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1) Eldest
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"Pocos días después de la sangrienta batalla contra los urgalos, Eragon y Saphira tienen que viajar a Ellesméra, el país de los elfos, para continuar con su formación en la magia y la lucha con la espada, las dos habilidades especiales de los Jinete de Dragón, para poder enfrentarse al malvado Rey. Los acompañarán Ayra, la elfa, y Orik, el enano, en un viaje plagado de descubrimientos y aventuras, con parajes fabulosos y nuevas amistades....
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"Emmie es creativa y alegre, pero extremadamente tímida. Katie es muy popular, extrovertida y llena de energía. Emmie y Katie son muy diferentes, pero, cuando una nota cae en las manos equivocadas, verán como sus vidas se unen y cambian para siempre. Una maravillosa historia sobre el poder de la amistad." --contraportada.
The lives of two middle school girls, one a quiet artist, the other a popular overachiever, intersect on a day shaped by...
5) La prometida
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"When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked--and thrilled. After all, she's grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king's attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. Capturing his heart is a dream come true. But Hollis soon realizes that falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be. And when she meets a commoner with the mysterious power...
6) Up
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Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
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Beginning with the pitched battle for Barcelona and the fall of Madrid and ending with anti-Franco refugees fleeing Spain for France and Latin America, this program captures the final months of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist reprisals that followed-a mirror of both the despair and the triumphalism of the times. Commentary by Francisco de Vitoria University's Javier Cervera Gil; Angel Bahamonde, of the University Carlos III of Madrid; Mirta...
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After one fateful night, Sam wakes up with no future at all. Trapped reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was. And as she begins to untangle the mystery of a life suddenly derailed, she must also unwind the secrets of the people closest to her, and discover the power of a single day to make a difference, before she runs out of time for good.
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This program follows the fortunes of the Nationalist and Republican forces from the fall of the Alcazar to the Nationalists to the last stand of the Second Republic's Army of the North at the Battle of Santander. The withdrawal of the Republican government to Valencia; Generalisimo Franco's self-appointment as Spain's head of state; the start of the siege of Madrid; the last major Republican victory, at Guadalajara; and the bombing of Guernica are...
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"Nineteen-year-old Leah Jones is struggling to cope after she and her twenty-nine-year-old brother Oliver lose their parents in a horrific car accident. Leah was in the car and is plagued by nightmares, intense grief and numbness--her life as she knew it is over. Oliver hates leaving Leah at a time like this, but the only way he can support them both is if he transfers to Sydney for work. He implores his best friend Axel Nguyen to let her move in...
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"Sarah moves with her parents to New Zealand. Despite the dreamlike landscapes, Sarah can't help missing her old home in Germany, the stables, and above all, the horse she cared for there. She starts to become interested in her new home when, along with the mysterious and attractive Lucas, she discovers the wild horses of Mt. Kaimanawa. Sarah falls in love with a silver stallion she secretly calls Dream. When Sarah finds out that the horses will be...
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The most important Spanish poet of his generation and the most popular as well, Antonio Machado shared the misgivings voiced by other members of the Generation of '98 regarding the decadence and complacency of Spain. Composed of documentary material and dramatizations, this program profiles the life and achievements of a Spanish literary master, author of such enduring works as Campos de Castilla and Juan de Mairena.
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Spain enters its Golden Age. King Philip II is a colossus on the European Stage, and for a time is King of England as well as Spain with his brief marriage to Queen Mary. With the power of Spain enhanced by the spoils of the American Empire, Philip founds Madrid and launches a great Armada against England. We visit El Escorial, Philip's mighty palace outside Madrid, and learn how his successors, with their reliance on favorites and mistresses, cannot...
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Over seven centuries of Islamic rule, Spain became the cultural jewel of Europe. This program illustrates that flowering of art and science, placing the rebirth of classical learning in Andalusian rather than Italian cities. Writer Bettany Hughes speaks with Antonia Almagro of the Spanish National Research Council about the intellectual and aesthetic revelations a visitor from Florence or Venice might have experienced in Muslim Granada or Toledo....
16) Grease
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The classic tale of good girl Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) and bad boy Danny (John Travolta) gets tuned up with new special features in Grease: Exclusive 40th Anniversary Edition.
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"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American,...
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Hernán Cortés embarked from Cuba in 1519 seeking gold and riches in the islands to the west. Instead he discovered, and ultimately destroyed, an unknown civilization. In this program, Michael Wood retraces the beginnings of this fateful expedition. Presented through Spanish eyewitness accounts and illustrated by pictographs, the film describes the conquistadors' initial awe at the Aztec achievements and subsequent lust for native treasure. It...
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This Globe Trekker video follows Ian Wright through the Andes Mountains and savannas of Venezuela. In Meridas, known as the roof of Venezuela, Ian takes a cable car to the top of a mountain and paraglides down. He then heads to a ranch populated by the Yanieros, whose ancestors fought the Spanish in the wars of independence, where he rounds-up cattle and spies other inhabitants, including deadly anacondas. He joins a water buffalo race, meets members...