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War Photographer

Actors: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare, Christiane Breustedt, Des Wright (II)
ASIN : B0000C825I
Sales Rank : 10650
Director : Christian Frei
Studio : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0720229910880
UPC : 720229910880
Release Date : December 18, 2003
Publisher : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer : FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Label : FIRST RUN FEATURES
Running Time : 96

Product Description

{OSCAR NOMINATION, Best Documentary Feature 2002}
{PEABODY AWARD, Georg Foster Peabody Award 2003}
{EMMY AWARD NOMINATION, Cinematography 2004}
{WINNER of 16 International Awards and Nominations 2002-2004}

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is the compelling portrait of the man considered the bravest and most important war photographer of our time, James Nachtwey. The film has been in competition in 36 major international film festivals, played theatrically in over 50 cities and has 5 times won prizes for Best Film or Best Documentary.

Although he has won many prestigious photography awards, including Magazine Photographer of the Year several times, Nachtwey is still not well-known by name. Most people, however, would recognize his extraordinarily powerful images of the violence and suffering of wartime that have appeared in almost every major publication worldwide over the last two decades.

For over two years Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei follows Nachtwey around the world, uncovering compassionate and unsettling images from some of the most incendiary spots on the globe -- the burning farmhouses of Kosovo, the homeless and hungry of Indonesia, a battle between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youth on the West Bank. Frei has created an enthralling yet solemn film about the renowned photographer's daily routine and also his primary motivations, fears and beliefs.

Interviews with colleagues, including CNN's Christiane Amanpour, help describe the remarkable personality of James Nachtwey. Hardly fitting the standard description of a hard-boiled war veteran, instead Nachtwey is a shy, unobtrusive man with the distinction of a philosophy professor and an inner reserve that have allowed him to persevere through the horrors he uncovers and records.

Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut)

Actors: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey, Joe Cocker, Country Joe McDonald
ASIN : 0790729350
Sales Rank : 16262
Director : Michael Wadleigh
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Color, Compilation, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790729350
ISBN : 0790729350
UPC : 085391354925
Release Date : December 26, 1997
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 184

Description

3 days. 3-million people. And memories to last a lifetime.Year: 1970Director: Michael WadleighStarring: Jimi Hendrix, Richie Havens, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash, much more

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The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 1960s peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history. It's more than a chronicle of the hippie movement, however; this is a film of genuine historical and social importance, capturing the spirit of America in transition, when the Vietnam War was at its peak and antiwar protest was fully expressed through the liberating music of the time. With a brilliant crew at his disposal (including a young editor named Martin Scorsese), director Michael Wadleigh worked with over 300 hours of footage to create his original 225-minute director's cut, which was cut by 40 minutes for the film's release in 1970. Eight previously edited segments were restored in 1994, and the original director's cut of Woodstock is now the version most commonly available on videotape and DVD.

The film deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and it's still a stunning achievement. Abundant footage taken among the massive crowd ("half a million strong") expresses the human heart of the event, from skinny-dipping hippies to accidental overdoses, to unpredictable weather, midconcert childbirth, and the thoughtful (or just plain rambling) reflections of the festive participants. Then, of course, there is the music--a nonstop parade of rock & roll from the greatest performers of the period, including Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Canned Heat, The Who, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Sly & The Family Stone, Santana, and many more. Watching this ambitious film, as the saying goes, is the next best thing to being there--it's a time-travel journey to that once-in-a-lifetime event. --Jeff Shannon

Rebel Music - The Bob Marley Story

Actors: Rita Marley, Bob Marley
ASIN : B00005KA71
Sales Rank : 26541
Director : Jeremy Marre
Studio : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0660200303723
UPC : 660200303723
Release Date : December 26, 2001
Publisher : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Manufacturer : Palm Pictures / Umvd
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Label : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Running Time : 90

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The legend of Bob Marley (1945-1981) is well served by this comprehensive and clear-eyed look at the turbulent life and times of the reggae great. Jeremy Marre's documentary presents the man as a vitally important artist, but a flawed--if immensely appealing--human being. The trajectory of his rise is traced from his humble beginnings as the son of a poor, teenage mother in rural Jamaica to the heights of international superstardom in the 1970s. Along the way, Marre provides a context for the development of his artistry by exploring the political situation in Jamaica at the time, the roots of Rastafarianism (to which he was intensely devoted), and his unconventional relationships with women. Although he remained close to wife, Rita, until his death, Marley enjoyed a number of public relationships with other women (Rita admits she found this difficult; Marley claims he didn't see anything unusual about it). The sheer number of interviews is impressive. Aside from the clips of Marley himself, Bunny Livingstone and Peter Tosh (the Wailers), Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, two Jamaican prime ministers (Socialist Michael Manley and Conservative Edward Seaga), and even a CIA official (Philip Agee) all make an appearance. The breadth of Marley's music is represented by over 40 tracks, from the early ska hit "Judge Not" to later political numbers like "Africa Unite." Although Marley never actually considered himself a "political" person, he was surely a rebel--brave, passionate, committed--in the best sense of the word. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Biography - Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon (A&E DVD Archives)

Actor: Bruce Lee
ASIN : B0009IXRIA
Sales Rank : 19566
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767082136
ISBN : 0767082133
UPC : 733961728088
Release Date : December 26, 2005
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
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Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 50

Description

He fought his way from the mean streets of Hong Kong to international superstardom. With blazing fists and a burning passion, he became one of the most celebrated kung-fu masters of all time. In classic films like Fists of Fury and Enter the Dragon, he created the martial arts action genre that has become a favorite of moviegoers worldwide. But just as he reached the height of fame, he was struck down by a mysterious ailment or was it the curse that supposedly follows his family? This fascinating program examines the short, meteoric life of Bruce Lee. Exclusive interviews with friends and family including his late son Brandon and extensive footage from home movies, screen-tests and his legendary films help reveal the man behind the myth of the Immortal Dragon.

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Bruce Lee was an amazingly prolific, influential, and graceful man, and his mark on the world have been assured even if he hadn't made a single film. But those five films he made as an adult (he was a child actor in Hong Kong before returning to the U.S.), along with his untimely death, have captured the imagination of generations of martial arts fans. Because of his high profile, though, Lee's life has been well documented over the years--so this A&E Biography proves somewhat redundant, despite its quality. The Immortal Dragon may be more accurate than other offerings--Dragon, the Lee bio that starred Jason Scott Lee (no relation, but a remarkable resemblance), is probably the most entertaining--but there aren't enough revelations here to make it indispensable. At a scant 50 minutes, The Immortal Dragon may not have enough time to fulfill on its initial promise. How unlike Lee. --Randy Silver

The Vatican Museums

Actor: Artist Not Provided
ASIN : B000GYI3HM
Sales Rank : 20517
Studio : Janson Media
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0646032033397
UPC : 646032033397
Number Of Discs : 3
Release Date : December 01, 2002
Publisher : Janson Media
Manufacturer : Janson Media
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Label : Janson Media
Running Time : 410

Description

Originally produced in 1997 on the threshold of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era, and in celebration of the Jubilee of the Year of Our Lord 2000, THE VATICAN MUSEUMS was the culmination of three years of research and filming, the collaboration of thirty-two scholars and historians from around the world, a crew of forty directors of photography, operators, and lighting technicians, state-of-the-art digital cinematography, lighting, animation, and computerized editing, and the work of a famous composer with original performances by master musicians.

Now available on DVD for the first time, this historic three-disc collection features seven hours of magnificent documentary film that illuminates and chronicles the great journey of the human spirit. Here then is the world's most spectacular and sacred repository of art, history, and faith.

The Art of Piano - Great Pianists of 20th Century

Actor: Artur Rubinstein
ASIN : B00004UF01
Sales Rank : 32540
Director : Vladimir Horowitz
Studio : Nvc Arts
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0639842919920
UPC : 639842919920
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 27, 2002
Publisher : Nvc Arts
Manufacturer : Nvc Arts
Availability : In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
Label : Nvc Arts
Running Time : 108

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The Art of the Piano is a feature-length, 106-minute documentary that presents in refreshingly straightforward fashion a portrait of 20th-century piano playing. The format is simple: short segments on virtually all of the great pianists who have ever been captured on film, augmented by extracts from interviews, sometimes with the pianists themselves, or with later conductors and musicians of international stature, including specially filmed contributions from Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Evgeny Kissin, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, and Tamás Vásáry. The narration by John Tusa offers an overview of piano music through the century, though the heart of the film is the great quantity of rare archive historic footage, with extracts from performances by Gould, Horowitz, Paderwski, Rachmaninoff, Richter, Rubinstein, and many others. The interviews are short, but offer considerable insight, while the film of so many revered pianists brought together is a literal eye-opener, especially for those who have previously only known these masters from LP and CD. This is, like the companion program The Art of Singing, as close to definitive as a single film can get, even going so far as to include footage from the "silent" era with sound from corresponding recordings. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye

Actors: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Delpire, Elliott Erwitt, Isabelle Huppert, Josef Koudelka
ASIN : B000CGX7G6
Sales Rank : 10125
Director : Heinz Bütler
Studio : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0660200312923
UPC : 660200312923
Release Date : December 14, 2006
Publisher : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Manufacturer : Palm Pictures / Umvd
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Label : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Running Time : 72

Description

A wonderful, evocative biography of the man considered the greatest photographer of the last century. Cartier-Bresson’s life reads like a history of the century – World War II, China, Egypt, Mexico, India, Sartre, Matisse, Ghandi (minutes before he was killed), and Cuba all became subjects of his famous "decisive moment" style. Interviews with Cartier-Bresson, Isabelle Huppert, Arthur Miller and other luminaries are woven into this indelible portrait of an icon of both photography and the world.

GARBAGE WARRIOR

Actor: Michael Reynolds
ASIN : B001CB96LK
Sales Rank : 8131
Studio : Morningstar Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0063634020950
UPC : 063634020950
Release Date : December 11, 2008
Publisher : Morningstar Entertainment
Manufacturer : Morningstar Entertainment
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Label : Morningstar Entertainment
Running Time : 90

Product Description

Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick US architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing. An extraordinary tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world

Grateful Dawg

Actors: Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Joe Craven, Jim Kerwin, Rob Bleetstein
ASIN : B00005UER0
Sales Rank : 9964
Director : Gillian Grisman
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767874984
ISBN : 0767874986
UPC : 043396071681
Release Date : December 05, 2002
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 81

Product Description

An inside look at two musical powerhouses grateful dawg guitarist jerry garcia and mandolinist david grisman that showcases the dynamic duos musical magic through rare concert footage unreleased audio tracks and living room jam sessions. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Jerry Garcia Joe Craven Run time: 81 minutes Rating: Pg13

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Jerry Garcia was famous as the visionary behind the Grateful Dead, but his musical tastes were broad, and he found a rewarding partnership with mandolinist David Grisman, whose distinctive "Dawg" style fused jazz with bluegrass. At its best, Grateful Dawg celebrates the easy friendship and truly inspired musicianship of Garcia and Grisman through grainy home-movie footage with surprisingly crisp sound. As one of the film's commentators says, Grisman made Garcia tighter as a musician, while Garcia made Grisman looser, and where they met they created an infectious, rootsy style they called Grateful Dawg. The film's many highlights include instrumental versions of "Dawg Waltz," "Shady Grove," and "Arabia," as well as splendid footage from Garcia and Grisman's days in Old & in the Way. The talking heads inserted ham-handedly between and over performances, unfortunately, become repetitious and, finally, downright annoying. But Garcia and Grisman fans will still enjoy the glimpse at a rare musical alchemy. --Anne Hurley

Island Girl Dance Fitness Workout for Beginners: Cardio Hula

Actor: Kili
ASIN : B0002ILKBI
Sales Rank : 26130
Director : Andrea Ambandos
Studio : Goldhil
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0743452181223
UPC : 743452181223
Release Date : December 02, 2004
Publisher : Goldhil
Manufacturer : Goldhil
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Goldhil
Running Time : 40

Product Description

Cardio Hula

Kili welcomes you to Hawaii, her beautiful homeland, to learn Cardio Hula. This program is an exciting part of her popular Island GirlÖ dance fitness series. Hula is a graceful Hawaiian tradition that combines hip movements, footwork, and hand motions to speed up your metabolism and target tone your entire body.

During this unique workout, you will master six basic hula steps: kaholo, hela, double hela, uwehe, lele Æuwehe, and kaÆo. Kili combines these steps with traditional aerobic steps to create her innovative and enjoyable Cardio Hula. This feature will get you to burn calories, tone your body and dance the hula like an island girl.

Special Features

- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
- Interactive Full Motion Menus
- Chapter Selections