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List Price: $19.99Price: $17.99You Save: $2 (10%)Bastards Of The Party
Actors: Daryl Gates, Fred Hampton, Joe Hicks, Ericka Huggins, Rodney King
ASIN : B001GSFEGK
Sales Rank : 19530
Director : Cle Shaheed Slogan
Studio : Vivendi Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0883476005584
UPC : 883476005584
Release Date : December 03, 2009
Publisher : Vivendi Entertainment
Manufacturer : Vivendi Entertainment
Availability : Not yet released
Label : Vivendi Entertainment
Running Time : 90
Product DescriptionRaised in the Athens Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cle "Bone" Sloan was four years old when his father died, and 12 when he became a member of the Bloods. Now an inactive member of the notorious gang, Sloan looks back at the history of black gangs in his city and makes a powerful call for change in modern gang culture with his insightful documentary, BASTARDS OF THE PARTY.
BASTARDS OF THE PARTY traces the development of black gangs in Los Angeles from the late 1940s, through the charged atmosphere of the '60s and '70s, to the breakdown of community in the '80s and '90s, and the brief truce between the Crips and Bloods that followed the Rodney King riots in 1992.
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List Price: $24.95Price: $22.49You Save: $2.46 (10%)The Unknown Soldier
Actor: Michael Verhoeven
ASIN : B0010YSDB8
Sales Rank : 30416
Director : Michael Verhoeven
Studio : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0720229913096
UPC : 720229913096
Release Date : December 25, 2008
Publisher : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer : FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Label : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Running Time : 97
Product DescriptionThe crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi regime are often thought of as the work of the Waffen SS and Gestapo, under the direction of leaders like Himmler, Eichmann, and, ultimately, Hitler. The ordinary German soldier is usually seen as a noble pawn. Until now. In this astonishing, searing and vitallly important documentary, Michael Verhoeven director of the Oscar-nomintad Nasty Girl, unearths the long-buried truth - while simultaneously showing modern Germany in the thores of an identity crisis. The Unknown Soldier documents Germany's controversial Wehrmacht Exhibition, which for the first time ever revealed the personal letters, photographs and film footage implicating the common foot soldier in horrific acts. While nationalists and far right groups led street protests against it, saying the evidence damning their fathers and grandfathers had been falsified, Verhoeven iterviewed historians and experts, soliders and eyewitnesses, and traveled to the killing fields of the Eastern Front. The result is both an invaluable document and a revealing look at an insecure nation, still reconciling ist proud history with a unique and horrible wartime legacy.
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Price: $24.95Raw Deal: A Question of Consent
Actor: Lisa Gier King; Tony Marzullo
ASIN : B000LC4620
Sales Rank : 49891
Director : Billy Corben
Studio : rakontur
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0837101264495
UPC : 837101264495
Release Date : December 28, 2006
Publisher : rakontur
Manufacturer : rakontur
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Label : rakontur
Running Time : 99
Product DescriptionRaw Deal is one of the most exposing and controversial documentaries about rape and fraternity life today. Billy Corben's remarkable exposé on the contested rape of 27-year-old Lisa Gier King in Gainesville, Florida, is sure to provoke heated discussions everywhere about rape, women's rights, and male privilege. On Friday, February 26, 1999, Delta Chi frat brothers at the University of Florida held a party at their fraternity house and hired exotic dancer Lisa Gier King to perform. The following morning, a half-naked and distraught King ran from the house, claiming that Michael Yarhaus had raper her. Her most startling allegation was that frat brother Tony Marzullo had videotaped the crime. Two days later, King herself was arrested for filing a false police report after authorities claimed the rape showed "clearly willing and consensual sex." The community was stunned by King's arrest after it was discovered that the videotape showed Marzullo himself repeatedly addressing the camera to gleefully describe that what he was witnessing was a rape. Under pressure from the media and Campus NOW to charge the frat brothers with rape, State Attorney Rod Smith arrogantly responded by making the tape available to the public so people could "make up their own minds." Filmmaker Billy Corben takes Smith's challenge and presents the scandalizing, sexually explicit footage alongside interviews of participants involved with the case to conduct an investigation the police never did. The result is a shocking insight on fraternity life and the politically constructed nature of "the truth."
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List Price: $26.95Price: $24.49You Save: $2.46 (9%)Guerrilla - The Taking of Patty Hearst
Actors: Russ Little, Timothy Findley, Michael Bortin, Dan Grove, Ludlow Kramer
ASIN : B000ADWDG6
Sales Rank : 24555
Director : Robert Stone
Studio : New Video Group
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767083355
ISBN : 0767083350
UPC : 767685973837
Release Date : December 27, 2005
Publisher : New Video Group
Manufacturer : New Video Group
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Label : New Video Group
Running Time : 89
DescriptionThe 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. Amazon.com"Death to the fascist insect that preys on the life of the people!" declared the Symbionese Liberation Army, the domestic terrorist group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst and demanded a massive food program for the poor in exchange for her release. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst examines this sensational case with a measured, sardonic view of every side; the SLA was born in the crucible of the Vietnam War and Kent State, but the documentary neither forgives nor condemns their actions (which include bank robbery, bombings, and murder). Instead, the SLA and the media bonanza that surrounded them become an astonishing petri dish of social and political trends that resonate with even more force today. Using interviews with reporters and surviving members of the SLA, footage from news reports and Hollywood movies, director Robert Stone (Radio Bikini) has crafted a smart, suspenseful thriller that mesmerizes even if you know the whole history. A superb documentary; the dvd is even better as it includes uncut footage from the security cameras of one of the bank robberies; the sentencing of the 2003 trial of four SLA members; complete audio recordings of Patty Hearst's media statements; and a balanced, thoughtful commentary from Stone. --Bret Fetzer
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List Price: $29.95Price: $24.99You Save: $4.96 (17%)Deadline
Actors: Anthony Amsterdam, Stephen Bright, Donald Cabana, Tom Cross, Gary Gauger
ASIN : B00005JNG7
Sales Rank : 53047
Director : Kirsten Johnson, Katy Chevigny
Studio : Homevision
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780780029255
ISBN : 0780029259
UPC : 037429199428
Release Date : December 05, 2004
Publisher : Homevision
Manufacturer : Homevision
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Label : Homevision
Running Time : 90
DescriptionWhat would you do if you discovered that 13 people slated for execution had been found innocent? That was exactly the question that Illinois Governor George Ryan faced in his final days in office. He alone was left to decide whether 167 death row inmates should live or die. In the riveting countdown to Ryan's decision, Deadline details the gripping drama of the state's clemency hearings. Documented as the events unfold, Deadline is a compelling look inside America's prisons, highlighting one man's unlikely and historic actions against the system. DVD features will include: Interview with directors Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson. Additional Scenes: Governor George Ryan's Clemency Speech, Interview with Governor George Ryan, Gabriel Solache and the Vienna Convention, Furman v. Georgia: Donald Schneble, Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation: Mamie Till Mobley, Governor Ryan and the Death Penalty, Filmmaker Biographies, Glossary of Terms, Internet Links. Amazon.comProving that a documentary can be both rigorous and stylish, Deadline delves into the hot-button topic of the death penalty, with particular focus on the 2002 investigation initiated by former Republican governor of Illinois, George H. Ryan, after an investigative journalism class at Northwestern University proved that three men on Illinois' death row were innocent. The current debate focuses not on the moral right-or-wrong of capital punishment, but on whether the legal system can keep an innocent man from being condemned to death. The debate is by no means simple, and Deadline presents a balanced picture, interviewing lawyers, anti-death penalty advocates, politicians, and men who've been released from death row, all of whom are lucid and articulate. But it's testimonies from victims that are the most emotionally wrenching--and you may be surprised by their statements. A superb documentary, directed by Katy Chevigny and Kisten Johnson. --Bret Fetzer
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List Price: $24.95Price: $22.49You Save: $2.46 (10%)Excellent Cadavers
Actors: Alexander Stille, Letizia Battaglia, Marco Turco
ASIN : B000YVB2OS
Sales Rank : 38668
Director : Marco Turco
Studio : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0720229913065
UPC : 720229913065
Release Date : December 19, 2008
Publisher : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer : FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Label : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Running Time : 92
Product DescriptionExcellent Cadavers is a documentary about the real Mafia: not the comical hoods of the Sopranos or the tragic warriors of The Godfather, but the historic, violent Sicillian gang that has flourished in Italy and the U.S. for more than a century, leaving bloody havoc in its wake. The focus is not on individual Mafiosi but on the Cosa Nostra as a powerful and amoral coporate entity, intimately emmeshed with Italian business and politics, and, on two brave, unshakeably honest prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who battlled them in the courts for years, winnning hundreds of convictions, before both were assassinated. Sicily is one of the most picturesque of movie locations, and director Marco Turco takes full advantage of that here. One of his main interviewees is the gifted photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, who has recorded the Mafia's violent legacy in Palmero for decades, and uses her searing black-and-white shots evocatively and well. Cadavers is a rich mine of information on a subject about which it is sometimes too easy to be superficial.
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Price: $9.98The Gangster Chronicles
Actors: Al Capone, Benjamin Siegel, Bonnie and Clyde, John Gotti, Joseph Valachi
ASIN : B000MV8A90
Sales Rank : 66884
Director : N/a
Brand : Unknown
Studio : Timeless Media Group
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0011301693136
UPC : 113016931364
Release Date : December 30, 2007
Publisher : Timeless Media Group
Manufacturer : Timeless Media Group
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Label : Timeless Media Group
Running Time : 257
Product DescriptionFrom the earliest days of the mob in New York's Lower East Side to casinos in the desert, American gangsters have captured the imagination of the public with their aura of power and corruption. Al "Scarfare" Capone, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Dutch Schultz, Bonnie and Clyde, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, John "The Teflon Don" Gotti - these are just a few of the ruthless people you will meet in The Gangster Chronicles, an insider's look at the life and times of America's 20th Century gangsters. This exciting 2 DVD set explores the underworld characters and events that shaped America's criminal past and law enforcement's struggle to keep the peace.
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List Price: $29.99Price: $26.99You Save: $3 (10%)Young & Restless in China
Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Ben Wu, Lu Dong, Wei Zhanyan, Wang Xiaolei
ASIN : B0018O3P3G
Sales Rank : 42773
Director : Sue Williams
Studio : Zeitgeist Films
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0795975110532
UPC : 795975110532
Release Date : December 29, 2008
Publisher : Zeitgeist Films
Manufacturer : Zeitgeist Films
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Label : Zeitgeist Films
Running Time : 106
Product DescriptionA riveting and poignant journey, Young & Restless in China tracks the lives of nine ambitious young Chinese professionals who are struggling to make it in this very tumultuous and rapidly changing society, as it prepares to host the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Whether it's defying Eastern cultural traditions in pursuit of more Western values, struggling through the (often erratic) government protocols to start a new business, or fighting to preserve the environment, this new generation of twenty- and thirty-somethings is caught between the bonds of their nation's history and their own quest for a very different future. Narrated by ER star Ming Wen, Young & Restless in China captures the coming-of-age of China's most dynamic generation in ways as intimately familiar as they are decidedly new.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- New anamorphic transfer of the theatrical version of the film, created from Hi-Def materials and enhanced for widescreen TVs
- Original promotional reel, featuring footage not included in the final film
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
- Statement from writer/director/producer Sue Williams
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List Price: $24.95Price: $22.49You Save: $2.46 (10%)The Search for Mengele
Actors: Josef Mengele, Rolf Mengele, David Frost
ASIN : B001B2E5IY
Sales Rank : 19133
Director : Brian Moser
Studio : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0720229913409
UPC : 720229913409
Release Date : December 16, 2008
Publisher : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer : FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Label : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Running Time : 78
Product DescriptionTHE STORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST NOTORIOUS NAZI FUGITIVE
The most notorious of 24 SS doctors at Auschwitz concentration camp, Josef Mengele, "The Angel of Death," sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths and performed appalling experiments on living children. For forty years after the Second World War, he was one of the world's most wanted war criminals - yet he was never brought to Justice. The Search for Mengele Examines his life through the eyes of those who knew him and traces his escape through Germany to Italy, then to Argentina, Paraguay and ultimately, Brazil, where he drowned in 1984.
Those who protected him talk of the infamous Nazi doctor living out his last years in poverty, cut off from his wealthy family back home - and subject to perhaps the final irony, hiding out amongst a multi-racial society. But is it too easy to simply dismiss Mengele as a monster? Was he alone responsible, or was he the product of a warped system of values? If so, could the whole gruesome episode of history be repeated in the future? And why was he never caught? "The Search for Mengele" seeks the answers to these questions.
Filmed in ten countries including Germany, Israel, Poland and Brazil and featuring numerous interviews The picture which emerges of Mengele from the interviewees in the film is often quite different from the standard view. They describe his years as a "likeable" and "outstanding" student in Germany, as a highly qualified young doctor, a "strikingly handsome" SS officer on the Eastern front and, later in life, as an embittered and paranoiac fugitive. Interviewees include Rolf Mengele, who visited his father in Paraguay in 1977 and pressed him to answer for his past actions. In Rolf's words, "'If they really wanted to get him, they could have, but there were long periods in his life when they did not want to."
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Price: $4.98The Gangster Chronicles (Parts 1 & 2)
Actor: Gangster Chronicles
ASIN : B000B66H32
Sales Rank : 57317
Director : N/a
Studio : Timeless Media Group
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0011301641939
UPC : 011301641939
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 24, 2005
Publisher : Timeless Media Group
Manufacturer : Timeless Media Group
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Label : Timeless Media Group
Running Time : 150
Product DescriptionThe Gangster Chronicles! Whether it is Alphonse "Scarface" Capone, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz, or even John Gotti, gangsters have a mystique about them that has captured the public's interest. It is this persona that has kept the world intrigued with the 20th Century gangster. From the establishment of the mob in New York's Lower East Side - through the lawlessness and growth of the underworld spawned by prohibition - to today's ruthless bosses, comes the inside story of the mobsters who ruled the crime empires of America for over 100 years. This fantastic DVD explores the mystique, the characters and events that helped create The Gangster Chronicles.
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