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Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Defense Department is offering two million dollars to the builders of the first robotic vehicle to cover a 130-mile stretch of desert. NOVA goes behind the scenes as top engineering teams struggle to solve the problems of making a vehicle like this.
Publisher
Free Mind Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Much of what we believe to be truth is actually deliberate deception. The global elites are systematically implanting lies into our consciousness to erect a "tyranny over the minds of men." This film exposes the mind control methods being used to turn our once vibrant society into a land of obedient sheeple. Are we controlled? To what extent and by whom? What does it mean for humanity's future?
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Bob Peck.
Shows the effect of migration in the Sahel in changing regional climate; the tomorrow-be-damned policy of water usage in Arizona; and the drastic miscarriage of good intentions in Central Asia, where the efforts to irrigate the desert turned into the worst climatic disaster in the history of the Soviet Union.
7) Click
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to make its own choices.
Series
Humanistic implications of science volume forum 6
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Scientist Grover Stephens discusses the world population problem and presents scenarios of a crowded future.
Publisher
Aviation Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Divided into six segements on IFR: 1. A unique multi-step instrument scan. -- 2. Single pilot IFR cockpit management strategies. -- 3. How to really use the approach lighting system. -- 4. Techniques to make safe IFR departures. -- 5. A two step method for flying NDB approaches. -- 6. What maneuvering speed means and how to use it.
15) Robosapiens
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The field of robotics is quickly moving toward a new technological horizon-- the dawn of the machine-man. In Japan, mechanical engineers demonstrate how they've already developed bipedal bots that effectively mimic the gait and posture of humans. In the U.S., researchers focus on practical applications like robots for the military and police. Designers use the very latest robotic prototypes to show how the formerly broad line between man and machine...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Reveals...
17) Fortress
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2017, a couple illegally try to have another child after losing their first.
18) 121.5
Publisher
Aviation Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Actual ATC recordings of pilot and ground communications in real emergencies.
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
By their sheer size and original shapes, baobabs are among the most remarkable trees on the planet. Relatively unknown in Madagascar, the giants are currently threatened by deforestation. To study them, in the heart of their forests, the French biologist Cyrille Cornu travel by pirogue with his colleague Wilfried Ramahafaly, exploring 400 km of wild and isolated coastline in the southwest of Madagascar.