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Martin Sheen
1) Weather
Series
Publisher
Vitac
Pub. Date
p2006.
Language
English
Description
A tour of the Earth's turbulent atmosphere, revealing the forces that make a day fair or foul.
2) Insect
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Zoom in on a world of creatures that are industrious, sociable, and environmentally useful, but that are nevertheless avoided and ignored. Safely examine the wonders of the insect through macrophotography and startling 3-D graphics that reveal the true importance of these amazing life forms.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A snow lion is a mythic beast of Tibetan legend. As a protector of the nation, the snow lion is emblazoned on the Tibetan flag. Today the Tibetan flag is outlawed in its own homeland. Ten years in the making, filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are powerfully chronicled through riveting personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images...
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of social movements.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We produced this film over twenty-five years ago, at a time, when most people with disabilities were excluded from education and often warehoused in such institutional settings as hospitals for the mentally ill, adult residential centers and large group homes. Allowing people with disabilities into regular school classrooms, job sites and other community activities is known as mainstreaming or inclusion. Regular Lives, portrays early, successful...
7) Mammal
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of mammal facts and folklore.
9) Planets
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Journeys through space and time, witnessing the birth of the sun and traveling to the outer limits of the solar system.
Publisher
Wellsring Media
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Gives Chopra's philosophy of simple, powerful principles; his lessons from the teachings of Merlin; his spiritual lessons to help create what one wants out of life; and, his exploration of the process of transforming everyday feelings and desires into the realization of everything one can become.
11) Plant
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Through the ages, man has depended on plants for everything from oxygen to food to building supplies. Gives a colorful tour of the world's most dazzling flora - from the most magical to the most bizarre. Watch buds burst, flowers bloom, and discover the myriad ways plants struggle to survive.
Publisher
Lightning Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Gently comic story of a fourth wise man, Artaban, who sells all he has to buy a gift for the new king whose star has just appeared in the heavens, and pursues him all his life long, only to miss him--until the very end of both lives.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the mouth of the Amazon River, a murder trial is taking place. The victim – Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old Catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio – was shot six times at point blank range. The events that led to her death, and the trials that follow, reveal the larger battle being fought for the future of the rain forest. With unprecedented access to both sides of the conflict, this gripping documentary follows the real-life drama at the trials...
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Documents the development of a gorilla named Koko, whose learning of American Sign Language and understanding of spoken English, working with Dr. Penny Patterson, gives new meaning to the ideas of animal intelligence and interspecies communication.
17) The way
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Tom goes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France, to collect the remains of his adult son, who was killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son's desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn't plan on is the profound impact the journey will have on him as he begins to learn the difference between the life one lives and the life one chooses....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Anne Shirley is thirteen years old and finds that life in Avonlea is never simple. Torn between her free-spirited nature and her own perceived need to become sensible, Anne finds that the journey toward her goal is fraught with confusion and more than a few unfortunate yet amusing mishaps.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
At the mouth of the Amazon River, a murder trial is taking place. The victim, Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old Catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio, was shot six times at point blank range. The events that led to her death, and the trials that follow, reveal the larger battle being fought for the future of the rainforest. Follows the real-life drama at the trials of Dorothy's killers.
20) Badlands
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree. Based loosely on the 50's killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.