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Series
Language
English
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Roy, Dale and Pat see the ghost of One-Arm Johnny. According to legend, whoever sees the spirit of the old miner will soon die a violent death. When ranchers who reported seeing the specter are found murdered, the Sheriff asks Roy to help with his investigation. One of the best episodes in the series!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
This program provides us with a rare opportunity to visit the emerging African nation of Namibia. In Luderitz, the main attraction is Kolmanskop Ghost Town; then we visit diamond mines that were discovered by accident in 1907; also we see a gigantic rock arch named Bogenfells. We visit the Namib Desert, the oldest desert in the world; where one can ride camels, observe the different colors of the dunes, and paraglide. In Swakopmund, we see carpets,...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Monsters. Ghosts. Zombies. From horror movies to Halloween, we see the creatures that go bump in the night everywhere, but where did they come from? The primal fears of our ancestors fueled the stories that lived on through legend, page, and screen. Join us as we peer into the histories of some of the most prevalent creatures in pop culture, including vampires, werewolves, zombies, and ghosts. Come and meet the Monsters Among Us, if you dare..
4) The Eclipse
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.
5) Ghosting
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Matt is a first-generation college student working his way through school at a small film processing business – a business dying in light of digital photography. One day at work, he notices the image of a mysterious man in photographs taken by different people from small towns all over the country – a man in a dark coat with a weathered fedora hung over his eyes. When he discovers that no one else can see the man, not even his best friend Charlie,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Explore some general strategies for successfully solving simple games and puzzles. As you hone your skills at games and puzzles, including 20 Questions, Mastermind, Ghost, The Tower of Hanoi, variations of Tic Tac Toe, and Cram (a cross between checkers and dominoes), you'll start seeing how mathematical ideas and concepts are essential to increasing your chances of winning.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Study the fusion reactions that take place inside the Sun. First, consider the formidable barrier that hydrogen nuclei must overcome to fuse into helium. Then, see how the mass and temperature of a star govern the types of reactions it can support. One product of stellar reactions is neutrinos, ghostly particles that pass through the Earth (and us) in colossal numbers.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The old cliche, "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue," holds true as the theme of this program that takes us on a trip down memory lane. Elaine Hull, a historian with Elitch Gardens, provides the story of its magnificent carousel, which dates back to 1905 and is also known as the Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel #6 or as the Kit Carson County Carousel. Next we meet 93-year-old Faye Brown, who continues to keep herself...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully hand-drawn animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and kinetic humor with deeply felt emotion and drama. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight - and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words "Dear Momo," but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How the mind works alters completely the way one thinks about thinking. New York Times first, Steven Pinker illuminated the human language Instinct with unprecedented wit and wisdom. Now, he takes your students on an intellectual journey to the core of How the mind works. In this exclusive presentation for the classroom, Pinker presents his definitive treatise on what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, and feel. With...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son and daughter-in-law, elderly Mrs. Watts wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Escaping from her family's clutches, she boards a bus to Bountiful, where she makes the acquaintance of young Thelma. The two women immediately hit it off, and their trip is a most pleasant one.. Eventually, the local sheriff, ordered to find Page and bring her back to her family, catches...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Episode Six “The Ghost Front" December 1944-March 1945 By December 1944, Americans have become weary of the war their young men have been fighting for three long years; the stream of newspaper headlines telling of new losses and telegrams bearing bad news from the War Department seem endless and unendurable. In the Pacific, American progress has been slow and costly, with each island more fiercely defended than the last. In Europe, no one is prepared...
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a forbidden valley 100 kilometres from Sydney runs a river where the wild horses run free...Can two very different men work together to save them? Luke Carlon is a man at home in the wild. His heritage is closely linked to the free-flowing Coxs river - a NSW region of impassable beauty and rugged gorges, a place where his family has ridden horses since the 1820’s. But all that ended when the river was declared a wilderness area, his families...
14) The Desolate One
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Part two of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will tele transport himself...
15) Road North
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Timo, an esteemed concert pianist, gets the surprise of his life one day after arriving home after a performance only to find a homeless drunkard asleep outside his front door. The man, Leo (played by Finnish musician, actor and artist Vesa-Matti Loiri), makes the outrageous claim to be Timo’s long-lost father who left the country when Timo was three and hadn’t been in touch since. Leo, as mysterious and manipulative as he is slovenly, has returned...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
This film is one of the most magical to come out of Africa--hardly surprising since Madagascar is unlike anywhere else on earth. Raymond Rajaonarivelo follows his epic first film on the Malagasy liberation struggle, Taba Taba, with a very different, poetic film exploring the relationship between traditional and modern concepts of human freedom. He writes: "In French magie and image are made from the same letters... In this film, there will be Magic...
17) Ghosts: Series 5
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With their guesthouse dream in ahses, Alison and Mike must find a new way to make money from their ailing estate, as a major revelation sees their plight become even more pressing. Meanwhile life (death) goes on for the Ghosts as they investigate Kitty's untimely demise, Food Club loses its appeal, Lady Button discovers hidden talents, and Robin makes a prediction that prompts the Ghosts to consider their pasts and their futures. As the bond between...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Casper (101 min.): Seeing is believing in the live-action adventure about Casper the friendly ghost, a kind but lonely young ghost who just wants a friend, and his ghostly uncles, who want all "fleshies" out of their manor
Casper, a spirited beginning (91 min.): While on his way to haunting camp to learn the art of spook, Casper finds himself derailed to Deedstown--with humans! Frightfully bad at scaring, Casper meets 10-year-old Chris Carson, a...
Publisher
Marshall Publishing and Promotions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Here is the first ever authorized film about the legendary horror actor, Bela Lugosi, the man who portrayed Dracula, Hollywood's most famous Vampire. "Lugosi: The Curse of Dracula" is a chilling story featuring footage from 20 of Lugosi's biggest films, plus outtakes, clips, trailers, interviews and stills from his childhood days in Hungary, and his career on Broadway through the Hollywood era. Updated with newly released footage and re-mastered!...
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