTSummary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THRSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMArtist Not Provided
Summary: Sid and his friends learn about the world around them by observing, comparing, and measuring to solve various problems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SIDSummary: Learn the signs for shoe, sock, hat, coat, please, thank you, sorry, car, train, bus, bike, airplane, boat, ball, doll, bear, wash hands, soap, sleep, bath, brush teeth, book, pajamas, blanket. Uses singing, dancing, speaking, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Little Hands Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BABSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: Latino rock greats Los Lobos, the salsa-rap-reggae-funk Ozomatli and the all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache lead this musical celebration of this much anticipated and highly celebrated fiesta by people of Mexican heritage everywhere. Taped before a live audience in the "underworld" of The Caverns subterranean amphitheater, ¡Día de los Muertos! is a high-energy offering to celebrate a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIASummary: The legend of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West. Jesse James is the bold bandit whose name became synonymous with train hold-ups, daylight bank heists and every other daredevil crime associated with the lawless West of the 1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JESSummary: Follows the journey of Frodo Baggins and his companions as they travel through Middle Earth towards Mount Doom in the quest to finally destroy the one ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Teen Display, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORSummary: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! Follow the adventures of this enthusiastic, optimistic sponge whose good intentions inevitably lead him and his friends into trouble.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this landmark living history series, a Victorian tenement in the heart of London's East End has been painstakingly brought back to life. Host Michael Mosley joins a group of 21st century families as they move in and experience the tough living and working conditions of the Victorian poor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VICSummary: "Shoah Ambassadors centers around two local twenty-year-old individuals hearing stories of the Holocaust from survivors themselves. Together, through their own personal expressions of music and sculpture, our ambassadors bridge the chasm between the generation who endured the nightmare of World War II and today's bright-eyed, tech-savvy youths who may have only a limited grasp of what their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SHOSummary: Using empty beer cans, old tires, plastic bottles and other garbage, iconoclastic architect Michael Reynolds, based in New Mexico, has been building ecologically sustainable structures for 35 years. Calling his structures "earthships," Reynolds has had conflicts with government officials over inflexible zoning and housing laws, but his architectural ideas were put to use in the Andaman Islands...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Morningstar Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GARSummary: "Varda's most recent effort-- the first filmed with a digital videocamera-- focuses on gleaners, those who gather the spoils left after a harvest, as well as those who mine the trash. Some completely exist on the leavings; others turn them into art, exercise their ethics, or simply have fun. The director likens gleaning to her own profession-that of collecting images, stories, fragments of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GLESummary: Holiday special: on the last day of school before the winter holidays, the kids take a trip to a recycling plant. All dried up: Phoebe learns how the animals and plants of the desert take care of themselves. In the rainforest: the kids visit a rainforest on Earth day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday MCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MAGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAG RATED GSummary: Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Almega Projects 2011
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WASSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Little Hands Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BABSummary: Join Hopkins, Alex, and Leah as they learn everyday signs such as friends, emotions, fruits, vegetables, opposites, and many more. Songs include Can you feel it?, Toy box, Show me a sign, and That tastes good.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Little Hands Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BABSummary: "Pets can be a wonderful source of joy, companionship, and fulfillment. And pet owners often enjoy secondary health benefits such as reduced risk of cardiac disease, increased amounts of exercise, and lowered blood pressure. That probably explains why 62 percent of American households have at least one pet. But these bundles of joy can also come with bundles of challenges--unlike humans, they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021