Nazi Medicine/The Cross and the Star (DVD)
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Nazi Medicine/The Cross and the Star (DVD)
Two documentaries examining the horrors of the Nazi regime and anti-Semitism are coupled in this pairing of films directed by John J. Michalczyk. NAZI MEDICINE looks at the bizarre, inhumane theories and practices of the Holocaust. THE CROSS AND THE STAR looks at the anti-Semitic teachings in voices from various religions that paved the way for the Nazi party's hatred. Please see individual titles for further information.Note: Two Features Contained on One Disc.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Bonus Short - 1. INSIDE THE CAMPSText/Galleries: Filmography - 1. John J. Michalczyk - Director Biography - 1. John J. Michalczyk - Director Photo Gallery - 1. Inside the ReichInteractive Features: Scene Access
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The Louisiana Story (DVD)
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The Louisiana Story (DVD)
A Cajun boy living in the Marshlands of Petit Anse Bayou observes the growing industrialization of his state as he watches oil drillers at work in this production filmed entirely in Louisiana. Academy Award Nominations: Best Motion Picture Story.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Featurettes - 1. HIDDEN AND SEEKING Additional Footage - 1. Footage fromFlaherty and Film
2. Excerpts from short film THE LAND (Directed by Robert Flaherty)Text/Galleries: Letters - 1. Correspondence Between Cinematographer Richard Leacock and his Wife
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The Eye of Vichy (DVD)
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The Eye of Vichy (DVD)
This compilation of French- and Nazi-produced newsreel footage documents France's collaboration with Nazi Germany during WWII, including the invasion of France and General Petain's pact with Adolf Hitler. Compiled by French master filmmaker Claude Chabrol, this chilling and fascinating documentary presents never-before-seen footage that brutally and ironically exposes the huge role that the French Vichy government had in helping the Nazis exterminate French Jews. The footage also shows just how far Vichy leaders went to convince the citizens of France to side with Germany during the war. Chabrol crafts a sly and shocking counterpoint between the actual historical narrative of France's actions under German occupation and the propaganda produced during the time, playing image against narration to achieve a devastating irony. Chabrol, whose 1988 film STORY OF WOMEN depicted a Frenchwoman's struggle during the Vichy era, returns to the subject and provides a voluminous and articulate portrayal of the moral and physical chaos that gripped Paris during its occupation and the horrible ramifications that ensued.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.66Single Side - Dual LayerAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Galleries: Biography - 1. Claude Chabrol - Director Stills/PhotosInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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Grass (DVD)
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Grass (DVD)
Using snappy, comic book-like graphics, great newsreel and film footage, stills, and music, GRASS chronicles the history of the American government's relationship with marijuana and marijuana users. A slick, entertaining, witty documentary narrated by known grass activist Woody Harrelson, the film is a fast-paced, coherent (if somewhat biased) illustration of the absurdity of drug laws and the untruthful coercion tactics and propaganda campaigns the government has used since the 1900s to convince the public that pot causes everything from insanity and murder to rape and Communism. The film tells how marijuana was traded by migrant workers over the Mexican border in the early 1900s, and how laws passed to control the drug were also used to control immigrants. Soon, a series of truths were set loose on the public by the government to deter people from using grass (shown in the film as hilarious, but true, headlines deemed The Official Truth: If you smoke it, you will kill people! and, If you smoke it, you will go insane!) More importantly, perhaps, is the film's examination of how drug laws and the drug war were first formed. Rather than passing the problem of drug addiction on to the Health Department, it was relegated to the Treasury Department, which formed the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which imposed taxes on marijuana instead of implementing rehabilitation programs for users of the more serious heroine and cocaine.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Interview - 1. Ron Mann Deleted Scene Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Galleries: Photo Gallery - 1. HIGH TIMES MAGAZINE Covers Reference Guide - 1. State Marijuana Laws
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Venus Boyz (DVD)
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Venus Boyz (DVD)
German director Gabriel Baur (QUEEN OF BED) explores the world of drag kings, inter-sexed persons, and transgendered women in her documentary, VENUS BOYZ. Through in-depth interviews and clips of performances, the film focuses on biological women who push the boundaries of gender norms. Featuring drag kings Mo B. Dick, DRED Gerestant, Storme Webber, Diane Torr, Del la Grace Volcano, and Bridge Markland, this film is a fascinating look at a world that the mainstream rarely recognizes. Some of these women perform as men for the sense of empowerment they experience; other drag kings are embracing a natural affinity toward the masculine. Del la Grace Volcano and the New Men take the process a step further by experimenting with testosterone in order to increase their masculine aspects. Overall, the transformations these women undergo are astonishing, whether for purely artistic reasons or for more deeply rooted emotional ones. Baur captures the passion that the performers bring to the stage and never judges their motives or choices. Instead, she presents a world that many people may have never considered, and makes it accessible to the masses.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.85Additional Release Material: Interviews - 1. Gabriel Baur - Director Documentaries - 1.Venus Boyz Around the World TrailersText/Image Galleries: Biographies Photo Gallery
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Bonhoeffer (DVD)
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Bonhoeffer (DVD)
One of the few clear voices of resistance to Hitler in 1930s Germany was also a rare dissenter from the tacit collaborators of the era's Christian churches: theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose efforts are chronicled in this film from director Martin Doblmeier. A pacifist, author, and leader of the Confessing Church, Bonhoeffer wrote and preached against the Nazi regime, using a radical new theology rooted in a mixture of traditional Christian thought, the African-American gospel of Harlem's Abyssinian Church, Gandhi's pragmatic nonviolence, and a clear-eyed response to the Nazi racism in his native Germany.Doblmeier examines Bonhoeffer's journey from novice theology student to coconspirator in a major plot to assassinate Hitler using the documentary style popularized by Ken Burns: narration accompanying slow pans across still photographs alternating with talking-head interviews with both his contemporaries (including several of Bonhoeffer's surviving students) and his spiritual/philosophical inheritors, such as South Africa's Bishop Desmond Tutu.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep Case
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Sherman's March (DVD)
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Sherman's March (DVD)
When the documentarian is dumped by his girlfriend, Ross McElwee decides to retrace General Sherman's Civil War march on Atlanta, hilariously exploring romance and the mystique of Southern women along the way. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Sequel (of sorts): TIME INDEFINITE.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Interviews - 1. Ross McElwee - Director Selections from the McElwee Film CollectionText/Image Galleries: Photo Gallery Biographies Trailer Gallery
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New York in the Fifties (DVD)
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New York in the Fifties (DVD)
The soundtrack was jazz, the drug of choice was booze, the paper of record was The Village Voice, and the written word was sacred. When Dan Wakefield moved from Indiana to New York City, he became part of a growing thriving culture in Greenwich Village that revered men like Norman Mailer and James Baldwin. Wakefield fell in with this crowd, these creative hipsters, these men and women who forged the way for the social protest movement of the 1960s. Betsey Blankenbaker's NEW YORK IN THE FIFTIES, based on Wakefield's memoir, combines old footage and photos of heroes like Mailer, Baldwin, and Jack Kerouac with contemporary interviews with people like Robert Redford, Bruce Jay Friedman, Ted Steeg, Joan Didion, and John Gregory Dunne, who were part of that vibrant scene. The film captures that period's expectant, hopeful feeling. These were people who knew that their collective intellect, and their artistic passion, would change the world. But the core of the story is Wakefield's, and despite the title, this is a very personal and touching account of that one young man from suburbia finding his mentors, and his true calling, in the big city.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull FrameAudio: Mono& Stereo - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Production Interview - 1. Betsy Blankenbaker - Director TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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The Specialist (DVD)
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The Specialist (DVD)
This jaw-dropping documentary takes an experimental approach in its presentation of footage from the 1961 trial of SS colonel Adolf Eichman, a German efficiency specialist in charge of transportation of Jews to concentration camps during World War II. After Israeli agents finally caught up with Eichman in South America in 1960, they deported him to Israel, and American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz captured over 350 hours of footage of the subsequent months-long trial. Presented here in an experimentally edited version by Eyal Silvain and Rony Brauman, the trial becomes a surreal, chilling experience. Their technique contrasts the banality of courtroom procedure with an haunting, avante garde score, and subtle video tricks that hint at the unfathomable atrocities being addressed. This mix of tedium and horror is perfectly reflected by Eichman himself, as he hides in a dull fog of bureaucratic buck-passing throughout the film, while the judge has to continually quiet the hostile courtroom. Touches like the numbered tattoo visible on the arm of a court official operating a tape machine, communicate stronger messages than even actual footage of war atrocities could. Devastating in its simplicity, THE SPECIALIST is a film of great historical importance, and subtle, haunting power.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Interviews - 1. Eyal Sivan - Director
2. Rony Bruman - Producer Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Galleries: Book Excerpt - 1. IN PRAISE OF DISOBEDIENCE
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The Architecture of Doom (DVD)
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The Architecture of Doom (DVD)
This disturbing film documents the Nazi philosophy of beauty through violence, highlighting Hitler's views on culture, art and architecture. Includes exclusive archival footage of the last days of the Third Reich, with film shot inside Hitler's infamous bunker.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingKeep Case
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Fire on the Mountain (DVD)
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Fire on the Mountain (DVD)
An acclaimed profile of the members of the Army's 10th Mountain Division, the ski squadron whose daring mountain expeditions helped quash the Axis forces.
Contains interviews and rare archival footage of the group in training, as well as a reunion of the group at Italy's Riva Ridge. Winner of the Grand Prize at the Telluride Film Festival.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Single Side - Dual LayerAdditional Release Material: Featurette - 1. The 10th Mountain Division In The 21st Century Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Galleries: Stills/Photos Profile - 1. George Gage - Director
2. Beth Gage - DirectorInteractive Features: Scene Access
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Fighter (DVD)
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Fighter (DVD)
FIGHTER follows two friends, Jan Wiener, to whom the title refers, and Arnost Lustig, a writer--both in their seventies, and both exiles from Communist Czechoslovakia now living in America--as they retrace Wiener's escape from Prague after the Nazi takeover in the 1930s. Wiener's trek took him via Yugoslavia and Italy to London, where he joined the British Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot. Upon returning to Prague after the war, he was falsely accused of being a spy by the Communist regime, and spent five years in a labor camp. Incorporating rare archival footage from Nazi and Communist propaganda films, the documentary focuses on the interaction between Wiener and Lustig as they retrace Wiener's steps and track down some of the individuals connected with his journey. Although they are linked by their similar personal histories surrounding the war, the two friends are eventually driven apart by their conflicting interpretations of the past and their fundamental philosophical differences. Director Amir Bar-Lev's unusual and vastly inquisitive documentary was an acclaimed hit at film festivals as well as in its theatrical release.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
2. Additional TrailersText/Galleries: BiographiesInteractive Features: Scene Access
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