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1) The snowman
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A young boy wakes up to find a thick blanket of snow outside. He decides to build a snowman using coal for his buttons and eyes, a tangerine for his nose, and a hat and scarf. Later that night, the snowman comes to life. The two set forth on a magical journey to the North Pole.
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In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, in over 8,000 feet deep water, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
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Blackbeard was the most feared and infamous pirate of his day. In the early eighteenth century, the former British privateer trolled the shipping lanes of the Atlantic. From the deck of his flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, he commanded the seas. His flagship ran aground off the coast of North Carolina, and had to abandon her to the sea. 300 years later, a group of marine archaeologists have discovered the remains of the ship and their careful preservation...
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Follows different groups of people to reveal what goes on inside their bodies as they react to events such as injury, aging, sickness, etc. In Body Snatchers, get inside the bodies of two women whose natural systems each must deal with a foreign organism trying to control its host: a flu virus and a growing fetus. For both women, a tiny invader in one part of their body affects every part of their anatomy--a reminder that the human body is an ecosystem....
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Veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg travel to South Africa's KwaZulu Natal Coast, where the body of a giant white shark weighing in at over 2,000 pounds and measuring almost 15 feet has been pulled up. It presents an international team of experts with a rare opportunity to explore this hunter's anatomy to find out how it has evolved into the oceans most feared predator.
11) Orchestra!
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Takes the viewer through the string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections. Includes sections on the piano and conducting methods. Moves chronolgically through orchestra music, focusing on the great composers.
12) Live from space
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Presents a live 2014 television broadcast from the International Space Station and Mission Control in Houston. Takes viewers on a trip around the world. Includes a tour of the Space Station.
13) Fireworks
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Examines the history, science, and business of fireworks. Covers the origin of fireworks in China and their further development in England and Italy. Visits the "fireworks capital of the U.S.", New Castle, Pennsylvania, home of the Zambellis, the self-proclaimed "first family of fireworks."