There wars going on in Iraq one was fought with armies of soldiers bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras satellites armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and disarm WMDs Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs Weapons of mass Deception. System Requirements: Running Time 98 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 881394500327 Manufacturer No: DOC50032.

Bianca Beauchamp: All AccessBianca Beauchamp (Maxim Bizarre Playboy Marquis Skin Two) is nothing short of an international phenomenon and ALL ACCESS offers the most candid fun intimate and exhilarating portrait of the fetish icon and her decadent life. During the three-day long Montreal Fetish Weekend filmmaker Martin Perreault gets unrestricted access to the behind-the-scenes antics of the latex fetish goddess. ( Hour Weekly) This unique documentary showcases the high-voltage kink of the fetish party with its adults-only performance art and invites viewers to party with Bianca and her favorite fetish models everywhere from the VIP room to the privacy of Bianca s own bedroom!Sell Points / ExtrasFetish supermodel Bianca was the first model to appear six times on the cover of Bizarre Magazine and she s also appeared on dozens of other covers including Playboy Special Editions and two Playboy Girls of Canada calendars. She is the official spokesmodel for Hype Energy and is well-known among gamers for playing the role of Elexis Sinclaire in the game SiN Episodes. Unrated edition: Nudity latex and wild partying. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/BIOGRAPHY UPC: 856594001172 Manufacturer No: 001172.

Ruthless killer or the "Robin Hood of the Old West"? Jesse James is the most famous outlaw of the Old West, but it's likely everything you think you know about the gunslinger is dead wrong. Was James an opportunistic bandit or a political terrorist? And was he gunned down by a member of his own gang or was his death the result of a far more sinister government conspiracy? JESSE JAMES: LEGEND, OUTLAW, TERRORIST reveals the truth behind the controversial legend in this fascinating probe into his life. and his mysterious death. HOUR ONE: WHO WAS THE REAL JESSE JAMES? Jesse James is the world's most famous outlaw, but he is really less of a Western hero and more of a Southern hero. He began his career fighting for the South in the years prior to the Civil War, and his biggest robberies were always in banks owned by prominent Union politicians. We will examine Jesse's life and legend - from his teenage years as a bloodthirsty guerilla fighter, to his invention of the bank robbery and the train robbery. We'll meet Jesse's family, from his quiet, soft-spoken older brother Frank, to his hell-raising, slave-owning, one-armed mother Zerelda. We'll discover the train of circumstances that led Jesse into a life of crime. [+]

A guaranteed treat for fantasy buffs and students of the silent era, Méliès the Magician provides a definitive study of French film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938). A special-effects innovator best known for his 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, Méliès is honored by Jacques Mény's exceptional documentary, which uses faithful reenactments, archival documents, expert interviews, and Méliès's own films to examine a life as rich as Edison's in its embrace of invention and creative ingenuity. Mény's non-chronological approach is liberating and fresh, allowing a free-form understanding of Méliès and his work, his involvement in the birth of motion pictures, and the visual trickery he developed after a thriving career as a stage illusionist. Following the documentary, "Méliès Magic Show" is hosted by Méliès's granddaughter and presents 15 Méliès films as they would've been shown in Paris at the turn of the century. Then and now, the magic of Méliès is timelessly enchanting. -Jeff Shannon Film and special effects pioneer Georges Melies laid the groundwork for fantasy film as we know it today. This collection celebrates the innovations of the magician entrepreneur and filmmaker with 15 restored Melies shorts including some of the earliest film experiments in history. Also featured is Jacques Meny's fine documentary The Magic of Melies (1997 55 mins. ). Films: The Four Troublesome Heads (1898) Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (1900) The One-Man Band (1900) The Man with the Rubber Head (1901) Bluebeard (1901) A Trip to the Moon (1902) The Infernal Boiling Pot (1903) The Infernal Cakewalk (1903) The Music Lover (1903) The Living Playing Cards (1904) Hilarious Posters (1904) Imperceptible Transmutations (1904) Untameable Whiskers (1904) The Scheming Gambler's Paradise (1905) and The Devilish Tenant (1909). [+]

Known for his sexually explicit lyrics, smooth talking and cutting edge hip-hop beats, R. Kelly has been making headlines for more than a decade now - not all of them good. An accomplished songwriter, producer, and re-mixer, R Kelly has written and prod.

From Tawanna Brawley to the famous Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s examine some of the most famous hoaxes in recent history. From simple greed to marketing strategies a desire for fame or fear of getting into trouble explore the surprising reasons these hoaxes were perpetrated and how they were uncovered. Herbert Stempel was a contestant on the popular '50s game show Twenty-One who suspected the fix was in. Here Mr. Stempel recalls the amazing succession of events he caused which ended with nearly all of the popular game shows of the day being taken off the air amid revelations that they were rigged. Clifford Irving had a deal to sell the "authorized" biography of Howard Hughes a sure-fire bestseller to McGraw Hill but was exposed by Hughes himself. Mark Hoffman was a noted rare documents dealer who was really one of the most accomplished forgers of recent memory. Their stories and more are told in THE QUIZ SHOW SCANDAL AND OTHER FRAUDS. System Requirements:Running Time 50 Mins. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. [+]

THE MAKING OF series is a behind-the-scenes look at some of Hollywood's most enduring classics. Hosted by actor/comedian Sean MacLaughlin, this series takes the viewer onto closed sets and into the world of studio moviemaking through rare footage, interviews and newsreels. Each edition also features a few surprises, including biographies of the stars and looks at similar films in the genre. THE MAKING OF series is a must-see for any film fan who wants to know just how Hollywood creates the magic that is movies.

This limited edition of the classic film Style Wars features 30 minutes of "never-before-released" outtakes, new interviews, and "where are they now" footage. Also fetaured in this edition are new commentary tracks, "Destroy All Lines" and the Aesop Rock.

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison was inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner in writing her novel Beloved. Garner was a slave in pre-Civil War America who escaped and killed her own daughter rather than see her return to slavery. Morrison later wrote the libretto for Margaret Garner an opera composed by Richard Danielpour and commissioned by the Michigan Opera Theatre the Cincinnati Opera and the Opera Company of Philadelphia in 2005. By recounting Garner's tale in conjunction with the story behind this "black" opera and the harsh Washington upbringing of its mezzo soprano Denyce Graves the film Margaret Garner re-examines a tragic historical moment while addressing race issues that are still prevalent today. System Requirements:Running Time: 52 minutes Language: English / French Subtitles: EnglishFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/BIOGRAPHY UPC: 736899115524 Manufacturer No: DV95805.

Explore the secret, complex world of honeybees from a child's point of view. Six-year-old Oliver and his young friends join a beekeeper as he cares for his beehives over the course of a year. The children study everything from how a queen bee rules the hive, the various jobs each bee performs, how bees pollinate and how bees can fly at amazing speeds. With colorful imagery, learning activities, and remarkable up-close video, viewers of all ages will be enchanted and informed about the remarkable world that is the City of Bees.

Robert Crumb is known for his disturbing, yet compelling, underground cartoons: his most famous works made countercultural icons out of Mr. Natural ("Keep on Truckin'. ") and Fritz the Cat. Terry Zwigoff delves into the odd world of the cartoonist in his documentary film Crumb, and the picture that emerges is not always pretty-at moments, it's almost repellent-but it's a fascinating glimpse into a very strange mind. Interviewing immediate family-Crumb has one suicidal brother, one semi-psychopathic brother, two sisters who declined to be interviewed, and a tyrannical mother-Crumb begins to look a bit saner. Given his surroundings, it's remarkable that he has survived so well. His hostilities toward women may turn some viewers off, but his wife, Aline, seems to be a grounding point, and she provides a solid counterbalance to the man. No one shies away from discussing incredibly intimate things (namely, sex!), which explains much of R. [+]

The premise behind the Up series is deceptively simple: take a cross-section of children at age 7, ask them about their hopes for the future, and then return every seven years to mark their progress. However, the results of these experiments, launched in 1963 by Britain's Granada Television, are anything but mundane, and their revelations about society, maturation, and the human condition were compiled into six extraordinary films, packaged together for the first time in this five-disc set. We meet the 14 children whose lives we will follow for the next 36 years in Seven Up, a episode of the television series The World in Action and directed by Paul Almond. What becomes evident almost immediately is that class and background will have an indelible effect on the kids for the rest of their lives; the upper-class boys and girls seem confident to the point of boorishness, while the middle- and working-class children seem resigned to a life of hard work or inevitable failure due to their backgrounds. Fascinated by the footage, Almond's assistant, Michael Apted (later the director of The World Is Not Enough, among others, and president of the Directors' Guild), proposed to revisit the subjects every seven years, and in 1970, 7 Plus Seven was released, followed by 21 Up in '77, 28 Up in '84, 35 Up in '91, and the most recent entry, 42 Up, in '99 (Apted plans to continue the project). And the changes that occur to the original 14 (some of whom drop out of the project) are among the most fascinating and often tragic ever recorded on film. Success, failure, marriage and childbirth, poverty, illness-almost every possible element of the human experience passes before Apted's camera. And while each of the children's stories is riveting, the viewer will undoubtedly be gripped by that of Neil, a shy boy who endures incredible hardships. A one-of-a-kind series and sociological experiment, The Up Series is required viewing for not only documentary fans but any viewer with a curiosity about and concern for their fellow humans. The DVD set includes commentary by Apted on 42 Up. [+]

McDonald's loved using the UK libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organisations like the BBC and The Guardian crumbled and apologised. But then they sued gardener Helen Steel and postman Dave Morris. In the longest trial in English legal history the "McLibel Two" represented themselves against McDonald's 10 million legal team. Every aspect of the corporation's business was cross-examined: from junk food and McJobs to animal cruelty environmental damage and advertising to children. Outside the courtroom Dave brought up his young son alone and Helen supported herself working nights in a bar. McDonald's tried every trick in the book against them. Legal manoeuvres. A visit from Ronald McDonald. Top executives flying to London for secret settlement negotiations. [+]

Featuring: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Sonic Youth Theoretical Girls DNA LIARS Teenage Jesus & the Jerks Gogol Bordello flux information sciences Lydia Lunch Black Dice Swans A. R. E. Weapons foetus and Glenn Branca. First-time filmmaker S. A. Crary shares a complex history of New York's art-punk scene. This compelling documentary weaves together a timeline for an aggressive movement allowing the players to reflect in the moment. With interviews from such punk rock icons as Teenage Jesus & the Jerks bassist Jim Sclavunos bandmate Lydia Lunch DNA's Arto Lindsay Glenn Branca Sonic Youth and others from the late '70s/early '80s art-punk explosion. Exclusive interviews with these originators and a new generation of practitioners - from the Grammy-nominated Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Black Dice to Liars to Gogol Bordello - reveals a consistent hunger for invention through subversion motivations that come into cacophonous focus in the new and archival concert footage bridging the interviews. [+]

In the year 79 AD, the ancient seaside city of Pompeii was buried beneath a mountain of volcanic ash and pumice when nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted furiously. More than two thousand of Pompeii's citizens lost their lives. For almost 1,700 years, until its rediscovery in 1748, Pompeii lay hidden - a city and its people suspended in time. Now we can see the streets and buildings almost as they were on the day Pompeii died - an incredible snapshot of Roman civilization in its heyday. This program contains superb graphics and computer animation, detailed reconstructions, location footage of Pompeii today, and Insightful interpretation and analysis.

The definitive biography of artist Pablo Picasso accompanied by spectacular images of his greatest work.

Was Billy Wilder Hollywood's greatest raconteur? There are many who answer in the affirmative, and Wilder was renowned for being one of the wittiest men of his era. Many of his choice anecdotes are on display in Billy Wilder Speaks, a freewheeling session originally filmed for German television. Volker Schlondorff, an accomplished filmmaker himself, sat down with Wilder in the latter's Hollywood office for a series of (seemingly offhand) interviews, during which the two pros switch from English to German with fluid ease. Wilder tells of the famous actors he worked with and befriended, such as Marlene Dietrich, William Holden, and Jack Lemmon, and he touches on the enigma that was Marilyn Monroe, with whom he worked in The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot. The stories will be familiar to longtime Wilder fans, although Schlondorff does well in drawing Wilder out about his experiences for the U. S. military during and after World War II, when Wilder was involved in obtaining footage of the concentration camps. He also tells a scathing story about his bitter reaction when a studio executive suggested changing the nationality of a villainous character in Stalag 17 from German to Polish, in order to make the film more palatable in the profitable market of early-1950s Germany. The documentary itself is 71 minutes, but there's another 70 minutes of footage, with Schlondorff introducing various clips. Oddly enough, the effect of all this is lightweight rather than substantive; this is more like an after-dinner chat than an in-depth seminar. [+]

Each program in the Impact! series puts the spotlight on the songs that have left an indelible mark on the world. Certain songs have come to define the times in which they appeared as they proved to be the catalyst for the transformation of the cultural and political landscape. Most set trends in music, fashion and dance while flouting convention and testing the boundaries of society's accepted moral valuesBesides setting the scene for the release of the song, the programs feature the song's creator(s) and explore its cultural impact and the ways that it changed the course of history. Guests include recording artists, music industry executives, cultural and political pundits and the music fans themselves for whom these songs became their life's soundtrack. It was, in many ways, the music world's finest hour as many of the biggest names in British popular music gathered in the summer of 1985 for the sake of charity to record a song to raise money for those people starving in Ethiopia. Organized by Bob Geldof, the singer for the British group The Boomtown Rats, the single Do They Know It's Christmas, gave birth to Live Aid, the world's biggest rock concert and TV event which spanned two continents and was the catalyst for similar recording projects in the U. S. and Canada. The project would become the template and the inspiration for a number of other charitable recordings and live events to benefit various causes around the world and marked a new era of raised social consciousness for many entertainers as well as their fans. Bob Geldof received a knighthood for his efforts. [+]

In this one-of-a-kind DVD Allan performs 7 electrifying tunes with his band including keyboardist Steve Hunt bassist Skuli Sverrisson and drummer Chad Wackerman. Allan breaks down his creative use of scales and chord voicings in this video and offers suggestions as to how to go about creating your own unique sounds and chord voicings based on his simple yet revolutionary concept for harmonizing scales in intervals other than traditional 3rds. See incredible close-up shots of Allan s amazing technique here and enjoy the unique opportunity to learn from one of the all-time greats!System Requirements:Running Time: 60 minsFormat: DVD AUDIO Genre: MUSIC DVD/LIVE PERFORMANCES UPC: 038081308876 Manufacturer No: ALF28313DVD.