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1) Heat
Language
English
Description
Bill Nye the Science Guy answers questions about heat, and leads two experiments that explore whether wood, plastic, or metal is the best conductor of heat, and identify the indications that heat rises.
Language
English
Description
Presents three "Cyberchase" episodes in which the CyberSquad rushes to keep Hacker from darkening the stars forever at the annual Starlight Night celebration; Digit and the kids zoom off to Solaria to recover its stolen sunisphere; and the squad faces off against Hacker in a culinary contest. Includes interactive game and other special features.
Language
日本語
Description
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the Olympics. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun, but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart. From a screenplay by Academy Awardʼ winner Hayao Miyazaki and featuring an all-star English voice cast!
5) Ratatouille
Language
English
Description
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage...
6) Nim's island
Language
English
Description
Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new e-mail friend could be the only one who can help.
7) Hoovey
Language
English
Description
When promising high school basketball player Eric "Hoovey" Elliott collapses on the court, doctors discover a life-threatening brain tumor. Hoovey will survive the high-risk surgery, but at what cost? Can he relearn to walk, read, even to see clearly? The road is long, and meanwhile overwhelming medical bills threaten to undo everything his parents, Jeff and Ruth, have taken a lifetime to build.
Language
English
Description
Brave, 16-year old Elena must learn to reign with wisdom and compassion over Avalor. She'll have plenty of help from her grandparents, sister Isabel, and wizard-in-training Mateo. With a plethora of support, Elena embarks on a bold quest to restore her kingdom and prove she's ready to rule!
10) The water man
Language
English
Description
Gunner sets out on a quest to save his ill mother by searching for a mythic figure who possesses the secret to immortality, the Water Man. After enlisting the help of a mysterious local girl, Jo, they journey together into the remote Wild Horse forest, but the deeper they venture, the stranger and more dangerous the forest becomes. Their only hope for rescue is Gunner's father, who will stop at nothing to find them.
12) Wonderstruck
Language
English
Description
Tells the tale of two deaf children separated by fifty years. In 1927 New York City, Rose searches for the actress who's life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977 in the Midwest, Ben runs away from home to find his father. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Brian Selznick, which is the predecessor to his screen-adapted novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
13) Forever my girl
Language
English
Description
After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.
Language
English
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Description
Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...
Language
English
Description
When Katie Mitchell, a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together. The Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love decide it's time to take over. With the help of two friendly malfunctioning robots, the Mitchells will have to work together to...
18) Pups alone
Language
English
Description
Get ready for hilarious canine holiday hijinks! While everyone is away on a company ski trip, a jealous inventor hires two thieves to break into his co-worker's house and steal his top-secret new creation. But they are no match for a mischievous pack of neighborhood pups, who set up tricks and traps to protect the home and save Christmas. This laugh-out-loud comedy stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jerry O'Connell, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo and Rob Schneider....
19) Honey Girls
Language
English
Description
Mega pop star, Fancy G, hosts a contest to find the next big solo artist. But the young contestants realize they are 'better together' and secretly form a band called Honey Girls and become a huge hit cloaked in mystery.
20) Switched
Language
English
Description
Tired of being bullied, Cassandra Evans prays that her nemesis, Katie Sharp, the queen bee of social media, would know what it's like to walk a day in her shoes. Her prayer is answered in an unexpected way when they get swapped.