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2) Swedish Auto
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Carter is a shy auto mechanic who has become locked a daily routine. Darla is an attractive waitress, hiding a deep personal wound. In a place where secrets live in the shadows, these two mismatched loners will have to reach out to each other and confront the only truth that matters.
5) Phenomenon
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A simple, small town garage mechanic who suddenly develops amazing mental abilities must face governmental investigation, scientific scrutiny, and ostracism by even his closest friends. But with the love and support of a young single mother, he is finally able to accept his lot in life.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There's no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own...
7) Leviathan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Traces one "everywoman's" story and examines the everyday workings of a living, functining body. Microscopic filmmaking, advanced medical technology, and state-of-the-art cardiac tomography imaging techniques are used to reveal unique perspectives on how our bodies function, grow, and mature from infancy through puberty, adulthood, and old age.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...
Series
Pub. Date
1989, c1985
Description
An introduction to classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, relativity, waves and optics, heat and thermodynamics, and modern physics. The second semester of a college-level telecourse in physics. Uses computer animation sequences, historical reenactments, and close-up photography of experiments.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Take a global tour in four themed episodes, answering the simplest questions about the complex forces that shape our planet. Why is water blue? How can a shape defy gravity? Why do bees make hexagonal honeycombs? And how do these things affect our own lives? Discover what lies beneath Earth's startling beauty as we reveal the secrets of our cosmos and the natural forces that govern everything within it.
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Wahoo! Join Ms. Frizzle, Liz and the entire Magic School Bus gang in seven Greatest Original Episodes of the Emmy Award-winning science-adventure series. The Bus will take you on a journey through space, the human body and even into the eye of a storm. Buckle up for all your favorite field trips! Episodes include: Inside Ralphie; For Lunch, Gets Lost In Space; The Busasaurus; Going Batty; Flexes Its Muscles; Kicks Up A Storm.
16) Freezer
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Description
Robert Saunders, a New York City mechanic who is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked inside the restaurant's walk-in freezer. But why he's there, and how he'll survive, will reveal a chilling nightmare of mistaken identity, the Russian mob, a missing eight million, and a wounded cop who may hold the key it all. The temperature is dropping. The fear is growing.
Pub. Date
c2007, c2000
Description
Watch Dr. Bruce Bradley as he creates a Clovis style spear point using what he perceives to be the method used 13,000 years ago. The distinctive bifacial fluted point is produced in a very unique and specific process by this renowned archaeologist and expert in lithic tools. Dr. Bradley is a practicing archaeologist with the University of Exeter in England and is known world wide for his knowledge of stone tools and weapons.
19) Flintknapping
Pub. Date
c2000, c1989
Description
The process of stone tool manufacture, as practiced by prehistoric hunters, is demonstrated and explained by Dr. Bradley, an internationally renowned expert and archaeologist.
20) Thunderbolt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Illegal drag racing is tearing up the streets of Hong Kong and only the fine-tuned skills of a former racing champion, now sports car mechanic, can shut it down. But when he puts a stop to a high-speed hot-rodder - who is also a powerful syndicate boss - Chan's most perilous race has just begun. Now he has to beat a super-criminal drag racer in order to release his kidnapped sister.