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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hasidim's joyous, sometimes harsh, and often beautiful world. With their use of the Yiddish language, their distinctive clothes and their strict observance to Jewish ritual and law, the Hasidim are considered by many an insular people with little connection to mainstream America. And yet their values are those that many Americans find most precious:...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Spock's ultimate act of sacrifice, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise returns to Earth from the newly formed Genesis planet. There crew learns that life back home will not be easier: Scotty gets reassigned, Bones appears to be going insane, and the Enterprise is to be decommissioned. It is only when Kirk is confronted by Spock2s father that he learns his old friend may have another chance at life if the crew can survive the Klingon interference...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This multi-episode documentary series takes viewers on the definitive in-depth journey behind the scenes of one of the greatest landmark franchises of all time: Star Trek. Celebrating the show's 55th anniversary, each episode focuses on a different chapter in the groundbreaking program's history. Interviews with the cast, crew, and experts including one of Leonard Nimoy's final in-depth Trek interviews reveal never-before-heard backstage stories and...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The original adventure that started the enduring sci-fi pop culture phenomenon. Fan favorite episodes from season three include "Spock's Brain, " "The Tholian Web, " where Kirk becomes trapped between universes, "Plato's Stepchildren, " featuring the unforgettable kiss between Kirk and Uhura, and "The Savage Curtain, " where Spock and Kirk are forced into a contest of good vs. evil.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
EMILY @ THE EDGE OF CHAOS interweaves Emily Levine’s live performance with animation, appearances by scientists, and animated characters (John Lithgow as Sir Isaac Newton, Lily Tomlin as Ayn Rand, Leonard Nimoy as Sigmund Freud, Richard Lewis as Aristotle, Matt Groening as Aldo Leopold). The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics – the story of our values, our institutions, our interactions. Using...
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2008], ©2008
Language
English
Description
Presents Koch's radio play, Invasion from Mars, which was made famous by Orson Welles; the play is an adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel, War of the worlds in which an intellectually superior race from Mars invades Earth with plans to take over the planet.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The original adventure that started the enduring sci-fi pop culture phenomenon. Fan favorite episodes from season one include the iconic 'Where No Man Has Gone Before, ' the epic Gorn fight in 'Arena, ' 'The City on the Edge of Forever, ' and 'Space Seed' which introduces the ruthless villain Khan.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The original adventure that started the enduring sci-fi pop culture phenomenon. Fan favorite episodes from season two include Spock and Kirk facing off in "Amok Time, " "Mirror, Mirror, " which introduces the evil "mirror universe, " "Journey to Babel, " featuring the introduction of Spock's parents Sarek and Amanda, and the unforgettable classic "The Trouble With Tribbles."
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the franchise's 50th anniversary through interviews with cast and crew members from every television series and original film. The special features archival clips and footage, as well as Leonard Nimoy's last filmed interview.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Join master of mystery Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) as he invites you into the transfixing world of fantasy, horror and science fiction. In its third and final season, Serling once again presents stories that still leave an undeniable chill, filled with restless spirits, murderous spouses and unidentified terrors that go bump in the night.
13) Star trek
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was searching for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. He is inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet, even though he annoys his instructors. Suddenly, there is an emergency on Vulcan...
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers when it comes up against Khan, a genetically enhanced conqueror of late 20th century Earth who has escaped his prison and has set his sights on capturing Project Genesis and destroying Kirk.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001, c1979
Language
English
Description
When an unidentified alien destroys three Klingon cruisers, Captain Kirk returns to the refitted Enterprise to take command. The entire crew mobilizes at warp speed to stop "VGER" from its relentless flight toward Earth.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
After a lunar cataclysm brings the Klingon Empire to its knees, the foreign concept of peace with the Federation may be finally within reach. Ironically, it is Admiral James T. Kirk who is the first emissary to broker that peace. Yet all hope is virtually lost when the U.S.S. Enterprise and crew are implicated in the brutal assassination of a Klingon diplomat, bringing both worlds to the brink of full-scale war.
Publisher
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The biggest movie and TV franchise of all time, Star Trek spawned more than 700 TV episodes and twelve films. Creator Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future helped inspire today's scientists to develop the first scientific principles of teleportation, the creation of artificial intelligence, androids, and more. Now, scientists, series producers, the first Trekkies, and Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy, provide new insights into a show that inspired audiences...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Branded as fugitives by the Federation they swore to protect, the crew dutifully returns to Earth to face charges for crimes committed in the course of rescuing a resurrected Spock, but while en route, they learn that Earth is being ravaged by a strange alien probe demanding a response from a life form that no longer exists.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everything in its path. As it heads towards Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on.
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