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Publisher
[Discovery Channel]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are special effects experts who will stop at nothing to find the truth. Using modern day science, they put everyday mythis and urban legends to the test to determine what's busted, and what's confirmed. Joined by fellow MythBusters Tory Belleci, Kari Byron, and Grant Imahara, this team is always ready to take it to the next level with explosive results. Contains ten episodes.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The mythbusting team, including their fearless leaders Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, serves up its share of explosive entertainment, blowing up myths with bazookas, RPGs, C4, and of course, a toilet bomb. But no collection would be complete without things that drive and fly, hence the rigorous test-driving of some green machines, and we ain₂t talking color, plus a duct-tape airplane, and did we mention the rocket sled?
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman return in this eighth installment of the popular television series Mythbusters. Using modern day science to test everyday myths and urban legends, the special effects experts determine which myths are busted and which are plausible.
Series
Criterion collection volume 579
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
None
Description
The last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives the Phantom Carriage. The story concerns an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption.
5) Candyman
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A children's ghost story comes to terrifying life in this gut-wrenching thriller about a graduate student, Helen, whose research into modern folklore summons the spirit of Candyman, a slave phantom with a hook hand who is said to haunt Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project. Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist, until he appears, igniting a string of terrifying, tragic slayings.
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman return in this ninth installment of the popular television series Mythbusters. Using modern day science to test everyday myths and urban legends, the special effects experts determine which myths are busted and which are plausible. In this collection, more of life's burning questions are answered including: Can bees lift a laptop? What's the most hygienic sneeze technique? and Can a hair weave really stop a speeding bullet?...
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Five beautifully adapted stories that encourage a love for reading for the pre- or early reader. In the beloved classic The Napping House, Granny and all the critters in her house pile on her bed for a nap ... until a little flea causes a big stir. Somebody's got an itch! Other stories include Each Peach Pear Plum; Drummer Hoff; Bear Snores On; Wild About Books.
8) Urban legend
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a New England college student finds herself at the center of a series of sadistic murders seemingly inspired by urban legends, she resolves to find the truth about Pendleton's own legend--a 25-year-old story of a student massacre at the hands of an abnormal psychology professor.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mushrooms - we put them on our pizza and steaks and in our soups and salads, we marvel at their variety and are sometimes repelled by their grotesque beauty when encountering them in the bush. And yeah, some have even sampled their more exotic possibilities and asked the question: "Do mushrooms come from a far away planet?" Still, others have asked: "Can mushrooms save the planet?" The world of fungi and their integral relationship with the health...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
David Tranter continues his series of outstanding films which document the Dreaming stories and history of his Alyawarr heritage. As in Tranters other films - Boomerang Today, Crookhat and Camphoo, Karlu Karlu and Willaberta Jack - the stories are told by Elders in the community. In this case three old men, Donald (Crookhat) Akemarr Thompson, Alec Apetyarr Peterson and Casey Akemarr Holmes travel by four-wheel drive out to a surprising strip of...
Publisher
Discovery
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This lucky thirteenth MythBusters season is packed with its infamous scintillating scientific mayhem, along with a few rocket-powered surprises. With 30 years of special effects experience, Adam and Jamie will answer the craziest questions viewers can think up and then make up a few of their own! Can balloons protect you in a car crash? Does the smell of fear really exist? Can you cook lasagna in a dishwasher?
13) A letter to Momo
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight, and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter that he had started to write her, a blank piece of paper penned with the words "Dear Momo," but nothing more. Moving with her mother from bustling Tokyo to the remote Japanese island of Shio, she soon discovers three goblins living in her attic, a trio of mischievous spirit creatures who have been assigned to watch over her.
14) Candyman
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Oscarʼ winner Jordan Peele and filmmaker Nia DaCosta unleash a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him...
15) Liyana
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest guided by legendary South African storyteller Gcina Mhlophe. Their fictional character, Liyana, is brought to life in innovative animated artwork.
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Jamie and Adam, two special effects experts with over thirty years of experience, set out to methodically bust three urban legends in each episode. They test myths to prove or disprove what is real and what is truly urban legend. Includes ten episodes.
17) Urban legend
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
When New England college student Natalie finds herself at the center of a series of sadistic murders seemingly inspired by urban legends, she resolves to find the truth about Pendleton's own legend--a twenty-five-year-old story of a student massacre at the hands of an abnormal Psych professor.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A compelling account of the return by a group of dispossessed Aboriginal people to their ancient tribal grounds in the Northern outreaches of this continent. This highly provocative cinema verité work shows the rebuilding of relationships through a shared pilgrimage to ancestral lands and a traditional Aboriginal ceremony, despite occasional failures of cross-cultural communication. It reflects a community in transition through the journey of a...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A large woman becomes stuck when she's suction-sealed onto an airplane toilet seat during a flight, requiring the crew to land before they could help her off-- myth or actual danger? Only two men are brave or foolish enough to find out: MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. The foremost experts on myth busting, Jamie and Adam pit their thirty years of experience in special effects work against the most dangerous and bizarre theories and tales...
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