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Series
Language
English
Description
Why is life expectancy in the United States decreasing and infant mortality so high compared to other industrialized nations? Take a captivating look behind the scenes at the debate between scientists fighting for their individual points of view. Does the media explain the statistics behind their competing theories? If not, who suffers from the oversimplification of a "clickbait" headline?
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage, or why Outworld's Emperor Shang Tsung has sent his best warrior, Sub-Zero, an otherworldly Cryomancer, to hunt Cole down. Fearing for his family's safety, Cole goes in search of Sonya Blade at the direction of Jax, a Special Forces Major who bears the same strange dragon marking Cole was born with. Soon, he finds himself at the temple of Lord Raiden, an Elder...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hundreds of years after our civilization was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the fight to stop London -- now a giant predator city on wheels -- from devouring everything in its path.
4) Black work
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jo Gillespie is a policewoman whose detective husband is killed in the line of duty while working undercover on a case. Her coworkers expect her to stay out of the investigation, but when alarming information about her husband comes to light, Jo loses faith in her police family and sets out to find the killer herself. Along the way she learns of the many dark secrets surrounding her husband, his colleagues, and the criminals they were investigating....
Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Deutsch
Description
An angel falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist and is willing to give up his immortal life to be with her.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This Christmas, the Doctor comes face to face with, the Doctor! The first and current Doctors contemplate mortality in the Arctic as the join forces against a common enemy, revisit another last-of-its-kind being, and are ultimately responsible for the life of a WWI soldier.
9) I Am Mortal
Author
Language
English
Description
Set 200 years in the future, humans have achieved peace, prosperity, and immortality due to a genetic modification called The Code. A band of rebels dares to question the cost of their near perfect world. AKAE, hoping to save her fiancé, LOGOS, from a debilitating virus, volunteers for a mission to infiltrate a rebel group called the SPIRIT. When the couple learn a dark secret about The Code, they take up the rebel cause, and with the Spirit's support,...
10) Gray's anatomy
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name in which Gray, with typical sardonic relish, chronicles his arduous journey through the diagnosis and treatment of a rare and alarming ocular condition. For the monologist, this experience occasioned a meditation on illness and mortality, medicine and metaphysics.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A small town wrestles with the responsibility of taking down America's oldest white oak tree, the 619-year old Great Oak of Basking Ridge, located in the center of a graveyard with headstones dating back to 1736. In response to the death of their oldest resident, locals host an art celebration, arborists plant a sapling grown from the Great Oak's acorn, and town leaders emphasize the value of history to unify a community growing in diversity.
Author
Series
Montalbano volume 4
Language
Italiano
Description
Montalbano investigates a murder in which the complicated and illegal private life of the victim might have done him in.
14) Real time
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A hitman gives his target, a gambler deeply in debt, one more hour to live.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York City called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.
Author
Series
One Piece volume 57
Language
English
Description
Crocodile snatches Vivi off the back of a giant crab, but Luffy's not having it. The rubber-man goes toe-to-toe with the sandman in a battle that will end in bloodshed.
Author
Series
One Piece volume 45
Language
English
Description
Luffy pushes his body to the breaking point in his battle with Lucci, and the rest of the Straw Hats try to fight off a fleet of Marines until their captain returns - if he ever does.
18) Being mortal
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Examines the process of dying and the rise of palliative care, and discusses ways in which doctors and patients can address the topic.
19) The mortal storm
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
On the same day that Prof. Roth celebrates his birthday, Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. This causes a tragic rift among the guests at the professor's party. Politics come between Roth's daughter Freya & her fiance. Freya finds herself falling in love with an old friend, but their only hope for a future together is to escape to freedom across the Austrian border.