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The Weather Underground

Actors: Tse-tung Mao, Walter Mondale, Brian Flanagan (II), Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon
ASIN : B0001LYFKO
Sales Rank : 30225
Director : Sam Green (II), Bill Siegel
Studio : NEW VIDEO GROUP
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767063685
ISBN : 0767063686
UPC : 767685960233
Release Date : December 25, 2004
Publisher : NEW VIDEO GROUP
Manufacturer : NEW VIDEO GROUP
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Label : NEW VIDEO GROUP
Running Time : 92

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The key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this Oscar-nominated documentary. The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took their scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to especially violent extremes. Never a well-populated movement, the Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, weary of hiding, most of them had turned themselves over to the authorities. That journey, by which a fire-breathing revolutionary such as Bernadine Dohrn became a (still fiery) gray-haired wife and mother, is an intriguing one. This film, rich in period footage (and some unnecessary sensationalism) captures the era somewhat broadly. But the present-day interviews with the participants, contrasted with their radical selves, provides an exceptionally detailed look inside the organization itself. It's not a nostalgic look back, and the overall mood is sobering rather than celebratory. Lili Taylor provides the narration. --Robert Horton

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Judgment Day - Intelligent Design on Trial

Actor: Nova
ASIN : B000YY6VIC
Sales Rank : 12041
Director : Nova
Studio : WGBH Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783421416994
UPC : 783421416994
Release Date : December 26, 2008
Publisher : WGBH Boston
Manufacturer : WGBH Boston
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Label : WGBH Boston
Running Time : 112

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Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin s theory of evolution called intelligent design the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent agent. The teachers refused to comply, and both parents and teachers filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the school board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state.

Now, NOVA explores the arguments by lawyers and expert witnesses in riveting detail and provides an eye-opening crash course on questions such as What is evolution? and Is intelligent design a scientifically valid alternative? Featuring trial reenactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants and expert scientists, this gripping program presents the celebrated case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District.

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Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

Actors: Duma Ka Ndlovu, Vusi Mahlasela, Walter Cronkite, F.W. de Klerk, Abdullah Ibrahim
ASIN : B0000C2IWO
Sales Rank : 10187
Director : Lee Hirsch
Studio : Lions Gate
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0012236144984
UPC : 012236144984
Release Date : December 21, 2003
Publisher : Lions Gate
Manufacturer : Lions Gate
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Label : Lions Gate
Running Time : 108

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AMANDLA! A REVOLUTION IN FOUR-PART HARMONY tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. The first film to specifically consider the music that sustained and galvanized black South Africans for more than 40 years, Amandla!'s focus is on the struggle's spiritual dimension, as articulated and embodied in song. Named for the Xhosa word for "power," Amandla! lives up to its title, telling an uplifting story of human courage, resolve, and triumph.

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The stunning documentary Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony tells the story of protest music in South Africa--but as it does so, it tells the story of the struggle against apartheid itself, for the music and the revolution are inseparable. Through archival footage and interviews with musicians, freedom fighters, and even members of the former government police, Amandla! creates a vivid and powerful portrait of how music was crucial not only to communicating a political message beyond words, but also to the resistance itself--how songs bonded communities, buoyed resistance in the face of bullets and tear gas, and sowed fear in the ruling elite. Part history, part musical exploration, part sheer force of life, Amandla! captures both the sorrow and the triumph of life in South Africa from the 1950s to 1990, when Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress came into power. --Bret Fetzer

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Shoot Down

Actors: Adolph Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Josef Goebbels
ASIN : B001IALTJM
Sales Rank : 29304
Director : Cristina Khuly
Region Code : 1
Format : DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0884501059848
UPC : 884501059848
Running Time : 88

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Shoot Down takes the audience through one of the most appalling international incidents that perfectly reflects the tumultuous relationship between Cuba and the United States. Winner of the 2007 Sonoma Valley Film Festival Award for Best Documentary, Shoot Down revisits the 1996 Cuban downing of two US civilian planes, piloted by Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR), which resulted in the deaths of four men. The film chronicles the perfect storm of events that led to that fateful day: In the early 90's Cuba was facing a steep economic decline after the pullout of the Soviet Union. Cuban Rafters, fleeing desperate conditions on the Island, were dying by the thousands in an attempt to reach the US. The European Union was recognizing the growing internal dissidence base in Cuba that, for the first time since the revolution of 1959, was effectively and publicly challenging the Castro government. Pressure was mounting and the boiling point came at the end of Clinton's first term in office. BTTR had gained political influence and respect on both sides of the Florida Straits with its many rescue missions of Cuban rafters. The group flew near Cuba to spot the fleeing rafters and, at least once, flew over Havana. This was the pretext the Cuban Government needed to act -- in the air against the US-registered planes and on the Island against the dissidents. In a stirring reenactment of the shoot down, the film replays the actual radio transmissions of the pilots in their final moments and the elation of the Cuban MiG pilots who fired the missiles. Special features include: Spanish & English language versions; a 12 min. unedited audio recording of Raul Castro commenting on the incident; the unedited voice recordings (1 hr., 30 min.) between the Cuban MiG's and Cuban Military Control -- intercepted by US intelligence surveillance; a 30 min. cockpit voice recording of the lead BTTR Cessna, which includes conversations between this plane and the two shot down.

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Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Actors: Linda Vester, Steve Doocy, Alan Colmes, Peter Jennings, Eric Alterman
ASIN : B0002HDXTQ
Sales Rank : 8527
Director : Robert Greenwald
Studio : The Disinformation Company
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0826262000592
UPC : 826262000592
Release Date : December 13, 2004
Publisher : The Disinformation Company
Manufacturer : The Disinformation Company
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Label : The Disinformation Company
Running Time : 110

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"Fair and balanced"??? How about anything BUT?!?! For the first time ever, this documentary reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."

"Outfoxed" examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.

"Outfoxed" first examines media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Australian company, News Corp., tracing how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) helped Murdoch break the rules to establish a fourth network in the United States. The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person.

Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR), Bob McChesney and Chellie Pingree, provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society.

The team behind "Outfoxed" created a system to monitor Fox News 24 hours a day for months to discover exactly how its shows worked. A team of volunteers around the country scrutinized every hour of Fox News programming, noting examples of bias in its coverage. The result is an intense examination of Fox News and the lie inherent in its favorite motto: "Fair and Balanced."

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Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism uses the inflammatory tactics of the Fox News Channel to demonstrate the conservative bias that's handed down by Fox's owner, media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The documentary gathers interviews from media watchdogs and former Fox employees (including a former anchor, Jon Du Pre, who describes his flailing efforts to create a celebration for Reagan's birthday when the one he was sent to cover never materialized), but their overwhelming condemnation of Fox's skewed news practices isn't half as effective as footage taken directly from Fox itself--an appalling montage of pundit Bill O'Reilly telling guests to shut up; repeated efforts to paint Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry as weak and waffling, while President Bush is captured in respectful, reverent images; and management memos dictating language, subject matter, and point of view. Outfoxed is unlikely to persuade Fox News fans to change their views, but it may spur outraged liberals to take action. --Bret Fetzer

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Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media

Actors: William F. Buckley, Noam Chomsky, Kelvin Flook, Edward S. Herman, Peter Jennings
ASIN : B00005Y726
Sales Rank : 10818
Director : Peter Wintonick
Studio : Zeitgeist Films
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0795975101332
UPC : 795975101332
Release Date : December 26, 2002
Publisher : Zeitgeist Films
Manufacturer : Zeitgeist Films
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Label : Zeitgeist Films
Running Time : 167

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Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. Through a dynamic collage of biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick's award-winning documentary highlights Chomsky's probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news. Available for the first time anywhere on DVD, MANUFACTURING CONSENT features appearances by journalists Bill Moyers and Peter Jennings, pundit William F. Buckley Jr., novelist Tom Wolfe and philosopher Michel Foucault. This Edition features an exclusive ten-years-after video interview with Chomsky.

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Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar made this penetrating documentary about the career and views of linguist and media critic Noam Chomsky. While the man is the subject of the movie, the filmmakers wisely and carefully choose not to make Chomsky more important than his insights into the way print and electronic journalism tacitly and often willingly further the agendas of the powerful. We learn a lot about Chomsky's formative experiences as a child, student, academic, activist, and politician (he has campaigned for office), but we learn just as much about the media institutions that deny him access today, from ABC to PBS. The centerpiece of the film, arguably, is a long examination into the history of the New York Times' coverage of Indonesia's atrocity-ridden occupation of East Timor, reportage that (as Chomsky shows us) was absolutely in lock step with the government's unwillingness to criticize an ally. --Tom Keogh

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Control Room

Actors: Samir Khader, Josh Rushing, George W. Bush, Hassan Ibrahim, Deema Khatib
ASIN : B0002X8U4I
Sales Rank : 9369
Director : Jehane Noujaim
Brand : CONTROL ROOM (DVD MOVIE)
Studio : Lions Gate
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0031398169321
UPC : 031398169321
Release Date : December 26, 2004
Publisher : Lions Gate
Manufacturer : Lions Gate
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Label : Lions Gate
Running Time : 84

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Control room is a rate film that is both timely and timeless: timeless because it ecplores the ancient and complex relationship between the western and Arab worlds timely because it reveals how satellite television has changed the way wars are reported- from news providers driven by the patriotism of their audiences to army information officers driven by military objectives. Control room is a seminal documentary that explores how truth is gathered presented and ultimately created by those who deliver it.System Requirements: Running Time 86 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 031398169321 Manufacturer No: 16932

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Startling and powerful, Control Room is a documentary about the Arab television network Al-Jazeera's coverage of the U.S.-led Iraqi war, and conflicts that arose in managed perceptions of truth between that news media outlet and the American military. Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com) catches the frantic action at Al-Jazeera headquarters as President Bush stipulates his 48-hour, get-out-of-town warning to Saddam Hussein and sons, soon followed by the network's shocking footage of Iraqi civilians terrorized and killed by invading U.S. troops. Al-Jazeera's determination to show images and report details outside the Pentagon's carefully controlled information flow draws the wrath of American officials, who accuse it of being an al-Qaida propagandist. (The killing of an Al-Jazeera reporter in what appears to be a deliberately targeted air strike is horrifying.) Most fascinating is the way Control Room allows well-meaning, Western-educated, pro-democratic Arabs an opportunity to express views on Iraq as they see it--in an international context, and in a way most Americans never hear about. --Tom Keogh

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The Sorrow and the Pity

Actors: Georges Bidault, Maurice Chevalier, R. Du Jonchay, Anthony Eden, Marcel Fouche-Degliame
ASIN : B00005AFSL
Sales Rank : 31555
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381952629
UPC : 014381952629
Release Date : December 24, 2001
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Running Time : 251

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A chronicle of a French city under the occupation. Director Marcel Ophuls combined interviews and archival film footage to explore the reality of the French occupation in one small industrial city, Clermont-Ferrand. He spoke with resistance fighters, collaborators, spies, farmers, government officials, writers, artists and veterans. The result is a shattering portrait of how ordinary people actually conducted themselves under extraordinary circumstances. By turns gripping, horrifying, and inspiring, Academy Award nominee "The Sorrow and the Pity" is a triumph of humanist filmmaking and a testament to the power of cinema. Before "Shoah," "Schindler's List," "The Long Way Home" and "The Last Days," there was "The Sorrow and the Pity."

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Often hailed as one of the greatest documentaries of all time, The Sorrow and the Pity is still astonishing long after its original release in Paris. The lengthy film (anyone who has heard it prominently referred to in Woody Allen's Annie Hall knows it's four hours long) tells the story of France under Nazi occupation by weaving together a number of interviews as well as newsreel clips and propaganda films shot by the Nazis. Director Marcel Ophüls skillfully utilizes interviews with people who often contradict each other, so the story of France not only occupied but divided against itself emerges fully. Filmed in the late 1960s, when bitter memories still resonated, the interviews conducted by Ophüls have great depth and are often amazing. Ordinary Frenchmen who found themselves performing heroic acts for the Resistance recall the dangers they faced while those who collaborated with the Nazis make excuses. A former Nazi officer interviewed at a wedding party in Germany pompously puts a benign face on what occurred where he was stationed; interviews with French residents utterly refute his sanitized version of the past. Beyond the interviews, the arresting archival footage chosen by Ophüls is remarkable, such as an unsettling clip of a stand-up comedian performing before a laughing audience whose collar insignias identify them as members of the fanatical Nazi SS. The Sorrow and the Pity lives up to its reputation as being a magnificent documentary. --Robert J. McNamara

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