New Video Group (Firm)
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
In a Pickle: Topic: Microbes; Keesha and the class return from vacation to find her prize cucumber has turned into a pickle! Could the Mike Robe gang be to blame? ; Meets Molly Cule: Topic: Molecules; When Wanda s favorite singer, Molly Cule, comes to town and she chooses Ms. Frizzle s class to wash her famous car, the kids discover how to clean the car down to the very last bit. ; Makes a Stink: Topic: Smell; Flora Whiff, the famous expert on smell...
4) Mob hitmen
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2006], c1996
Description
They are the most feared figures in the business of organized crime--the triggermen whose job it is to eliminate contentious witnesses, rivals, and fellow mobsters in accordance with their bosses' orders. Today, the modern mob hitman--or woman--is a different breed than the Tommy-gun-toting stereotype of popular Hollywood gangster films. He or she may wear several different hats in the organization, killing when ordered, but performing more mundane...
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
From wildcatters to visionaries, geopoliticians to geologists and capitalists to union organizers, few real-life dramas feature such colorful characters, fluctuating fortunes, and worldwide high stakes as the story of oil. Petroleum was used by the ancients to waterproof Noah's Ark and fuel the lamps of the Temple of Jupiter. But it was in Pennsylvania in 1853 that the first oil well was dug, and an industry born. With the mass production of the car...
8) Enola Gay
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Enola Gay: Get a look inside the bomber that helped bring WWII to a stop, development of the atomic bomb, and the aftermath. Hiroshima: Fifty years after America dropped the first atomic bomb, this documentary looks at the events leading up to its use in the light of new information about a hidden agenda. Did top military officials order the attack despite knowing that Japan was willing to surrender? Did a political motivation drive Truman to defy...
10) H2 worker
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Reveals the systematic exploitation of Caribbean laborers by the Florida sugar industry from World War II through the 1990s. Each year more than 10,000 foreign workers were granted temporary guest worker ('H-2') visas to spend six brutal months cutting sugar cane near Lake Okeechobee.
12) Paul Newman
Series
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Description
Paul Newman's striking good looks and passionate intensity have come to define the leading man but Hollywood is just one part of his varied and captivating life.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Meet the Robertsons, who run Duck Commander, a homegrown mom-and-pop turned sporting empire selling top-of-the-line duck calls and decoys out of salvaged swamp wood. Dressed in camouflage and bandanas, this crew shows the world how a family can work together and be a success at the same time. Their booming business employs half the neighborhood, and each day brings a new set of challenges, but this clan meets them with a special brand of Southern...
14) Ancient Rome
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Experience the intrigue, scandal, excitement and chaos of the most dominant empire in the history of western civilization as History journeys back to the age of Caesar"--Container.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008], c2005
Description
King Solomon was one of the greatest rulers described in the Bible. He was one of the wisest and most powerful, not to mention the richest. According to the Old Testament, his source of wealth was the goldmines located in the mysterious land of Ophir. Travel on a 4,000-mile journey across sub-Saharan Africa in search of the Biblical Ophir and the lost riches of King Solomon.
17) Betty Boop
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2005
Description
She first appeared on screen with the body of a woman and the head of a dog. Re-invented as 100% woman, the racy cartoon star became an American icon.
Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2004
Description
"Giggle, giggle, quack": Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, but Duck has changed the care instructions for the animals. "The most wonderful egg in the world": Several animals have very beautiful features, but whoever lays the most wonderful egg will be crowned princess. "Wings: A tale of two chickens": Winnie unknowingly goes for a balloon ride with a sly fox. Can Winnie's sensible friend Harriet rescue Winnie before...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1997
Description
Tells several stories, including the rise of American film, the personal sagas of the people who shaped it, and the origins of so-called Hollywood values. Using never-before seen home movies, extensive clips, and interviews, this film presents a groundbreaking portrait of Hollywood.