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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Zoologists study animal intelligence using a combination of ethology, psychology, and neuroscience. In this episode, look at the behavior of different animals (the use of tools by animals as diverse as otters and elephants, social learning in primates and dolphins, the famous story of a “counting” horse) to determine whether or not animals think.
2) Junkyard
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A man is robbed and stabbed on a metro train. As he lays dying, a friendship from his youth flashes before his eyes.. The official Dutch entry for the Best Animated Short Oscar Award. Nominated for The Annecy Cristal at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Grand Prize Winner at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, and the Blue Sky Studios Award for Best Animation at the Woodstock Film Festival. "JUNKYARD, which has won 22 festival...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Etosha National Park, at over 2.2 million acres, is one of the largest game reserves for wildlife in Africa. Here viewers are in for a rare treat as hosts Jake and Mieke DeBoer take them along on their own personal safari. We discover the heart of the park is called Etosha Pan, or "place of dry water," a huge, shallow depression surrounded by scrub and grassland that serves as home to elephants, rhinos, lions, cheetahs, giraffes, antelope, hyenas...
Publisher
9 Story Media Group
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
We can’t find Wibbly, but we do find a robot who seems very good at doing a robot dance and playing games. It turns out it is Wibbly - in a robot costume he has made out of a couple of cardboard boxes. When Scruffy Pig comes looking for Wibbly we decide to play a trick on him and see if he spots who the robot really is - he doesn’t and neither does Big Pig! In the end everyone makes their own robot and we all do the robot dance together
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Using a combination of video, 3D animation, and motion graphics the program covers the anatomy of the knee, ACL and other ligament injuries, non-surgical treatment options, the reconstruction procedure, and rehabilitation. Reviewed for accuracy by Rocci Trumper, MD - Orthopedic Center of the Rockies
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A visually sumptuous adaptation of Sándor Petőfi’s famed 1845 poem, and the first-ever feature length animated film produced in Hungary, János Vitéz recounts the exploits of strapping young solider JOHNNY CORNCOB and his mythic quest to be reunited with Iluska, the great love of his life. Directed by legendary Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics’ (Son of the White Mare, Sisyphus, The Struggle), János Vitéz’s is the product of 22 months...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What do animal dung in Israel and leftover cooking oils in North America have in common? Both are being used as bio fuels for powering industrial equipment and motor vehicles. Combine this with efforts to process coconut oil from Uganda and soy from Argentina and you have the hopeful beginnings for fossil fuel independence.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What a novel idea, getting up close and personal with plants, animals and the environment and then leaving it just as it was found. Without impact, or damage! Sometimes that means bypassing that once-in-a-lifetime experience or forsaking the urge for a take home souvenir. It's important to remind ourselves that we're not alone in this world and to also understand, it's not fair to treat the rest of the world as if we are all that matters.
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Soccer’s two halves take place within the confines of the rules and regulations of the 90 minutes; but the third half takes place within the limitless possibilites of fan’s minds. To be a Soccer fan is to be a witness, a mythologizer, obsessive, pundit and dreamer. A GAME OF THREE HALVES is a five part animated series that uses the unbridled creativity of handcrafted animation to reveal funny, profound and illuminating stories from the world game....
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What would it be like to grow up and become president of the United States?. In I Can Be President: A Kid’s Eye View, a diverse group of children candidly share their thoughts on the subject, affirming the importance of having dreams at any age.. I Can Be President features interviews with elementary schoolers whose hopes and dreams - both hilarious and touching - come to life in animated sequences created by the award-winning animator Michael Sporn.....
11) 3-D Rarities
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
3-D Rarities is an eye-popping collection of 22 ultra-rare and long-lost movies, which Flicker Alley and the 3-D Film Archive are proud to present here. Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World's Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Google - Google has been at the forefront of information search engines since it¾-s inception in 1998. The company has grown to more than ten thousand employees worldwide, and has expanded to include email, weather and news reports, maps, and much more Walmart - The first Walmart store opened in 1962, trading as Walton¾-s, and has become one of the biggest retail companies in the world. Bigger than Europe and the UK¾-s biggest retailers combined,...
13) Timber Tigers
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Timber Tigers resulted from a national tour of forest areas that Richards made in 1970-71. The film contains footage of seldom seen giant forest-cutting machinery that harvested and hauled trees of all sizes across the country. The film exposes the forestry industry's approach to logging: After us, the deluge and the desert. Deforestation results from corporate logging practices we know as clear cutting. Approaching the environment as an input to...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As seen on National Geographic's Short Film Showcase 2016, Director Russell O. Bush's Vultures of Tibet explores the recent commercialization of a sacred Tibetan funeral tradition known as Sky Burial. In Sky Burial, Tibetans ritually feed the bodies of their dead to wild Griffon Vultures as an offering to benefit other living beings. With the modernization of Western China and the expansion of tourism in Tibet, burial sites are now highlighted on...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the story of a young indigenous Peruvian man who has lived his entire life, but for a few brief months, in a small farming village in the mountains above the Sacred Valley. Like everyone in his community, he has been raised as a farmer. And like many, he has been instilled with the belief that life in the city would be better than the life he leads. When Feliciano was young, his father would tell him, You are not going to be like...
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