Restrepo

Restrepo Review

Restrepo Feature

• Bonus Features

RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo," named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you.

The Bitch of Buchenwald

The Bitch of Buchenwald Review

Described as the most famous of all Germans accused of having committed atrocities during the war by the Jewish Virtual Library, Ilse Koch has won a diabolic kind of immortality as the lady with the lampshade made of human skin.

This ground-breaking program puts her career in the context of the Germany of the Nazi era, with the SS to which she belonged in control. As the wife of a concentration camp commander, she was to grow accustomed to a privileged existence.

This elite lifestyle, financed mainly through embezzlement, together with her sadistic activities, saw her brought before a court of the SS. Later, the American Military Tribunal, and finally the German High Court were to find her guilty of crimes against humanity. She was to be jailed for life, released, and then jailed again.

SPECIAL DVD EXTRA
A collection of photographs from
Ilse Koch's unpublished albums

Got the facts on Milk? The Milk Documentary

Got the facts on Milk? The Milk Documentary Review

Got the facts on Milk? The Milk Documentary Feature

• Full Feature Documentary DVD that questions the health benefits of milk and dairy products
• Engligh, Spanish and French Subtitles
• Region Free for the world to enjoy!

Got the facts on Milk? (also known as "The Milk Documentary" is an entertaining, award winning feature documentary that dares to question the conventional wisdom of the much publicized health benefits of milk and dairy products. Addressing myth, truth and all in-between, the film is a humorous yet shocking exposition that provokes serious thought about this everyday staple. The film raises questions about dairy's role in cancer, osteoporosis, weight gain, asthma, acne, early menstruation, and more; covers the preponderance of lactose intolerance in communities of color, and explains why dairy consumption is fraught with high-stakes political, economic, ethical and environmental considerations. Got the facts on Milk? has won several film festival awards, including the audience award at the 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival, and has outraged filmgoers around the world. It sparked a riot at the South Korea Green Film Festival, shocked the audience at DocAviv Documentary Film Festival in Israel, and traumatized attendees of the EcoCinema Environmental Film Festival. This film is not rated. It is a documentary about the potential health effects of milk. The documentary does not contain violence, nudity, sensuality, drug abuse, or adult themed content. The last song in the film, which runs over the end credits, contains a single expletive which is the only hard language in the film."

Man on Wire

Man on Wire Review

Man on Wire Feature

• On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire and illegally rigged between New York's twin towers. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. This documentary complies Petit s footage to show the numerous extraordinary challenges he faced in completing the arti

Native New Yorkers know to expect the unexpected, but who among them could've predicted that a man would stroll between the towers of the World Trade Center? French high-wire walker Philippe Petit did just that on August 7th, 1974. Petit’s success may come as a foregone conclusion, but British filmmaker James Marsh’s pulse-pounding documentary still plays more like a thriller than a non-fiction entry--in fact, it puts most thrillers to shame. Marsh (Wisconsin Death Trip, The King) starts by looking at Petit's previous stunts. First, he took on Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, then Sydney's Harbour Bridge before honing in on the not-yet-completed WTC. The planning took years, and the prescient Petit filmed his meetings with accomplices in France and America. Marsh smoothly integrates this material with stylized re-enactments and new interviews in which participants emerge from the shadows as if to reveal deep, dark secrets which, in a way, they do, since Petit's plan was illegal, "but not wicked or mean." The director documents every step they took to circumvent security, protocol, and physics as if re-creating a classic Jules Dassin or Jean-Pierre Melville caper. Though still photographs capture the feat rather than video, the resulting images will surely blow as many minds now as they did in the 1970s when splashed all over the media. Not only did Petit walk, he danced and even lay down on the cable strung between the skyscrapers. Based on his 2002 memoir, Man on Wire defines the adjective "awe-inspiring." --Kathleen C. Fennessy On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire and illegally rigged between the New York's twin towers. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. This documentary complies Petit s footage to show the numerous extraordinary challenges he faced in completing the artistic crime of the century.

NOVA: Secrets of the Mind

NOVA: Secrets of the Mind Review

NOVA: Secrets of the Mind Feature

• 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. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: NR Age: 783421349698 UPC: 783421

Ever been told "it's all in your head"? Just how true is that statement? This provocative "Nova" documentary explores four puzzling case studies involving the mysteries of brain science. Join pioneering scientist V.S. Ramachandran as he investigates one person's phantom limb pain, another's messianic identity crisis, a young man's certainty his parents are impostors, and the baffling conundrum of a blind man with the power of vision. 60 min. Soundtracks: English, DVS.

National Geographic - Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary

National Geographic - Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary Review

Filmmaker Arturo Perez Torres follows in the footsteps of two friends traveling on an extraordinary and extremely dangerous journey from Central America to North America. On their journey they encounter gangs and vigilantes as well as border patrol. But these immigrants navigate real-life nightmares with uncanny calm, grace and even humor in their perilous pursuit of the a better life.

Nature's Most Amazing Events

Nature's Most Amazing Events Review

Nature's Most Amazing Events Feature

• Condition: New
• Format: DVD
• DVD; Widescreen; Color; Subtitled; NTSC

This British-made documentary series employs spectacular cinematography and gripping storytelling to relate the stories behind natural events of global proportion. From the frozen Arctic to the wilds of Africa, the series chronicles unforgettable wildlife sagas. <> Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English (SDH); behind-the-scenes footage. 6 episodes on 1 disc. 5 hrs.

Addiction

Addiction Review

Addiction Feature

• The feature length documentary film ADDICTION brings together the nation's leading experts on drug and alcohol addiction with a collection of award-winning filmmakers to shed light on addiction, its causes and the latest and most prominent developments in treatments. Its focus is on case studies and new medical treatments. A supplementary series of 13 short films delves deeper into the various dim

Experts discuss drug and alcohol addiction and explain how addiction is a treatable brain disease.
Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 03/20/07
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve

Inside Job [Blu-ray]

Inside Job [Blu-ray] Review

From Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (NO END IN SIGHT), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.