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Planet Earth - The Complete CollectionGenre: Education/General Interest Release Date: 10/04/2011 Rating NR Production Year: 2007 Run Time: 550 mins Released By: BBC Video With both impressive scope and incredible detail, PLANET EARTH explores the entire world using high definition cinematography. Boasting a budget of over $25 million, this BBC/Discovery Channel co-production exposes the beauty of the earth and its animal inhabitants from a cuddly panda cub to an attacking shark. David Attenborough narrates, as the vivid documentary takes to the sea, as well as to the mountains, caves, deserts, jungles, and more. With 40 cameramen traveling to 200 locations, this is an epic series that can't be missed. This set contains every episode: "Living Planet," "Mountains," "Fresh Water," "Caves," "Deserts," "Frozen Worlds," "The Great Plains," "Forests," "Jungles," "The Shallow Seas," "Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep," and "Planet Earth - The Future." … more less -
Universe in 3-D, TheGenre: Education/General Interest Release Date: 11/13/2012 Rating Production Year: 2012 Run Time: 132 mins Released By: A&E Home Video … more less -
History in 3DGenre: Education/General Interest Release Date: 11/13/2012 Rating Production Year: 2012 Run Time: 179 mins Released By: A&E Home Video This box set from cable's venerable History Channel offers a triumvirate of documentary programs that explore various historical events in 3D mode. First on the bill is WWII IN 3D, a systematic and chronological look at the Second World War - from Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939, through the D-Day landing at Normandy in 1944, and beyond. Next up is TITANIC: 100 YEARS IN 3D in which the administrators of Woods Hole team up with SMS Titanic, Inc. for a 3D underwater exploration of history's most infamous ill-fated cruise ship - a journey paired, here, vis-à-vis biographical profiles of various Titanic casualties. Finally, HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN TWO HOURS IN 3D offers exactly what its titles promises - a visually overwhelming, three-dimensional look back at all of the Earth's history, from the creation of the planet through the rise of modern civilizations. … more less -
Ken Burns - The WarGenre: Education/General Interest Release Date: 05/15/2012 Rating NR Production Year: 2007 Run Time: 940 mins Released By: Paramount Home Entertainment Cast: Adam Arkin, Bobby Cannavale, Kevin Conway, Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson After tackling the truly American subjects of jazz and baseball, award-winning documentarian Ken Burns returns to our country's military history with THE WAR. His acclaimed 1991 series, THE CIVIL WAR, was devoted to the War Between the States, while this 2007 production pays the same amount of care and attention to World War II. Rather than keeping THE WAR on the frontlines, Burns and his fellow director Lynn Novick also explore life on the homefront in four towns: Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota. Keith David, who also lent his baritone to KEN BURNS' JAZZ, narrates this documentary series, while actors such as Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Lucas, and Adam Arkin give readings of historical accounts of those who fought on the other side of the world, as well as those who were fighting in their own way back home. … more less -
Life (Narrated By David Attenborough)Genre: Education/General Interest Release Date: 06/01/2010 Rating NR Production Year: 2010 Run Time: 586 mins Released By: BBC Video The producers of PLANET EARTH explore some truly remarkable creatures and their unique habitats, many of which have never been captured on camera before. Star nosed moles, Zambian bats, and the Vogelkop bowerbird are just a few of the creature's you'll encounter as the filmmakers take viewers to distant continents, using state-of-the-art filming techniques to drift along with migrating elephants, soar through the sky with monarch butterflies, and witness a mating battle (also known as a "heat run") between male humpback whales. A two week visit with some Komodo dragons allows us to witness with striking detail how the mighty, ancient beasts can manage the unique feat of taking down an animal that towers over them in size. The series concludes with a "making-of" special which reveals how the dedicated filmmakers worked for more than four years to deliver a nature series with the power to take your breath away. Narrated by David Attenborugh. … more less -
Life/Planet Earth CollectionGenre: Education/General Interest Release Date: 06/01/2010 Rating NR Production Year: 2010 Run Time: 1034 mins Released By: BBC Video Two of the most highly praised nature miniseries ever produced - the 9-hour, 11-episode PLANET EARTH (2006) and its 7-hour, 10-episode follow-up LIFE (2009) - each emerged from the combined efforts of the BBC , The Discovery Channel and celebrated naturalist David Attenborough. PLANET EARTH attempts nothing less than a cinematographic survey of the entire planet - combining action sequences, breathtaking natural tableaux and footage of various species so intimate that it is all but unprecedented. As an extension of this, LIFE utilizes cutting-edge microphotography and macrophotography to tell 130 stories from the outer limits of the natural world, narrated by talk show host, actress and media giant Oprah Winfrey.This package includes both complete miniseries, running over 16 hours total. Bonus features include 'The Planet Earth Diaries' (110 minutes of behind the scenes footage), a haunting 150-minute companion series called PLANET EARTH: THE FUTURE, a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of LIFE called LIFE ON LOCATION, and more. … more less -
National Geographic Ultimate High-Definition CollectionGenre: Education/General Interest Release Date: 09/29/2009 Rating NR Production Year: Run Time: 461 mins Released By: Warner Home Video RELENTLESS ENEMIES: Few of nature's creatures share such a fierce rivalry as lions and buffalos, and in this documentary from National Geographic filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert the brutality of these confrontations is captured in all of its ferocious glory. ATMOSPHERES: EARTH, AIR AND WATER: This National Geographic-commissioned release actually constitutes an ambience film; it offers footage shot in three distinct atmospheres--one set on Earth, another set in the air, and a third set under water-- combined with soundtrack options that enable the viewer to choose between world music and a symphony natural sounds. JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE: Take an express journey to the edge of the universe as the filmmakers at National Geographic use computer-generated animation to build on images captured by the Hubble Telescope. Beginning on Earth, viewers are hurtled into the deepest reaches of space. KINGDOM OF THE BLUE WHALE: This documentary from National Geographic takes a super in-depth look at the mysterious creature the blue whale, exploring how the effects of currents on the ocean floors influence the ways the massive creatures travel and eat, and even examining the animals' DNA. RHINO RESCUE: The black rhino is under threat in Botswana. After a pair of filmmakers witnesses the killing of the last of these creatures in the country, they lead a valiant effort to bring the black rhino back to the southern African nation. … more less -
Universe: The Mega Collection, TheGenre: Education/General Interest Release Date: 04/26/2011 Rating Production Year: 2011 Run Time: 3055 mins Released By: A&E Home Video A program regarded as perhaps the single most ambitious TV documentary series of its kind since Carlos Sagan's COSMOS, History Channel's THE UNIVERSE sets out to explore virtually every known aspect of outer space and interstellar exploration, from ongoing extraterrestrial events that mirror the formation of the Earth itself, through the cataclysms of colliding celestial structures and dying suns. The series also charts the evolution of modern astronomy, with subtopics such as the historical transition from the crudest and most primitive telescopes through the advanced devices of the early 21st Century, such as Hubble. Shot in High Definition, the program makes frequent use of such elements as CGI graphics, NASA footage, and much more. The entire 5-season series appears in this box set, with all 64 episodes as they originally aired. … more less -
World at WarGenre: Education/General Interest Release Date: 11/16/2010 Rating NR Production Year: 2010 Run Time: 2160 mins Released By: A&E Home Video This historical release offers an extensive look at the second World War, including multitudes of rare newsreel, propaganda, and even home-movie footage from the period, drawing on the public and private collections of 18 different nations, in order to give the most well rounded view of the epic period. … more less
