David Attenborough
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"In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the world. Then make it better. I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an...
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2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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All hippos are utterly dependent on water, but in Botswana, hippos face an unparalleled challenge as deep floodwaters dry to dust in a matter of months. Follow their perilous quest for water as hippos protect their families, face their enemies, and show the true nature of the hippopotamus, highly sensitive and surprisingly intelligent. This is the life of the hippo as never seen before.
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2017.
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312 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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"Our understanding of ocean life has changed dramatically in the last decade, with new species, new behaviours, and new habitats being discovered at a rapid rate. Blue Planet II, which accompanies an epic 7-part series on BBC1, is a ground-breaking new look at the richness and variety of underwater life across our planet. With over 200 breath-taking photographs and stills from the BBC Natural History Unit's spectacular footage, each chapter of Blue...
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2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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With 1 million species under threat, David Attenborough explores the science of extinction and how this crisis has consequences for us all; even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Sir David Attenborough explores a unique site in southern England with rare traces of Ice Age mammoths and Neanderthals. How did humans survive the frigid climate and did they have the tools and talent to hunt the giant beasts?
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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An epic global adventure following a filmmaker and a world record free-diver as they travel the earth discovering the shocking impact plastic is having on our oceans and the marine animals that live there.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The hippopotamus has long been an enigma: an aquatic mammal that cannot swim, a vegetarian that is also the most dangerous animal in Africa. All hippos are utterly dependent on water,but in Botswana, hippos face an unparalleled challenge as deep floodwaters dry to dust in a matter of months. The documentary goes beneath the surface to show how hippos protect their families and face their enemies, revealing an animal that is highly sensitive and surprisingly...
Pub. Date
[2012]
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3 videodiscs (ca. 350 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements, the weather, the rough ocean, and the ice is unmatched anywhere else on our planet. Tells the compelling story of animals such as the wandering albatross, the adelie penguin, and the polar bear, and paints a portrait that will take your breath away, at a moment when, melting fast, the frozen regions of our planet...
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2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be.
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1985.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba, loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald, fixate on their wives’ bodies, and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition. With this follow-up to his acclaimed...
12) Planet Earth II
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (365 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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One of the most ambitious landmark series allows us to experience the world from the viewpoint of the animals themselves. Traveling through jungles, deserts, mountains, islands, grasslands, and cities, this series explores the unique characteristics of Earth's most iconic habitats and the extraordinary ways animals survive within them. New technology has allowed individual stories to be captured in an unparalleled level of detail.
13) Planet Earth III
Pub. Date
[2024]
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3 videodiscs (400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet's last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have evolved to survive. Each episode focuses on a distinct...