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Ultimate Dinosaur Collection (Walking with Monsters / Walking with Dinosaurs / Allosaurs / Chased by Dinosaurs)

Actor: Ultimate Dinosaur Collection
ASIN : B000UPMZ44
Sales Rank : 6515
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051420329
UPC : 794051420329
Release Date : December 13, 2007
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
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Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 471

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Four award-winning, massively popular Walking With... programs now in one monster set! Explore the amazing worlds before o own with the Ultimate Dinosaur Collection! Take a journey back hundreds of millions of years to a time when monsters roame the primordial seas and forests with Walking With Monsters, discover how dinosaurs moved and looked with Walking with Dinosaurs, follow the life and death struggle of one dinosaur who really existed in Allosaurus, and go back in time with zoologist-adventurer Nigel Marven to be Chased By Dinosaurs! Each program is a virtual lost world which has been recreated with spectacular digital effects and animatronics. The end of their era is only the beginning!

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Julia Child - The French Chef

Actor: Julia Child
ASIN : B0006VXMHG
Sales Rank : 6214
Brand : WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Studio : Wgbh Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781593752378
ISBN : 1593752377
UPC : 783421382992
Release Date : December 26, 2005
Publisher : Wgbh Boston
Manufacturer : Wgbh Boston
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Label : Wgbh Boston
Running Time : 30

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Cooking legend and cultural icon Julia Child, along with her pioneering public television series, The French Chef, introduced French cuisine to American kitchens. In her passionate and sometimes breathless way, Julia forever changed the way we cook, eat, and think about food.

Entertaining, fun, and real in a way that influenced every television cooking program that followed, The French Chef embraced Julia's passion for food and teaching and reflected her joie de vivre: "If I can do it, you can do it...and here's how to do it!"

Now chefs of all ages and abilities can share Julia's love of fine French food and learn to cook some of her most-loved dishes with this special collection of 18 episodes from her original 1960s series, The French Chef. In her signature style and with bloopers intact, Julia demonstrates such classic recipes as boeuf bourguignon from her debut show, salade Nicoise, bouillabaisse a la Marseillaise, mousseline au chocolat, and many more delicious dishes.

Bon appetit!

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Three servings of practical cooking advice per one serving of nostalgia is the recipe for this 18-episode culinary collector’s item. The French Chef with Julia Child, the pioneering public television series which premiered in 1962, brought French cuisine to American kitchens without a dash of pretension. Child (1912-2004), a cooking legend and cultural icon with her 6’2" commanding-yet-self-deprecating presence, leads viewers through some of her favorite and classic recipes with requisite humor and congeniality. The three-disc compilation is divided into Starters and Side Dishes; Main Courses; and Desserts and Other Classics, and includes several printable recipes from each category. In vintage black and white, the collection begins with "The Potato Show" and Child’s sage counsel, "When you flip anything you must have the courage of your convictions," before she flips half of her sautéed potatoes onto the stovetop. Peppered throughout the collection are such reminders of why Child was so endearing: she let the camera roll through all her culinary disasters. In another show, "To Roast a Chicken," Child lines up five headless poultry as if arranging for a family photo, while earnestly discussing the differences between a fryer and a roaster, the "full glory of its chickendom." Even non-gourmands will find themselves captivated by such vintage entertainment, while passionate epicureans will relish step-by-step demonstrations of wonders such as boeuf bourguignon (from her debut show), salad Nicoise, bouillabaisse a la Marseillaise, and mousse au chocolat. (All ages) --Lynn Gibson

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199 Lives: Travis Pastrana Story (Full)

Actor: Espn 199 Lives
ASIN : B001F0TM4O
Sales Rank : 8917
Studio : Espn
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0796019817219
UPC : 796019817219
Release Date : December 09, 2008
Publisher : Espn
Manufacturer : Espn
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Label : Espn
Running Time : 90

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`199 Lives' is the incredible story of one of the greatest action sport heros of all time. Beginning with rare footage of Pastrana in his early dare devil years, and introducing the family who made him the thrill seeker he has become, 199 Lives' is a thrilling, intense and intimate account of a living legend. At the age of 22, Travis is a champion multi-talent: a motocross racer, FMX rider, action sports hero, film maker, and rally car driver. He is adored by his fans and feared by his competitors. No matter who you are, when Travis gets on his bike, straps himself into a car or steps up to attempt the biggest stunt you never thought imaginable, you will undoubtedly lose yourself in the thrill.

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199 Lives: The Travis Pastrana Story opens with a catalogue of motocross rider Travis Pastrana's championships and injuries--and, without question, it's the injuries that truly demonstrate Pastrana's staggering drive. This is a guy who dislocated his spine when he was 15 years old, then went on to compete against the best motocross cyclists in the world, then won multiple freestyle events, then nearly died (and nearly killed his passenger) in a car crash, then went on to do rally car racing, which involves a passenger... rarely has anyone exorcised their worst fears in such a literal way. What makes Pastrana even more intriguing is his odd combination of dorkiness (he approaches his waking life with an almost aggressive naivete) and the unsettling underside implied by the night terrors that haunt his sleep. 199 Lives also explores Pastrana's family, particularly his supportive (yet deeply stressed-out) mother and his super-competitive father, through a combination of interviews and charming home movie footage. But of course, it's not the psychological portrait that ultimately sells this movie--it's the astonishing footage of successful jumps and the even more astonishing footage of unsuccessful jumps, capturing stomach-churning accidents that no human being should be able to walk away from. Yet Pastrana does, and usually smiles as he does it. Fans will find 199 Lives essential; non-fans may find 199 Lives will turn them into fans. --Bret Fetzer

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The History Channel Presents Last Stand of the 300 - The Legendary Battle at Thermopylae

Actors: Jeffery A. Baker, Orion Barnes, Erin Bennett, Kristopher Blount, Joshua Bradley
ASIN : B000OIOPPE
Sales Rank : 6307
Director : David Padrusch
Brand : A&E
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Closed-captioned
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0733961772111
UPC : 733961772111
Release Date : December 31, 2007
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
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Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 91

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The legendary battle of Thermopylae is still acknowledged today for its brilliant military maneuvers and the well-trained and fearless soldiers who fought to the death. THE HISTORY CHANNEL® presents a detailed account of this legendary battle, examining the events leading up to the conflict, the tactical expertise that allowed the outnumbered Greeks to stall their mighty foes, and the bloody encounter itself. Find out how an army of a few hundred men overcame impossible odds and witness the conflict that altered the course of Western civilization.

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Last Stand of the 300 is an interesting 90-minute documentary from the History Channel explaining the details of the ancient Spartans' showdown with the Persian army at the battle of Thermopylae. It's long been a fascinating subject, but it hit popular culture in a big way with the 2007 feature film 300, based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller. Last Stand of the 300 helps explain the background behind the battle as well as many of the details not covered in the movie, including how the Ionian Revolt and the famed battle of Marathon led to Themopylae, the naval front led by Thermistocles, and what happened afterward. Numerous scholars and authors (including the writers of Gates of Fire and Empires at War) explain the rigorous Spartan training, military strategy, the Oracle at Delphi, the Persian technological advantage, different kinds of weaponry and vessels (the Spartan hoplon, dory, and xiphos, and the trireme), and how one of Miller's famous lines came from Herodotus ("Then we shall have our battle in the shade"). The maps are extremely helpful for showing how the geography affected the battle (one detour would have cost the Persians an extra two years of travel time), but the reenactments look kind of simple compared to the extremely stylized feature film. --David Horiuchi

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Survivor - The Complete First Season

Actors: Jeff Probst, B.B. Andersen, Dirk Been, Rudy Boesch, Greg Buis
ASIN : B0001ZDKXI
Sales Rank : 7730
Director : Mark Burnett
Brand : Paramount
Studio : CBS Television
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781415700860
ISBN : 1415700869
UPC : 097368779044
Release Date : December 11, 2004
Publisher : CBS Television
Manufacturer : CBS Television
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Label : CBS Television
Running Time : 664

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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/28/2007 Rating: Nr

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Here's where it all began. The first season of Survivor dominated the ratings in the summer of 2000, helped spur the reality-TV craze, and inspired countless water-cooler jokes about getting voted off the island. The first season established the formula that would continue, with sometimes surprising variations, over numerous subsequent seasons: 16 people intended to represent the American mosaic are stranded far from civilization (in this case, the island of Pulau Tiga, off the coast of Borneo), struggle for food and shelter, compete in a series of physical and mental challenges, and at the end of each three-day episode vote out one of their fellow contestants. After 39 days, the one sole survivor who is able to outwit, outplay, and outlast the others wins a million-dollar prize. Because the Survivor craze preceded the craze for complete-season DVD boxed sets, the first season was represented on DVD and video by a 150-minute highlights package called Season One: The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments. Now, all 13 episodes are available in a five-disc set (the fifth disc is ...Outrageous Moments) that contains every challenge, every political maneuver, every next-episode preview and previous-episode recap, every tribal council including the famous finale, and the reunion show. If you started watching Survivor in the Australian Outback or later, this is the perfect opportunity to see how host Jeff Probst, scheming Richard Hatch, tough truck driver Sue Hawk, ex-Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch, athletic Kelly Wiglesworth, and the others got the ball rolling. If you did watch the first season, here's your chance to relive it, and you also get an enthusiastic group commentary by host Jeff Probst (poking fun at himself) and contestants Hatch (talking the most, which should surprise no one), Boesch, and Gervase Peterson on the first and last episodes, plus some minor featurettes (seven minutes of footage of the contestants leaving L.A. for Borneo, David Letterman's Top 10 featuring the contestants, and 10 minutes of new interviews with Hatch, Boesch, and Peterson). Many reality shows have come and gone in the meantime, but in terms of staying fresh over a long run, Survivor has outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted them all. --David Horiuchi

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NOVA: Secrets of the Mind

Actor: V.S. Ramachandran
ASIN : B000JJ5F8O
Sales Rank : 4654
Director : Alan Ritsko, Christopher Rawlence
Brand : WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Studio : WGBH Boston
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783421349698
UPC : 783421349698
Release Date : December 09, 2007
Publisher : WGBH Boston
Manufacturer : WGBH Boston
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Label : WGBH Boston
Running Time : 56

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The award-winning NOVA series brings the complications surrounding brain distortion and how it affects people who suffer from it. V.S. Ramachandran leads the viewer through a discovery of neuroscience that involves misperception of the human mind research that has been done to correct it.System Requirements:Running Time 60 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 783421349698 Manufacturer No: WG34969

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HDScape Sampler [Blu-ray]

Actor: HDScape
ASIN : B000V6LSVI
Sales Rank : 5682
Director : HDScape
Studio : DVD International
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 0647715699923
UPC : 647715699923
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 25, 2008
Publisher : DVD International
Manufacturer : DVD International
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Label : DVD International
Running Time : 59

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HDScape Blu-ray discs transform your television and home theater system into breathtaking High Definition environments capturing the world's most beautiful scenery by award-winning cinematographers with musical accompaniments and natural sounds.

The HDScape sampler features clips from beautiful, entertaining Blu-ray Disc programs such as Antarctica Dreaming, Exotic Saltwater Aquarium, Fireplace: Visions of Tranquility, HD Window: Hawaii, HD Window: The Great Southwest, Serenity: Southern Seas, and Visions of the Sea: Explorations.

HDScape: Advancing the Art of HD

HDScape is the leading producer of High Definition discs that turn your Plasma, LCD, CRT or DLP HDTV home theater system into a work of art.

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Why We Fight

Actors: Gore Vidal, John McCain, Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft, Osama Bin Laden
ASIN : B000FBH3W2
Sales Rank : 1977
Director : Eugene Jarecki
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0043396138940
UPC : 043396138940
Release Date : December 27, 2006
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 98

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Why We Fight is the provocative new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger) and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

Named after the series of short films by legendary director Frank Capra that explored America’s reasons for entering World War II, Why We Fight surveys a half-century of military conflicts, asking how – and answering why – a nation of, by and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a government system whose survival depends on an Orwellian state of constant war.

The Why We Fight DVD features interviews and observations by a "who’s who" of military and Washington insiders including Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, and Dan Rather. Beginning with President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s prescient 1961 speech warning of the rise of the "military industrial complex," Why We Fight moves far beyond the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of why America seemingly is always at war. What are the forces – political, economic, and ideological – that drive us to clash against an ever-changing enemy? Just why does America fight? Unforgettable, powerful and at times disturbing, Why We Fight on DVD will challenge viewers long after the last fade-out.

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Fans of Oliver Stone's J.F.K. will recognize the opening moments of writer-director Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight, in which outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower warns of the pernicious and growing influence of what he called the "military-industrial complex." But Stone's movie, which uses the same footage, was a work of fiction. While those who disagree with the decidedly leftist point of view in this documentary will probably consider it the product of paranoid liberal fantasy as well, there's enough credible material, much of it supplied by the targets of Jarecki's criticisms, to make Eisenhower look like a prophet and everyone else uneasy about the dark confluence of politics, money, and war that controls the country's fortunes. The message here is that while there may be some who sincerely believe that America's various military engagements (in Iraq, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, and elsewhere) since World War II are the product of our God-given duty to spread freedom and halt the influence of evil ideologies around the world, the real reason we fight is that war is good business. This is hardly a bulletin; anyone who is surprised by allegations that politicians pander to defense contractors, or that Vice President Dick Cheney helped secure huge deals for Halliburton, the company he formerly headed, simply hasn't been paying attention (Politicians lie? How shocking!). In fact, the principal drawback to Jarecki's film is simply that there's nothing particularly revelatory or compelling about it. Only when he takes a personal approach does he go beyond the obvious; the story of a retired New York policeman and former Vietnam veteran whose son died in the World Trade Center, who wanted revenge, but who became seriously disillusioned when Bush admitted that the war in Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, adds some much needed human interest. Still, Why We Fight, which includes a director's audio commentary track and a few other bonus features, serves as a grim reminder that the world's most powerful nation has strayed far from the principles of our founding fathers, a development that does not bode well for America's future. --Sam Graham

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