This DVD includes three Between the Lions programs: Shooting Stars, There’s a Fly in My Soup and Pandora’s Box. Shooting Stars: The very sleepy Lion family tries to stay up very late at night, so they won’t miss the most spectacular meteor shower of the year. There’s a Fly in My Soup: Everyone reads jokes to Click the Mouse to try to make her laugh. Pandora’s Box: Should Lionel and Leona open a mysterious box that has a “Do Not Open!” sign on it? Also featuring opera star Denyce Graves, Monkey Pop-Up Theater, Chicken Jane, B.B. the King of Beasts, Cliff Hanger, and more BETWEEN THE LIONS favorites!
Countries: US
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Rebecca – DVD
Daphne du Maurier’s classic tale of romance, suspense and jealousy, Rebecca, is brought to you in this lavish adaptation. Set in elegant Monte Carlo and dramatic Cornwall in the 1930s, this drama stars Charles Dance as the sophisticated Maxim de Winter and Emilia Fox as the young woman who becomes the second Mrs. de Winter. After Maxim takes his new wife back to his home, it soon becomes evident that the shadow of Rebecca is all-pervasive, nurtured all the more by the sinister gothic housekeeper Mrs. Danvers. The new Mrs. de Winter beings to uncover the darkness of the past that taints the present and threatens to haunt her future… Special DVD features include: Q&A with Diana Rigg; select cast filmographies; Masterpiece Theatre poster gallery; access to Masterpiece Theatre web site; scene selection; English audiotrack; and closed captions. (3 hrs. on 1 disc)
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The Chap with Caps and More Set
A set of three Between the Lions DVDs, including Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?, Shooting Stars, and Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West. The three DVDs include a total of nine individual Between the Lions episodes: Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?; The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Chap with Caps, Shooting Stars, There’s a Fly in My Soup, Pandora’s Box, Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West, Lionel’s Great Escape Trick, and Touching the Moon
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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries DVD Set
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries feature the most celebrated British detective duo in years: Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) and Sergeant Barbara Havers (Sharon Small). Over the course of more than 10 intriguing Elizabeth George novels, beginning with A Great Deliverance, Lynley and Havers have won millions of loyal fans. It’s no mystery why. Decidedly uppercrust detective Lynley and his partner Havers endure a marriage made at police headquarters. Lynley is suave, sophisticated, and the eighth Earl of Asherton. Havers is rumpled, resentful, and working class–with an inborn dislike of the highborn. Despite their differences, the sleuths evolve into a potent team, employing their cunning, intuition, and street smarts to unravel some of the most heinous–and suspenseful–crimes. Includes: Well-Schooled In Murder, Payment in Blood, For The Sake Of Elena and Missing Joseph. Special DVD Features Include: To Come. (6 hrs. on 4 discs)
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Farmer Ken’s Puzzle
Farmer Ken’s Puzzle: Lionel won’t let Leona play a computer game for ages seven and up because she’s four and down.
The Fox and the Crow: Walter and Clay Pigeon want The Fox and the Crow banned from the library because they think the book makes birds look like birdbrains.
Giants and Cubs: Leona thinks scary giants are coming into the library to clobber lion cubs. -
The Popcorn Popper
The Popcorn Popper: Lionel and Leona persuade Click the Mouse to take a magic popcorn popper out of a book and then can’t make it stop popping!
Hug, Hug, Hug!: Leona helps a sculptor who falls in love with his statue.
Piggyback, Piggyback: Leona decides to ride piggyback on her dad’s back forever and ever. -
Building Big DVD Box Set
Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with this new five-part series. Hosted by David Macaulay, the award-winning author and illustrator of The Way Things Work and other books, each one-hour program focuses on a type of construction integral to modern life: bridges, tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, and domes. Discover the stories behind famous structures and their builders, plus how engineers today are building bigger than ever before. Each DVD also includes a short vignette featuring kids doing a simple hands-on engineering activity. (5 x 60:00)
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Bridges
Bridge the world and meet the brilliant designers who dared to extend roads and railways with ingenious, but sometimes flawed designs. From the Golden Gate to the Brooklyn Bridge, to some of Europe’s groundbreaking spans, students explore dozens of monumental engineering feats. Includes bonus hands-on building activity designed for kids. Special DVD features include: materials and activities for educators, scene selections and closed captions.
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The Fall of Saigon
The End of the Tunnel (1973-1975) chronicles the final two years of US involvement in Vietnam, it shows the desperation of the final days before Saigon fell and details the evacuation led by the US military. Peace Is at Hand (1968-1973) While American and Vietnamese soldiers continued to clash in battle, diplomats in Paris argued about making peace. After more than four years, they reached an accord that proved to be a preface to further bloodshed. Homefront USA – Through troubled years of controversy and violence, U.S. casualties mounted, victory remained elusive, and American opinion moved from general approval to general dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War.