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Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Water. It's the earth's most valuable resource. Our cities are powered by it, countless industries depend on it, and all living things need it to survive. But it's very possible that in the near future, there won't be enough to sustain life on our planet. This film sheds light on the vital role water plays in our lives, exposes the defects in the current system, and shows communities already struggling with its ill effects.
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Water is vital to life and although more than two-thirds of the planet is covered by it, both the quality & availability of this natural resource is critical. Water scarcity arises when the supply of fresh water is overused, polluted, or affected.
Series
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Water takes many forms and has many functions on our planet. Segments cover the science of waves, the adaptations of animals in aquatic habitats, and the desalination of seawater. This dynamic presentation helps students understand the chemical and physical properties of a substance that is crucial to life on Earth.
4) Young ones
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
p2014
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future when water has become the world's most precious resource, those hardened few left alive must do whatever it takes to survive. Done with fighting off raiders to protect what little he has, Ernest Holm makes a play to bring a water pipeline to his family's land, but when betrayal comes from those closest to him, it sets off a vicious chain cycle of greed, murder and revenge.
5) Aquarela
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Shows water and ice in different parts of the world, in all of their many different forms.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Takes sports to the extreme! Learn to fly like the wind when you take waterskiing to a whole new level, speed down a hill at lightening speed with no brakes, hit the mountains to meet some Olympic snowboarders and gear up for some off road racing.
7) Breakthrough
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Examines cutting edge developments in science, technology, and medicine, covering a variety of topics that include: new findings in pandemic research; cyborg technologies; new developments in understanding the brain; the latest advances in extending human life; innovations in energy resources; developments under way to countervail potential water shortages
Publisher
Published by Carl R. Sams II Photography
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Learn how water connects everything on the planet. Join frogs as they gather near a pond that gets its water from the spring rains, hear the fish sing about the tides, meet a pirate who is looking for his family, and more.
9) The crazies
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After a strange toxin contaminates the water supply in a small town in Iowa, the residents are suddenly turned into bloodthirsty psychopaths. The town sheriff does all he can to make sense of the outbreak, as his wife and two other unaffected people fight for their survival.
10) Erin Brockovich
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by TMW Media Group
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Learn why we have different seasons, what a rainbow is, why thunder follows lightning, what water is, how oceans were formed, what an ecosystem is and how we benefit from them, what a biosphere is, and much more.
12) The host
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Korean
Description
In Seoul, an American army doctor forces his assistant to dump bottles of formaldehyde into the drain which runs into the Han River, the major river running through the middle of Seoul creating a monster which appears in the river and starts to attack the people at its banks.
Series
Publisher
Gwen Clancy Video Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The towns history began with the discovery of an abundant water supply in the 1800's and earning its name as the desert oasis, Las Vegas, Spanish for "The Meadows". Discusses the Spanish influence, mountain men, emigrants, the Mormon Mission, Hoover Dam, and Las Vegas' beginnings in gambling.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The West Hollywood Aquatics formed as a swim team to compete at the first Gay Games in 1982 in San Francisco, California. And upon their return home to West Hollywood instead of disbanding they stay together to form the West Hollywood Swim Club, which now includes water polo. This feature documentary film follows the team's battle for acceptance: from its humble beginnings, to how these men and women have become a renowned force fighting injustice...
15) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A private detective finds himself in over his head when he takes on a case involving the richest and most powerful people in Chinatown. Bonus features include commentary, featurettes, a trailer, and more.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1962, three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz, a prison surrounded on all sides by the waters of San Francisco Bay, and disappeared. The fates of the three men have remained unknown to the present day. In this program, three scientists from the Netherlands employ 3D modeling technology to reconstruct the water currents of the day of the prison break in an attempt to uncover whether or not it was possible for the men to have survived.
17) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything - his future, his family, and his own life - to expose the truth.
19) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A corporate defense attorney decides to take on a lawsuit against a chemical company accused of a history of pollution.
20) Split estate
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine discovering that you don't own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine finding that you have little or no recourse to protect your home or land from such development. [The film] maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their...
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