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Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Tour the surface of Earth's life-giving star. Mars may be the future of humanity - uses data collected from probes and robotic rovers. Scars on the planet's surface and in its fossil record illustrate the threat posed by meteorites, comets, and asteroids that routinely collide with Earth. Two and a half times the size of all the other planets in the solar system combined, and half a billion miles from Earth, Jupiter is a colossal riddle.
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2) Men in black
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A police detective in the asteroid belt, the first officer of an interplanetary ice freighter and an earth-bound United Nations executive slowly discover a vast conspiracy that threatens the Earth's rebellious colony on the asteroid belt.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Transports viewers to places we didn't know existed a year ago. From death stars to ringed planets, star clusters to space wars, The Universe uses new discoveries and more advanced CGI to help explain the mysteries of space.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[200-]
Language
English
Description
An extraterrestrial cat named Jake is forced to crash-land his spaceship on Earth. Jake then proceeds to lead a physicist, his girlfriend, the Army and a team of baffled scientists on endless escapades during his unscheduled and hilarious visit.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
With the Ring Gates now open to thousands of new planets, a blood-soaked gold rush begins, igniting new conflicts between Earth, Mars, and the Belt. Meanwhile, on one unexplored planet, the Rocinante crew gets caught in a violent clash between an Earth mining corporation and desperate Belter settlers as deadly new threats from the protomolecule emerge.
12) Chasing Pluto
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
NOVA captures New Horizons' historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first ever detailed images of this strange and icy world at the very edge of our solar system.
13) Men in black
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
14) Alien tracker
Publisher
Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Through a wormhole, the leader Zin, travels instantaneously to Earth. An alien tracker, known as Cole, is in hot pursuit of the escaped convict. When a government group investigating extraterrestials captures one, Cole must break in and free him before they gather hard evidence that there really is alien life existing on earth.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Almost 100 million miles from Earth, a tiny spacecraft the size of a small car hurtles closer to the sun than any man-made object has ever been, at a speed faster than any man-made object has ever traveled, defying the almost unimaginable heat and deadly radiation of our closet star.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Telos where an Earth archaeological expedition, led by Professor Parry, is attempting to uncover the lost tombs of the Cybermen. With a lot of help from the Doctor, the archaeologists enter the tombs. There, one of the party, Klieg, reveals himself and his business partner, Kaftan, to be planning to revive the Cybermen.
17) Melancholia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully filmed movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. A planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth and threatening to collide. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting and relationships are fraying as the family deals with their fears.
18) Ancient aliens
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Investigates the theory that intelligent life forms visited Earth thousands of years ago and were worshiped as gods by primitive man. Concentrates on the latest discoveries of the last 30 years, including unusual DNA findings on man's evolution and newly decoded artifacts from Egypt to Syria to South America. Produced with the exclusive cooperation of Erich von Daniken.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What if Superman never existed? Set two generations before the destruction of Superman's home planet, this story follows Seg-EI, the legendary Man of Steel's grandfather, who is faced with a life-and-death conflict: save his home planet or let it be destroyed in order to restore the fate of his future grandson. With Krypton's leadership in disarray, Seg must balance the quest to redeem his family's honor and protect the ones he loves while being challenged...
20) Mars needs moms
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Take out the trash, eat your broccoli. Who needs moms, anyway? Nine-year-old Milo finds out just how much he needs his mom when she's nabbed by Martians, who plan to steal her mom-ness for their own young. Milo's quest to save his mom involves stowing away on a spaceship, navigating an elaborate, multi-level planet, and taking on the alien nation and their leader.
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