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List Price: $19.99Price: $17.99You Save: $2 (10%)We Have The Power: Making America Energy Independent
Actors: Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rob Bishop, John Boehner
ASIN : B001H9IPBE
Sales Rank : 26948
Director : Terry Moloney
Studio : Citizens United Productions
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0686506325092
UPC : 686506325092
Release Date : December 04, 2008
Publisher : Citizens United Productions
Manufacturer : Citizens United Productions
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Label : Citizens United Productions
Running Time : 61
Product DescriptionWe Have The Power hosted by Newt and Callista Gingrich is a groundbreaking new documentary by Citizens United Productions. The movie is inspired by the book Drill Here, Drill Now, which was authored by Newt Gingrich and Vince Haley. Including interviews with energy experts and political leaders, We Have The Power provides in-depth analysis that you won't find anywhere else. We dive into the heart of the issues surrounding a myriad of energy solutions to help inform Americans about the possibilities that we have right here at home.
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Fidel: The Untold Story
Actors: Fidel Castro, Harry Belafonte, Elián González (II), Alice Walker, Angela Davis
ASIN : B00009IAYC
Sales Rank : 20247
Director : Estela Bravo
Studio : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0720229910705
UPC : 720229910705
Release Date : December 22, 2003
Publisher : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer : FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Label : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Running Time : 91
Product DescriptionWhether dismissed as a relic or revered as a savior, all agree that Fidel Castro, nearing 44 years as the leader of Cuba, is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. Rarely are Americans given a chance to see inside the world of this socialist leader. The new documentary film FIDEL by Estela Bravo offers a unique opportunity to view the man through exclusive interviews with Castro himself, historians, public figures and close friends, with rare footage from the Cuban State archives.
Alice Walker, Harry Belafonte, and Sydney Pollack discuss Fidel as a person, while former and current US government figures including Arthur Schlesinger, Ramsey Clark, Wayne Smith, Congressman Charles Rangel and a former CIA agent offer political and historical perspectives on Castro and the long-standing US embargo against Cuba. Family members and close friends, including Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, offer a window into the rarely seen personal life of Fidel.
Bravo's camera captures Fidel Castro swimming with bodyguards, visiting his childhood home and school, joking with Nelson Mandela, Ted Turner and Muhammad Ali, meeting Elian Gonzalez, and celebrating his birthday with members of the Buena Vista Social Club. Juxtaposing the personal anecdotal with history of the Cuban revolution and the fight to survive the post-Soviet period, FIDEL tells a previously untold story and presents a new view of this compelling figure.
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Price: $9.98Chisholm '72 - Unbought & Unbossed
Actors: Shirley Chisholm, Walter Cronkite, George Wallace, Ralph Abernathy, Amiri Baraka
ASIN : B0006UEVMC
Sales Rank : 33926
Director : Shola Lynch
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543165583
UPC : 024543165583
Release Date : December 01, 2005
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
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Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 76
DescriptionCHISHOLM ?72 Unbought & Unbossed is the first historical documentary on Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and her campaign to become the Democratic Party?s presidential nominee in 1972. Following Chisholm from the announcement of her candidacy in January to the Democratic National Convention in Miami, Florida in July, the story is like her- fabulous, fierce, and fundamentally ?right on.? Chisholm?s fight is for inclusion, as she writes in her book The Good Fight (1973), and encompasses all Americans ?who agree that the institutions of this country belong to all of the people who inhabit it.? Shunned by the political establishment, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm asks people of color, feminists and young voters for their support to ?reshape our society and take control of our destiny as we go down the Chisholm Trail in 1972.? To the surprise of many, voters responded. Amazon.comShirley Chisholm, a Democrat from New York, was the first black woman elected to the United States Congress (in 1969), and then--long before the likes of Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton--the first African American of either gender to seek a major party's presidential nomination, an effort recounted in Unbought & Unbossed. Chisholm, who died in January 2005 (the 76-minute documentary was produced the previous year), undoubtedly knew that her chances of winning her party's 1972 nomination, let alone the general election, were nil; she ran, she said, to "shake up the system." But while her quest may have been hopeless (as it turned out, so was that of George McGovern, the eventual nominee, who lost to incumbent Richard Nixon in a landslide of historic proportions), it was hardly quixotic. Well-educated, articulate, and tough, Chisholm faced plenty of opposition, including from women and other black politicians; she was even physically attacked on the "Chisholm Trail," as she called her campaign ('72 was also the year that Alabama governor George Wallace, another would-be Democratic nominee, was shot and paralyzed). But she stayed the course all the way up to the Democratic convention in Miami, when she finally released her delegates to McGovern, and continued serving in the House of Representatives until 1983. Whether or not Shirley Chisholm met her goal of becoming "a catalyst for change," as she planned, is arguable. But that she had guts and the strength of her convictions is beyond debate. --Sam Graham
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Price: $4.98World War II: Payoff in the Pacific
Actor: Pearl Harbor
ASIN : B00005B1YQ
Sales Rank : 28204
Studio : Good Times Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0018713811851
UPC : 018713811851
Release Date : December 15, 2001
Publisher : Good Times Video
Manufacturer : Good Times Video
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Label : Good Times Video
Running Time : 57
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List Price: $19.98Price: $14.99You Save: $4.99 (25%)Journeys With George
Actor: Alexandra Pelosi
ASIN : B0000YTOXU
Sales Rank : 12424
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Hbo Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780783128801
ISBN : 0783128800
UPC : 026359227523
Release Date : December 24, 2004
Publisher : Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer : Hbo Home Video
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Label : Hbo Home Video
Running Time : 79
DescriptionJourneys with George ia an unprecedented, all access pass to candidate George W. Bush in the months before he won the closest and most controversial presidential election in history. The documentary looks unflinchingly at the built-in conflicts, contradictions and seductions of big-time political reporting - and the tactics used by candidates to win over reporters over the course of months and months of campaigning. Amazon.comCulled from countless hours of video and originally broadcast on HBO in November 2002, this Emmy-winning "home movie" purports to provide an "all-access pass" to George W. Bush during the 18-month haul of his 2000 presidential campaign, but it's more accurate to call this a revealing portrait of camaraderie among the campaign's roving press corps. Armed with a camcorder and her own charming personality, NBC news producer Alexandra Pelosi (youngest daughter of California Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi) captures a "Dubya" we don't often see: casual, charismatic, and (with a mouthful of junk food much of the time) rather lacking in table manners. History has turned Journeys with George into a horror film that looks like a road-trip buddy comedy. The terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 and the subsequent war in Iraq were more than two years in the future, so this amiable cross-country jaunt now looks like a stress-free postcard from a more innocent time, enjoyable for its candor about the seemingly endless cycle of photo-ops and repetitive campaign rhetoric. What you won't get from Pelosi's video diary is any deeper insight into George W. Bush or the nascent workings of his imminent administration. As a lighter-side companion to The War Room, however, Journeys with George is must-see viewing for anyone interested in the relationship between jaded journalists and the man who would become the 43rd President of the United States. It's unlikely we'll ever see another film quite like this. --Jeff Shannon
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Price: $19.98The Greatest Speeches of All Time
Actor: Greatest Speeches of All Time
ASIN : B00024JC0S
Sales Rank : 10307
Director : SoundWorks
Studio : Soundworks Int. DVD
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0739497800199
UPC : 739497800199
Release Date : December 25, 2004
Publisher : Soundworks Int. DVD
Manufacturer : Soundworks Int. DVD
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Label : Soundworks Int. DVD
Running Time : 68
Product DescriptionOriginal video of highlights from 10 speeches including; FDR, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and more.
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List Price: $26.95Price: $24.99You Save: $1.96 (7%)Hacking Democracy
Actors: Bev Harris, Andy Stephenson, Harri Hursti, Ion Sancho, Mark Radke
ASIN : B000MKXF28
Sales Rank : 26605
Director : Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels
Brand : NEW VIDEO GROUP INC
Studio : Docurama
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0767685989135
UPC : 767685989135
Release Date : December 27, 2007
Publisher : Docurama
Manufacturer : Docurama
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Label : Docurama
Running Time : 82
Studio descriptionThe disturbingly shocking HBO documentary HACKING DEMOCRACY bravely tangles with our nation's ills at the heart of democracy. The film the Diebold corporation doesn't want you to see, this revelatory profile follows a tenacious grandmother from Seattle, Bev Harris, and her band of extraordinary citizen-activists as they set out to ask one simple question: How does America count its votes? From Florida and California to Ohio and Washington State, filmmakers Simon Ardizzone, Robert Cohens, and Russell Michaels starkly reveal a rotten system riddled with inaccuracy, incompetent election officials, and electronic voting machines that can be programmed to steal elections. Equipped only with a powerful sense of righteous outrage, the activists take on voting machine manufacturer Diebold, exposing unsettling security holes in the company's equipment. They even go dumpster diving at a county election official's office in Florida, uncovering incendiary evidence of miscounted votes. HACKING DEMOCRACY takes a nonpartisan, clear-eyed look at the secrecy, cronyism, and incompetence of elections in present-day America as it captures a citizen's movement intent on taking back elections--and democracy itself. "It is hard to imagine...a documentary this season that is more important to the civic life of the nation--let alone one that is so compelling and ultimately moving" (Baltimore Sun). Amazon.comHacking Democracy tells the tale of a modern-day David and Goliath. On one side stand three corporations in the voting machine business, led by Diebold. On the other stands Bev Harris, a concerned citizen from Seattle. When touch-screen voting machines are installed in her community, she decides to do some research. Harris discovers that black boxes aren't exactly fool-proof—-far from it. As technology experts attest, the code is vulnerable to manipulation. Worse yet, after-the-fact changes are undetectable. So, Harris forms a grass-roots organization and proceeds to dig deeper. If that means dumpster-diving, so be it. Starting in 2004, Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels accompany Harris around the country to document her mission. Over the course of three years, they find several troubling instances of corporate malfeasance and computer malfunction. Foremost among consequences, her findings lead the State of California to file criminal charges against Diebold. Since most American votes are counted by computer, this isn't a trivial matter. Like This Film is Not Yet Rated, which reveals the inner workings of the MPAA, Hacking Democracy sheds light on a secretive process that affects all Americans--even those unfortunates who can't be bothered to vote. After all, they still have to live with the results, accurate or otherwise. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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List Price: $24.95Price: $22.49You Save: $2.46 (10%)Biography: FDR - Years of Crisis
Actors: Bev Harris, Andy Stephenson, Harri Hursti, Ion Sancho, Mark Radke
ASIN : B000AABL1M
Sales Rank : 49391
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767083737
ISBN : 0767083733
UPC : 733961730289
Release Date : December 27, 2005
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
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Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 50
DescriptionFollow the life and career of the famed politician in the years before he became president, and explore the forces that shaped his vision.
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List Price: $19.94Price: $17.99You Save: $1.95 (10%)One Day in September
Actors: Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey, Gerald Seymour, Axel Springer
ASIN : B000BNXD6E
Sales Rank : 36614
Director : Kevin Macdonald
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781404916968
ISBN : 1404916962
UPC : 043396133181
Release Date : December 20, 2005
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
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Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 94
Product DescriptionStudio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/20/2005 Run time: 94 minutes Rating: R Amazon.com essential videoOn September 5, 1972, eight Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes and took nine others hostage at the Munich Olympic Village. The event stopped the games, gripped the world, and perhaps for the first time fully illustrated the volatile state of affairs in the Mideast to the world. Kevin Macdonald's 1999 Academy Award(r)-winning documentary painstakingly reconstructs the events, shedding light on what the world saw on television with the exasperating revelation of behind-the-scenes blunders. This visceral, tense film uses riveting news footage to great effect, weaving in affecting interviews. Macdonald mourns the deaths of the innocent Olympic hostages and dutifully gives a voice to the Palestinian cause through interviews with Jamal al-Gashey, the only survivor of the eight terrorists, who briefly came out of hiding for the film. He earnestly but half-heartedly sketches a picture of the social and political situation that fueled the act, reserving his anger for the grossly unprepared German police force. The tragedy that erupted at the Fürstenfeldbruck air base becomes all the more upsetting in light of the incompetence and unforgivable mistakes: botched rescues, poor planning, bad intelligence, and lack of contingency plans. Even the irresponsibility of the media circus gets off lightly. It's a sobering, angering, often frustrating piece of non-fiction cinema, a thorough piece of historical research brought to life with an angry immediacy. Macdonald simply doesn't know what lessons to draw from it all. --Sean Axmaker
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Price: $19.95The Unwinking Gaze
Actor: Various
ASIN : B001BAH7NQ
Sales Rank : 23468
Director : Joshua Dugdale
Studio : World In Vision
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0899556001070
UPC : 899556001070
Release Date : December 18, 2008
Publisher : World In Vision
Manufacturer : World In Vision
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Label : World In Vision
Running Time : 70
Product DescriptionThe Unwinking Gaze offers a unique, behind-the-scenes insight into the recent working life of Tibet's would-be saviour and revered world icon the Dalai Lama. The Unwinking Gaze was filmed over a period of three years with exceptional access showing the daily agonies of the Tibetan leader as he tries to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the realpolitik needed to placate China. David and Goliath is played out in front of us as the world's emerging superpower and the Dalai Lama walk a tightrope over an issue of global importance. The Unwinking Gaze is not 3 years in the life of the Dalai. It is his life's work in 3 years. This film takes you inside the Titanic struggle of one of the great spiritual and political figures of our time, as he tries to lead his people to a peaceful resolution with China.
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