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Have you ever wondered how bridges don't fall down or how really old buildings stay standing up? Basic principles of architecture and engineering, including an introduction to bridges, locks, arches, columns, and skyscrapers, are explored in this newest engaging addition to the How Do series. The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each written in a format that encourages audiences to ask questions and guess the answers before...
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Korean
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After dying unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by three guardians, where only after passing seven trials and proving he lived a noble life will he be able to reincarnate. Based on the wildly popular webcomic, ALONG WITH THE GODS: THE TWO WORLDS is a star-studded, action-packed fantasy epic about life, death, rebirth, and the unseen forces that guide us through all.
3) Fly with me
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PBS
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English
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"Tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control. Becoming a 'stewardess,' as they were called, offered unheard-of opportunities for travel, glamour, adventure and independence. Although often maligned as feminist sellouts, these women were on the frontlines of the battle to assert...
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Paramount Pictures
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English
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STAYING ALIVE takes Saturday Night Fever’s Tony Manero out of Brooklyn to Broadway. As a wannabe dancer struggling to make it on the stage, John Travolta is at his sexy, sizzling best. Girl-next-door Cynthia Rhodes (Flashdance, Dirty Dancing) and vampy Finola Hughes (General Hospital, All My Children) compete for Tony’s heart. Co-written and directed by superstar Sylvester Stallone, STAYING ALIVE features an electrifying Bee Gees soundtrack and...
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IFC Films
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English
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A comedy about romance, grief, and sibling rivalry. A year after his brother Tom’s death, Jack (Duplass) is still struggling emotionally. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom’s best friend Iris (Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris’ sister Hannah (Dewitt) who is reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship and...
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Harvard, America’s most prestigious university and home to the world’s greatest minds, is a place where some trailer park families – like John’s (Jason Lee) – could never afford to go. But now, John’s niece has the chance of a lifetime, and all she needs is the tuition that he had promised to pay if she got into a good college…{dollar}29,879…which he doesn’t have. When John turns to his clueless friend Duff (Tom Green) for help,...
10) Bandit
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Quiver Distribution
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English
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Gilbert Galvan Jr., a charming criminal, escapes from prison and assumes a new identity. After falling in love with Andrea, a caring social worker he can't provide for, he turns to robbing banks and discovers that he's exceptionally good at it. Addicted to the rush and money, he turns to loan shark and gangster Tommy Kays for bigger opportunities. Based on the true story of The Flying Bandit.
11) The fountain
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One man. One love. One destiny. One thousand years . . . Hugh Jackman anchors acclaimed visionary filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's epic sci-fi adventure chronicling a man's thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves (Academy Award® winner Rachel Weisz). Searching for the secrets of eternal life, he embarks on three parallel quests, in three lives, in three millennia, to unlock the mysteries of life that have consumed him for centuries.
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Lionsgate
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English
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Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protǧ̌ uncovers evidence that Lake₂s nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
13) Talk to Me
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English
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When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.
14) Daisy Miller
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English
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At a Swiss spa, upper-class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne meets pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller; her bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph; and her tremulous, nattering mother. Despite warnings from his dowager aunt about Daisy's recklessness with men, Winterbourne finds himself drawn to her. When he encounters her again in Rome, he tries to convince her that her liberated behavior with an Italian admirer may sully her reputation...
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What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea...Rodney Ascher starts with a noted speech from Philip K. Dick to dive down the rabbit hole of science, philosophy, and conspiracy theory. Leaving no stone unturned in exploring the unprovable, the film uses contemporary cultural touchstones like The Matrix, interviews with real people shrouded in digital avaters, and a wide aray of voices,...
16) The longest yard
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In this remake of the of the classic sports comedy, quarterback Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro, are doing time in the same prison. When asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game "fixed" to turn out quite another way. Peter Segal (Tommy Boy) directs an all-star comedy cast that includes Adam Sandler, Chris Rock...
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English
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In the follow-up to the blockbuster action-adventure xXx, NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson), fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent Darius Stone (Ice Cube), also code-named "XXX," must track a dangerous military splinter group that is conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government in the nation's capital.
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IFC Films
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English
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Three years ago, master criminal Jacob Sternwood escaped London during a daring robbery that left detective Max Lewinsky physically and emotionally scarred. When a failed heist puts Sternwood's son in a hospital, the fugitive is forced to come out of hiding, giving Max his second chance to get the one criminal who got away. But as Max returns to the pursuit of his arch-nemesis, he begins to uncover evidence of a vast conspiracy that may put him in...
19) Shutter Island
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When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
20) The conspirator
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Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, planned the simultaneous...
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