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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Surveys the natural history of Indiana prior to the arrival of Europeans and afterwards. Explores the diversity of life in Indiana's rivers, lakes, forests and prairies. Examines how human activity has altered the state's natural habitats and how recent efforts have contributed to the protection and restoration of plants, animals and habitats.
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE MAGIC OF FLIGHT brings the thrill of flight and jet aircraft technology to the big screen with a film that balances the excitement of a Blue Angels air show with the science and history of flight. The film begins by examining how birds fly and reviews the success of the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903. Steering from earlier flight ventures to modern aviation, audiences are introduced to high-performance jets. The variety and versatility...
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about lizards. Is a Komodo dragon an actual dragon? What is the world's largest and smallest lizard? What breakthrough medicines are derived from lizards? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video that reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface our seemingly pristine ocean. The result will astound viewers, just as it did our adventurers, who captured never-before-seen images of marine life, plastic pollution, and its ultimate consequences for human health.
8) Jane
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
9) Space men
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
On an August morning in 1960, Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger stepped out of a helium balloon twenty miles above Earth, hurtling down at over 400 miles per hour. The little-known story of the men whose scientific experiments laid critical groundwork for NASA's manned space program, a decade before President Kennedy committed the nation to sending a man to the moon.
10) Isaac Newton
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Learn all about the life of Sir Isaac Newton and his major contributions to science. What were the significant events of Isaac Newton's early life? What were his major discoveries? The answers to these questions and many more are covered with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment that reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
11) Born to be wild
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the people who rescue and rehabilitate them to be able to go back into the wild and survive.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence, the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. Who or what are we? Are we alone? How did life begin? What happened before? The series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Astrophysicist Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond, all leading to the ultimate riddle: Is math an invention or a discovery? Humankind's clever trick, or the language of the universe? Join Nova for a mathematical mystery tour, a provocative exploration of math₂s astonishing power across the centuries.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"For years fishermen have known of a unique spot in the ocean off southern Australia, a place of amazing catches and a huge luminescent blue of the deep. As much as 100 feet long, weighing up to 180 tons, with a heart the size of a Volkswagen and a tongue that weighs more than an elephant, the Blue Whale is a sight to behold"--Container.
15) Human body
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
With stunning footage and cutting-edge technology, National Geographic explores the human body from the inside out as never before. Four classic programs look at how the incredible human machine works, from the miraculous in-utero development of a fetus to the mechanics of a beating heart, and from the formation of skin to the amazing way complicated systems work together for sensing, adapting, reproducing, regenerating, and thinking.
18) For all mankind
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.
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Join Kid Brainiac as he inspects some of the coolest creatures on the planet, bugs! Dive into the microworld as Felix Brianiac and his partner Big-T power up their high powered microscopes and learn about all the the fascinating critters that live on Earth.
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