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9561) Mad as hell
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"The Young Turks, one of the most popular online news shows in the world, has amassed a YouTube network consisting of millions of subscribers and billions of views. But that wasn't always the case. MAD AS HELL documents the tumultuous, at times hilarious and altogether astonishing trajectory of Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks' main host and founder, as he traverses from unknown Public Access TV host to internet sensation by way of YouTube. When he ventures...
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Casualties of war: Based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to a vile crime, Private Eriksson is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve, a powerful and charismatic man pushed over the edge of barbarism by the terror and brutality of combat
Faith of my fathers: People know John McCain as a maverick presidential candidate, but before a...
9563) Thank you for playing
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Follows game developer Ryan Green as he creates the game "That dragon, cancer" as a way to cope with his toddler son Joel's terminal cancer diagnosis.
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Ancient advanced technology volume 5
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In Ica, Peru, David Hatcher Childress and his team investigate the huge elongated skulls discovered in the area, and then the strange museum of Dr. Cabrera and its stones depicting dinosaurs and humans. Then David and his team fly over the vast Nazca lines and figures carved across the landscape to grasp their amazing complexity. The team then journeys to Cuzco in central Peru and visits the megalithic sites of Ollantaytambo, Machu Picchu, and Sacsayhuaman....
9565) Sentimental reflections: Series eighteen, Edition one,America's heritage in story, scenery & song
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This quarterly video magazine highlights stories about various aspects of American life. Every episode features unique places, people, and music, all selected to foster a feeling of nostalgia toward the parts of life often forgotten. The Cover story walks back in time on Heritage Day at the Lincoln Pioneer Village in Rockport, Indians not far from the place where Abe learned to split logs. Nature in spring is showcased at Clifty Falls State Park along...
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Introduces viewers to 10-year-old YingYing, 6-year-old Zhenzhen and 4-year-old Fenfen, who live alone in Xiyangtang, a tiny rural village in the high mountains of China's Yunnan province. Their father is away working in the city; their mother left the family long ago. The girls help their grandfather or aunt in exchange for meals. They spend their days at grueling tasks: herding sheep, goats and pigs, searching for firewood, collecting dung. Games...
9568) Facing fear
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In the Academy Award-nominated short documentary, worlds collide when a former neo-Nazi skinhead and the gay victim of his hate crime attack meet by chance 25 years after the incident that dramatically shaped both of their lives. Together, they embark on a journey of forgiveness that challenges both to grapple with their beliefs and fears, eventually leading to an improbable collaboration, and friendship.
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Colección El Camino de Santiago volume Vol. 1
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The Way: Tom goes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France, to collect the remains of his adult son, who was killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son's desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn't plan on is the profound impact the journey will have on him as he begins to learn the difference between the life one lives and the life...
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This quarterly video magazine highlights stories about various aspects of American life. Every episode features unique places, people, and music, all selected to foster a feeling of nostalgia toward the parts of life often forgotten. With thirty-one covered bridges, all on the National Register, Parke County, Indiana is known as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World which it celebrates with an annual festival each fall highlighted in this edition's...
9571) Mankiller
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It is the story of an American hero. One who stands tall amongst the likes of Robert Kennedy, Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King, Jr. Someone who humbly defied the odds and overcame insurmountable obstacles to fight injustice and gave a voice to the voiceless. And yet few people know her name. It is the story of an American legend, Wilma Mankiller, who overcame rampant sexism and personal challenges to emerge as the Cherokee Nation's first woman...
9572) Ballettguttene
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A documentary that follows, over four years, the struggles, set-backs and accomplishments of three friends and hopeful future dance stars: Lukas, Syvert, and Torgeir.
9573) Invitation to dance
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At age 23, Simi Linton was injured while hitchhiking to Washington to protest the war in Vietnam.
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30 for 30 volume no. 24-25
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Four days in October: "When the night of October 16, 2004 came to a merciful end, the Curse of the Bambino was alive and well as the New York Yankees extended their ALCS lead to three games to none over the Boston Red Sox. But the cold October winds of change began to blow and over four consecutive days and nights, this determined Red Sox team miraculously won four straight games to overcome the inevitability of their destiny".--Container.
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9575) Sentimental reflections: Series nineteen, Edition one,America's heritage in story, scenery & song
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This quarterly video magazine highlights stories about various aspects of American life. Every episode features unique places, people, and music, all selected to foster a feeling of nostalgia toward the parts of life often forgotten. Facing hardships at every turn was formidable for women in the 18th century frontier and re-enactors at Fort Boonesborough State Park in Kentucky demonstrate how formidable life was in the Cover Story. Spring beauty is...
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"Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray. This film explores the relationship between Murray's family life and career, and reconsiders her place in contemporary art history. Verité footage, home videos and excerpts from her journals, voiced by Meryl Streep, tell of Murray's internal struggles and incredible ambition. Exclusive interviews with art world luminaries provide the historical...
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This documentary shows how Harold Ross, a high school dropout and miner's son from Colorado, started the sophisticated New Yorker magazine in 1925 by masterfully capturing the Jazz Age spirit, Broadway glamour and ultra-dry wit. Incorporating a rich array of film clips from the 20s and 30s -- speakeasies, jazz bands, rising skyscrapers -- this film reflects a dazzling Manhattan evoking an image of a metropolis that still glitters. Includes interviews...
9578) Elena
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Filmmaker Petra Costa presents a medidation on her sister Elena Andrada, who moved to New York from Brazil when Costa was seven to become an actress, where she fell into a state of depression and ended her own life, a mystery that Costa reconstructs with home movies, newspaper clippings, diary entries, and letters.
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This quarterly video magazine highlights stories about various aspects of American life. Every episode features unique places, people, and music, all selected to foster a feeling of nostalgia toward the parts of life often forgotten. In the Cover Story, Apples may be the reason for the annual Apple Jack Festival in Nebraska City, Nebraska, but the event also celebrates a chance to brag about being the birthplace of Arbor Day. In Clarkesville, Indiana,...
9580) Radioman
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The story of Craig Castalso, better known as Radioman for the stereo boombox worn around his neck. This New York film set mascot overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
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