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1) Contagion
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When a lethal airborne virus with the power to wipe out humanity is unleashed, the worldwide medical community races to find a vaccine and stop the panic from spreading. This edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the deadly path of a virus that is beyond containment. Researchers for disease control, the military, the World Health Organization, and ordinary civilians mobilize to try and find a cure and the cause before it's too late.
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©2009
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Based on the true story of a boy born without natural immunities, forced to grow up a prisoner in the physical and emotional confines of a germ free plastic room. A special astronaut's suit gives the boy freedom to move around. He eventually falls in love with the girl next door. He must then choose between confinement and life, or the freedom to love at the risk of fatal infection.
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2017.
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Department of Agriculture is looking for participants in the National Honey Bee survey. DOA is looking for 24 participants, who must have 8 hives or more. The survey looks at bees health, diseases and pests that haven't been identified in the U.S. yet. Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey is nationwide but participants will get individualized reports on the health of their hives. Pollen analysis looks at pesticides and bees interaction. Discusses...
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2003.
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Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue Erica. Harry, who has always had the world on a string,...
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A documentary look at the efforts directed at the preservation of the Greenback Cutthroat trout.
Using computer animation and outdoor videography, this program tells the story of how the Greenbacks evolved and migrated to Colorado, why they declined and almost disappeared, and how the scientific recovery process works in restoring populations in the future. They became Colorado's official state fish in 1994.--From container.
10) I am Legend
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The last man on earth is not alone. Somehow immune to an unstoppable, incurable virus, military virologist Robert Neville is now the last human survivng in New York City. He believes he may be the last human alive in the world. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows. They watch Robert's every move and wait for him to make a fatal mistake. Robert is driven by only one remaining mission - to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But, he is...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Ash is the stock boy, who is an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons; personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its "Evil" grip.
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Based on the incredible true story of the Beam family. When Christy discovers her ten-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter's healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired.
"The sweet sincerity...
15) Morbius
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
One of the most compelling and conflicted characters in Sony Pictures' Marvel Universe arrives as Oscar winner Jared Leto (2013, Best Supporting Actor, Dallas Buyers Club) transforms into the enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save other suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at fist it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him, is unleashed....
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his writing to the world, the reclusive writer is forced to confront...
17) Golden door
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations...
18) World War Z
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"Former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane ... [is] in a race against time to save both his family and the world from a pandemic that is toppling governments and threatening to destroy humanity itself"--Container.
19) Train to Busan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
While a zombie-virus breaks out in South Korea, a couple of passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
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In the epic finale to the saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.