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Kamchatka: Siberia's forbidden wilderness.
Kamchatka, Siberia's remote peninsula, features volcanoes, geysers and hot
springs. It is home to the world's largest population of grizzly bears and
the biggest brown bears in Eurasia. Kamchatka's harsh environment is no obstacle,
either, to bighorn sheep, silver foxes, sables, mink and black capped marmots.
Its coastal water feature fur seals, walruses and bowhead whale breeding grounds.
MPAA Rating NR. 60 minutes.
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Kansas City confidential.
Joe Rolph, a down on his luck war vet, is framed in a million dollar bank
robbery. He swears to get even with the vicious criminals who pulled the daring
daylight heist. Their trail leads him from the mean streets and back alleys
of Kansas City to the steamy tropics of Mexico and a series of deadly confrontations
with the murderous gang members and their ruthless double crossing leader.
Starring John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Dona Drake, Jack Elam. Directed
by Phil Karlson. MPAA Rating NR. 99 minutes.
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Kansas Pacific.
With the Civil War looming, the North is hurrying to complete a railroad across
Kansas to connect its eastern cities with the western frontier. But Southern
sympathizers, desperate to keep Northern influence and troops out of the territory,
are doing all they can to cripple construction. As their efforts escalate,
an Army engineer is assigned to complete the vital Kansas Pacific rail link.
Can he get the job done despite increasingly violent efforts by Quantrill
and his Southern raiders to sabotage the project? Starring Sterling Hayden,
Eve Miller, Reed Hadley, Barton MacLane, Tom Fadden. Directed by Ray Nazarro.
MPAA Rating NR. 72 minutes.
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The Kennedys.
Charts the course of the Kennedy's extraordinary political trajectory, marked
by both achievement and tragedy. From its origins in Boston's political corridors
to the Court of St. James, from the Senate tot he White House, the Kennedys
have left a legacy that continues to influence the shape of politics in America
today. MPAA Rating NR. 240 minutes.
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The Kennel murder case.
On show days, high society meets at the Long Island Kennel Club to see and
be seen. But the veneer of civility is cracked when a prominent member of
the club is found dead in a room locked from the inside, with a gun in his
limp hand. The police assume suicide. And yet everyone who knew the man has
a reason for wanting him dead. Starring William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene
Pallette, Jack LaRue. Directed by Michael Curitz. MPAA Rating NR. 98 minutes.
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Kid Dynamite.
In the 1940s New York, amateur boxer Mugs McGinnis is kidnapped by bookies
out to make a bundle on a big bout. His shy fellow gang member Danny stands
in for him and, in a major upset, wins the fight. Fearing a challenge to his
leadership of the gang, Mugs bullies Danny, with unexpected results. With
Leo Gorcey and Bobby Jordon. Directed by Wallace Fox. MPAA Rating NR. 67 minutes.
DV00071
Killer Quake!
On January 17, 1994 a previously unknown fault convulsed beneath Northridge.
It was the most destructive earthquake in modern Los Angeles history. Nova
takes viewers from urban trench sites to the top of the Santa Susanna Mountains,
in search of clues as to where nature will strike next. MPAA Rating NR. 60
minutes.
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The king and I.
Musical remake of Anna and the King of Siam, from the Broadway production
by Rogers and Hammerstein, based on the novel by Margaret Landon. It tells
the true story of an Englishwoman, Anna Leonowens, who comes to Siam as schoolteacher
to the Royal Court in the 1860s. Though she soon finds herself at odds with
the stubborn monarch, over time, Anna and the King stop tying to change each
other and begin to understand one another. Starring Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner,
Rosita Moreno, Martin Benson and Terry Saunders. Directed by Walter Lang and
Ernest Lehman. MPAA Rating G. 133 minutes.
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King Solomon's mines.
The search for King Solomon's mines leads a safari through the treacherous
terrain of the desert, fending off sandstorms, Zulus, and a volcanic eruption.
Starring Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger. Directed by Compton Bennett. MPAA
Rating NR. 103 minutes.
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Kipper: the rescue; the rainbow puddle, the picnic.
Animated. Three episodes of Kipper the dog include adventures at the beach
in "The Rescue," where they make a sand boat and get caught by the
tide on a rock. "The Rainbow Puddle" finds them following a rainbow
and playing in the puddles, where they come across a magic frog. In "The
Picnic," they are interrupted by black ants, ducks and stinging bees.
A Nick Jr. production, The Nicalodeon Network. MPAA Rating NR. 30 minutes.
DV000459
Know fraud; don't be a victim.
This program was developed with the corporation of the United States Postal
Inspection Service and features material drawn from their investigations and
enforcement actions including interviews with victims, US postal inspectors
and former con artists. Shows examples of common telemarketing and mail frauds.
Explains how scams work and how con artists identify potential victims. MPAA
Rating NR. 60 minutes.