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In this interview with Silvia Lemus, Gabriel García Márquez discusses his life and work from a highly personal plane.

A nostalgic look back at all the excitement of the Beatles' Golden Age with highlights of every world tour and every Beatles movie. The trip begins from the inception of the group in 1960 through Sgt. Pepper's psychedelia and to their very last appearance as the Beatles. The film is loaded with rare footage, including news footage, movie scenes, interviews, and the public appearances of George, Paul, John, and Ringo as they mesmerized the world and...

The Who's seminal double album Tommy, released in 1969, is a milestone in rock history. It revitalized the band's career and established Pete Townshend as a composer and Roger Daltrey as one of rock's foremost frontmen. The first album to be overtly billed as a rock opera, Tommy has gone on to sell over 20 million copies around the world. The film explores the background, creation, and impact of Tommy through new interviews with Pete Townshend and...

"This DVD contains interview highlights from the Yucca mountain lessons Learned Video Project, capturing the recollections and insights of key participants and observers, as Eureka county's nuclear waste program reflects on what has occurred in the decades-long federal nuclear waste repository program."-- Container.

It focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, the ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Originally made...

Presents profiles of six modern Russian authors including extensive interviews with each subject; commentary from their literary critics, publishers, and peers; and dramatic readings of English translations of their works, accompanied by specially-created animation sequences.

The story of ordinary foreign workers who came face to face with Al Qaeda at the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January 2013. Told through a compelling combination of first-person interviews with hostage survivors and their families, many speaking on camera for the first time, and dramatic reconstruction of key events during the tense four days that were punctuated with gun battles and dramatic tales of escape and human bravery in the most desperate...

"Seaons One and Two of this unique series presents 37 diverse artists working in the United States today, taking viewers behind the scenes--and beyond the museum or gallery experience--into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative processes, and sources of inspiration. Themes provide a connective thread between profiles of three to five artists per program (four hour-long programs per season)....

A sci-fi fantasy tale of sorcery and spells, witches and warts, and a fool who's smarter than he looks.