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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Continuing their journey across the U.S. in one of the world's largest airships, the team questions how the atmosphere changes with altitude and how that has an impact on the life found there. Microbiologist Dr. Chris van Tulleken and former paratrooper Andy Torbet search for living microorganisms in the "death zone" of high altitude. Parachuting from 26,000 feet, Andy has to overcome sub-freezing temperatures and fatally low levels of oxygen to undertake...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
When a major storm threatens, we want to know where it will hit and how strong it will be. Current methods of flying planes into hurricanes to track storms are costly and can be dangerous. Now engineers are developing small, inexpensive drones that can fly through hurricanes to take necessary measurements.
Series
Fierce earth volume Series 1
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
In this Fierce Earth special, Clare and Leo head to Death Valley in California which is officially the hottest place in the entire world, with record-breaking temperatures of a sizzling 57 degrees centigrade. The pair endure a special test to work out what color clothing is the best to wear in heat; Clare finds out what it's like to go to school in the world's hottest place; Leo becomes one of the first people in the world to climb the hidden canyons....
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a category five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
5) Sharknado
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace, and nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Hurricane Katrina's path and power were known and its arrival was also known. Yet, somehow, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast with Category 4 winds and a equally strong storm surge, no one was prepared for the chaos it unleashed... National Geographic takes you inside Hurricane Katrina to shed new light on the fateful decisions of those in charge and the struggles of those fighting to survive its impact."--Container.
7) Grand isle
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Walter and his neglected wife lure a young man into their Victorian home to escape a hurricane. When the man is charged with murder by Det. Jones, he must reveal the couple's wicked secrets to save himself.
9) Crawl
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
10) Force of nature
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While trying to evacuate residents from an apartment complex during an intense hurricane, including a grizzled ex-cop and his daughter, a young police officer is thrust into further danger as a gang of thieves attempt to pull off a mysterious heist in the building.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
In October 2012, Superstorm Sandy cut a path of devastation across the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States, killing hundreds and causing tens of billions of dollars in damage. One year after Sandy's deadly strike, NOVA investigates what can we do to prepare ourselves for the next megastorm?
13) Adrift
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
14) After the storm
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a group of New York Broadway artists come down to New Orleans to make a change. Reopening the doors of the storm-damaged St. Mark's Community Center, they hold auditions for the musical Once On This Island and stage the show with thirteen kids from the community . Captures the lives of kids and crew as they turn a gym into a theater, come together as a company, and create hope and purpose.
15) Hurricane
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Fly into the eye of an unstoppable hurricane to see what makes it tick.
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