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Publisher
BBC Earth Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles. Breakthroughs in filmaking technology bring you up close with a cast of unforgettable characters. Told with humor, intimacy and a jaw-dropping sense of cinematic splendor.
Publisher
Slingshot Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Journey across India, a breathtaking land shaped by a myriad of cultures, customs, and traditions. Come face to face with the Bengal tiger and explore the world of this majestic creature with stunning clarity, captured only as IMAX technology can.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The remarkable story of the relationship between the Muslim leader Saladin and the Christian Crusader Richard the Lionheart. Battling in the name of different religions, and filled with blinding cultural ignorance, both shared a faith in one god.
Publisher
Razor Digital Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Takes you on an extraordinary journey to view a spectacle few humans have ever witnessed: The Great Migration. Journey with more than two million animals in their annual 500-mile trek across the Serengeti Plains. Filmed entirely on location in Kenya and Tanzania and features Africa's greatest predators in deadly pursuit of their migrating prey.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to try and find out why 37% of American...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
It was a morning like any other, until the unthinkable made it a day we would never forget. On 9/11 and the following days the footage from 27 filmmakers recorded what they saw throughout the city. Together, they created an experience like no other, one that captures the horror, the anger and the strength of the human spirit. Using never-before-seen footage at "ground zero, " this conveys the sights and sounds of the terrorist attacks in the most...
8) Psycho
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
9) Chasing Ice
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.
10) Grizzly man
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"Acclaimed director Werner Herzog explores the life and death of amateur grizzly bear expert and wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell, who lived unarmed among grizzlies for 13 summers"--Container. Features Treadwell's video footage.
11) Thir13en ghosts
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
After a tragedy strikes, a family discovers that the home they've inherited from an eccentric uncle is inhabited by sinister phantoms. Once the 12 ghosts are unlocked from the basement of the house, there is only the need for one more fresh ghost to fulfil an evil prophesy. Which member of the family will it be?
Publisher
Vivendi Visual Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Ben Stein travels the world on a quest to learn an awe-inspiring truth - that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure, and even fired for merely believing that there might be evidence of 'design' in nature, and that perhaps life is not the result of accidental, random chance, but of intelligent design.
13) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Description
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A factual account of the ill-fated Apollo 13 space mission to the moon. Replete with moving interviews with the astronauts, their families and the scientists who worked on the mission. Shows how the ground controllers who had to solve the impossible problem of how to get the men back with limited air, water and electricity. The explanations are technical, but still quite understandable. A valuable bit of history and is a testament to human resiliency,...
16) War dance
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, their innocence lost, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. These children attend a school where they can momentarily forget the brutal realities of their lives, as they participate in music, song and dance. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival in their nation's capitol, their historic...
Publisher
Www.outfoxed.org
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Examines Rupert Murdoch's Fox News media empire. Takes an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. Examines how the FCC helped Murdoch break the rules to establish a fourth network in the United States. The film explores the impact on society when media is controlled by one person. A system was created to monitor Fox News 24 hours a day for months to discover exactly how...
18) Sicko
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products, LLC
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Filmmaker Michael Moore critiques the American health care system, focusing especially on the HMOs, drug companies, and congressmen who profit from the status quo. Also includes an analysis of the health care systems in Canada, England, France and Cuba, where free universal health care is the norm.
Publisher
RebootYourLife
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Filmmaker Joe Cross, recently obese and unhealthy, travels the United States promoting to all he encounters a lifestyle "reboot" centered around consuming only fruit and vegetable juices. Along the way he meets Phil Staples, a morbidly obese man to whom Cross offers his reboot cure.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence, Dr. Riyadh struggles to understand...
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