David Ogden Stiers
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
One terrible act plunges the world into an instant nuclear crisis, and, with the American president accused of incompetence, Jack Ryan calls on FBI head Dan Murray to help him avert disaster.
3) Fidel Castro
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Cuban dictator is profiled through interviews with relatives, loyalists, and enemies in Cuba and abroad.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
With their mission complete, Lilo gets ready to say goodbye to her extended family from outer space, including Stitch. However, they must reunite to combat their nemesis Dr. Hamsterviel and a new threat, an experiment named Leroy.
Series
Language
English
Description
Few American artists have reached a wider audience or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime than Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams had a profound impact on how Americans see the majesty or their continent and helped transform how people think and feel about the meaning of the natural world. A visionary photographer, a pioneer in photographic technique and a crusader for the environment, this portrait of Adams portrays the great artist and...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Specially developed macro camera lenses are used to portray a year in the life of a working bee colony. Stunning images take viewers inside the innermost secrets of the hive. Sequences include the "wedding flight" of the colony's virgin queen as it mates in mid-air with a drone; the life-and-death battle between two rival queens for the colony's throne; and the defeat and death of a thieving wasp at the entrance to the hive. The film also explores...
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Few American artists have enjoyed more widespread popularity while alive than Ansel Adams. A visionary photographer, pioneer in technique, and environmental crusader, Adams took part in a revolution in photography, and in the ways he saw "the continuous beauty of the things that are." Ric Burns' film biography of Adams is an intimate portrait of a man for whom life and art were inextricably connected with photography and wilderness.
11) The stand-in
Publisher
Brentwood Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Robbie Bryan plays Brian Roberts, a man with a promising law career ahead of him, a beautiful girlfriend and a loving family, risks everything to follow his dream of becoming an actor. Based on the true story of actor Robbie Bryan's endeavor to make it as an actor in Hollywood.
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In addition to a window into the revolutionary era, John and Abigail's story provides a strikingly intimate look inside a marriage of true companions, for whom life included not just the great events of history, but also laughter, loneliness, affection, and family tragedy.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Pocahontas: The story of the relationships between Native Americans and the early English settlers in the Virginia colony, centered on the story of the Indian princess Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Pocahontas II: The story continues as Pocahontas sets sail for England to try to save her people from extinction
14) Better off dead
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lane thinks his world is crumbling -- he's been jilted by his girlfriend for someone more popular and things at home with his wacky family aren't much better. His half-hearted attempt at suicide catches the eye of Monique, a foreign-exchange student, who is determined to cure Lane of his suicidal tendencies and win his heart too.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Takes place in the middle of the original animated film Beauty and the beast, while Belle is still a prisoner in the castle. She is determined to celebrate Christmas with traditional holiday cheer, a prospect that does not appeal to the Beast.
16) Iron Will
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brave young man is thrust into adulthood as he and his courageous team of sled dogs embark on a grueling and treacherous cross-country marathon for a $100,000 grand prize that will save his family from financial ruin.
17) The great famine
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by a new Secretary of Commerce, 'The Great Humanitarian' Herbert Hoover, an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit, and generosity.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Be our guest at the enchanted 25th Anniversary celebration, a groundbreaking star in the legacy of animation and a new addition to the The Walt Disney Signature Collection. Cast a spell on your imagination and embark on an epic adventure with Belle, our brave and independent heroine, the Beast, who has the heart and soul of a prince, the music you'll never forget and all the fun characters you love.
Series
The dead zone volume 2
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Smith's life is interrupted by a near fatal car crash that leaves him in a deep coma for six years. When he regains consciousness, he discovers that he now possesses amazing psychic powers that allow him to see into the lives of anyone he touches.
20) Pocahontas
Language
English
Formats
Description
A musical animated version of the life of Pocahontas, an American Indian girl who legend says saved the life of explorer and colonist John Smith.