Summary: Braving Alaska. Ventures to the Alaskan bush where four families are carving out lives for themselves in the tradition of the state's early settlers. Focuses on the daily challenges of surviving in an untamed wilderness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALASummary: Vast, wild, and untouched, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is where some of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles unfold. Situated in the northeast corner of Alaska, this refuge has long protected survivors of the Ice Age that still roam a frozen wilderness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: This premium, blue-chip Centennial Collection features beautiful new footage of eight of America's most beloved National Parks, creating an experience of some of the most breathtaking landscapes in the world. Insightful explorations and fascinating stories of America's most majestic lands include Olympic, Yosemite, Everglades, Yellowstone, Saguaro, Grand Canyon, and Great Smoky Mountains.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 AMESummary: Features footage of Alaska's Katmai National Park & Preserve, Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, sockeye salmon in teh Brooks River ecosystem, and fly-fishing for all 5 species of salmon, rainbow trout, char and grayling in the Alagnak Wild River.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bennett-Watt HD Productions 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917 ALASummary: A team of intrepid paleontologists recently discovered a lost world of dinosaurs in the unlikeliest of places - deep in the dark, snowy wilds of northern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALASummary: General William Tecumseh Sherman's total war strategy against the South helped end the Civil War and forever changed the nation. Sherman's brutal and effective campaign, which not only saved the Lincoln presidency, the Union, and thousands of lives, but also made Sherman one of the most hated and controversial figures in American history. In November 1864, Sherman and an army of 60,000 troops...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHESummary: Life in the extreme. In a fragile world of beauty and hostility, nature finds a way to survive and thrive. Sir David Attenborough explores a planet on the brink of major change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC FROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FROSummary: Journey to the top of the world with scientists as they embark on the most ambitious Arctic research expedition of all time. The Arctic - much of it a vast frozen ocean, shrouded in darkness for half the year - is warming at twice the rate as the rest of the globe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARCSummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINSummary: Journey to the world's most unforgettable places in this dazzling series based on the bestselling books. Newlyweds Albin and Melanie soak up all the world has to offer on a dream honeymoon, experiencing Brazil, Austraila, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.202 THOSummary: Ten-disc expanded edition of National Geographic's National parks collection that explores the natural history and wildlife of America's national parks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 NATSummary: Features Bear Grylls, who draws on his experiences as a soldier, mountaineer, and seasoned adventurer to demonstrate life-saving survival skills and techniques in some of the toughest, most treacherous environments on Earth. Shows how Bear is stranded in wilderness destinations with few supplies and is challenged to make his way back to civilization. Looks at how Bear faces sweltering desert...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Channel 2007