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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On a rainy August morning in 2018, a massive section of the Polcevera Bridge in Genoa, Italy, collapsed and killed 43 people, despite having withstood fifty years of traffic. All over American and Europe, thousands of bridges are listed as structurally deficient -- how can new technologies and engineering improvements make bridges safer?
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This documentary explores Egypt's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities. As Egypt's pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of land, they pushed their royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imagination and human potential, in effect inventing the science of structural engineering. Follow the empire's development from the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Simon Masrani accidentally destroys one of the park's main attractions (he should really learn how to fly that helicopter), he calls upon his trusted employee Claire to save the day. Claire comes up with a perfect solution that will delight Masrani and kids everywhere; the Indominus rex. Disaster strikes after the Indominus eats all the hot dogs, and escapes from his pen. The dinsaur trainer Owen Grady saves the day with an epic battle between...
4) Hulk
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A scientist performs regeneration experiments on himself, and passes on the genes to his son, Bruce. Now Bruce is performing experiments that expose him to radiation and nanomeds, which combined with his unique genes, unleashes the Hulk.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A new blue-chip series that reveals the extraordinary feats of engineering hidden in the world's most spectacular manmade structures. Each episode uses cutting-edge CGI to strip down construction layer by layer. Each time a layer is removed, buildings are reduced to their skeletons, revealing game-changing innovation analyzed by world-class industry players.
8) Science fair
Publisher
Twentieth Centry Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This ... documentary follows nine high school students from disparate corners of the globe ... on their quests to compete at the international Science and Engineering Fair"--Container.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
10) Citizen bio
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A deep dive into the underground world of biohacking and radical medicine. Four notorious biohackers detail their experiences with controversial entrepreneur Aaron Traywick before his mysterious death, and provide a window into the fringe world of bio-punk groups trying to extend human life.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
12) Moon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Astronaut Sam Bell is completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon: Helium-3. His declining health is causing headaches and hallucinations that lead to a near-fatal accident, rendering him unconscious. After recuperating, an unexpected discovery leads him to doubt his sanity, his identity, and the integrity of the company. Believing he is alone on his mission, his sole...
13) Ender's game
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
14) The current war
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.
15) The 1900 house
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A four-part documentary television program that brings a modern British family from 1999 back to life in 1900 Victorian London.
16) Genesis 2.0
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Multiple
Description
"On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. One day, they discover a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Resurrecting the woolly mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution - genetics. It may well turn our world upside down."--Container.
18) Blade runner
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
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