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Documentary television programs. Fiction television programs. Nature television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Television programs for people with visual disabilities. Television programs for the hearing impaired. Television programs. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STOSummary: Season Five kicks into high gear in the premiere episode. Jake's family doesn't know where he is or whether he's alive or dead. How long will the Republic hold without him? And will Jake be able to get out of the mess he's in without the help of his family and, more importantly, without getting killed? Some new friends - and some new enemies - will come to the Republic this year as the beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REPSummary: Jake Doyle is a new breed of private investigator, cracking cases in contemporary St. John's, N.L. His hometown is changing in a big way, transforming from a small seaport to a booming oil town. Along with his father/partner-in-crime-solving, Malachy Doyle, the two are ready to take on whatever mystery turns up on their doorstep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBC Home Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REPSummary: This is Jake as we've never seen him before. Still working cases and capturing criminals on the streets of St. John's, Jake is earning his stripes as a newly-appointed sergeant, the most colorful member of the Newfoundland Royal Constabulary. Assigned to protect a mob informant turned federal witness, Jake finds himself in over his head.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One Films Canada 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REPSummary: When filthy-rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira and their two kids -- über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis -- suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup and rebuild their empire from within the rural city limits of their only remaining asset - Schitt's Creek, an armpit of a town they once bought as a joke.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SCHSummary: From the moment humans mounted horses 6,000 years ago, these magnificent animals helped shape the world by allowing mankind to explore, conquer, and flourish on horseback. Join anthropologist Niobe Thompson on a global journey to examine the evolution of horsepower, discover the mysterious origins of the incredible partnership, and witness the enduring love of 400 breeds of horses today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EQUSummary: Series Three of Doctor Who sees the Tenth Doctor unite with a new companion, Martha Jones, to fight against fearsome foes both old and new. From an encounter with Shakespeare in Elizabethan England to a trip to New New York in the far future to 1930s Manhattan suffering from an invasion by the evil Daleks, this set of episodes provides some of the Doctor's greatest adventures yet!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DOCSummary: "Nova takes viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of pioneering mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. Their remarkable findings are deepening our understanding of nature and stimulating a new wave of scientific, medical and artistic innovation, stretching from the ecology of the rainforest to fashion design." - Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FRASummary: In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LITSummary: One evening everyone in a part of the English town of Midwich falls unconscious, and upon waking, every woman has fallen pregnant. The spawn of these pregnancies are The Midwich Cuckoos, a group of strange "children" who will change the town forever. Based on the iconic novel by John Wyndham comes the spine-chilling first season of The Midwich Cuckoos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: Experience the wildlife of the Okavango Delta, an oasis and lush paradise in Southern Africa that connects a wide array of creatures. Lions chase elephants, who chase hippos, who chase crocodiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OKASummary: DI Rachita Ray is promoted to join a homicide investigation. When she's told the murder is a 'Culturally Specific Homicide,' it makes her suspect she's been chosen for her ethnicity rather than her ability. However, Rachita sticks to the case, determined to find the killer by delving deep into the dangerous world of organized crime, as well as calling out the obvious biases her colleagues are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV D.I.Summary: The incredible story of a baby elephant who was born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she is suddenly orphaned at one-month-old, it is up to the keepers who look after the herd to keep her alive. This one elephant's tale remains both intimate and epic, a journey of tragedy and triumph, because when her entire species faces extinction, one life means everything.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NALSummary: Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, this series unfolds around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town and one family in particular, forcing an assistant district attorney to choose between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEFSummary: Butterflies are perhaps the world's most beloved insects. But beneath their colorful charm, there's a wealth of hidden scientific secrets that show butterflies to be smarter and more resilient than we ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BUT1 available in Teen Display, Call number: DVD E-TV BUT
Summary: In 1962, three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz, a prison surrounded on all sides by the waters of San Francisco Bay, and disappeared. The fates of the three men have remained unknown to the present day. In this program, three scientists from the Netherlands employ 3D modeling technology to reconstruct the water currents of the day of the prison break in an attempt to uncover whether or not it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALCSummary: Sheep and Bear are lost in the jungle and must hunt for letters to create a map. Next, Duck breaks a lamp, a lever and Frog's log. Will their friendship be broken too? Then, Fly and Duck dream of becoming firefighters and go in search of smoke in WordWorld, but can they discover what's really smoke to find the fire? And, when PIG gets a pot stuck on his face, Sheep takes over his cooking show?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: The story is told through the eyes of teenager Miles 'Pudge' Halter, as he enrolls in boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life. He falls in love with Alaska Young and finds a group of loyal friends. But after an unexpected tragedy, Miles and his friends attempt to make sense of what they've been through.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOOSummary: "The Mandalorian and the Child continue their journey, facing enemies and rallying allies as they make their way through a dangerous galaxy in the tumultuous era after the collapse of the Galactic Empire" -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY TV MAN3 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a growing group of researchers is exposing longstanding discrimination and making science more inclusive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PICSummary: Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SERSummary: Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and animal behaviorists join forces to explore stories of animal lives 'told' by the animals themselves. The series explores the secret side of the animal kingdom where human cameramen can't go, and camera-wearing animals film their own stories. Meerkats, penguins, a chimp, cheetahs, seals, baboons, devil rays, brown bears, and sheepdogs are the subjects of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANISummary: The story of China's 8,000 terracotta warriors begins two centuries before the birth of Christ. The First Emperor of China was preparing an extravagant tomb for his journey into the afterlife, and decreed that he be protected forever by a monumental army. Since then no one has seen these ancient warriors in their original splendor, brightly painted and fully armed, ready to protect their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHISummary: Dr. Kathleen Martinez, criminal lawyer turned maverick archaeologist, searches for Cleopatra's lost tomb. Very little evidence remains of Egypt's last queen, but Kathleen's radical new theory about the real Cleopatra has led her to look where no one else has dared and her hunch is paying off. Could Kathleen be closing in on Cleopatra's final resting place?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016