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The ascent of man, Disc # 3 |
A massive survey of science from flint tools to the theory of relativity. It was made as a science counterpart to Sir Kenneth Clark's series Civilization with Jacob Bronowski presenting his own view of science and mankind |
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The ascent of man, Disc # 4 |
Vol. 9: Ladder of creation, |
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The ascent of man, Disc # 5 |
Vol. 12, Generation upon generation |
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The ascent of man, Disc #1 |
Vol. 1: Lower than angels |
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The Atomic Cafe |
Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety. |
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Atonement |
After seeing her older sister in an embrace with a boy who was her childhood friend, a 13-year-old girl accuses the boy of a crime and changes the course of all of their lives |
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Au revoir les enfants |
The long shadow of Malle's autobiographical memoir of occupied France continues to fall heavily across subsequent representations of World War II, boarding school, and male adolescence... -- description from Amazon. |
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| Auschwitz: if you cried, you died |
This 30-minute DVD chronicles the journey of two holocaust survivors as they revisit the hell they knew at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. |
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Avatar |
After 12 years of thinking about it (and waiting for movie technology to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all previous sci-fi epics. |
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Band of brothers |
Based on the bestseller by Stephen E. Ambrose, the epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers' journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. |
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Basquiat |
The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the young black graffiti artist who took the world by storm in the 1980's |
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A beautiful mind |
The story of John Forbes Nash Jr., a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who overcomes his disease and wins a Nobel Prize |
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Beginners |
When graphic designer Oliver (Ewan McGregor) meets free-spirited Anna (Melanie Laurent) shortly after his father (Christopher Plummer) has passed away, Oliver realizes just how much of a beginner he is when it comes to long-lasting romantic love. Memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized and wonderfully tumultuous gay life, encourages Oliver to open himself up to the potential of a true relationship. |
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Being Flynn | More Info | ||
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Bella |
An international soccer star (Eduardo Verastegui) is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress (Tammy Blanchard), struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down...until a simple gesture of kindness brings them both together, turning an ordinary day into an unforgettable experience. |
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Bend it like beckham |
The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism by running off to Germany with a football team (soccer in America). |
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Berkeley in the sixties |
The 1960's alumni of the Berkeley campus tell their stories about how the quiet school became the site of massive political activism on the part of students fighting for their right of political expression on campus and then against the Vietnam War. |
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Big Fish |
A story about a son trying to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself. |
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