Summary: Long before Jacques Cousteau and Richard Attenborough, a Frenchman named Jean Painlevé made documentaries that captured the natural world in a unique manner. "Science Is Fiction" collects 23 of these short films. Painlevé (1902-89) spent his life straddling the arts and the sciences, studying biology at the Sorbonne, but also hanging out with Man Ray and Luis Buñuel. Long fascinated by marine...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCISummary: These award-winning stories, fully restored to their original beauty, offer previously unseen looks into the magical world of our animal friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRU V2Summary: White Wilderness shows the habits and physical characteristics of the wolves, polar bear, ringed seal and white whale. Follows the migration of lemmings as they pursue a course of destruction by swimming far out into the open sea. Pictures habits of Arctic birds and large animals such as the musk ox, reindeer, wolverine, and caribou. Water Birds is a study of a great variety of water birds...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006