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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It’s a golden age for planet hunters: NASA's Kepler mission has identified more than 3,500 potential planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun. Some of them, like a planet called Kepler-22b, might even be able to harbor life. How did we come upon this distant planet? Combining startling animation with input from expert astrophysicists and astrobiologists, Alien Planets Revealed takes viewers on a journey along with the Kepler telescope. How does the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 117 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Korean
Description
Lee Byeong-Gu (Shin Ha-Gyun, JSA) is a sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi films whose life has been derailed by one bad break after another. Yet he knows there's no such thing as bad luck. The only thing that could have made such a mess of his life are ... aliens. Specifically, Andromedans. Nasty, disgusting Andromedan aliens who have infiltrated human society. Sly Andromedans who are planning to destroy our...
3) Prospect
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest's other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own father's greed-addled judgment, the girl finds she must...
4) Avatar
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
5) Riverworld
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An astronaut dies and is reincarnated on a mysterious planet called Riverworld, ruled by the warlord Valdemar. Joined by a band of compatriots, he leads a revolt to gain their freedom and learn the secret of Riverworld.
6) Alien nation
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Science fiction drama set in Los Angeles in the 1990's about a whole culture of aliens called "Newcomers" who land in the Mojave Desert and are allowed refuge by the U.S. government. In L.A. alone there are 300,000 Newcomers, and Detective James Sykes, a veteran police officer, is out to avenge the death of his partner who was killed by one of the extra-terrestrials. Sykes' new partner Sam Francisco turns out to be the force's first Newcomer, and...
7) Riverworld
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Riverworld is a mysterious and treacherous land where every human who died between the years 99,000 BC and 2200 AD has been resurrected on the banks of a colossal river. It is on the riverbank where a team bands together to try to unravel how and why they've arrived here, while coming face-to-face with some of the most dangerous people in history.
9) Solaris
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris, terrified crew members are experiencing a host of strange phenomena, including eerie visitors who seem all too human.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along.
11) Lost in space
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 2058. With the earth's resources severely depleted human survival depends upon "The Jupiter Mission." This daring plan will launch an entire family--the Robinsons--into the farthest reaches of hyperspace to colonize "Alpha Prime," the only other habitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space, facing alien invaders, time-warp wonders and non-stop...
12) Life
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew begins to conduct research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roy Neary witnesses the arrival of a flying saucer from an alien world. Thus begins an incredible series of events, culminating in the ultimate encounter with other-worlders as Neary is led aboard the awesome Mothership.
Disc one: Widescreen presentation ; scene selections with motion images -- Disc two: Making-of documentary ; 1977 featurette "Watching the skies" ; 11 deleted scenes ; filmographies ; Theatrical trailers.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With her father presumed dead, Lara must race to recover an ancient artifact that can alter space and time if not destroyed. She finds the key that will unlock the two sections that must be put together in order for the artifact to work. She must fight her nemises in order to restore harmony and all before the planets and sun align.
15) Apollo 18
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
16) Space adventures
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three episodes from the television series. In The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space the students go on a planetarium field trip and are magically transported out of the earth's atmosphere into space where they vist each of the nine planets. In The Magic School Bus Out of This World they learn about gravity and meteors as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth. In the last episode, The Magic School Bus Taking Flight they learn about the basics of aerodynamics...
18) Alien
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a terrorist bomb destroys a building in Dallas, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are drawn into another dangerous conspiracy, this time with the assistance of a paranoid doctor. Together, they risk their careers and their lives to hunt down a deadly virus which may be exterrestrial in origin -- and could destroy all life on earth.
20) Melancholia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully filmed movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. A planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth and threatening to collide. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting and relationships are fraying as the family deals with their fears.
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