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Dr. Nick Cutter is fighting to re-focus his embattled team which is still reeling from Stephen's death and Helen's betrayal.  Cutter's team is joined by some new recruits as the anomolies contiue to present an unrelenting series of threats; the task at hand seems almost impossible to protect the world from the the dangerous creatures of another era.  As deadlier creatures continue to rampage through the twists-in-time, the team faces a threat to the future of not just the ARC, but of mankind itself.

3 discs

WideScreen

Dual Layer Single Sided

Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo

Subtitles: English

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in "Earth".  Disneynature brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet--polar bears, elephants and humpback whales.  Filmed with spectacular clarity and beauty, "Earth" is both majestic and intimate as it captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.  From the landmark Disneynature collection, "Earth" is an astonishing and heartwarming film filled with adventure, suspense and humor that will take your breath away.

2 Discs

Widescreen 1.78:1

Dual Layer Single Sided

Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles: English. French. Spanish

In this powerful and engaging new drama from Imagine Television, the producers of "24", Tim Roth stars as Dr. Cal Lightman, a deception expert who uncanny ability to read facial expressions and body language makes him a virtual human polygraph.  Joined by psychologist Dr. Gillian Foster, Lightman tackles compelling cases of sabotage, scandal and murder, always uncovering the one thing that matters the most: The Truth!

4 discs

Widescreen 1.78:1

Dual Layer Single Sided

Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround

Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese

Closed Captioned

Bargain hunters at Forest Ridge Mall get more than they bargained for: A chubby flasher in a ratty bathrobe!  They're repulsed.  Security guard Ronnie Barnhardt isn't:  Catching the flasher may be his ticket to a real police job and a romance with a hot cosmetics-counter princess.  Only one thing stands between Ronnie and destiny: a tall, handsome cop who actually knows what he is doing.

1 disc

Widescreen/FullScreen

Dual Layer Single Sided

Audio: English Dolby Digital Surround 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital Surround 5.1, French Dolby Digital Surround 5.1

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Go inside the cultures of the most famous warriors of all time as host Terry Schappert, a Green Beret and military expert, explores the weaponry, tactics, training, and psyches of history’s greatest fighters.

Every episode of WARRIORS tells the dramatic tales of iconic warrior cultures – the Vikings, Aztecs, Barbarians – including the rituals, technologies, and strategies that made them so mighty. From Spartans to samurai, Zulus to medieval knights, Schappert fully immerses himself in these warrior cultures, experiencing firsthand their fighting techniques and testing their weapons. See the pre-battle rituals, initiations, and battlefield approaches of the Mayan warriors – a force that relied on human sacrifice, ceremony and deadly weaponry. Uncover the weapons and tactics that led to a shocking Barbarian victory against the Roman army. Learn the secrets and traditions of the elite and mysterious warriors who for centuries ruled Japan. And explore in each episode a climactic battle that showcases the warriors’ strengths, weaknesses, and life-and-death struggles.

Walking in the footsteps of history’s greatest warriors proves to be a gut-wrenching experience, but it’s all part of Schappert’s amazing journey to discover the heart of a warrior.

WARRIORS: THE COMPLETE SEASON ONE contains 10 episodes on 3 DVDs:

Maya Armageddon; Viking Terror; Barbarian Massacre; Knight Fight; Samurai Showdown; the Last Crusaders; Spartan Vengeance; Zulu Siege; Islands of Blood; Special Forces.

Bonus Features:

* Terry Schappert’s comments on:
          “Maya Armageddon”, Viking Terror”, “Barbarian Massacre”, “Knight Fighter”, “Samurai Showdown”

* About Terry Schappert

Amir is a heartbreaker...literally. As a relationship termination specialist, he provides dumping services for disgruntled daters and spends his days delivering the bad news to unsuspecting lovers across Los Angeles. Though Amir claims he is just the messenger, the job makes him cynical and, as a result, the last bachelor in his group of friends. This becomes clear when his recently-engaged best friends tells him he can no longer be his Best Man because of bad relationship karma.

When Amir returns to his family's home for Thanksgiving, he is reunited with his long-lost cousin, Zara, who decides to hitch a ride back to LA with him. As a joke, the two cousins pretend to be a couple in front of Amir's friends and their charade comes dangerously close to going too far.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a fast-paced drama about a passionate team of forensic investigators trained to solve crimes the old-fashioned way – by examining the evidence. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is on the case 24-7, scouring the scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that will solve the mystery.

How do we see the world? Some ancients believed it rode on the back of a turtle. The Greeks viewed it as a sphere and measured it with astonishing accuracy. Today, scientists monitor it from space, detecting complex climate patterns that threaten our survival.

Narrated by Patrick Stewart, "The Shape of the World" is a fascinating six-part series, tracing the history of mapmaking from crude clay tablets to sophisticated electronic equipment. Internationally respected historians, NASA scientists and other experts explain how humans rely on imagination, observation, and mathematics to create pictures in order to make sense of our world. Throughout history, maps have served as symbols of wealth and power, tools of conquest and subjugation, extraordinary art, and instruments for saving lives. They once held information worth killing for, and now they offer clues that might avert global destruction.

Bonus features:

• 20-page viewer's guide includes highlights, questions to consider, avenues for further learning, "Tools of the Mapmaker's Trade", "The Math Behind a Map", and "Myths on Maps".
• "The Chartbusters": pioneers in cartography
• Text interview with Patrick Stewart and biographies of Stewart and series editor Simon Berthon.* Exclusive web extras.

Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie return for more outrageous adventures when “The Simpsons” The Complete Twelfth Season arrives on DVD August 18th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

“The Simpsons” The Complete Twelfth Season is loaded with special features including an introduction from Matt Groening; audio commentaries on every episode with Groening and “The Simpsons” Executive Producers, Writers, Actors and Directors; deleted scenes; animation showcases; original sketches; special language feature; featurettes and more.  As an added bonus, the set comes in collectible packaging modeled after the overweight and over opinionated retailer Comic Book Guy. 

About a guy whose life didn't quite turn out how he wanted it to and wishes he could go back to high school and change it. He wakes up one day and is seventeen again and gets the chance to rewrite his life.