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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Brand: Universal Music

Take a trip of a lifetime to visit our neighboring planets with A Traveler s Guide to the Planets. National Geographic takes off beyond Earth s boundaries for the ultimate tour of our solar system. From Mars monstrous mountains to Saturn s glittering rings, the sights are out of this world. Each hour offers breathtaking tours of the planets using modern-day high-tech telescopes and stunning CGI. Programs include: Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus, Pluto and Beyond, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Brand: Buena Vista Home Video Color: color

Dive into Oceans from Disneynature – The studio that brought you EARTH for a spectacular story about remarkable creatures under the sea. Stunning images await as you journey in to the depths of a wonderland filled with mystery, beauty and power. It’s an unprecedented look at the live s of these elusive deepwater creatures through their own eyes. Incredible state-of-the-art-underwater filmmaking will take your breath away as you migrate with whales, swim alongside a great white shark and race with dolphins at play. Filled with adventure, comedy and drama, OCEANS is a fascinating and thought-provoking experience you’ll never forget.

Manufacturer: Lions Gate Brand: Lionsgate Model: 15173274

Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective with a hilarious twist on financial difficulties, drugs and, most important, family secrets. The next generation has a lot to learn. In her own way, Madea expresses how deliverance won’t change you to be someone else, but will allow you to be who you really are. Ain’t nothing like family! Tyler Perry, juggling top-rated sitcoms and films that bear his name above the title (not to mention projects such as Precious to which he lends his considerable clout to get made), is the newest hardest-working man in show business. Somehow in 2010 he found time to write, direct, and star in this heartfelt theatrical project--his first in five years--inspired by his late mother and featuring his signature character Madea. He did 125 shows in 126 days. Exhaustion forced him to cancel the remainder of the tour, but the cameras were rolling for this enthusiastically received rafter-rattling performance. Big Happy Family delivers everything to be expected from a Perry play: bruising family dysfunction, physical comedy, soul-stirring gospel uplift, and Oprah-style empowerment. Chandra Currelley-Young stars as Shirley, who learns she is dying of cancer. She tries to tell her family, but they are too wrapped up in their own melodramas to pay her any mind. There's the son who turns to selling drugs to keep his gold-digging girlfriend, the daughter who is unlucky in love, and another daughter too involved in her career. Weighing in on the sidelines is Madea, who, about 90 minutes in, stops the show to go "off-script" to weigh in on marriage, manhood, and even the housing crisis. Big Happy Family is broadly written and acted, the character types way beyond stereo. But Perry's positive populist messages about family, self-respect, and keeping the faith hit home with his appreciative a...

Manufacturer: Henstooth Video Model: 14984579

Free To Be...You And Me is a journey rich with positive, life-enhancing messages about growth and change. Through a combination of live action, puppetry, and animation, the show promotes positive self-esteem through colorful songs and stories. It explores children's authentic experiences, their dreams and concerns, and their fears and fantasies. Among the highlights are Marlo Thomas and Mel Brooks in Boy Meets Girl; football hero Rosey Grier singing It's All Right to Cry; Michael Jackson and Roberta Flack perform When We Grow Up; and Alan Alda narrates the tale of Atalanta. This enchanted fun-filled voyage of discovery is superb for both children and adults to enjoy together. For the 36th Anniversary Edition, this Emmy and Peabody Award winning special has been remastered from the original ABC-TV master tape. In Color, 45 minutes, Not Rated, Special Features include a new introduction by Marlo Thomas; Deleted Scene: Dustin Hoffman in "How I Crossed The Street"; Photo Gallery and Optional English & Spanish Subtitles. Original Full Screen Format (1.33:1)

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studio Home Entertainment

The Disney WOW World of Wonder Disc is a definitive "how to" guide for in-home High Definition (HD) optimization of home entertainment systems featuring the help of classic Disney character GOOFY and including HD demonstration clips from popular Disney titles including Toy Story, Up, Bolt and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The easy to follow on-screen guide is designed to help consumers get the best quality experience from their home theater systems by providing everyone from beginners and enthusiasts to experts and custom installers alike with valuable high quality calibration tools.

Manufacturer: VegSource Brand: Mostly Magic

Do you want to eat healthy, but hate to cook? Does cooking take too much time? Cost too much money? Is it too hard? Does your grocery shopping bag come from a drive-through? If the answer to any of these questions is YES, then Chef Jeff Novick can lend you a helping hand -- not to mention spurtle! In this essential DVD, nutritionist and Chef Jeff Novick takes on Fast Food in his own exuberant style -- and demonstrates how anyone can create a healthy, low cost, delicious and easy meal in under ten minutes. Now that's fast food we can all enjoy! WHAT YOU GET Some healthy eating programs are hard to stick with, because they're too much work, the recipes are too hard, or they just don't satisfy. You end up snacking on junk because you don't feel full. Jeff Novick's FAST FOOD is different. It makes an excellent gift for someone trying to lose weight, make a healthy change in their life -- and stick with it. Jeff shows how healthy eating can be easy, satisfying and fun.

Manufacturer: Sony Classical Brand: SUMMERS,PATRICK/RACETTE,PATRICIA/GIORDANO,M. Model: 15465706

Anthony Minghella’s stunning production was seen by thousands of people around the world and was originally broadcast March 7, 2009 as part of the Peabody and Emmy Award®-winning Live in HD transmissions to movie theaters. Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio-San, Marcello Giordani is American Navy lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton, Maria Zifchak is Suzuki and Dwayne Croft is Sharpless. Patrick Summers conducts the Metropolitan Opera and Chorus.

Manufacturer: Petite Feet Videos Brand: Petite Feet Videos

Petite Feet uses engaging and imaginative exercises, games and stories to introduce children to basic ballet positions and vocabulary, as well as general dance and musical concepts. Focusing on the creative potential of dance and its storytelling possibilities, Petite Feet encourages children between the ages of 2-5 to learn fundamental and age-appropriate ballet steps, to build confidence and coordination, and, of course, to have fun! Featuring original music and a colorful set, along with the Story of the Dancing Dolls and some help from Waldo the Walrus, this 26 minute video is a great way for kids to stay active on a rainy day-and a sunny one too! After graduating from Yale with a BA in Theatre Studies, Liz Vacco has been a ballet and early childhood educator for nine years, teaching through New York City Ballet's Education Program and at various dance studios and public schools throughout the city. She has always been a dancer who acts and an actor who dances, and she draws from both these worlds in her teaching and performance.

Manufacturer: Channel Resources Brand: Sign Language 101: A Beginner's Guide to American Model: SL-101

This video is excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents, and professionals learning ASL to communicate clearly and naturally. You will learn how to sign the alphabet, numbers, colors, holidays, calendar, grammar, sentence structures, ASL Idioms and hundreds of vocabulary along with bonus features. This video has also been developed for students and teachers from all schools, colleges, libraries and universities to use in all sorts of courses and programs promoting American Sign Language.

Manufacturer: ISRAELI KRAV MAGA/CS Brand: Israeli Krav Maga

2013 DV Awards -- Best Instructional Series 2014 Communicator Award -- How-To/Instructional In Mastering Krav Maga (Vol. I), Israeli Krav Maga Association U.S. Chief Instructor David Kahn teaches essential techniques to defend against all manners of unarmed attack from the yellow, orange, and green belt levels of the Israeli krav maga curriculum (beginner to advanced). The DVDs are companions to David's two books (St. Martins Press), Krav Maga and Advanced Krav Maga. Many of these latest-evolution techniques have not seen outside of Israel; the most up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive unarmed krav maga instruction available. DVD 1 – Upper Body Combatives DVD 2 – Upper Body Defenses DVD 3 – Lower Body Combatives and Defenses DVD 4 – Retzev (“Continuous Combat Motion”), Choke, and Grab Releases DVD 5 – Takedowns, Controls, Clinches and Multiple Opponents DVD 6 – Groundfighting Running time: approximately 380 minutes David Kahn received his advanced blackbelt teaching certifications from Grandmaster Haim Gidon, 10th dan. David trains the public, celebrities and federal, state and municipal law enforcement agencies along with the U.S. and British militaries in the Israeli method. David was featured by Special Operations Report, Military.com, Armed Forces Network, USMC Combat Camera, Men's Fitness, Men's GQ, Esquire, Men's Vogue, New Yorker, Self, Traveler, N.Y. Post, L.A. Times, ACE Fitness and USA Today. David authored the books: Krav Maga (St. Martins 2004), Advanced Krav Maga (St. Martins 2008) and Krav Maga Weapon Defenses (YMAA 2012). The U.S. military granted permission to include select training clips. Also available: Weapon Defense DVDs Vols. II (Edged & Impact Weapons) & III (Firearms)