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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Paragraph 175
Actors: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller (III), Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel, Heinz F.
ASIN : B00005YUP1
Sales Rank : 47359
Director : Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Studio : New Yorker Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567302547
ISBN : 1567302548
UPC : 717119782245
Release Date : December 23, 2002
Publisher : New Yorker Video
Manufacturer : New Yorker Video
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Label : New Yorker Video
Running Time : 81
Amazon.comRupert Everett narrates this sensitive documentary about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals during World War II. "Paragraph 175" refers to the old German penal code concerning homosexuality, which was used to justify the prosecution of gay men during the war (the code ignored lesbians, still considered viable baby-making vessels). As mere rumor became enough to justify imprisonment, over 100,000 were arrested and between 10,000 and 15,000 were sent to concentration camps. In Paragraph 175, Klaus Müller, a historian from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, sets out to interview the fewer than 10 who are known to remain alive. The film covers the astonishingly quick rise of Hitler (one interviewee points out how ridiculous a figure he seemed at first) and the shock that more liberal Germans felt as it became clear that he was a force to be reckoned with. Some of the film's most touching moments come when the participants reminisce about their first loves and the "homosexual Eden" that was Berlin in the 1930s. This is a beautifully well made documentary that poignantly captures a piece of nearly forgotten history. --Ali Davis
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List Price: $19.95Price: $14.99You Save: $4.96 (25%)The Statue of Liberty (History Channel)
Actors: James Baldwin, Mario Cuomo, Milos Forman, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi
ASIN : B00016XNH0
Sales Rank : 18550
Director : Ken Burns
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767062909
ISBN : 0767062906
UPC : 733961712537
Release Date : December 24, 2004
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
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Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 60
Amazon.comKen Burns's fourth short film gives us a clear taste for the style that he made famous with The Civil War and Baseball. The first half of this hour-long program examines the design and construction of the Statue of Liberty using drawings, photographs, and readings (Jeremy Irons gives voice to French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, who designed the statue). As narrator David McCullough states, no one at the dedication ceremony mentioned immigration, but the statue became a towering symbol of America's open-door policy. The second half examines the meaning of the statue and of liberty itself. Comments by author James Baldwin, director Milos Forman, and politicians Barbara Jordan and Mario Cuomo reverberate, as does Paul Simon's song "American Tune," which bookends the picture. --Doug Thomas
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List Price: $24.99Price: $22.49You Save: $2.5 (10%)Frontline: Sick Around the World
Actors: James Baldwin, Mario Cuomo, Milos Forman, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi
ASIN : B001A40ZDC
Sales Rank : 14414
Studio : PBS Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0841887009584
UPC : 841887009584
Release Date : December 10, 2008
Publisher : PBS Paramount
Manufacturer : PBS Paramount
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Label : PBS Paramount
Running Time : 60
Product DescriptionFour in five Americans say the healthcare system needs fundamental change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a healthcare system, or are these nations so culturally different that their solutions would not be acceptable? FRONTLINE correspondent T.R. Reid examines the healthcare systems of other advanced capitalist democracies to see what ideas might help the U.S. reform its broken healthcare system.
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List Price: $24.95Price: $22.49You Save: $2.46 (10%)Please Vote for Me (Sub)
Actors: Luo Lei, Cheng Cheng, Xu Xiaofei
ASIN : B0019Z3P5W
Sales Rank : 11540
Director : Wiejun Chen
Studio : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0720229913362
UPC : 720229913362
Release Date : December 19, 2008
Publisher : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer : FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Label : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Running Time : 55
Product DescriptionTwo males and a female vie for office, indulging in low blows and spin, character assassination and gestures of goodwill, all the while guaging their standing with voters. The setting is not the Democratic presidential campaign, but a third-grade class at an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China. "Please Vote For Me", which is on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences documentary feature shortlist, packs its fleet hour with keen observations. Chroniciling a public school's first open elections - at stake is the position of class monitor - filmmaker Weijun Chen has crafted a witty, engaging macro-lens view of human nature, China's one-child policy and the democratic electorial process as the ultimate exercise in marketing. (Excerpted from Sheri Linden's review in the Hollywood Reporter)
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)The Architecture of Doom
Actors: Rolf Arsenius, Bruno Ganz, Sam Gray, Josef Goebbels, P.L. Troost
ASIN : B00003XALS
Sales Rank : 20907
Director : Peter Cohen
Studio : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0720229909211
UPC : 720229909211
Release Date : December 14, 2000
Publisher : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer : FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Label : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Running Time : 119
Product DescriptionFeaturing never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside Hitler's bunker, this sensational film shows how Adolf Hitler rose from being a failed artist to creating a world of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror.
Hitler worshipped ancient Rome and Greece, and dreamed of a new Golden Age of classical art and monumental architecture, populated by beautiful, patriotic Aryans. Degenerated artists and inferior races had no place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting film shows, the Nazis went from banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination of the Jews. Architecture of Doom is part of the Hitler and the Nazis box set.
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List Price: $19.95Price: $17.99You Save: $1.96 (10%)The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Actors: Brian Cox, Anna Chennault, Amy Goodman, Alexander Haig, Seymour Hersh
ASIN : B00009V7S0
Sales Rank : 46956
Director : Eugene Jarecki
Studio : First Run Features
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0720229910736
UPC : 720229910736
Release Date : December 19, 2003
Publisher : First Run Features
Manufacturer : First Run Features
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Label : First Run Features
Running Time : 80
Amazon.comEven as it preaches to those who will relish its witch-hunting zeal, The Trials of Henry Kissinger makes a potent assertion that the legendary diplomat and former Secretary of State is guilty of crimes against humanity. Produced for the BBC, seductively narrated by actor Brian Cox, and based on the scathing book by Christopher Hitchens (a Kissinger-bashing journalist featured heavily here in talking-head interviews), this film is clearly biased against its target, but there's ample documentation to support its claims that Kissinger prolonged the Vietnam war and orchestrated the illegal and indiscriminate bombing of Cambodia; supervised the 1973 coup against democratically elected Chilean president Allende; and played a role in U.S.-backed atrocities in East Timor. Expert interviews on both sides of the political fence (but mostly damning Kissinger) make this a compelling, information-packed example of situational ethics in action; additional viewings simultaneously deepen the film's conviction and reveal the weakness of its one-sided embrace of Hitchens. Either way, this is essential viewing for anyone interested in the labyrinthine machinations of international power. --Jeff Shannon
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List Price: $24.95Price: $22.49You Save: $2.46 (10%)The Murder of Fred Hampton
Actor: Fred Hampton
ASIN : B000O75GWQ
Sales Rank : 33289
Director : Mike Gray, Howard Alk
Brand : FACETS VIDEO
Studio : FACETS
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0736899090029
UPC : 736899090029
Release Date : December 22, 2007
Publisher : FACETS
Manufacturer : FACETS
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Running Time : 88
Product DescriptionTHE MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON began as a film portrait of Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party, but half way through the shoot, Hampton was murdered by Chicago policeman. In an infamous moment in Chicago history and politics, over a dozen policeman burst into Hampton s apartment while its occupants were sleeping, killing Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark and brutalizing the other occupants. Filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk arrived a few hours later to shoot film footage of the crime scene that was later used to contradict news reports and police testimony. Recently restored and reworked by Gray, THE MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON is a chilling slice of American history.
Also included is a short film, CICERO MARCH, which chronicled a group who defied Mayor Richard J. Daley s order to march into predominantly white Cicero to protest racism and injustice.
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List Price: $14.95Price: $13.49You Save: $1.46 (10%)Mein Kampf - My Struggle
Actor: Fred Hampton
ASIN : B000GI3KU8
Sales Rank : 21389
Brand : Ryko Distribution
Studio : Arts Magic
Region Code : 0
Format : Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0881482309399
UPC : 881482309399
Release Date : December 29, 2006
Publisher : Arts Magic
Manufacturer : Arts Magic
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Running Time : 110
DescriptionMein Kampf (My Struggle) is the book written by Adolf Hitler in which he laid out his political philosophy. Regarded inside Germany as the bible of National Socialism, it was an accurate blueprint of what he aspired to accomplish when in power. After its publication few believed that Hitler and his Nazi Party intended to carry out every phrase of his literal program. In this film everything is taken from original footage and actually happened in our time. It tries to answer the burning questions, such as what exactly happened during this terrible time in our history and how it was made possible. Amazon.comUtilizing rare footage found in Nazi archives at the end of World War II, this documentary presents a comprehensive and disturbing look at the rise of the Nazi party. The emergence of Hitler from an impoverished crank living in a flophouse to a man backed politically by rich industrialists as well as the German masses is portrayed with a wealth of archival photographs and films. Though first considered to be a joke, Hitler and cronies such as Goering and Himmler soon found themselves taken seriously, and this documentary shows how their cunning political skills, backed with the thuggery of their Brown Shirt followers, gradually established Hitler as a dictator. The eventual outbreak of war is depicted with dramatic film shot by the Nazis, which includes particularly chilling footage of a conflict that was shrouded in mystery until the war had ended, the massacre of Poles and others in territory swept over by the blitzkrieg. The madness and astounding violence that swept Europe is very well documented right up to Hitler's last public appearance, when he greeted boys who had been fighting for the doomed German war machine in the final months of the war. A second biographical documentary, Adolf Hitler, appears as a bonus feature on the DVD. --Robert J. McNamara
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Point of Order!
Actors: Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy (II), Joseph N. Welch
ASIN : B000A59PO2
Sales Rank : 37532
Director : Emile de Antonio
Studio : New Yorker Video
Format : Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781567303858
ISBN : 1567303854
UPC : 717119068547
Release Date : December 15, 2005
Publisher : New Yorker Video
Manufacturer : New Yorker Video
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Running Time : 97
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List Price: $19.95Price: $17.99You Save: $1.96 (10%)American Experience: Hawaii's Last Queen
Actor: David McCullough (II); Anna Deavere Smith
ASIN : B000A0GYKA
Sales Rank : 32731
Director : -
Brand : WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Studio : WGBH Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593752224
ISBN : 1593752229
UPC : 783421381490
Release Date : December 04, 2006
Publisher : WGBH Boston
Manufacturer : WGBH Boston
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Label : WGBH Boston
Running Time : 56
Product DescriptionThe story of Hawaiian Queen Lili'uokalani and the intrigues and events that led to her loss of sovereignty. Along with her native people she struggled against colonial forces to save the island nation only to be forced from her throne by powerful plantation owners and business leaders backed by U.S. Marines. Produced for PBS's THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE series.System Requirements:Running Time 60 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 783421381490 Manufacturer No: WG38149
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