Rick Steves has dedicated his life to traveling the globe and showing other Americans that seeing the world doesnt have to cost a bundle. Through his many guidebooks and PBS specials, Steves offers the best advice on how to travel on a shoestring, befriend the locals in any town, and avoid annoying tourist traps. This exciting collection offers seven half-hour episodes of RICK STEVES EUROPE that focus on Germany and Benelux: “Munich and the Foothills of the Alps,” “Germans Romantic Rhine and Rothenburg,” “Germanys Black Forest and Cologne,” “Berlin - Resilient, Reunited, and Reborn,” “Belgium - Bruges and Brussels,” “Amsterdam and Dutch Side-Trips,” and “Little Europe.”
Rick Steves loves to travel the globe and teach other Americans how to see the world without spending a bundle. Through his many guidebooks and PBS specials, Steves offers the best advice on traveling on a shoestring, befriending the locals in any town, and avoiding bland tourist traps. This travel collection offers eight episodes of RICK STEVES EUROPE that focus on France, including “Highlights of Paris,” “Normandy,” and “Frances Dordogne.”
BLED is a terrifying horror tale that explores vampirism, addiction, and beyond. Sai (Sarah Farooqui, LOST) is a young artist living in a downtown warehouse. When she meets a mysterious and devilishly handsome man who insists she tries an unidentifiable drug, her experimental ways get the better of her. Soon after ingesting the substance, Sai realizes shes becoming a helplessly addicted, unwitting portal for a dark and sinister being to cross over from his own dimension into the earthly world. (95 hr.)
Every spring, millions of monarch butterflies migrate across North America, landing in a specific area of the mountains in southern Mexico. This documentary chronicles their difficult journey, which remains a mystery to modern science. (56 hr.)
In addition to five CDs to help Spanish speakers learn English, this comprehensive title also features a video course on American citizenship as well as three volumes of interactive instruction on the language. (600 hr.)
The Iditarod trail plays out like a gauntlet: intrepid athletes–armed with a sled and 16 Huskies–must endure dangerous mountain passes, unforgiving forests, and frozen coastlines. This brutal Discovery Channel special chronicles the endeavors of 96 teams, capturing the moment they set out in Anchorage and following them to the finish line in Nome. This release includes the bonus feature EXPEDITION ALASKA. (337 hr.)
After his alternate-fuel research lab blows up, a brilliant young scientist (Keanu Reeves) is wrongly pegged as the saboteur in this action-thriller from the director of THE FUGITIVE. Teaming up with a beautiful physicist (Rachel Weisz), the scruffy techie struggles to evade federal agents and uncover the conspiracy behind the crime.
The Office of Barbarian Knowledge Enforcement has more on its hands than new ideas or trinkets from the West: a barrage of ghouls known as Youi wreak havoc across the land, and the secret to their destruction is, of all things, the power of the written word. This intriguing anime series mixes the historical setting of mid-1800s Japan–a time when the fear of foreign influence made government officials wary of anything not Japanese–with demons and their hunters. (250 hr.)
A charismatic stranger sets foot in a tiny Southern town on the eve of their annual celebration. And, as a pair of young boys learn, nothing will ever be the same again.