A clip in the Science Please! collection,Lift Off uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain what makes a rocket lift off.
A clip in the Science Please! collection,Lift Off uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain what makes a rocket lift off.
2000-01-01
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Late at night, a brother and his sister ride in an elevator with their father. Suddenly, the lights go off, and the lift gets stuck between two floors. In the dark and unable to get any help, the father pushes his son through the narrow space between the shaft and the hallway. Alone in the claustrophobic box, the father and daughter stay silent, until a childish whining is heard from the shadows. Someone is inside the elevator... breathing by their side.
Four unrelated people are stuck in a lift, and one ends up dead, two are stabbed, and the other is arrested for murder. The four people's lives are told in flashbacks.
A wealthy property developer goes to the top floor of an art gallery to pay the ransom for his kidnapped son. But when the lift mysteriously stops halfway up the building, he must quickly work out if the young man he is trapped with is just an innocent tourist – or the kidnapper...
Bob is to dress up as Father Christmas for the local school carol concert, but loses time when Farmer Pickles gets snowed in.
Welcome to Chima - a magical world of untamed nature, beauty and wonder ruled by animal tribes. A world where CHI - the power of nature itself is carefully guarded by the Lions but equally shared amongst the tribes so all animals can live and thrive peacefully. A world where Laval the Lion and Cragger the Crocodile are the best of friends. But when an unfortunate series of events make young Cragger king of the Crocodiles, he throws everything out of balance as he tries to take control of all the CHI. Alliances amongst the tribes are formed and suddenly former friends are worst enemies.
“Our family is special”, says filmmaker Lei Lei’s father Lei Jiaqi. On the audio track of this inventive, poignant essay film he starts to talk about the struggles of his family, amid China’s troubled times of the 1960s. When his own father, Lei Ting, is sent to the countryside, he stays behind with his sister and his ill mother. When Mum passes away, and the system forbids Ting to come back to live with his children, the kids are kept in an orphanage.
Based on the "Bringing Up Father" comic strip. Jiggs, a middle class man, suddenly becomes a millionaire, but does not want to abandon his old friends or his old habits. As he does not want to live like a millionaire without doing anything, nor does he want to abandon his old life, he manages to work in a variety of trades, often fantastic, such as street singer, aviator, colonizer of the planet Mars, champion horseman, etc., or simply going out partying with his usual friends. Eventually, he has to confront his wife, Crisanta, a neurotic and conceited social climber, who is delighted with her new situation. Currently considered a lost film.
It’s the debut of an all-new, all-different Deathlok. Killer cyborgs have come from the future to kill the heroes of today, while Wolverine embarks on an international pub crawl with a certain recently reborn Sentinel of Liberty. Beer and bullets galore!
It's the first day of Summer Vacation and The Cat in the Hat whisks Nick, Sally and Fish off on the greatest great outdoor camping adventure ever!
The destruction of nature by man seen through the eyes of a snail. The life of a snail on a tiny patch of weeds in the middle of grey stone: what seems wondrous and paradisiacal to it is the reason for road builders to repair a huge paved area for good. The snail reacts to the threat to its life in an unusual way.
The hero of this tale was created without nipples, but he has other attributes to make up for this lack.
Parody history of adventures of a knight in the spirit of ancient ballads.
The stork delivers a baby 5 times the size of its parents.
Cavemen and dinosaurs battle each other for survival.
A Filipino-American man grapples with the recent death of his beloved grandmother. When he receives her recipe book, he decides to recreate her Arroz Caldo in an attempt to finally connect to his Filipino heritage.
Adopted by a big, lively and spirited kangaroo family of traveling wrestlers, Teo’s life is pretty great. But when mysterious visions lead him to a faraway land, Teo is forced to rediscover his roots and embark on an epic journey to save his homeland from impending destruction.