Washoe County Library System

A short nature documentary that examines the lives of orphaned orangutans and elephants and follows the efforts of individuals who work to rescue, rehabilitate, and return these animals to the wild. Narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman.

Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure, tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.

As the attacks and violence between the US forces and the Taliban remain at the end of the war in Afghanistan, National Geographic follows elite Air Force units that defend the base and go outside the wire to help the wounded and track down a local Taliban leader.

A ten-year-old boy named Ryder leads a team of six heroic puppies on various rescue missions to protect their community.

Diego is an 8-year-old who is an animal rescuer with an intense love of nature and the animals around him. Diego and his friends Click the Camera and Mr. Marquez go on animal rescue adventures.

"Filmmaker Melissa Hacker's mother, Ruth Morley (Academy Award nominated costume designer for The Miracle Worker), was one of the over 10,000 children who were saved in the Kindertransport movement during the Holocaust. On the eve of World War II, as millions of Jews were seeking refuge from Nazi persecution, country after country turned its back--all except for Great Britain who opened its doors to an unspecified number of Jewish children in danger....

The story of Rescue Ink, a New York City area animal rescue organization made up of motorcycle-riding tough guys on a crusade to save helpless, abandoned, and abused animals. Eight tattooed tough guys formed their rescue organization. Some have tough, violent and turbulent pasts, complete with run-ins with the law, but all are seeking redemption in their mission to save animals from human abuse.

When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him, a thirteen-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his family, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod.

A young American man, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English, journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

Over 50,000 dogs and cats were left behind in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as FEMA required that all animals be left behind in the mandatory evacuation. This forced separation created America's first-ever major animal rescue. This film tells many uplifting stories of hope and survival as animal companions (pets) are reunited with their owners while other lucky animals find loving new homes.