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1) Pups alone
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Get ready for hilarious canine holiday hijinks! While everyone is away on a company ski trip, a jealous inventor hires two thieves to break into his co-worker's house and steal his top-secret new creation. But they are no match for a mischievous pack of neighborhood pups, who set up tricks and traps to protect the home and save Christmas. This laugh-out-loud comedy stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jerry O'Connell, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo and Rob Schneider....
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As an exceptionally brilliant inventor with unlimited resources and unimaginable wealth, the devilishly charming Tom Swift is a man who many men would kill to be, or be with a man with the world in the palm of his hand. But that world gets shaken to its core after the shocking disappearance of his father, thrusting Tom into a breathtaking adventure full of mysterious conspiracies and unexplained phenomena.
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Leaving behind his Boston childhood, Benjamin Franklin reinvents himself in Philadelphia where he builds a printing empire and a new life with his wife Deborah. Turning to science, Franklin gains worldwide fame from his lightning rod and experiments in electricity. After entering politics, he spends years in London trying to keep Britain and America together as his own family starts to come apart.
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With only a library book as his guide, fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba builds a windmill in his Malawian village that changes his life forever. Using junk parts and an inexhaustible imagination, he harnesses enough energy to power a generator that saves his family from famine and resuscitates his dying farming community.
5) The jerk
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A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
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The World's Fair, Paris, 1889, a young inventor crosses paths with an enigmatic girl and her pet lion. Suddenly they find themselves pursued by villainous trio intent upon stealing the magical Blue Water. Join Nadia and Jean as they travel the high seas in search of Nadia's homeland and her past, their only clue the mysterious jewel Nadia wears. Can they unravel the Secret of the Blue Water before it is too late? Contains episodes 1-39.
8) Galileo
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Animated biography of Galileo, the astronomer and inventor who re-discovered that the Earth travels around the sun, at the risk of his reputation and freedom. For refusing to support a false view of the Universe, he spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest.
9) Flubber
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Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding for the third time! He develops a miraculous elastic goo flubber that enables anything its applied to, to bounce super high and fast.
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Dramatizes Edison's invention of the light bulb focusing on the character traits of perseverence, conviction and honesty that influenced his final success. The inventor's success is also attributed to his ability to make loyal friends and assistants, and to work diligently in the face of dishonest investors. As the drama unfolds, the scientific principles of heat, vaccums, carbon, glass and resistance are also demonstrated in story form. Finally,...
13) A bug's life
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Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
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Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Sam Sparks is a weathergirl covering the town's weather phenomenon, but chooses to hide her intelligence behind a perky exterior. Tim Lockwood is Flint's technophobic father. Brent is the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Mayor Shelbourne exploits Flint's newest invention so he can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the...
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August 1896: Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people, mostly women, abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. An epic fantasy/science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that might very well change the world.
18) Garrett's gift
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The inspiring true story of African American inventor Garrett Morgan. As a young boy, Garrett didn't know what he was good at. He always seems to be getting into trouble. Upon moving to the big city, Garrett witnesses a series of collisions. His creative thinking and imagination lead him to invent the traffic signal. Narrated by Queen Latifah, GARRETT'S GIFT teaches us that we are all given a gift, but what’s most important is that we give that...
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Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone. He meets the wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to keep moving forward and never stop believing in himself....
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