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1) Bluebird
Publisher
SeeThink Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the northern reaches of Maine, a local school bus driver becomes distracted during her end-of-day inspection, and fails to notice a sleeping boy in the back of the bus. What happens next shatters the tranquility of her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Go on tour to some of the spookiest and unexpected haunted places in cities like Washington, D.C. and London. Each program is based on historical ghost stories, meticulously researched, with interviews of historians and prominent folklorists.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Trace the evolutionary path of birds within the Age of Dinosaurs. Take stock of the amazing diversity of ancient birds and bird types in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Then, look into the key physiological components in the evolution of powered flight, from smaller and lighter body types to forebrain expansion and musculature, and examine the question of how flight began.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Take a first look at how paleontologists categorize dinosaurs. Focusing on the major Saurischia group, identify the dinosaurs of the subgroup Theropoda, including carnivorous predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex and feathered dinosaurs. Continue with subgroups Prosauropoda, a diverse group of herbivores, and Sauropoda, containing the giant, long-necked herbivores such as the iconic Apatosaurus.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Throughout life, dinosaurs were vulnerable to many kinds of injury and disease, from combat injuries and predation to parasites and bacterial infections. Examine evidence from a large find of skeletons of the predator Allosaurus, showing traumatic injuries and infections, all of which also indicate healing. In T. rex, note pathologies that would have made breathing, eating, and walking painful.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Look into the origins of the dinosaurs, and the ecological conditions that allowed them to flourish. Study the context of the Mesozoic Era, in which the dinosaurs emerged. Learn about the mass extinction during this era that critically affected the dinosaurs' evolutionary path. Take note of biological adaptations that may explain how the dinosaurs survived and diversified so successfully.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Uncover the behavioral uses of dinosaurs' strange anatomical features, using a variety of investigative methods. Learn how frills, bony projections, and horns may have had multiple uses, for protection and defense, as well as display and mating rituals. Consider whether dinosaurs' feathers may have played a role in mating, and the likelihood that some species vocalized loudly with their mates.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Paleontologists now debate the traditional assumption that dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Learn the basics of thermoregulation in vertebrates. Then, consider the range of evidence, relating to body type and size, heart function, locomotion, brain capacity, and body temperature, that points to the possibility that dinosaurs were metabolically closer to birds and mammals than to modern reptiles.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The fossil record reveals fascinating details about dinosaurs' lifestyles, diets, and feeding strategies. See what dinosaur teeth and jaw structures tell us about how they ate and how they digested food, as in herbivores' scissor-like dental formations and beaks. Note also what fossilized dinosaur droppings show about their diets, and how dinosaurs themselves could be prey for other animals.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Travel with Professor Curry Rogers to the island of Madagascar, an ecosystem that has yielded dazzling dinosaur remains. Learn about her ongoing work there, involving the discovery of new species of titanosaur, the largest of the dinosaurs, and rare evidence of dinosaur cannibalism. Look into what may explain huge bonebeds on Madagascar that indicate repeated mass deaths of dinosaurs.
14) Hoarders: S11
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
HOARDERS profiles adults who suffer from extreme hoarding, a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to collect things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Contemplate geological time, the span of hundreds of millions of years that contextualizes the Age of the Dinosaurs. Learn about the types of rock strata that contain the fossil record, and the preserved environments, from deserts to lake, river, and marine ecosystems, where fossils are found. Grasp how scientists analyze and date fossil finds with relation to the geological record.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Investigate natural selection—how organisms evolve as they adapt to their environment. Also, study convergent evolution, where different species independently evolve similar features. Learn how scientists discern which organisms evolved from which, and which groups are most closely related. From this, grasp why birds, in fact, are dinosaurs, and why ancient swimming and flying reptiles are not.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The oddball, oddly-matched Stratford-upon-Avon-based sleuths return for more picturesque and whimsical mysteries brimming with wit and rural charm. From suspected ghosts to the torrid world of Shakespearian escorts, not to mention the fiendish passions and bitter rivalries of ballroom dancing and a dastardly plot to sabotage Christmas, it’s business as usual for the debt-laden ex-policeman and his much more credible partner Lu.
18) Blue Light: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Grace, Annie and Tommy are growing up fast as police officers, but nothing can prepare them for the turmoil they face every day. It’s a year since the fall of the McIntyre crime gang and the vacuum has been filled by rival gangs, all competing for dominance. Constable Shane Bradley is drafted in to help, but his motivations are unclear. Tommy is dangerously seduced by the world of intelligence policing, while Grace struggles to deal with her son’s...
19) Birth/Rebirth
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Trace the history of extinction events across geological time, episodes of major climate change that wiped out vast numbers of animal and plant species. Then, investigate the extinction of the dinosaurs and other organisms in the late Cretaceous Period, and the environmental disturbances that caused it. Visualize the extent of the devastation and how surviving life forms were able to begin anew.
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