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65) Baraka
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A world wide odyssey to capture the images which transcend language to tell the story of the earth's evolution and of human diversity, interconnectedness between humans and nature, and man's impact on the surrounding world. Shot in 24 countries on six continents.
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and achievements during 1930-1939. Includes the soup and bread lines of the Great Depression; the end of Prohibition; Roosevelt's New Deal; Adolf Hitler, the demonic Fuhrer that hypnotized Germany; the Nazis' devastating Blitzkrieg in Europe; Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics; the golden age of baseball; Joe DiMaggio and the Yankees; Douglas...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Strange and deadly powers reside in Earth's atmosphere-- killer lightning bolts appear out of nowhere, hail comes just as suddenly, and rocks from space rewrite the landscape. This episode includes: a supercell thunderstorm in Sydney, Australia, that batters the city with giant hailstones; two glider pilots blown out of the sky by a sizzling lightning bolt; scientists who shoot rockets into storms to force lightning strikes; and the search for space...
68) Skin
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sandra Laing, a distinctly mixed-race South African woman, born to white parents during the apartheid era. Despite her upbringing as a white girl, Sandra is eventually classified as 'Coloured' by the government and stripped of the rights with which the rest of her family is privileged. And when she begins a love affair with a local vegetable dealer, Sandra finds herself cut off from her past and living the hard life of a truly black woman in a society...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In 1989, Houston private investigator, Joe West, launched an independent investigation to find the true killers of President John F. Kennedy. [In 1992, ] West suddenly received a tip from an unexpected source: an FBI agent who asked to remain nameless. The tip led West to Joliet State Penitentiary and a prisoner named James E. Files... Through months of personal visits and detailed correspondence, Files began to reveal his participation in the JFK...
Publisher
ABC News
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
On the night before the United Nations deadline for Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait, a team of ABC News correspondents report on events leading to the brink of war. They also describe what American forces will face in a military battle with Iraq.
Publisher
Distributed by MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows the popular and often-controversial law enforcement figure Joe Arpaio, America's Toughest Sheriff. Arpaio presides over Maricopa County in Arizona, the fourth-largest county in the U.S. His no-nonsense approach to incarceration and deterrents include tent cities housing over 1,000 inmates, old-fashioned prison stripes complete with standard issue pink underwear, and female chain gangs.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes is known as the greatest detective who never lived. All the classic tales are here, as the great detective and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson, tangle with the terrifying hound of the Baskervilles, the beautiful adventuress Irene Adler, and the dastardly villains Colonel Sebastian Moran, Charles Augustus Milverton, and the Napoleon of crime himself, Professor James Moriarty.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
In 1971, Roman Polanski spent a weekend with world champion driver Jackie Stewart as he attempted to win the Monaco Grand Prix. Polanski was given intimate access to Stewart's world for three days, both on the track and off. Weekend of a Champion gives an extraordinarily rare glimpse into the life of a gifted athlete at the height of his powers. Polanski and Stewart revisit the film and look back with both nostalgia and the temperance of time. Includes...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A discussion of things that Americans fear most: crime, environmental pollution,, food contamination, consumer safety, etc., and the way in which statistics and news reporting have made the situation seem worse than it is. Also looks at how far should the government go in protecting us.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Bachelor Bill Davis, a highly-paid engineering consultant, lives in a posh Manhattan apartment with his proper English manservant, Mr. Giles French. Davis' carefree existence is turned upside down when his brother and sister-in-law die suddenly in a tragic plane accident, leaving their three children orphaned. Davis becomes an instant father figure to six-year-old twins, Buffy and Jody, and their big sister, Cissy.
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Two Buenos Aires denizens find the architecture of the city and emerging technologies affecting their lives in a way neither ever dreamt possible in this romantic comedy that combines live action, animation, and graphic art to paint a vivid pcitre of life in a bustling city.
