Peter Coyote
1) Hatchet
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Series
Language
English
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Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
2) The river
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart. Jamie is a straight-laced preacher's daughter and Landon is an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her world, he begins an unexpected journey he'll never forget.
6) Patch Adams
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
8) The West
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Spanning from the first European advance into the wilderness to the dawn of the 20th century, this series portrays the profound, often devastating impact the onrushing white settlers, adventurers and exploiters had on Native Americans and the land.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
12) Cross Creek
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
p2002
Language
English
Description
After ten years as a frustrated newspaper reporter and unsuccessful author of fiction, Marjorie Rawlings turns her back on financial security and takes up residence in the Florida Everglades. In this remote and untamed portion of central Florida, Rawlings is inspired to create a gallery of unforgettable characters and to produce critically-acclaimed best sellers.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Join geologists for a fascinating tour of this place of incredible extremes. Set foot on the lowest point of land in North America, feel the fire of Furnace Creek (the world's hottest point), and listen as scientists crack the code of one of Death Valley's many enduring mysteries: the Moving Mountain Range. Learn the secrets of a remarkable land as you experience the mysteries, marvel and magic of one of the Earth's most extreme environments--the...
16) The War of 1812
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
First invasion : the War of 1812: Depicts how only 30 years after winning the independence, the upstart United States waged another war with Great Britain. Motivated by the high-seas capture of American sailors and the desire to annex Canadian lands, President Madison declared war. Thanks to the aim of a lone sniper, the skill of Andrew Jackson, the fortitude of the people of Baltimore, and the events of September 11, 1814, America would triumph again,...
17) The dust bowl
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance.
18) Jagged edge
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An attorney falls in love with her defendant, the prime suspect in a vicious murder case.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The dramatic story of how an ambitious, hard-driving engineer turned a ragtag army of unemployed into the nation's most celebrated workforce. Contains archival footage and photographs, including interviews with witnesses and historians.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. demonstrates how experts in various fields (a flutist, a baseball player, and a simultaneous translator) improve their neurological abilities through sustained, continuous, intense practice of their respective skill set and how such consequential neurological findings in experts compare to the average individual.