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- An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
- An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
- Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.
- Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
- Through the lens of American cultural anthropologist and Pultizer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, ALL ILLUSIONS MUST BE BROKEN is a cinematic rumination on human mortality and the lengths to which we go to deny it.
- Scientists use a gigantic drilling machine for an expedition to the center of the earth.
- A skilled flyer but very rebellious young seagull is kicked out of his clan. However, instead of being sad or lonely, he decides to enjoy and explore his newfound freedom.
- After being bitten by a bat in a cave, a doctor undergoes an accelerating transformation into a man-bat, which ruins his vacation and causes considerable distress for his wife.
- An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend.
- Dr. Conway has perfected a machine that predicts earthquakes, and has determined that one will strike California within 24 hours. A computer analysis determines that the entire world would explode within a little more than 28 days.
- Released after serving 15 years in prison for train robbery Pete Carver being the only survivor of the gang goes looking for the loot in the caves where it was hidden.
- A man recalls the story of how his bees implanted in him a bee television, causing him to lose all perception of space, time, and self in the deserts of the American West.
- I'll be there with you' explores the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners as an unusual group of characters face tragic consequences.
- Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced from a nuclear power plant leaves a trail of nuclear waste that will last for the next four hundred generations. We face the problem of how to warn the far distant future of the nuclear waste we have buried --but how to do it? How to imagine the far-distant threats to the sites, what kinds of monuments can be built, could stories or legends safeguard our descendants? Filmed at the only American nuclear burial ground, at a nuclear weapons complex and in Fukushima, the film grapples with the ways people are dealing with the present problem and imagining the future. Part observational essay, part graphic novel, Containment explores the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.
- A modern day Icarus fable.
- David Attenborough sets out on an intrepid quest across seven continents to create a unique television event to celebrate the wealth of natural features that makes Planet Earth so varied, so distinctive and so spectacularly beautiful.
- Documentary chronicles the development of the atomic industry in New Mexico and the cultural, economic, environmental and health legacy of developing, testing and storing nuclear weapons.
- On a caravan to California, Dr. Holt Ezra punishes his wife Hetty for flirting with young men. The caravan stops in the town of Independence.
- A young boy, against his father's wishes, decides to quite school at age 10 to become a cowboy in the gritty south New Mexico Territory desert. Six years into his wrangling career at XXX Ranch a strange crevasse in the earth sparks his attention and imagination. This is the story of Jim White-the cowboy adventurer and explorer who discovered Carlsbad Caverns, fought for National Park status, and turned it into one of the most visited tourist attractions in the southwest.
- One of the worst environmental disasters in American history happened at a place you probably never knew existed. There's a lot of American history buried up on Maxey Flat.
- His better days long gone, a former confederate soldier must choose between two gangs searching for the Lost Padre Mine in a quest of riches, revenge, and redemption.