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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Each week, Wild Chronicles travels the Earth on a journey of discovery. In this episode, Boyd Matson introduces viewers to pythons, python breeders, and animals under threat. In Australia, researches gather samples from the Great Barrier Reef for the Census of Marine Life. In Crystal, Florida, manatee specialists learn new information about how manatees hear and develop a warning system to help keep them away from boat propellers. In Borneo, a photographer...
Series
Adventure Angler volume Series 2
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Micah Adams and Dave Bradley plan to camp at the northern end of Queensland's Fraser Island. A once-in-a-century flood has other ideas, but the boys push on and find some amazing fly-fishing along the way. There's a rampant school of longtail tuna followed by some of the finest shallow-water sight-casting for huge golden trevally.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2005
Language
English
Description
This Globe Trekker episode follows Lavinia Tan on a trip through Florida and the Bahamas, a place of theme parks, sun, and sand, also home of the largest sub-tropical wilderness in the U.S. and the only place in the Western hemisphere to have launched man into space. In Miami, Lavinia goes to the Cuban Calle Ocho street party, sees South Beach's Art Nouveau architecture, attends the Gay and Lesbian Winter Party, and visits the Holocaust Memorial....
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Sinkhole survivors tell about their terrifying experience while others mourn the loss of family and homes. Geologist Matthew Kirby investigates the causes of Florida's Sinkhole Alley and maps aquifer tunnels with the help of divers and a cave cartographer.Kirby teams up with a top Hollywood special effects company to simulate the lethal power of nature's most terrifying death trap: Sinkholes!
Pub. Date
[2013], c1995
Language
English
Description
Follow marine scientists as they discover the mating ritual of the Atlantic nurse shark in the remotest of Florida's Keys, the Dry Tortugas. Here, protected marine life exists as it did decades ago in the more northern Keys. The pristine conditions and the absence of fishermen provide a safe environment for all marine life inhabiting the area. Since the nurse sharks have selected the area as their mating grounds, marine scientists are afforded the...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
There is an entire generation of American Muslim children who do not know a world before September 11, 2001. These children have never experienced a country which is largely unaware of, or neutral about, Islam. Instead, their faith is scrutinized and patriotism questioned, even before they can grasp these very adult concepts. This film, directed by Academy Award® nominees Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), takes the viewer inside a tightly...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
On February 28 2013, in a quiet residential suburb east of Tampa, Florida, Jeff Bush was asleep in bed when he and his entire bedroom disappeared into an abyss. Terrifyingly, there was no warning and Jeff's body has never been recovered. He had been swallowed by a sinkhole. But what causes these sinkholes? And is there anything we can do about them? In this fascinating geological detective story, Professor Iain Stewart unearths millions of years of...
10) Moonlight
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Language throughout, disturbing behavior, sexual references and some drug material.
Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six year old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The sun-soaked world of a group of past and present football players in and around Miami, Florida. Leading the pack is Spencer, a retired football superstar who is trying to find a foothold as a financial manager to current players. In an industry where the career span is unbelievably short, Spencer and his crew must figure out where the game ends and life begins, all while keeping their cool and having each other's backs.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What can happen when the police face the possibility of domestic violence in their own ranks? On the night she broke up with her Florida deputy sheriff boyfriend, Michelle O'Connell was found dead from a gunshot in the mouth. Next to her was her boyfriend's semi-automatic service pistol. The sheriff's office called it suicide, but was it? FRONTLINE and The New York Times investigate this death of a young, single mother, and what can happen when the...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In South Florida, authorities attempt to control a new invasive species, the African Rock Python, known to attack and kill humans both as pets and in the wild. The search then widens for the Burmese python, another pet whose population is increasing throughout America. Then investigators venture to the deep dark of the sea where a kraken-like monster attacks boats, and rips apart victims with bone-chilling efficiency. Then a hunt for a man-eating...
15) Hoot
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Roy Eberhardt has moved with his family so often he literally has lost count of the number of times he has had to changed schools. Roy ought to be used to being the new kid at school by now, but making the switch from Montana to Florida proves to be a major challenge. While Roy quickly becomes the target of school bully, he is befriended by Beatrice Leep, a spunky girl with enough nerve to stand up to Dana, and her brother Mullet Fingers. Beatrice...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although he's set to retire and looking forward to it, Marcus agrees to help his old partner one last time to discover and stop whoever has been attemptint to assassinate Mike. Now the "old guard", they work with a new division of hotshots on the Miami PD called AMMO -- and find themselves hunting the head of the Aretas Cartel.
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