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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Draws on the latest cutting-edge research and compelling stories to illustrate the serious physical, emotional, and societal consequences of poor sleep, reveal the emerging explanations for why people sleep, illuminate the wide array of sleep disorders, and explain what people can all do to get a better night's rest.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This mixed-media special features animated shorts of bedtime stories with celebrity voices, lullabies by famous performers, and interviews with children talking about sleep, dreams, and the tradition of bedtime stories. The featured stories are "Goodnight Moon" about a young bunny's pre-bedtime rituals, "There's a Nightmare in My Closet" about a worried little boy who is convinced a monster lives in his closet, and "Tar Beach" the tale of 8-year-old...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Back in the 1970s, several patients in an experimental sleep study reported seeing shadowy intruders. These patients, and hundreds of others, died in their sleep soon after. Doctors called the phenomenon ''Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome''. They refused to discuss the shadows. Now, a struggling late night radio host and a skeptical CDC investigator have begun researching a disturbing new outbreak of shadowy sightings and sleep fatalities....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Whether it's electric lights, addiction to digital devices, or just the fast pace of modern life, one thing is clear: it seems to be getting harder to get a good night's sleep. Almost 50 percent of Americans say they can't get the zzz's they need. To understand why many are sleep deprived, take a deep dive into the body's control center, the brain, and follow the work of researchers who are unraveling the secrets of sleep.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins the leading dream researchers as they embark on a variety of neurological and psychological experiments to investigate the world of sleep and dreams. Delving deep into the thoughts and brains of a variety of dreamers, scientists are asking important questions about the purpose of this mysterious world we escape to at night." -- Container.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Princess Aurora is born to King Stefan & his wife. At a ceremony for her, fairies - Flora, Fauna and Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But the evil sorceress, Maleficent, shows up and places a curse on the princess - where Aurora will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow princess Aurora to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In "Scarecrow walks at midnight" there is something funny about Jodie and Mark's grandparents' farm, but nobody's laughing, especially when twelve strange new scarecrows scare more than just the crows. In "Don't go to sleep" Matt Amsterdam wishes his family were different, until he wakes up from a nap in the attic to find things are suddenly very different. In "Calling all creeps" Ricky Beamer hopes for revenge by placing a mean girl's phone number...
12) Oblomov
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Russian
Description
A moving adaptation of Ivan Goncharov's great 19th century tragi-comedy novel about a gentle aristocrat who would rather sleep than compete in a modern world of expanding industrialization.
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Go to sleep Wartz: Wartz has so much fun playing with his marmoset friends that he decides he wants to play all the time and never sleep again; Sleepover: A storm is coming and a worried Wartz wants to stay home rather than go to a sleepover, until Snook explains what causes lightning and thunder; Sounds of the forest: Wartz moves into a new log, but after his first day there he is exhausted-- mysterious whistling and knocking noises are keeping him...
Series
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Good night, gorilla: The zookeeper makes his nightly rounds but never suspects that someone is making mischief along the way. How do dinosaurs say good night: Even dinosaurs make a fuss before bedtime. Happy birthday, moon: Little bear and the moon wish each other happy birthday. Napping house: Granny and all her critters pile on her bed for a nap.
Series
Publisher
Muppets Holding Company, distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Snuggle up with Bear and his friends for some sleepy-time fun in three stories that reinforce the value of friendship, good dental hygiene and the importance of a good night's sleep. Ojo learns the importance of making new friends-and keeping the old-in "Friends for life, " then invites everyone over to the Big Blue House for "The big sleep." Wrap up your day at the Harvest Moon celebration where Luna has a special surprise for Bear at the super-sleepover...
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