Summary: The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements, the weather, the rough ocean, and the ice is unmatched anywhere else on our planet. tells the compelling story of animals such as the wandering albatross, the adelie penguin, and the polar bear, and paints a portrait that will take your breath away, at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FROSummary: Since the dawn of mankind, we have stared up at the lights in the sky and wondered. Now join the heroic men and women who have dared the impossible on some of the greatest adventures ever undertaken - the quest to reach out beyond Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WHESummary: Shows how filmmakers Jamie and Jim Dutcher spent six years in a tented camp in the wilderness of Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, living with the Sawtooth wolf pack, listening to them, and earning their trust. Reveals details of pack life, including its unique social structure, how wolf cubs are raised within the group, and how the wolves interact with man. Shows how these intelligent predators...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Channel 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LIVSummary: Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LIFSummary: "Yellowstone is no ordinary wilderness, it is the world's first national park, a lost world of vast plains and endless forests defended on all sides by towering mountains, home to America's last great bison herds, the grizzly bear and realm of the wolf ... Join the charismatic cast of Yellowstone's wildlife as they turn to face the extreme challenges of the seasons ... The daily struggles of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD YELSummary: Discover Brazil through the eyes of its people and explore the surrounding beaches, jungles, and landscaping mountains that make this land so vibrant. A country built on belief, unlike any other, where tradition and transformation live together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BRASummary: "A groundbreaking series portraying the human body as you've never seen it before. This series takes us across continents, meeting those who have pushed their bodies to the max. The latest CGI and camerawork depicts their ordeals in vivid detail, both externally and through the internal workings of their bodies. Meanwhile our presenter puts his own body through its paces, pushing it to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 HUM1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUM
Summary: A story of three animal families on a journey across our planet - polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. It captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EAR RATED NRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EARSummary: Introduces viewers to the most diverse group of animals ever to live on this planet. From the smallest to the largest, from the slowest to the fastest, from the least attractive to the most irresistible. Looks at 4,000 species, including ones that have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on Earth. Examine how their adaptations for finding food have had an effect on the way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2007
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LIFSummary: Join zoologist Nigel Marven as he traipses through the eons on a quest to find the largest land animals that ever lived. Watch Marven's encounters with various dinosaurs, each brought to stunning life through computer animation techniques.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video Inc. 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHASummary: Using computer-generated imagery, shows how dragons could have evolved into a number of different species through the ages and how each species might have adapted to its environment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Channel 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Each season, as the ever-thinning Arctic ice recedes, polar bears face a daunting challenge; Grizzly bears in British Columbia must use ingenuity and fancy footwork to collect their catch; The annual rains of the Serengeti draw in the greatest concentration of large animals on Earth; Each year, billions of sardines flood South Africa's east coast creating an action-packed feeding frenzy;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATSummary: The dinosaur gets a makeover and then some in this fantastically groundbreaking documentary. Based on cutting-edge paleontology and the latest fossil records, Dinotasia presents a series of vignettes about dinosaurs, both familiar faces and some we have only found out about in the past ten years. The film uses CGI to bring the stories to life, but draws on animation's birth in silent film and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Film Company 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DINSummary: Following in the footsteps of Planet Earth and Life, this epic eight-part blockbuster is a breathtaking celebration of the amazing, complex, profound, and sometimes challenging relationship between humankind and nature. Humans are the ultimate animals - the most successful species on the planet. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat and reveals how its people have created astonishing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUMSummary: The makers of the Emmy Award(r)-winning series Life take viewers deeper than ever into the perilous and exhilarating drama humans share with every other animal on the planet, from the circumstances of birth and the struggle to reach adulthood, secure a home and find a mate, to the unpredictable challenges thrust on all creatures by the environment, enemies and even families.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LIFSummary: Examines the various factors that make Earth suitable for life, including its size, weather system, distance from the sun, and other natural factors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC PeCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PERSummary: Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 577 Life 2010Summary: With unique access to a pristine and unspoiled corner of the Serengeti's Pride Lands deep in the heart of Africa, this series captures the drama of the daily lives of and emotional moments faced by lions and lionesses, baboons, elephants, leopards, bison and other creatures commonly found in this national park in Tanzania.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SERSummary: British physicist Stephen Hawking explores the mysteries of the universe, discussing the possibility of aliens, time travel, and how the universe began.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTSummary: An up-close and personal look at one of Antarctica's lesser-known inhabitants: the human. Join Werner Herzog as he shows those amazing individuals who work, play, and struggle to live in some of the world's worst conditions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2008