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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, in over 8,000 feet deep water, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
3) Bonhoeffer
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Through historical film footage and dramatic readings of his works, the telling of a German pastor's fight to resist the Third Reich and uphold the teachings of Christianity.
4) Manor house
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating look at the grand and grueling British class system of the early 1900s. Another adventure in placing contemporary people into the lifestyle of a previous historical era."
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved-but-dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Nominated for Best First Documentary, Best Documentary, and Best Director at the **Critics' Choice Documentary Awards**. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking: Directing at the **Newport Beach Film Festival**. *"A rich, thoughtful,...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet (*March of the Penguins*) comes a stirring portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius whose groundbreaking research in Antarctica gave us the first clear evidence of man-made global climate change. Through remarkable archival footage and stunning drone cinematography, this is an epic tale where science and adventure meet, equal parts contemplative memoir and an ardent call to action. Nominated for a...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
10) Censored voices
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
עברית
Formats
Description
Combining original recordings of soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War with archival newsreel footage, CENSORED VOICES is a stark reminder of how far the region remains from the peace for which they long. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema - Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of Best Documentary at the Awards...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Physicist Brian Greene discusses the historical quest for a grand unified theory in physics which will reconcile quantum physics and general relativity, and considers the possibility that superstring theory may bring an end to that search.
13) Black death
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Explores the plague of the 14th century, its origins and attempted cures, and looks at the possibility of a modern day plague.
14) Meru
Author
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
16) Dance to fitness
Series
Publisher
Peter Pan Industries
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Features low-impact, dance-based workouts.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003].
Language
English
Description
A tale of one family's ambition and of Europe's struggle to emerge from the ravages of the Dark Ages. The Medici used charm, skill, and ruthlessness to garner unparalleled wealth and power, ruling Europe for more than 300 years.
19) Ghosts of Rwanda
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Examines the massacre of Rwandans through interviews with government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors of the slaughter.
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