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1) First man
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong₂s perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost, on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself; of one of the most dangerous missions in history." --
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Moving at warp speed, dodging asteroids and more, the Buddies and their new friends must summon their courage and ingenuity to launch plans for a moon landing and a rocketing trip back home. Will they have the right stuff?
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Four American astronauts crashland on an unchartered planet and discover it is ruled by a race of intelligent apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) soon finds himelf among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall).
5) Armageddon
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results....
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiper monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going back to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer so they can learn what happened and find out the meaning of Bowman's last transmission. This will be a joint American-Soviet expedition set against the backdrop of growing global...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be inherited by apes, it decides to hunt the couple down as...
12) The right stuff
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the lives, ambitions, thoughts, and feelings of the seven Project Mercury astronauts before, during, and after their historic space flights.
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout this nation's history, mankind have reached for the heavens and dreamed of touching the stars. From the early stages of the space program and Kennedy's 1961 call to reach the moon within a decade to the successes and heartbreaking failures of the race for space, the dream was kept alive by dedicated, daring professionals and a nation intent on reaching for, and landing amid, the stars, all while the world faced the Vietnam War." --
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Astronaut Brent is sent to rescue Taylor and gets thrown through a portal and crash lands on the Planet of the Apes, just like Taylor. Taylor has disappeared into the Forbidden Zone, so Brent and Nova try to follow and find him. Brent finds mutated humans in the former New York subway system. He discovers a cult of humans that fear the Apes' latest military movements and finds himself in the middle. Tension mounts to a climactic battle between ape...
Publisher
Newport Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Green book: Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South; they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans.
Free solo: Alex Honnold, the worlds most accomplished free soloist climber, prepares mentally and physically for his most daring adventure to...
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