Audio-Visual Materials: G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Join the US Geological Survey as they explore the wonders of glaciers. Learn about the distribution of the world's glaciers, the formation of glacier ice, the glacier ecosystem, and much more.

Asteroid apocalypse: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine how an impact on the American west coast could spell disaster for the nation. Atlantis apocalypse: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine how another eruption of the Santorini Volcano, like the one 3,500 years ago, could affect people today. American volcano: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if Mt. Rainier erupted like Mt. St. Helens. The next Pompeii: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if Mt. Vesuvius erupted again in the same way as it erupted in 79 A.D. Windy City tornado: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if a high speed tornado struck Chicago directly, as one almost did in 1967. New York City hurricane: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if a hurricane struck New York City. LA's killer quake: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if an earthquake the size of San Francisco's 1906 quake occurred in Los Angeles today. Yellowstone eruption: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if the mega volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park erupted again. Mega drought: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine the Dust Bowl of the 1930's in the U.S. and what would happen if such a drough occured again. Mega freeze: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if Europe and the U.S. began to get cold due to the rapidly changing climate.

Is pollution causing the Alaskan ground warming, glaciers melting and forests dying? "Alaska is definitely melting" Also studies being conducted in the highest mountains in the Tropics indicate glacier retreat "99 ft. a year" with glacier landscape changing from 5 to 2 glaciers in South America regions. Global warming could be the cause for a glacier in Bolivia, Perú or Antarctica to disappear completely in 50 years.

In 1974, Muhammad Ali made what some critics thought would be his last title bid to regain the heavyweight boxing championship, stripped from him years before. Fight promoters offered him five million dollars to come to the African nation of Zaire to face a seemingly unbeatable opponent whose youth and ferocity left Ali a long shot. Then, as the world watched, Ali took center ring, pulling off a stunning upset in what many call the fight of the century -- "The Rumble in the Jungle." Includes an interview with director Leon Gast, on the making of the film.

This is the shocking and incredibly true story of the brutal massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by a team of extreme Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. From terrorist training in Libya to the terrorists sneaking into the Olympic Village to the tension-filled negotiations to the shocking conclusion at a German airport.For the first time, the lone surviving member of that extremist group speaks. Actual video shot during the crisis is used to help tell the story.

Explore the characteristics of the ocean's personality, from the volatile cross-currents to health issues, from endangered sea creatures to the reality of light on the ocean floor.

"NOVA tells the minute-by-minute story of the 2004 tsunami, featuring the testimony of lucky survivors and gripping eyewitness video footage. In an authoritative look at tsunami science, NOVA presents the first in-depth exploration of what made the waves so destructive. And with the help of a massive wave tank, scientists assess the risk that a similar (or even bigger) catastrophe might one day strike the U.S. coastline"--Container.

"Join geneticist Spencer Wells and a team from National Geographic's Genographic Project as they trace the human journey through time, from our origins in the heart of Africa to the ends of the world. Cutting edge science, coupled with a cast of New Yorkers -- each with their own unique genetic history -- helps paint a picture of these amazing journeys. The human family tree answers some of humanity's most burning questions -- who we are and where we come from -- and forces us to change how we think not only about our relationships with our neighbors, but ourselves"--Container.

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Discusses achieving a balance between the needs of people and the needs of the environment, focusing on loss of farmland, river pollution, inadequate housing and water resources, environmental pressures, grasslands, wildlife, and the link between environmental change and human health.

Attempting to discover the mysteries of the human body, 18th century anatomists and surgeons needed subjects to work on, leading, in the U.S. and Great Britain, to a thriving business in the theft of bodies and body parts. This program traces the history and legal status of "resurrectionists", ranging from Ben Crouch and Burke and Hare in Great Britain to Grandison Harris, the freed slave who supplied cadavers to the Medical College of Georgia.