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1) My Hero
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
George Sunday lives in London with the love of his life, Nurse Janet Dawkins. Their busy lives are overshadowed by one unique yet significant element - George is Thermoman, a superhero. The humour and strains of their relationship (she doesn't understand that Thermoman's tights must not go in the washing machine; he doesn't realise that you don't French-kiss your girlfriend's mother - a light peck will do) make for captivating viewing.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Police crime drama exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is 30, down-to-earth, noisy, argumentative and single. Her partner, Detective Constable Janet Scott, is 40, a diplomat and a thinker, as well as being a wife and mother. They both work for Manchester Metropolitan Police's prestigious Murder Investigation Team and, despite the obvious differences between them, the fact that they...
3) Life
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
4) Earthflight
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by David Tennant, this exhilarating adventure was filmed over four years and forty countries with help from camera-carrying birds, drones, paragliders and remote-countrol microflight planes. This wondrous aerial spectacle will make your spirits soar!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Get up close and personal with one of the planet's most fearsome predators. The most dangerous lizard in the world, with a powerful set of jaws used to rip prey apart, may actually have a secret weapon, extremely poisonous venom. This film follows scientist Bryan Fry's quest to truly understand this dragon's deadly bite, beyond its ripping teeth.
Series
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Go up-river and deep into the jungle, far from Brazil's cities and stadiums, where families of giant otters, tufted capuchin monkeys and mischievous coati (South American raccoon cousins) rally their wits to survive in a breathtakingly beautiful yet dangerous land. Follow their lives through an exciting year, from first steps in a brave new world, to ingenious resilience during drought and monsoon.
7) Earth
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet - polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. An astonishing and heartwarming film filled with adventure, suspense, and humor as it captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ian Wright has been sent to survive in the Kalahari Desert, one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. He comes face to face with big cats, snakes and the fear of being crushed by an elephant, and is given a crash course in survival by the ultimate hunter-gatherers - the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert.
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
These rocky and beautiful islands are remote and unforgiving, yet home to giant tortoises, equatorial penguins, pink iguanas, and dandelion trees. In the film state-of-the-art research vessel with floating labs, helicopters, and sonar scanners are used to capture rare animals and submerged worlds. Expert presenters rappel into volcanoes and free-dive offshore to tag hammerheads and film baby sea lions at play.
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover the thrilling story of how you were made, from the moment of conception to the moment of birth 280 days later. Follow the gestation process, the most exquisite biological choreography found in nature. Using the latest research and advances in medicine, we can reveal this hidden world in forensic detail. Zeroing in on milestones along the road to creation--where critical events can change your life.
11) Blue planet II
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
David Attenborough returns to the world's oceans in this sequel to the acclaimed documentary filming rare and unusual creatures of the deep, as well as documenting the problems our oceans face.
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
On the Jurassic Coast of England, a remarkable 200-million-year-old fossil is discovered - the bones of an Ichthyosaur, a giant sea dragon. David Attenborough joins the hunt to bring this ancient creature's story to life. Using state-of-the-art scanning and CGI, the team reconstructs the skeleton, creates the most detailed animation of an Ichthyosaur, and unravels an age-old murder mystery.
13) 6Degrees: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Following the lives of six university undergraduates in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as they crash through their first term at university. Londoner Jess is studious, straightforward and down to earth. Handsome, successful and charming, Conor is revered by the lads and adored by the ladies. Film fanatic Danny is eager to get his teeth into student life. Hailing from the Causeway Coast, glamour girl Sandie is the innocent optimist of the group. Closet...
15) Hidden kingdoms
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Imagine what it's like to be shrunk down and immersed in a magical world of fantastical creatures living incredible, action-packed lives. With a cast of miniature marvels all less than a foot in size, these superheroes may be small but they pack a punch way above their weight. Chipmunks, elephant shrews, marmosets, scorpion mice, even giant rhinoceros beetles all face drama on a different scale -- when you are this small rain drops fall like meteorites...
16) Winged planet
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
State-of-the-art technology and innovative techniques show the world from an amazing aerial perspective. Viewers can fly along with snow geese dashing through Monument Valley and New York City. Watch Macaws racing through the rainforest, vultures soaring miles above the earth, and more.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1971, graduate student Penny Patterson began teaching sign language to a gorilla named Koko, a scientific experiment that evolved into an intimate friendship lasting almost half a century and changed the course of human-animal communication.
18) The planets
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Among the stars in the night sky wander the eight-plus worlds of the solar system, each home to truly awe-inspiring sights. Volcanoes three times higher than Everest, geysers erupting with icy plumes, cyclones larger than Earth lasting hundreds of years. Each of our celestial neighbors has a distinct personality and a unique story. In this five-part series, NOVA will explore the awesome beauty including Saturn's 175,000-mile-wide rings, Mars's ancient...
19) A State of Mind
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A STATE OF MIND follows two North Korean schoolgirls and their families in the lead up to the "Mass Games" â€" the biggest and most elaborate human performance on earth â€" and in the process reveals more of North Korea than ever before. Following on from the 2002 award-winning documentary The Game of Their Lives, VeryMuchSo productions was granted permission from the North Korean film authorities to make a second documentary: an observational...
Author
Publisher
BBC Books, an imprint of Ebury Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
10 years on from the first, groundbreaking, Planet Earth, we use the most incredible advances in technology and scientific discovery to bring you the most exciting and immersive picture of our world's wildlife yet. With over 250 breathtaking photographs and stills from the BBC Natural History Unit's spectacular footage, this is an extraordinary new look at the complex life of some of the most amazing places on Planet Earth. Each chapter reveals an...
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