Documentaries on VHS
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Waco: The Rules of Engagement
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 Publisher: New Yorker Video Starring: Dan Gifford, Clive Doyle, Jack Harwell, Dick J. Reavis, James D. Tabor Directed By: William Gazecki Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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What happened at the Branch Davidian compound in Mt. Carmel, Texas, in 1993? Why did 4 federal agents and 86 civilians lose their lives? The powerful documentary Waco: The Rules of Engagement asks these and many other difficult questions, and the answers are deeply disturbing, even for the most cynical. Using interviews, news footage, testimony before Congress, and infrared photographic analysis, the film relentlessly chips away at the government's story that David Koresh and his followers were a dangerous cult involved in strange sex and drug practices who were preparing to slaughter their neighbors and that they immolated themselves à la Jonestown, rather than give themselves up peacefully. Nearly every element of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' and the FBI's cover-up is exposed as fraudulent and the viewer is left wondering when, if ever, justice will finally be served. |
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4 Little Girls
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Publisher: Hbo Home Video Starring: Dianne Braddock, Carolyn Lee Brown, Gerald Colbert, Arthur Hanes Jr., Freeman Hrabowski III Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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There are many remarkable things about the documentary 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee's striking, beautifully realized film is a cinematic lesson of what kind of material is better suited to the documentary format. In his first documentary, Lee shares an attribute of Ken Burns: the major event in his documentary is not seen on camera. Except for four quick glimpses of black-and-white autopsy photos, the picture stays clear from the bombing. |
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Incident at Oglala - The Leonard Peltier Story
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Publisher: Live / Artisan Starring: Norman Zigrossi, Robert Sikma, Darelle 'Dino' Butler, Bob Robideau, Norman Brown (II) Directed By: Michael Apted Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Robert Redford is the executive producer (and narrator) of this fine, eye-opening documentary about the violent events that took place in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Indian activists ended up in an extended standoff with FBI agents, and the result was several deaths, including two federal men whose killing (according to many people) was never clearly attributed to a specific gunman. Nevertheless, the government laid blame for the tragedy on Leonard Peltier, a Sioux political leader who has long been a focus for supporters believing he took the fall, possibly heroically, for others. Peltier has spent many years in prison, and Apted's film, which is hardly ambiguous in its commitment toward Peltier's hoped-for freedom, is persuasive in both its detail and its case against brutal federal policies toward Indians. |
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Strokes of Genius: Willem de Kooning
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Publisher: Direct Cinema Limited Starring: Dustin Hoffman Directed By: Charlotte Zwerin Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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BLUE RIBBON WINNER, American Film Festival CINE GOLDEN EAGLE NARRATED BY DUSTIN HOFFMAN. Willem de Kooning is regarded as the most illustrious abstract expressionist painter of the New York School. This award-winning film offers probing interviews with de Kooning himself as he recalls his early struggles, remembers his camaraderie with key figures in the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1940’s, and offers glimpses into his inspirations and motivations. Rare historical film footage enlivens de Kooning’s words, showing him slashing paint onto canvas and masterfully creating large-scale drawings. |
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Odyssey: Ben's Mill
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Publisher: Wgbh Boston Starring: Bens Mill Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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In northeastern Vermont, Ben Thresher operates his nineteenth-century water-powered mill to provide tubs, sleds, and tools needed by local farmers. This portrait of Ben Thresher and the workaday world of his mill is more than a bit of New England folk history. Mill technology and millwrights like Ben were crucial to America's settlement, and through Ben's Mill we come to understand their significance to their communities, even today.. |
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Saving Klondike & Snow
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Publisher: KCNC-TV 4 Denver, Colorado Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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NEWS 4's Bill Stuart takes a very special look at the heroic efforts to save two tiny polar bear cubs with some heartwarming, amazing footage. We watch as the cubs grow up, struggling to take their first steps, then delighting us with their polar bear antics.. |
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Zoboomafoo - Zoboo's Little Pals
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Publisher: Pbs Home Video Directed By: Jacques Laberge, Pierre Roy (III) Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Zoboomafoo (pronounced Zah-BOO-mah-foo) is a wildlife series produced specifically for preschoolers. The show features great puppetry, fun songs, guessing games, and amusing animated segments. Hosts Martin and Chris Kratt are two animal-loving brothers who have befriended a lovable Lemur (puppet) named Zoboo and make daily sojourns to visit him in a rustic cabin called Animal Junction. Wild animals are frequent guests at Animal Junction, and Chris, Martin, and Zoboo always have a wealth of information to share about each new visitor. |
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Marlene
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B. Starring: Annie Albers, Marlene Dietrich, Bernard Hall, David Hemmings, Marta Rakosnik Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Zoboomafoo (pronounced Zah-BOO-mah-foo) is a wildlife series produced specifically for preschoolers. The show features great puppetry, fun songs, guessing games, and amusing animated segments. Hosts Martin and Chris Kratt are two animal-loving brothers who have befriended a lovable Lemur (puppet) named Zoboo and make daily sojourns to visit him in a rustic cabin called Animal Junction. Wild animals are frequent guests at Animal Junction, and Chris, Martin, and Zoboo always have a wealth of information to share about each new visitor. |
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Baraka
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Publisher: Mpi Home Video Directed By: Ron Fricke Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The word Baraka means "blessing" in several languages; watching this film, the viewer is blessed with a dazzling barrage of images that transcend language. Filmed in 24 countries and set to an ever-changing global soundtrack, the movie draws some surprising connections between various peoples and the spaces they inhabit, whether that space is a lonely mountaintop or a crowded cigarette factory. Some of these attempts at connection are more successful than others: for instance, an early sequence segues between the daily devotions of Tibetan monks, Orthodox Jews, and whirling dervishes, finding more similarity among these rituals than one might expect. And there are other amazing moments, as when sped-up footage of a busy Hong Kong intersection reveals a beautiful symmetry to urban life that could only be appreciated from the perspective of film. |
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Nova: To the Moon
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Publisher: Wgbh Boston Starring: Neil Ross, Liev Schreiber, Gene Galusha, Will Lyman, David Ogden Stiers Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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On the 30th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's moonwalk, NOVA goes behind the scenes of this spectacular event, exploring the greatest science and engineering adventure of all time with the people who made it happen.. |
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