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Tickets / Medea
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Two tales from Argentina about the magic of cinema in the style of magical realism offers a double dose of enchantment. From Eliseo Subiela comes DON't DIE WITHOUT TELLING ME WHERE YOU'RE GOING, a magical, time-shifting romance about the power of love and the movies. Dario Grandinetti (Talk to Her) stars as Leopoldo, a lonely film projectionist who invents a machine that can record his dreams. Leopoldo's dreams reveal him to be the reincarnation of the inventor of cinema, who is in love with a b
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American Experience: Last Days in Vietnam
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Panic gripped Saigon on April 29th, 1975, as thousands of Americans and Vietnamese scrambled to designated departure points in an effort to flee a city about to fall to Communist forces. With the airport in North Vietnamese hands, mobs swarmed the U.S. embassy, scaling the walls in an effort to get on one of the last choppers out. Over the course of eighteen hours, seventy U.S. helicopters flew six hundred and thirty rescue missions evacuating more than 1,300 Americans and almost 6,000 Vietnames
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American Experience: Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
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This documentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was soon presented on PBS, examines the personal and cultural effects of Woodstock. The festival took place just days after the moon landing and found a generation rooted in conflicts over sexual politics, civil rights and the Vietnam War. "3 Days of Peace and Music" marked a change in generational American values and this film turns the focus away from the performers and onto the audience. Who were the half a million young peop
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American Experience: Earth Days
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It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama but can you remember when everyone in America was not "Going Green"? Visually stunning vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement-from it's post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's incendiary bestseller Silent Spring to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. Ear
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American Experience: Ruby Ridge
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Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the isolated mountaintop home of Randy and Vicki Weaver and their three children on Ruby Ridge in Northern Idaho. Charged with selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent, Weaver had failed to appear in court and law enforcement was tasked with bringing him in. For months, the Weavers had been holed up on their property with a cache of firearms, including automatic weapons. When the fed
Cirque Du Soleil: Nouvelle Experience
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The brilliant artistry of Cirque du Soleil has transformed the circus into an exciting, novel performance experience. NOUVELLE EXPERIENCE celebrates the magic of their innovative techniques and the genius of one of the most visionary groups of artists in the world. Included in the show that toured for 3 and a half years from 1990 to 1993, performing for over 1.3 million people: contortion, Korean plank, solo trapeze, tightrope, aerial straps, acrobatics, trapeze, juggling, clowning, Russian bar,
American Experience: Into The Amazon
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American Experience: Into the Amazon - Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon.
Experiences de Vol
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2006 repress of this 2002 release, not previously distributed in the US. Legendary French avant-garde weird symphonic rock/prog group Art Zoyd asked thirteen composers around the world to create a piece for Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - directed by Jean-Paul Dessy (but founded by Henri Pousseur in 1962). for the realization of this project, many forces were necessary: two regions between two countries - Belgium and France - two ensembles - Musiques Nouvelles (20 musicians) and Art Zoyd (6 musici
Experiences De, Vol. 4-5-6
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In order to glorify his cries, his joys, his tears, man has invented emotive sound tools made of reels, entrails or skins... followed later by metal. Like a stage and controlling sound devices since antiquity, the art of the musicians has always consisted in animating the inanimate, in instrumentalising his body through virtuosity and incorporating the instrument in the midst of science and techniques. Electronic stringed instruments-making has opened up, for more than half a century, fabulous f
American Experience: The Battle of Chosin
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American Experience: The Battle Of Chosin - On Thanksgiving Day, 1950, US Army troops pushed north through the Korean peninsula, to drive North Korea s Communist army out of democratically-held South Korea. Within days, they were surrounded by more than 85,000 Chinese soldiers in the mountains by the Chosin Reservoir. View the intense battle in intimate detail in this vivid narrative of combat and survival in the first major military clash of the Cold War.
Dolemite: The Total Experience
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Rudy Ray Moore: Godfather of Rap. The first Black Action Hero. The one, the only. Dolemite. a classic symbol of cool whose appeal defies racial, generational and economic boundaries.
American Experience: Roads to Memphis: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This American Experience program tells the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April 1968. Neither a strict biography of Ray, nor a mere recapitulation of familiar highlights from King's final months, the film is an exploration of the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King which creates a complex, e
Ships of Light: Carlos Diaz Experience
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On a dark and lonely road deep in the mountains of Mexico, Carlos Diaz had a shocking alien encounter with UFOs that changed his life forever. Over 12,000 eyewitnesses including journalists, scientists and even the Mayor of Mexico City also share the same story of an alien encounter with UFOs. Now 20 years later alien encounters with UFOs over Mexico continue at an alarming rate. Get all of the facts in this amazing program which is considered the most comprehensive investigation of UFO alien co
American Experience: Influenza 1918
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As the nation mobilized for war in the spring of 1918, ailing Private Albert Gitchell reported to an army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease about which doctors knew little. Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people-more than died in all the wars of this century combined-before disappearing as mysteriously as it began.
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American Experience: Sealab
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In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor. Sealab tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.
American Experience: Custer's Last Stand
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Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26 1876 Custer a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. By day's end Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead.
American Experience: My Lai
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The words "My Lai" are seared into our memories of the Vietnam War but few know what really happened in the small Vietnamese village on March 16 1968. Now drawing on 400 hours of recently discovered audio recordings and new interviews with participants eye witnesses and investigators the complete story can finally be told about one of the most shocking atrocities in modern times-and about lesser-known acts of remarkable courage. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Barak Goodman reexamines how an o
American Experience: Klansville U.S.A.
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Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
American Experience: Rachel Carson
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Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the natural world and passion for writing with personal strife, including a heartbreaking battle with breast
American Experience: The Eugenics Crusade
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The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely - and largely unknown - campaign to breed a better American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control. Populated by figures both celebrated and obscure, The Eugenics Crusade is an often revelatory portrait of an America at once strange and eerily familiar.
The Duel (American Experience)
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Duel of destiny. Alexander Hamilton was an impoverished immigrant from the West Indies. Aaron Burr was born into wealth and privilege in New England. Both rose to fame: one became a framer of the U.S. Constitution the other a Revolutionary War veteran and financier who nearly came to be the nation's third president. in 1804 they faced each other in a duel that changed the course of history.
American Experience: The Polio Crusade
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Based in part on David Oshinsky's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Polio: An American Story this one-hour film chronicles a decades-long crusade fueled by the bold leadership of a single philanthropy and it's innovative public relations campaign and features a bitter battle between two scientists and the breakthrough of a forgotten woman researcher.
The Abolitionists (American Experience)
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American Experience: The Abolitionists. Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy-these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history. What began as a pacifist movement fueled by persuasion and prayer became a fiery and furious struggle that fo
The Rise and Fall of Penn Station (American Experience)
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In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad, led by the company's president, Alexander Cassatt, successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and eventually, via the Hell Gate Bridge, to New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. The tunnels terminated in what was one of the greatest architectural achievements of it's time, Pennsylvania Station. Designed by ren
The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experience
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This 2 DVD, CD and 30 page booklet set explores the life of international superstar Peter Tosh, one of the greatest reggae artists ever, founding member along with Bob Marley of the Wailers, and creator of such anthems as "Legalize It," "Get Up Stand Up" and "Equal Rights." Included in this set is "Stepping Razor: Red X," the complete documentary which gives an inside look at Peter's psyche, spiritual beliefs and music, and looks at the circumstances of his shocking murder. The second DVD featur
American Experience: Summer of Love
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In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had come for was already disappearing. By 1968 the celebration of free love and music had descended into a maelstrom of drug abuse, broken dreams, and violence. American Experience offers a complex portrait of the peak of the 1960s counter-culture movement.
American Experience: The Great War
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American Experience: The Great War The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as "doughboys." The series explores the experiences of African-American and Latino soldiers, suffragists, Native American "code talkers" and others whose participation in the war to "make the world safe for democracy" has been largely forgotten. The Great War explores how a brilliant PR man bolstered supp
American Experience: A Class Apart
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In the tiny town of Edna Texas in 1951 a field hand named Pete Hernandez murdered his employer after exchanging words in a gritty cantina. From this unremarkable small-town murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. A Class Apart tells the little-known story of a band of underdog Mexican-American lawyers who took their case Hernandez v. Texas all the way to the Supreme Court where they successfully challeng
The Amish (American Experience)
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The Amish intercuts historical analysis with contemporary footage to provide an unprecedented look at this highly private little understood and utterly unique community whose beliefs raise important questions about religious liberty in American life.