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Publisher
2/entertain : BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
If we and the rest of the backboned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if they were to disappear, the land's ecosystems would collapse. The soil would lose its fertility. Many of the plants would no longer be pollinated. Lots of animals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals would have nothing to eat. And our fields and pastures would be covered with dung and carrion. These small creatures are within...
2) Insect
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Zoom in on a world of creatures that are industrious, sociable, and environmentally useful, but that are nevertheless avoided and ignored. Safely examine the wonders of the insect through macrophotography and startling 3-D graphics that reveal the true importance of these amazing life forms
4) A bug's life
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
5) Epic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The story of an ongoing battle deep in the forest between the forces of good and the forces of evil. When a teen age girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she must band together with a rag-tag team of fun and whimsical characters in order to save their world, and also ours.
Publisher
BrainFood Learning
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Learn how dung beetles keep our parks clean and how ladybugs keep aphids out of our gardens. Insects featured in this video: grasshopper, ladybug, rhino beetle, firefly, mosquito, honey bee, water strider, ant, praying mantis, dragonfly and butterfly.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Explores the extraordinary hidden world of insects where a leaf weighs more than a car and a blade of grass soars like a skyscraper. The Borneo rainforest brings the beautiful and dangerous universe of its tiny stars up close and personal. Cutting-edge technology magnifies the bugs up to 250,000 times their normal size.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, 'Wings of Life' utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
English
Description
A close-up view of a variety of insects as they hatch from eggs, search for food and cope with a rain storm. Ants race to gather food as a pheasant gobbles them up while a dung beetle moves his prize up hill and down. Makes use of time-lapse and microphotographic techniques.
Publisher
Educational Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Honeybees first appeared on earth around 80 million years ago, and from the beginning have played a key role in our survival. Most fruit trees and vegetable species are entirely dependent on bees to produce, and there is no commercially viable artificial replacement for natural pollination. In the past year up to 80% of the honeybees in the US have vanished. The massive die-offs, first reported in November of 2006, are now the subject of emergency...
Publisher
Distributed by] Warp Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Multiple
Description
The second collection of European short films from Cinema 16. This specially compiled two-disc edition of classic, cult and award winning shorts from European filmmakers marks the launch of Cinema16 in the US. It features previously unseen short films and early works by some of today's most notable European filmmakers, as well as award-winning films from its rising stars. The release features some of the best shorts from Cinema16's previous releases...
16) Bug
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Agnes has finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, who has recently been released from state prison. Agnes is a lonely waitress with a tragic past who moves into a sleazy, run-down Oklahoma motel room with her lesbian co-worker R.C. She, in turn, introduces Agnes to Gulf War veteran, Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things don't always seem as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic...
18) All pupa'ed out
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Soar with a dragonfly, join the flea circus, and get a big bug hug from all eight of Miss Spider's arms. Get caught in the magical web of Sunny Patch
19) Microcosmos
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Reveals the hidden world of insects.
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