Release date: 2008-01-15
Run time: 50 min.
List Price: $24.95
Price: $9.99
Review History's Mysteries - The True Story of Gladiators (History Channel) / A&E HOME VIDEO:For over 25 years, "Death to America" has been the rallying cry of the Iranian government, but it's only recently that the threat has become chillingly real and the Islamic Republic of Iran has emerged as perhaps the most clear and present danger to American security. This special will explore the once proud military tradition of Iran, its recent decline in power, and the country's struggle to gain a place among the world's super powers. We will also examine evidence that shows Iran is secretly pursuing a nuclear weapon and just may intend to use on the United States or its allies.
Actors & Directors
- Jr. Martin Luther King
- SoundWorks
Run time: 32 min.
List Price: $19.98
Price: $10.80
Review Been to the Mountaintop / SpeechWorks:Original footage features highlights from dramatic speeches and conversations apanning 1956 to 1968, including his last address on April 3, 1968, the night before his assassination in Memphis.
Actors & Directors
- Steven Ives
- Narrated by Michael Murphy
Run time: 90 min.
List Price: $24.99
Price: $16.11
Review Kit Carson / PBS (DIRECT):For some, he was one of America's greatest heroes; a brave and loyal guide who laid out a path for the westward-moving nation, and Indian tracker who could follow any trail, and a fearless warrior featured in dozens of best-selling novels. But to others, Christopher "Kit" Carson was a villain who waged a merciless crusade against one of the West's greatest Native American tribes. This film drawn upon rich archival materials, original recreations, and interviews with authors and historians to bring the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier to vivid life, and provide a lens on a pivotal but little-understood era in American history.
Actors & Directors
- Blessed-Still We Believe Pt. 2
Run time: 70 min.
List Price: $19.95
Price: $4.58
Review Blessed! Still, We Believe 2 / Arts Alliance Amer:
Actors & Directors
- Get an insider's view of the organization that formed the backbone of America's nuclear arsenal for
- The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was the key cog in America's Cold War military machine.
- Their motto, "Peace is our Profession," belied the fact that they were in charge of weapons with
- the power to destroy the world many times over.
- nearly 50 years.
Price: $4.25
Review Modern Marvels: Strategic Air Command:
Release date: 2006-11-28
Run time: 240 min.
List Price: $24.98
Price: $13.99
Review Warplane / Pbs (Direct):In the 100 years since the Wright brothers first took to the air the airplane has evolved from a tentative eye in the sky into the ultimate weapons delivery system. Its role in warfare has changed dramatically through the ages and as it has taken on new functions the very way we wage war has had to change along with it. Warplane explores the evolution of the warplane not plane by plane but by role and by telling the stories of the creative minds who out of necessity creativity and hard work have taken warfare into the skies. The series is broken down into four programs Airplane to Air Force Air Power Jet Age and The Spy with a combination of thematic and chronological approaches. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 841887052078 Manufacturer No: 705207.
Actors & Directors
- Brett Schwartz
- Micah Byrne
- Brian Conley
- Travis Potter
- Justin La Pera
- Daniel Thomson
Run time: 76 min.
List Price: $6.99
Price: $2.77
Review The Forgotten Coast / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment:For many surfers, the notion of "going feral" is associated mainly with azure blue waves breaking on powdered sandy beaches. It is the casting aside of everyday monotonies for the pursuit of point-break excellence. The Forgotten Coast fuels this romantic ideal, as the exotic locales, glassy sets, and empty lineups are the stuff of wave-riding fantasy. However, it also documents the less-publicized realities of surf exploration that so often escape our daydreams. The intrepid crew of Travis Potter, Brian Conley, Daniel Thomson, Micah Byrne, Brandon Tipton, Brett Schwartz, and Ben Knight encounter sketchy boat captains, hellacious weather, nasty infections, and more as they seek out the finest waves Indonesia has to offer. Proving that it takes much more than just a quiver of boards to make a boat trip, these surfing nomads explore the unexplored by relying on each other and respecting the kindness of locals. It's not always glamorous, but the payback of pristine surf makes the journey worthwhile. -Dave Callanan Experience One of the Longest Waves Ever Filmed From Inside the Barrell! In the world of surfing, there exists a group of elite surfers whose sole mission in life is to surf the unknown. From California to Australia, surfers have marked up the map with legendary surf spots, which over the years have become polluted and overcrowded. But this elite group is constantly hunting for untapped waves. [+]Searching across the globe, they have come to the islands of Indonesia, where the most consistent world-class waves can be found around every bend. However, to reach the perfect waves on The Forgotten Coast, an extreme physical and mental journey is required. Join Brian Conley, Travis Potter, Daniel Thomson, Micah Byrne, Brett Schwartz, Brandon Tipton and Ben Knight, seven of the world's best surfers as they experience the travel, the adventure and the purest waves on earth! Special Features include: Commentary Track with Travis Potter and Director Justin LePera; Exclusive Interview with Surfer Brian Conley; The Forgotten Coast Screensaver; Photo Gallery by Brian Nevins, Jeff Dolen; Deleted Scenes.
Actors & Directors
- Marion Ross
- Matthew Collins (III)
- Rocky Collins
Run time: 56 min.
List Price: $19.95
Price: $10.75
Review American Experience: The Great War 1918 / WGBH Boston:
Actors & Directors
- Kate O'Callaghan
- Janeane Garofalo
- Al Franken
- Katherine Lanpher
- Mark Walsh
- Patrick Farrelly
- Randi Rhodes
Run time: 97 min.
List Price: $19.98
Price: $11.98
Review Left of the Dial / Hbo Home Video:Produced for HBO, Left of the Dial tracks the growing pains behind the nation's first liberal radio network. Longtime Michael Moore associates Patrick Farrelly and Kate O'Callaghan (The Awful Truth) take a "fair and balanced" fly-on-the-wall look at the major players behind and in front of the mic at Air America, established to "challenge the right wing dominance of talk radio. " (Moore, surprisingly, turns out to be one of the venture's harshest critics. ) The filmmakers began shooting 12 days prior to the March 2004 launch and kept going for the next few months. They start by aiming their cameras at Evan Cohen, the chairman, and David Goodfriend, the general counsel. Like the duo depicted in Startup. com, theirs isn't a partnership built to last. Other subjects include hosts Randi Rhodes, Marc Maron, Chuck D, Janeane Garofalo, and Al Franken. Most hadn't worked in radio before and things quickly begin to unravel: Rhodes feels left out of the press coverage, while Maron feels the staff is incompetent. Then Ralph Nader hangs up on Rhodes and there's a scandal regarding airtime payments. [+]What do their competitors think? Sean Hannity (FOX News) opines, "These people are not bright. they really are dull. " Fortunately, enough listeners felt otherwise that Air America eventually found their footing and grew out of that awkward stage. -Kathleen C. Fennessy This America Undercover documentary charts the long-anticipated rise scandalous near-fall and subsequent salvation of Air America Radio a liberal radio network geared towards those whose opinions skew a bit more to the "Left of the Dial. " Told through verite footage shot at the New York-based station over a nine-month period the 90-minute film begins with a frenetic pace and never lets up from the network's evolution twelve days before and up to its March 2004 launch through a much-publicized scandal involving bounced checks that nearly ended the dream it concludes with a disappointing 2004 election that spawned new resolve among the talent staff and management of the station. The film provides revealing profiles of management and on-air talent ranging from those with little or no past radio experience to those with national fame (or notoriety). The latter includes noted TV satirist and author Al Franken whose on-air inaugural words promise "an end to the right-wing dominance of talk radio a beginning of a battle for truth a battle for justice a battle indeed for America itself. " Wishful thinking?Running Time: 98 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 026359294327.
Actors & Directors
- In the Name of the Hezbollah
Run time: 52 min.
List Price: $9.98
Price: $4.52
Review Al Manar TV: In the Name of the Hezbollah / Synkronized USA:Global interest in Hezbollah was heightened by the recent war between Israel and the Beirut-based organization. This documentary goes where few have gone before exploring the group's Television operation Al-Manar which has a world wide audience estimated at over 200 million. System Requirements:Run Time: 52 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 873820000204 Manufacturer No: SKDDV631194.
Actors & Directors
- Philip Johnson
- Barbara Wolf
Run time: 55 min.
List Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00
Review Philip Johnson: Diary of An Eccentric Architect / Checkerboard Films:
Actors & Directors
- Rick de Oliveira
- David Ingber
- Brittany Brown-Hart
- Roxanne Frilot
- Benjamin Fletcher
- Nicole Frilot
Run time: 97 min.
List Price: $26.97
Price: $1.96
Review The Real Cancun / New Line Home Video:Compress a season's worth of MTV's The Real World into 90 minutes, marry it to a Girls Gone Wild video, and basically you've got The Real Cancun, an ambitious if unwieldy effort to extract a feature film from bawdy footage of a spring break spent in sunny Mexico. Created by The Real World's production team, Cancun tosses 16 attractive college kids into an unrestrained, endless party in paradise, where the waves are majestic, the booze flows freely, and wanton sex-despite free-form nudity and ample opportunity-proves a surprisingly elusive dream. The trouble here is that a lot of spaghetti was thrown at the wall, but none of it sticks: There are too many people, not enough time to develop compelling individual stories or relationship cycles, and an unwillingness among most of the cast to make a leap from relaxed licentiousness to uncensored lust. In other words, there's no payoff anywhere. -Tom Keogh No Scripts. No Actors. No Rules. Anything can happen on Spring Break-and it did! From the producers of "The Real World" comes The Real Cancun. Wild, hot and provocative, you've never seen a vacation like this before! Sixteen college students embark to Cancun, Mexico for a week and cameras caught their every move-clothed and unclothed.
Release date: 2005-03-08
Run time: 105 min.
List Price: $19.99
Price: $7.43
Review Crusade - The Life of Billy Graham / Pbs Paramount:Billy Graham has supposedly preached to more people than any other man in history. Raised on a dairy farm in North Carolina, he grew up to become the most famous and influential preacher of the 20th century, a friend and confidante to kings and presidents. Through interviews with close friends and associates, vintage and recent footage, and exploration of the historical record, the documentary, although by no means a probing exposé, paints a cogent and reasonably evenhanded portrait of the man born William Franklin Graham. He appears as the end of a long line of American evangelical preachers, from George Whitfield of the first Christian Awakening though the vaudeville antics of Billy Sunday. Graham taught himself preaching working as a Fuller Brush salesman, giving away the gospel along with the mops and brooms. With the evangelical team he assembled in the 1940s-Cliff Barrows and George Beverly Shea-Graham built a worldwide empire. A revival for 60,000 people in Portland, Oregon, is followed from inception to completion. Graham's politics are explored-H. R. Haldeman speaks about Graham's relationship with President Nixon; Jesse Jackson is candid on Graham and civil rights-and an in-depth interview with Graham follows the documentary, covering everything from his break with the fundamentalism of Bob Jones to his relationships with powerful media figures. [+]-Laura Mirsky He has preached to more people than anyone else in history. Now, go behind the scenes to meet the man himself and witness the power of the Graham organization as it mobilizes millions of followers worldwide. Experience the inspiration of a Billy Graham crusade, from opening hymns with Cliff Barrows and the choir, to the personal testimony of famous personalities, and the message of the man himself who still pursues his 50-year mission.
Release date: 2008-06-10
Run time: 215 min.
List Price: $12.98
Price: $8.56
Review World of Cats, Vols. 1 & 2 / Columbia River Ent.:The cat is unlike any other animal. It has intrigued us with its strange spiritual presence for the thousands of years it has lived among us. This comprehensive 2-DVD set embarks on a spirited journey into The World of Cats. With this set, we will investigate the basis of typical feline behavior; trace the cat's ancient Egyptian origins to the popular superstitions and beliefs that have surrounded it to the present day; examine the life and care of the indoor cat; and learn what to do if your cat fouls the carpet, shreds the furniture, or becomes aggressive.
Release date: 2007-04-24
Run time: 50 min.
List Price: $24.95
Price: $6.68
Review Brotherhood of Terror (History Channel) / A&E Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Juliet Stevenson
- Maureen All
- Gillian Hanna
- Greta Schiller
- Berthe Cleyrerque
- Margaret Robertson
Run time: 75 min.
List Price: $29.99
Price: $16.93
Review Paris Was a Woman / Zeitgeist Films:In the early decades of the 20th century, Paris was the undisputed artistic capital of the world. Cultural titans Gertrude Stein, Colette, Djuna Barnes, painter Marie Laurencin, publishers and booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and New Yorker journalist Janet Flanner (not to mention Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso and James Joyce) were all part of the between-the-wars Left Bank inner circle. Utilizing groundbreaking research, newly-discovered home movies and intimate storytelling that intertwines interview with anecdote, this award-winning documentary re-creates the mood and flavor of a unique female artistic community who flocked to the City of Lights during its most magical era. This Edition features rare home movies of Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Picasso.
Actors & Directors
- Marian Fontana
- Tim Lynston
- Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
- Kathryn Walker
- Dr. Michael Brescia
Run time: 120 min.
List Price: $29.98
Price: $19.00
Review Frontline - Faith & Doubt at Ground Zero / Pbs (Direct):Ground Zero in Manhattan has become a site of pilgrimage. Thousands of people visit the site, looking for consolation and questioning the events of September 11. There is a profound quiet to their meditations. Starting here, FRONTLINE sets out on a quest to find out how peoples' faith has been challenged, and how they are coping with difficult questions of good and evil, religion and apostasy, and the frailty of human life.
Actors & Directors
- Herby
- The Rambler
- Bill Daniel
- Coaltrain
- Colossus of Roads
- Bill Daniel
Run time: 56 min.
List Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00
Review Who Is Bozo Texino? The Secret History of Hobo Graffiti / Bill Daniel:Who is Bozo Texino? chronicles the search for the source of a ubiquitous and mythic rail graffiti- a simple sketch of a character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, "Bozo Texino"- a drawing seen on railcars for over 80 years. Daniel's gritty black and white film uncovers a secret society and it's underground universe of hobo and railworker graffiti, and includes interviews with legendary boxcar artists, Coaltrain, Herby, Colossus of Roads, and The Rambler. Shooting over a 16-year period, Daniel rode freights across the West carrying a Super-8 sound camera and a 16mm Bolex. During his quest he discovered the roots of a folkloric tradition that has gone mostly unnoticed for a century. Taking inspiration from Beat artists Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac, the film functions as both a sub-cultural documentary and a stylized fable on wanderlust and outsider identity.
Actors & Directors
- Todd Lewellyn
- Lindsay
- Wendy Schale
- Preacher Steve
- Alison Murray
- Firecracker
Run time: 50 min.
List Price: $25.98
Price: $3.99
Review Train On The Brain - The Ultimate Railroad Movie / Hollywood Can Suck It!:Filmmaker Alison Murray drops out of the rat race, grabs a camera, and hits the rails with some other punk kids on a trans-continental freight train hopping adventure. On their odyssey they encounter a cast of hobos and runaways, scallywags and castaways. Amidst run-ins with the law, and surviving the perils of the elements, Alison weaves her narrative over beautifully shot film and video with an old-time soundtrack by Beck (think Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly). Train On The Brian was originally produced for Channel 4 in the UK, and was Alison Murray s first documentary film before directing Mouth to Mouth starring Ellen Page. ALISON MURRAY s films have been shown with the work of Harmony Korine, Paul Thomas Anderson, Michel Gondry and Atom Egoyan. MOUTH TO MOUTH (starring ELLEN PAGE) was her first feature film as a script writer and director. Alison Murray recently completed a documentary called CARNY about traveling carnival workers.
Actors & Directors
- Elie Wiesel
- Robert Gardner
- William Hurt
- David Grossbach
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Leonard Lionnet
List Price: $19.99
Price: $12.18
Review First Person Singular - Elie Wiesel / Pbs (Direct):This thoughtful PBS special examines the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, perhaps best known for his compelling memoir, Night, in which he describes his survival in the Auschwitz concentration camp of Nazi Germany. While an hour cannot do justice to an entire life-to say nothing of a life as tumultuous as Wiesel's-interviews with Wiesel and readings from his works trace the path from his terrifying childhood to his days as a journalist in Paris, the establishment of Israel, and his later years in America, including his troubled thoughts on the current conflict between Israel and Palestine and the September 11 assaults on the World Trade Center. Weisel describes the central concern of his work as memory-ensuring that the horrors of the past are not forgotten, but honored and held up as a warning to the future. Narrated by William Hurt. -Bret Fetzer.
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History's Mysteries - The True Story of Gladiators (History Channel), Been to the Mountaintop, Kit Carson, Blessed! Still, We Believe 2, Modern Marvels: Strategic Air Command, Warplane, The Forgotten Coast, American Experience: The Great War 1918, Left of the Dial, Al Manar TV: In the Name of the Hezbollah, Philip Johnson: Diary of An Eccentric Architect, The Real Cancun, Crusade - The Life of Billy Graham, World of Cats, Vols. 1 & 2, Brotherhood of Terror (History Channel), Paris Was a Woman, Frontline - Faith & Doubt at Ground Zero, Who Is Bozo Texino? 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