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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Join Whyatt and his friends as they use the power to read to solve the mystery troubling Red in The three Billy goats gruff. Learning about manners has never been so fun as the Super Readers use basic literacy tools and strategies to uncover hidden clues in new and interactive ways. In The tortoise and the hare, the Super Readers find that using teamwork can be more rewarding and fun than working alone to accomplish a goal. In The ugly duckling, Princess...
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6 videodiscs (approximately 660 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
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English
Description
Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Explore nature, discover amazing animals, and meet wild animal babies with the Wild Kratts! Join Martin Kratt and Chris Kratt as they learn about the unique ways young animals are raised and protected by their parents. In select adventures on this DVD, the crew helps an adorable (and majorly destructive) baby elephant stay out of trouble, wrangles some playful lion cubs, and more! It's adventure at its most adorable!
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2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
It's 1953 and Sidney Chambers is vicar of Grantchester, a village just outside Cambridge, England. Sidney's is a quiet life. He tends to his flock, keeps up with his jazz collection, and does his best to contain his passion for beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall. But when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances, Sidney quickly finds that people confide things in a parish priest that they would never tell police.
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Chronicles the famed biologist's lifelong love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. Wilson's work on ant communication led to his remarkable studies of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and his controversial theories on the role of evolutionary processes in social behavior. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa, brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and humanity's...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Mars Curiosity. It could be NASA's last chance to set wheels down on Mars until the end of the decade: last August, a rover named Curiosity touched down inside Mars' Gale Crater, carrying 10 new instruments that will advance the quest for signs that Mars might have once been suitable for life. But Curiosity's mission is risky. After parachuting through the Martian atmosphere at twice the speed of sound, Curiosity will be gently lowered to the planet's...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
There is a startling gap between the glamorous television world of 'CSI' and the gritty reality of the forensic crime lab. In Forensics on Trial, NOVA investigates how modern forensics can send innocent men and women to prison, and sometimes even to death row. NOVA will investigate today's shaky state of crime science as well as cutting-edge solutions that could help investigators put the real criminals behind bars.
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While checking out the endangered Giant panda, the Wild Kratts gets stranded in China without power to any of their vehicles. They must figure out how to 'power up' in time to help save the pandas, who are being turned into roboticized stuffed toys by the nefarious villain, Zach Varmitech. An 'ancient panda secret' just might lead to the creature power that will restart their engines and save the pandas.
14) Endeavour
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1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse is recruited into the hunt for a missing schoolgirl and finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation.
15) Ocean odyssey
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Takes viewers on an undersea journey to remote and magical places. Follow Feodor Pitcairn, a pioneer in underwater HD cinematography, as he explores the marine ecosystems of the Galapagos Islands, Raja Ampat in Indonesia, the Maldives, the Azores, Hawaii, the Caribbean, the Bahamas, the Channel Islands, British Columbia, the Gulf of Mexico, French Polynesia, and Belize"--Container.
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1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The President of the United States summons Peg and Cat to solve a problem of national importance: Strange signals are coming from space, in a pattern. In part two, Peg and Cat call everyone they know to save the Earth from a planet-sized pig's behind.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In less than two minutes in March, a one-square-mile field of debris slammed into the Washington state community of Oso, killing 41 and destroying nearly 50 homes. Drawing on analyses of other recent landslides around the world, geologists are investigating what triggered the deadliest U.S. landslide in decades and whether climate change is increasing the risk of similar disasters around the globe.
20) Framed
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the National Gallery is flooded, the stuffy curator is forced to flee to the mountains of Wales, along with the paintings. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets the townspeople.
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