Documentaries on VHS
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Tesla: Master of Lightning
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 Publisher: PBS Home Video Starring: Svetozar Cvetkovic, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Varja Djukic, Nebojsa Ljubisic, Petar Kralj Directed By: Slavoljub Stefanovic-Ravasi Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The Decline of Western Civilization
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Starring: Lee Ving, Craig Lee (III), Roger Rogerson, Keith Morris, Don Bolles Directed By: Penelope Spheeris Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Centered on the early '80s punk movement, this remains the best of Penelope Spheeris's three attempts to chronicle the musical and angst-ridden subculture of urban Los Angeles. The film's style, like the music, is abrasive, frank, and packed with energy, as it moves swiftly from hilarious band and fan interviews to the loud, raucous shows inside seedy L.A. nightclubs. Despite its tongue-in-cheek title, Spheeris neither condemns, nor glamorizes, the movement, though she definitely has an eye for talent and thankfully plays favorites. |
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Victory at Sea 1-6 (6pc VHS): The Most Famous Award Winning Historical Drama of World War II: Special Collectors Edition
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Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: Michael Lewis (XX), Leonard Graves Directed By: M. Clay Adams Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Centered on the early '80s punk movement, this remains the best of Penelope Spheeris's three attempts to chronicle the musical and angst-ridden subculture of urban Los Angeles. The film's style, like the music, is abrasive, frank, and packed with energy, as it moves swiftly from hilarious band and fan interviews to the loud, raucous shows inside seedy L.A. nightclubs. Despite its tongue-in-cheek title, Spheeris neither condemns, nor glamorizes, the movement, though she definitely has an eye for talent and thankfully plays favorites. |
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Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
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Publisher: PBS Home Video Starring: Robert X. Cringely, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy Directed By: Stephen Segaller Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Join Robert X Cringely in this much-anticipated sequel to Triumph of the Nerds, as he turns his well-informed and irreverent eye on the intriguing history of the Internet. Go deep into the bowels of the Pentagon to witness the birth of the Internet and follow its rapid rise to the cutting edge of the World Wide Web. On his journey, Cringely interviews the unknown nerds who laid the Internet's foundations, visits the Silicon Valley of India and grills the founders of the networking companies who have made millions from this fascinating new technology.. |
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The Secret Life of the Brain - 5 tape set
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Publisher: Pbs Home Video Starring: Pbs Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This series explores the startling new map of the brain that has emerged from the past decade of neuroscience and shares a revelatory view of this most complicated organ, which now contradicts much of what we previously believed. Narrated by actress Blair Brown, the series tells stories through a mix of personal histories, expert commentary and cutting-edge animation.. |
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Brief History of Time
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Publisher: Paramount Starring: Stephen Hawking, Isobel Hawking, Janet Humphrey, Mary Hawking, Basil King Directed By: Errol Morris Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Documentarian Errol Morris has a knack for finding the fascinating quirks of his subjects, and this brings Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time to sparkling life. Through interviews with family and colleagues of the brilliant theoretical physicist, as well as Hawking's own synthesized readings and reminiscences, we learn of his early life, his struggle with the degenerative disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and his wide-ranging contributions to our knowledge of time, black holes, and the origin of the universe. The science is never downplayed; between Hawking's prose and Morris's visual wizardry, important concepts such as entropy and singularities jump from the screen in memorable vignettes. (Hawking believes a truly universal theory of physics will be understood by "scientists, philosophers, and just ordinary people.") Philip Glass's music, subdued and minimal, balances the alternately somber and hilarious moods of the film. |
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People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
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Publisher: Discovery Channel Starring: Pandora Clifford, Flo, Donald Sutherland, Jane Goodall Directed By: Hugo Van Lawick Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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You can learn a lot in 20 years--just ask Jane Goodall. She spent much of her life with the chimpanzees of Gombe in Tanzania and changed the way we see these bright, playful animals. Filmmaker Hugo von Lawick followed her progress and shares the fruits of his labor in People of the Forest, an epic look at birth, life, and death in the jungle. The individual personalities of the chimps stand out so clearly it's sometimes a strain to remember these creatures aren't human, and their struggles with other tribes, predators, and the forces of nature are alternately thrilling and heartbreaking. |
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Pyramid - Tours of the World's Greatest Structures
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Publisher: Pbs Home Video Starring: David Macaulay Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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How were the ancient Egyptians able to build the Great Pyramid at Giza, fitting together two million blocks of heavy stone with such amazing precision? Who were the leaders that decided to build these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the history, mythology and religions of these people, through a combination of live footage and animation. Take a rare look at the mummy of Ramses II, and the buried treasure in the sacred Valley of the Kings.. |
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Endurance
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Publisher: Walt Disney Video Starring: Haile Gebrsellasie, Shawananness Gebrselassie, Yonas Zergaw, Tedesse Haile, Bekele Gebrselassie Directed By: Bud Greenspan, Leslie Woodhead Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Here's the triumphant, true-life story of an Olympic hero ... and just how far he came in order to become the fastest Olympic long-distance runner the world has ever seen! Raised under oppressive conditions in one of the world's poorest countries, the Ethiopian boy named Haile Gebrselassie was born to run! When he wasn't laboring in his father's fields, young Haile would be running: the six miles to school and back, while doing chores, or simply for pleasure at the end of a long, hard day! In an inspirational and artfully crafted motion picture from heralded filmmaker Leslie Woodhead, the climactic moment comes as the unstoppable Haile chases down his lifelong dream in a stirring Gold Medal performance at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games!. |
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Eyewitness - Dinosaur
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Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Video Starring: Narrated By Martin Sheen Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Another fine entry from Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness series. As with their books and computer software, the video clearly presents and dynamically illustrates numerous facts about those beasts from 65 million years ago. Martin Sheen narrates this program that explores what paleontologists have uncovered in the last 200 years (an important find is made every seven weeks on average). Typical fact: Did you know that all the information on Tyrannous rex is attributed to only a dozen skeletal finds? The varieties of illustrations are truly remarkable: computer graphics, animations, Claymation, even wonderful low-tech models. |
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