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1) Rat race
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
A casino tycoon gives six contestants a chance to win two million dollars in a race from Las Vegas to New Mexico.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Forty million children play organized sports. Viewers of this exciting new program see children from toddlers through puberty illustrate just how fun or frustrating playing sports can be. They watch as physical, social and emotional development follow a sequence that adults can't speed up. They see just how skills in sports progress from birth through puberty. They marvel at the intellectual side of sports - from score keeping to game strategizing....
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Kevin McCallister is ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. The notorious Wet Bandits, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist in New York. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbors.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Anne and Kim are very different culturally and in their work styles. Kim is annoyed by Anne's attitude, insensitive comments and fashion clothes. Anne, who is new, feels that Kim does not fit in well, and is frustrated by her messy desk and personal hygiene issues. Their relationship is spinning out of control. Anne takes the lead and sets up an open discussion where they give each other feedback, discuss their differences and come to a resolution...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Hoping to earn extra money, an innocent and reserved scholarship student at an exclusive prep school agrees to look after a blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel, who takes him off for a wild weekend in New York City.
9) Gladiator
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
10) Cool runnings
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1993
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The comedy hit inspired by the true story of Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man who's life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
This is one the most fearless animals in the world, renowned for its ability to confront grown lions, castrate charging buffalo, and shrug off the toxic defenses of stinging bees, scorpions, and snakes. Our film will follow a team of researchers in South Africa who are searching for the truth behind the honey badger.
13) One fine day
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Two single parents are inadvertently thrown together for one chaotic day -- and love, of course, blooms.
14) Eight men out
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen
Language
English
Description
Based on the real-life scandal of 1919, the film tells the story of eight baseball players who plan to throw games for money, and the scorn and anger the scheme earned them.
15) Ice age
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
To avoid a bad case of global frostbite, a group of migrating misfit creatures embark on a hilarious quest to reunite a human baby with his tribe.
16) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Director's cut.
Language
English
Description
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.
17) Walkabout
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout", a tribal initiation into manhood.
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Get ready to dance with Zoe, Sesame Street's favorite ballerina. Learn how to step with pep in a ballet warm-up, get the beat in your feet from an African drum, and be grand with your hands in an Asian dance, and just have fun with Zoe's own Silly Willy Nilly dance.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
Publisher
GPN
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Barbara Feldon reads the featured book The life cycle of the honeybee by Paula Z. Hogan about how bees make honey. Host LeVar Burton visits a beekeeper and examines a beehive close up. Viewers will learn how honey is extracted from combs and how important the queen bee is to a well-organized hive. Featured book reviews are The reason for a flower by Ruth Heller, The lady and the spider by Faith McNulty, and Going buggy by Peter and Connie Roop.
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