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1) War horse
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English
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"Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and deadly chaos of the First World War. As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, War Horse remains an important book for...
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English
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Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice, one that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.
3) Eagle eye
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Jerry and Rachel are two strangers who are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. Now they must carry out a high-tech assassination plot of an unscrupulous artificial intelligence system.
4) Dolittle
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria's England, hides behind the walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure. The doctor is joined on his quest by a young, self-appointed apprentice...
5) Arrival
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As humankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Fast-talking Jack McCall says whatever it takes to close a deal. After stretching the truth with a spiritual guru, he suddenly finds his life depending on a magical tree with 1,000 leaves, one for every word he has left. Now Jack's got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he's a goner.
7) Dr. Dolittle
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on a variety of four-legged, fine-feathered patients. See his secret cures and watch as ordinary and exotic animals talk, dance, and sing.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Josh Duhamel and Megan Fox star in this whimsical family comedy about a boy and his dog, and a science project that will change all of their lives forever. It follows twelve-year-old Oliver, a tech prodigy, whose middle-school science fair experiment goes awry, creating a telepathic connection between him and his furry friend, Henry. The bond brings Oliver and Henry even closer as they join forces to comically overcome complications at school, and...
10) Chaos Walking
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt discovers Viola, a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by ‘the Noise,’ a force that puts all their thoughts on display. In this dangerous landscape, Viola’s life is threatened, and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the planet’s dark secrets.
11) Scooby-Doo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Two years after a clash of egos forced Mystery, Inc. to close its doors, Scooby-Doo and his crime-solving cohorts are individually summoned to Spooky Island to investigate a series of paranormal incidents at the ultra-hip spring break hot spot. Concerned his park might truly be haunted, the owner tries to reunite those notoriously meddling detectives to sovle the mystery before his supernatural secret scares away the college crowd.
12) Babel
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general...
Publisher
Les Productions Lafete Inc
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Tadpole and the Whale is the story of a gifted 12 year old girl named Daphne and her extraordinary relationship with some of the world's most spectacular undersea creatures, including Elvar the dolphin, her best friend in the world. Known to one and all as Tadpole, Daphne is as much at home in the water as she is on land. Because of her highly developed sense of hearing, she can hear the songs of the humpback whales that frequent her shores in the...
14) Dr. Dolittle 4 pack : Dr. Dolittle 1 Dr. Dolittle 2 Dr. Dolittle 3 Dr. Dolittle: tail to the chief
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Doctor Dolittle: Physician and devoted family man John Dolittle finds his world turned upside down when his long-suppressed ability to communicate with animals is reawakened with a vengeance.
Dr. Dolittle : tail to the chief: Maya Dolittle applies to vet school and uses her abilities to help the president work with the out-of-control First Dog.
Dr. Dolittle 2: John Dolittle uses his ability to communicate with animals to play Cupid to a circus bear.
Dr....
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice, one that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation. Extended Cut. Special...