"The sun is dying...and it's happening way too damn fast. With the clock ticking, the Nine Planets' only hope of survival rests on a fancy space station and the alien artifact it's carrying. Which is why it really sucks when some jackass doesn't want the universe saved and blows that station up-- while you're still on it. So if your only choices are flaming death or stealing a flying hunk of space junk--you pick that busted-ass spaceship. Even if...

This documentary provides an excellent introduction to the art of thangka, sacred Tibetan Buddhist painting in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. Carefully filmed, it takes you through every step of the painting process of thangkas.

"In the vast, artificial galaxy called the Spin, a rebellion has been crushed. Viklun Haas is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his daughter. But Fleare Haas has had time to plan her next move from exile to the very frontiers of a new war. For hundreds of millions of years, the planets and stars of the Spin have been the only testament to the godlike engineers that created them. Now, beneath the surface of a ruined planet,...

In the late 19th century, the Canadian government removed ritual objects from the possession of the Kwakiut'l, a Native American community on the Northwest Coast. The 'potlatch', as it was called, was their way of celebrating their culture, their identity and their heritage. A ritual passing down of treasures, it symbolized a rebirth of tradition, a positive affirmation of their identity, past and present. In 1921 the Kwakiut'l people of Alert Bay,...

Examines ancient artifacts that are so technologically advanced that their existence cannot be explained by scientists.

Describes indian artifacts and adornments

The reader is carefully guided from a definition of folklore, through the legends of yesteryear to the folkloric expressions of today.

Explores knowledge of the true origins and evolution of the human race through artifacts that mystify current academic and scientific experts.