Featuring specially-commissioned footage shot at Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, this fascinating DVD tells the story of an extraordinary man who re-shaped scientific thinking and left the world an invaluable legacy. The program explores Darwin's personal life, looks at the impact of his work in his own time and on the modern world, and shows how both his life and work were profoundly influenced by his surroundings. DVD features include • All-new footage shot at Down House • Superb animation and graphics • Historic photographs and images • Expert commentary and analyses.

Sick is the internationally acclaimed Sundance award-winning film about the comedian and performance artist Bob Flanagan whose experiences with S/M helped him manage his painful disease of cystic fibrosis. A deeply moving often hilarious profile of one of the most unique artists of thei20th century Sick follows Flanagan's strikingly original art and life over several decades as he explores the limits of pain sexuality love and death. System Requirements: Running Time 89 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 031398834526 Manufacturer No: VM8345D.

Asia's most beautiful womenLush tropical rainforests and warm sensual breezes - journey to the heart of Malaysia with some of the world's most beautiful women. Get up close and personal with Maggie Q (Live Free or Die Hard) and nine more of the hottest models in Asia as they pose for seductive new bikini swimsuit calendar. In between shoots follow them behind the scenes for revealing unguarded moments in the dressing room and on the road where they share their most intimate desires. System Requirements:Running Time: 90 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/SPECIAL INTEREST Rating: NR UPC: 796019803182 Manufacturer No: 80318.

They're Bad to the Bone. the Kings of the Road. and the Life of the Party. Harley-Davidson. Peterbilt. Budweiser. [+]

Italy is considered one of the culinary capitals of the world. Each of its great cities exhibits its own culinary identity and its own exciting and colorful cuisine. In this program, we travel through the great cities of Italy, experiencing their culture, history, and pageantry while under the guidance of Italy's most famous chefs. We learn how to prepare the regional cuisine that has made the Italian kitchen so justly famous. In Volume 2, we journey south from Perugia to Lazio and then to Rome as we learn to prepare some of Italy's most famous dishes: focaccia, risotto, spaghetti carbonara, and saltinbocca. Our journey south continues to Naples-the birthplace of pizza-then on to the Amalfi coast, ending with the incomparable cuisine of Sicily. Each DVD contains instructions for preparing over twenty classic Italian dishes, as well as a printable recipe book. Buon appetito! Approx run time 2 hours.

THE HISTORY CHANNEL® presents a documentary tour de force on the world's greatest battles and the fearless men who won them. From King David and El Cid to Napoleon and Marshal Zukhov's capture of Berlin, THE CONQUERORS brings the terrifying rumble of tanks and the deadly arrows of conquest vividly to life.

This episode of A&E's ANCIENT MYSTERIES series concerns ATLANTIS: THE LOST CIVILIZATION. The program explores the myths and legends surrounding the fabled underwater city parsing out facts historical stories and present-day speculation. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 733961765328 Manufacturer No: AAE-76532.

Tailored to the most hard-core Star Trek fans, Mind Meld gets you up close and personal with the stars of the original television series. Its premise? Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner sitting together and having a quiet, earthy chat about old times. There isn't much new information about the show-though old cast resentments are addressed-but viewers learn a great deal about the personal lives of everyone's favorite spacemen. The two discuss the pressures of filming a weekly show and the difficulties of maintaining one's dignity as an actor while wearing pointy ears. The personalities of both men shine through and it becomes obvious why they were cast as they were; Nimoy really is more thoughtful and reserved, while Shatner is extroverted and showy. The best part of Mind Meld is witnessing the genuine fondness the two men share for each other. It's clear that they really were (and are) best friends, even when the cameras stopped rolling. -Ali Davis Mind Meld: Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime is an unprecedented 75-minute examination of the impact the Star Trek experience has had on the franchise's most celebrated participants: William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. These two stars have arguably embodied the brightest icons in the sci-fi universe; Shatner as passionate Captain James T. Kirk, and Nimoy as logical-minded, half Vulcan Mr. [+]

Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick US architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing. An extraordinary tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world.

Sir Jeremy Isaacs highly deserves the numerous awards for documentaries he has earned: the Royal Television Society's Desmond Davis Award, l'Ordre National du Mérit, an Emmy, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. His epic The World at War remains unsurpassed as the definitive visual history of World War II. The Second World War was different from other wars in thousands of ways, one of which was the unparalleled scope of visual documents kept by the Axis and Allies of all their activities. As a result, this war is understood as much through written histories as it is through its powerful images. The Nazis were particularly thorough in documenting even the most abhorrent of the atrocities they were committing-in a surprising amount of color footage. The World at War was one of the first television documentaries that exploited these resources so completely, giving viewers an unbelievable visual guide to the greatest event in the 20th century. This is to say nothing of the excellent, comprehensible narrative. Some highlights: A New Germany 1933-39: early German and Nazi documentation of Hitler's rise to power through the impending attack on Poland Whirlwind: the early British losses in the blitz in the skies over Britain and in North Africa Stalingrad: the turning point of the war and Germany's first defeat Inside the Reich-Germany 1940-44: one of the most fascinating documentaries that exists on life inside Nazi Germany, from Lebensborn to the Hitler Youth Morning: prior to Saving Private Ryan, one of the only unromanticized views of the Normandy invasion Genocide: this film is one of the most widely shown introductions to the Holocaust Japan 1941-45: although The World at War is decidedly focused more on the European theater, this is an important look into wartime Japan and its expansion-early 20th-century history that lead to Japan's role in World War II is superficial The bomb: another widely shown documentary of the Manhattan Project, the Enola Gay, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki The World at War will remain the definitive visual history of World War II, analogous to Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. No serious historian should be missing The World at War in a collection, and no student should leave school without having seen at least some of its salient episodes. Rarely is film so essential. [+]

A look at the destruction and rebirth of San Francisco as a result of the famous 1906 earthquake. System Requirements:Running Time 56 Mins. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/SPECIAL INTEREST Rating: NR UPC: 783421400696 Manufacturer No: WG40069.

In this unprecedented dialogue, held at Tibet House New York, Chopra and Thurman explore the ultimate harmonies between Buddism and Vedanta.

Meet the most brilliant pioneers of the industrial age and see how - their burning ambition extravagant dreams passion and rivalry as great minds clashed produced seven key technological achievements of the Industrial Revolution. This series uses a compelling mix of computer-generated and dramatic re-creations to bring these fascinating stories to life. The seven stories that are revealed here are: The Great Ship; the Brooklyn Bridge the Bell Rock Lighthouse; the US Transcontinental Railway; the London sewer system; the Panama Canal; and the Hoover Dam. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/BBC UPC: 883929012152 Manufacturer No: 1000037473.

OT: OUR TOWN is the August selection in the Film Movement Series. Subscribers receive a socially important film such as OT: our town to own on DVD each month. Against all odds, the first theatrical production in over 20 years at Dominguez High School is going to be Thornton Wilders American classic Our Town. The kids at this Compton school are about to experience more than a culture clash, as they embark on a rich journey and discover the educational and social value of theater. OT: our town tells the story of the human spirit and its strength against the stereotypes holding them down. Whereas Wilder wrote about little Grovers Corners, this documentary exemplifies how Our Town is every town. Our Town is Compton. The documentary film tells the inspiring story about a high-school in the ghetto performing its first-ever theatrical production. [+]

This is the real story of Freddie Myers one of the most infamous NYC drug kingpins to run the streets. Besides the #21 issue of F. E. D. S. Magazine Freddie Myers' story has never been told. One of NYC's most notorious heroin hustlers of all-time Myers is one hood hero the streets have been dying to learn about. Like all good kingpins in the trade Myers aka. NY Freddie eventually got knocked by the feds. But unlike many kingpins that get handed major sentences behind prison walls Myers served his 24 years in prison. [+]

In April 1861, the newly inaugurated President Lincoln calls for 75,000 men to fight for the Federal cause. What he does not anticipate is the shared desire by hundreds of women to fight for their country. Forbidden by laws of society, these determined women become the "Secret Soldiers of the Civil War. " Travel back in time and hear the story of two of the Civil War's most interesting female soldiers-Sarah Emma Edmonds and Loreta Janeta Velazquez. Hear their tales of passion, recounting the sacrifice of identity, fear of discovery, and constant need for duplicity. even under fire.

How did some of the most beautiful melodies of the 20th century come out of a man described as depressive, hypochondriacal, remote, and alcoholic? This stirring 2001 documentary cannot answer that question about Richard Rodgers, but it provides a near-perfect blend of biography, personal reminiscence, and music appreciation. The latter comes via experts sitting at their pianos: Richard Rodney Bennett, Barbara Carroll, Andrew Lloyd Webber. The composer himself gives a lucid explanation of his working method, as he demonstrates how the lyric of "It Might as Well Be Spring" inspired the melody. Interviewees include Rodgers's daughters, who provide suitably unsentimental memories of dad. At the heart of the story is Rodgers's brilliant collaborations with two great lyricists: mercurial Lorenz Hart, whose problems made Rodgers look non-neurotic, and steady Oscar Hammerstein II. Ample clips give the best evidence of all, from Frank Sinatra upper-cutting "The Lady Is a Tramp" to John Coltrane jazzily bending "My Favorite Things. " -Robert Horton.