A group of astronauts, led by George Taylor (Charlton Heston), crash land on a strange planet where mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. Taylor is hunted down & captured by horse-riding gorillas, & then taken for experimentation by sympathetic chimpanzee Dr Zira (Kim Hunter). When Zira discovers Taylor's intelligence, she & her fiancé Cornelius (Roddy Mc Dowall) appeal to the governing council on his behalf, but the appeal fails, leaving the astronaut no choice but to go on the run. Fleeing for his freedom, Taylor soon makes a shocking discovery about the provenance of this strange planet. ...

This box set contains all five films in the ' Planet of the Apes' series. In the original film, a group of Earth astronauts, led by Colonel George Taylor (Charlton Heston), are plunged nearly two thousand years into the future after passing through a time distortion. They crash land on a strange planet, where mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. In ' Beneath the Planet of the Apes', NASA send astronaut Brent (James Franciscus) on a rescue mission when Taylor's crew fail to return to Earth. Like Taylor, he is catapulted through time to the ' Ape' planet, where Taylor is now being held captive in the Forbidden Zone, an underground society whose telepathic mutant inhabitants dedicate their lives to their ' God': an atomic warhead. In ' Escape from the Planet of the Apes', the sympathetic chimps of the first two films, Zira (Kim Hunter) & Cornelius (Roddy Mc Dowall), escape the nuclear devastation of the Earth by travelling back in time in Taylor's spaceship, arriving in Los Angeles in the year 1973. They are initially held in captivity in a zoo, but when they prove their intelligence they are released & hailed as celebrities. In ' Conquest of the Planet of the Apes', the year is now 1991. Following a plague which wiped out all cats & dogs, apes have been adopted as pets by humans, but when Zira & Cornelius' son Caesar (Roddy Mc Dowall) sees them being treated as slaves, he leads his brother simians in rebellion against their overlords. ' Battle for the Planet of the Apes' opens in 2670 with the ape Lawgiver (John Huston) relating how, following the 1991 rebellion, mankind embarked on a terrible nuclear war. In the devastation which followed, Caesar & the apes seized control, ruling benevolently over the human survivors, & working to rebuild society. However, civil war was being fermented by ambitious gorilla general Aldo (Claude Akins). Also included is previously unseen footage & interviews with cast & crew members. ...

This box set contains all five films in the ' Planet of the Apes' series. In the original film, a group of Earth astronauts, led by Colonel George Taylor (Charlton Heston), are plunged nearly two thousand years into the future after passing through a time distortion. They crash land on a strange planet, where mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. In ' Beneath the Planet of the Apes', NASA send astronaut Brent (James Franciscus) on a rescue mission when Taylor's crew fail to return to Earth. Like Taylor, he is catapulted through time to the ' Ape' planet, where Taylor is now being held captive in the Forbidden Zone, an underground society whose telepathic mutant inhabitants dedicate their lives to their ' God': an atomic warhead. In ' Escape from the Planet of the Apes', the sympathetic chimps of the first two films, Zira (Kim Hunter) & Cornelius (Roddy Mc Dowall), escape the nuclear devastation of the Earth by travelling back in time in Taylor's spaceship, arriving in Los Angeles in the year 1973. They are initially held in captivity in a zoo, but when they prove their intelligence they are released & hailed as celebrities. In ' Conquest of the Planet of the Apes', the year is now 1991. Following a plague which wiped out all cats & dogs, apes have been adopted as pets by humans, but when Zira & Cornelius' son Caesar (Roddy Mc Dowall) sees them being treated as slaves, he leads his brother simians in rebellion against their overlords. ' Battle for the Planet of the Apes' opens in 2670 with the ape Lawgiver (John Huston) relating how, following the 1991 rebellion, mankind embarked on a terrible nuclear war. In the devastation which followed, Caesar & the apes seized control, ruling benevolently over the human survivors, & working to rebuild society. However, civil war was being fermented by ambitious gorilla general Aldo (Claude Akins). Also included is previously unseen footage & interviews with cast & crew members. ...

Double bill featuring the original ' Planet of the Apes' movie & the 2001 remake. In ' Planet of the Apes' (1968), a group of astronauts, led by George Taylor (Charlton Heston), crash land on a strange planet where mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. Taylor is hunted down & captured by horse-riding gorillas, & then taken for experimentation by sympathetic chimpanzee Dr Zira (Kim Hunter). When Zira discovers Taylor's intelligence, she & her fiancé Cornelius (Roddy Mc Dowall) appeal to the governing council on his behalf, but the appeal fails, leaving the astronaut no choice but to go on the run. Fleeing for his freedom, Taylor soon makes a shocking discovery about the provenance of this strange planet. In ' Planet of the Apes' (2001) Capt. Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is aboard a spaceship trying to teach apes how to become space pilots. During a routine reconnaissance mission outside the mothership, Leo is sucked into a space-time hole & minutes later makes a crash landing on a strange planet where humans are subjugated by talking apes. Just as a quick death at the hands of the violent ape leader General Thade (Tim Roth) seems inevitable, Leo is rescued by the ape scientist Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter). Ari suspects mankind has more skills than the sacred documents of the apes describe & soon the race is on to outwit Thade & discover the true history of the planet & its original population. ...

Resilience, sustainability
- these two words catch the spirit of the early twenty-first century. After a century of environmental
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Making friends on new planets is a risky business. They may never want you to leave. This work features guided reading notes & activities & provides templates & artwork for writing a new graphic novel together with short one-off writing activities. ...

Reese Larkin is desperate to find the perfect mattress. His job is in jeopardy & he's been forced to separate from his wife & children, but he believes that if he can find the ultimate sleep system his life will begin anew. This title tells the tale of a man holding on to his sanity against all odds in an increasingly unhinged world. ...