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Wings Over the Serengeti

High above the tooth-and-claw drama of the Serengeti, nature's undertakers are watching and waiting. Reviled but vital, vultures bide their time until the inevitable feasting opportunity.

VHS
591.1
WIN

Hotel Rwanda

The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.

DVD
791.43
HOT

Arriving

Explores the trying experience of being born into nature when other creatures and the climate seem to conspire against survival.

VHS
591.39
TRI

Open & Operating

PRO
332.1
OPE

Key Constitutional Concepts

This documentary begins by introducing the Constitution and why it was created.

DVD
342
KEY

A Beautiful Mind

Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim.

DVD
791.45
BEA

A Hard Day's Night

A lively, good-natured spoof of "Beatlemania" portraying a frantic 36 hours in the lives of the rock group.

DVD
791.43
HAR

Stand and Deliver

Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers.

DVD
920
STA

Last Stand at Little Big Horn

Examines the Battle of the Little Bighorn, known as "Custer's Last Stand," from an Indian and white man's perspective.

VHS
973.7
LAS

Greece

500 years before the birth of Christ, the small city-states of Greece began a period of cultural excellence, and none was more advanced than Athens.

VHS
793
G
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