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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Scientists venture into the virtually unknown interior of Antarctica to explore a lake buried 3,600 feet beneath the ice. Their success hinges on a custom hot water drill and their ability to work as a team in the harshest climate on the planet. -- Amazon.com.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Transports you to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea, and others in the Indo-Pacific region and allows you to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Renowned paleontologist Kirk Johnson embarks on an epic adventure through time at the polar extremes of the planet. Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places - beech trees in Antarctica, redwoods and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic - NOVA uncovers the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-thick ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the next decade, NASA will send astronauts to Mars for the first time. Separated from Earth, and unable to communicate with the ground in real-time, crew members will experience extreme isolation that could gravely affect their three-year journey. This Sundance-premiering documentary follows a savvy NASA psychologist tasked with protecting daring space explorers.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Can six people endure Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic rescue mission today? Using a replica boat, and the same equipment and clothing as would have been used in 1914, explorer Tim Jarvis and his crew attempt to follow in Shackleton's wake, going beyond the point of no return, using their firsthand extreme experience measured against historical accounts to unlock the secrets of Shackleton's survival.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a world of incredible color and beauty. Of crabs wearing jellyfish for hats. Of fish disguised as frogs, stones and shag carpets. Of a kaleidoscope of life dancing and weaving, floating and darting in an underwater wonderland. Now, go explore it! Howard Hall and his filmmaking team, who brought you Deep Sea and Into the Deep, take you into tropical waters alive with adventure: the Great Barrier Reef and other South Pacific realms. Narrated...
Series
Criterion collection volume 54
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Examines the historic first landing of men on the moon, with official film taken by the Apollo crew and backup film on the space program.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon. Only 12 American men have walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first time, a combination of archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen and interviews with the surviving astronauts tells the story of the Apollo space program.
14) Mars rising
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by William Shatner, more than 300 scientists and experts (including Avatar filmmaker James Cameron) assemble in an expansive six-part documentary that explores the challenges behind a potential manned mission to the red planet, possibly the most dangerous expedition of the 21st century.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Do we as a society have the capacity to live up to Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision for humanity's future? That is the central question in The Truth is in the Stars, a feature documentary in which the original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, examines the impact of Star Trek on popular culture, human innovation, discovery and creativity. The film's narrative is driven by exclusive one-on-one interviews that Shatner conducts himself with famous...
17) Journey to space
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Contains "Apollo 11 Moon Landing," about the voyage that first took astronauts to the moon; and "NASA: the First 25 Years," which chronicles the history of the organization from its beginnings through the early Space Shuttle missions.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Mysterious flying objects, unexplained disappearances, species invasions: a swirl of suspicion has circled our planet for decades, but few definitive answers have been offered. This collection combs through three and a half hours of evidence, interviews, and theories that attempt to explain the unexplained. From astronauts to abductees, a variety of sources submit film footage and firsthand testimonies to be examined in search for the truth.
19) Chasing Pluto
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
NOVA captures New Horizons' historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first ever detailed images of this strange and icy world at the very edge of our solar system.
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