Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures. In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In...
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Doctor and Donna travel back to Pompeii in AD 79 on the eve of the infamous eruption, investigate a series of grisly murders with the help of Agatha Christie, journey to the homeworld of the sinister Ood, face an old enemy of the Doctor's, and more.
Publisher
J films Inc
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
Nelofer Pazira, star of the feature film 'Kandahar', returns to Afghanistan to search for her childhood friend Dyana. Her first attempt to find Dyana inspired the fictional movie Kandahar. This film is the documentary account of her second journey, taken seven months after the fall of the Taliban. While searching for her friend, Nelofer unravels her past and the troubled history of her country.
9) China rises
Publisher
Discovery Channel Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Four-part series chronicling the communist nation's evolution from agrarian backwater to industrial leader.
13) Rainy day tales
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Includes four short stories where Little Bear learns how to brighten up those dark and dampened hours.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When filthy-rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira and their two kids -- über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis -- suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup and rebuild their empire from within the rural city limits of their only remaining asset - Schitt's Creek, an armpit of a town they once bought as a joke.
16) Iolanthe
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
1998, c1985
Language
English
Description
Gilbert & Sullivan's light opera about a fairy who married a mortal, is banished to live with frogs, but produces a son who is half-fairy, half-mortal; she is pardoned and her son courts the Lord High Chancellor's pretty ward.
17) Putin's way
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Frontline investigates the accusations of criminality and corruption that have surrounded Vladimir Putin's reign in Russia. Tracing his career back over two decades, Putin's Way reveals how the accumulation of wealth and power has led to autocratic rule and the specter of a new Cold War.
19) Restless spirits
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Katie encounters two men at eerie Porter's Pond who tell her about their attempt to fly across the Atlantic. Katie realizes that the aviators are ghosts caught in a terrible cycle, and unless she can help them, these brave men are doomed to repeat their ill-fated flight each time the fog rolls in.