History and Sociology
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Last Man Standing Politics, Texas Style
Rating: NR  Publisher Comments From Sundance Jury Prize winner and three-time Emmy Award winning filmmaker Paul Stekler (George Wallace: Settin? the Woods on Fire), P.O.V. presents the SXSW audience favorite LAST MAN STANDING, a humorously enlighening nail-biter that Variety calls ?an...
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The Weather Underground
Rating: NR Publisher Comments "Hello. I'm going to read a declaration of war... Within the next fourteen days we will attack a symbol of American justice." Former Underground Member Bernardine Dohrn Thirty years ago, with these words, a group of young American radicals announced...
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Harvest of Shame
Rating: NR Publisher Comments Legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow is undoubtedly the first hero in the history of American broadcasting, a distinguished reporter who forever set the industry gold standard through his unparalleled courage, integrity and newsgathering excellence...
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Gray Matter
Rating: NR Publisher Comments In the spring of 2002, acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) traveled to Vienna to witness the burial of the preserved brains of over 700 handicapped children. The victims had been murdered...
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Unfinished Business
Rating: NR Publisher Comments In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were uprooted from their homes and businesses and incarcerated in desolate relocation camps. Without hearings or trials, men, women and children were evacuated under...
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It Was a Wonderful Life
Rating: N Publisher Comments In this award-winning festival standout, Academy Award®-nominee Michèle Ohayon ("Colors Straight Up") presents a riveting and powerful account of six women who are members of America?s growing "hidden homeless" population. Narrated by Jodie Foster, and...
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This Reporter
Rating: NR Publisher Comments Legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow is undoubtedly the first hero in the history of American broadcasting, a distinguished reporter who forever set the industry gold standard through his unparalleled courage, integrity and newsgathering excellence...
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V Day:Until the Violence Stops
Rating: NR Publisher Comments Extraordinarily empowering and heartbreakingly funny, the Sundance favorite VDay: Until The Violence Stops chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit Broadway solo show The Vagina Monologues grew into V-Day, an international grassroots movement dedicated to...
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High School Boot Camp
Rating: NR Publisher Comments Wake up call is 4 a.m. Entertainment is a bucket of ice water on your head. Welcome to boot camp! Winner of the prestigious DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary, HIGH SCHOOL BOOT CAMP is an eye-opening look at the...
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Main Stream
Rating: NR Publisher Comments Beloved humorist and celebrated author Roy Blount, Jr. takes us on an offbeat journey down the Mississippi River in this poignant and amusing travelogue along the great river that Mark Twain immortalized over a century ago. Blount is our natural choice...
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Same River Twice
Rating: NR Publisher Comments An instant hit at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, THE SAME RIVER TWICE is a rich and warmly insightful mosaic of change, choices and communal living, highly acclaimed as ?piercingly poignant? (The New York Times)...
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WTC : The First 24 Hours
Rating: NR Publisher Comments Beginning with the North Tower afire and billowing dense smoke, and ending with the vast expanse of ash-brown debris the following morning, WTC: The First 24 Hours documents "ground zero" in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World...
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Guerrilla:Taking of Patty Hearst
Rating: NR Language: N Publisher Comments The award-winning and internationally acclaimed film, GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST is a gripping, unparalleled account of the most sensational kidnapping in American history. On February 4, 1974, college student Patty Hearst (the...
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Tying the Knot
Rating: NR Publisher Comments Extremely relevant, highly entertaining and utterly humanist, the critically-acclaimed film festival favorite TYING THE KNOT poignantly explores one of today?s hottest issues, the political war between gay people who want to marry and those determined to...
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Be Good, Smile Pretty
Rating: N Publisher Comments A powerfully moving, personal exploration of a grief for the father she never knew, this award-winning film chronicles Tracy Droz Tragos? heart-wrenching journey to understand and cope with a loss shared by the estimated 20,000 Americans whose fathers...
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Awful Truth:Complete DVD Set
Rating: NR Publisher Comments From the Writer and Director of Bowling for Columbine and Author of Stupid White Men From acclaimed filmmaker and author Michael Moore comes the Emmy(R) Nominated series The Awful Truth. The most daring show to hit the American public since Moore's own...
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Atomic Cafe
Rating: NR Publisher Comments On its 20-year anniversary, and not a moment too soon, The Atomic Cafeis back to provide us with a much-needed release of comic energy. A dark comedy in the truest sense, this timeless classic took the nation by storm when it first debuted in 1982. The...
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Mccarthy Years
Rating: NR Publisher Comments Legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow is undoubtedly the first hero in the history of American broadcasting, a distinguished reporter who forever set the industry gold standard through his unparalleled courage, integrity and newsgathering excellence...
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The Children Of Chabannes
Rating: NR Publisher Comments In the spirit of Louis Malle?s Au Revoir les Enfants and Stephen Spielberg?s Schindler?s List, the Emmy® Award-winning film The Children of Chabannes has been praised as ?splendid, informative and emotionally involving? (Los Angeles Times) and called ?...
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Crisis:Behind Presidental Commitment
Rating: NR Publisher Comments Crisis: Behind Presidental Commitment is the first and only film ever shot candidly of a President making decisions during a crisis. It came about when President Kennedy screened Robert Drew's film 'Primary,' and asked Drew what he wanted to do next...
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