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Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.
1) Broken trail
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abondoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Following clues left by his grandfather, Jake discovers Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and the dangers they face as he gets to know the residents, learns about their special powers, and finds that he alone has a power that will help him savehis new friends.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other's world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns into something more.
Publisher
Once Upon a Tale Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Gather around. Little Alice and her best pals, the weird and wacky Hatter, the adorable Dormouse and the mischievous Cheshire Cat, are ready to narrate a magical storybook rendition of Lewis Carroll₂s timeless classic.
7) Love birds
Publisher
WowNow Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the land of Cupid it's just another day, another couple to help fall in love. For Cupid Sullivan, a recently promoted cupid, things are not so simple! This is Cupid's first assignment, and he can't wait to start the job. But when Cupid is sent by head office out to meet the two love birds whom he must help fall in love, he quickly learns being cupid is harder than it seems!
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Hiccup is a Viking teenager who aspires to hunt dragons, but doesn't exactly fit in with his tribe's longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. His world gets turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.
10) Philomena
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment]
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1952, a young Philomena was sent the convent of Roscrea in Ireland, after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years seeking for him in vain.
13) Heidi
Publisher
Key DVD
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
The classic story of a young poor orphan girl abandoned by her aunt and banished to live with her isolated old grandfather high in the Swiss Alps.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The emotional story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family seeks help from an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. Connected to the X-Men film series, set in an alternate timeline where the X-Men have disappeared.
16) Choo-choo school
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow seven adorable train cars on their first day of school as they learn some math, sing some songs, climb a hill, and learn the entire alphabet!
17) NOS4A2: Season 2
Publisher
AMC Studios, RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After eight years on life-support, Charlie Manx finally dies and the news hits Vic hard; she can't believe it's over... and with good reason. Soon Manx is back and desperate for revenge against the woman who put him in critical condition, and her whole family -- but especially her son -- is under threat. Allies new and old on both sides are ready to battle for the future.
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Minnie and Daisy are not racing around Hot Dog Hills, they are helping their friends with fun, odd jobs as the Happy Helpers. And no task is too big or too small for them to tackle! With a quick spin in their Turn-Styler, the Happy Helpers are ready for anything that comes their way.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ride the rails to fun and adventure with Thomas and friends as they make tracks to great destinations on Sodor and beyond! Will Molly find the perfect job? Gordon learns a lesson about respect and Emily would like to be Queen for the day.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Maya DiMeo is the mom who will do anything for her husband Jimmy and kids Ray, Dylan, and J.J., her eldest son with cerebral palsy. In season two of this amusing and often unexpected comedy, the family, along with JJ's aide Kenneth, is reunited after JJ's first summer camp adventure. As the new school year approaches, the DiMeos, who have been searching endlessly for the right school support for JJ, are faced with a new and unfamiliar reality: the...
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