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Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Antiques expert Tim Wonnacott and expert chef Rosemary Shrager travel in the footsteps of Queen Victoria, visiting the grand houses, castles and stately homes that she visited throughout her life. They reveal the extraordinary food, dčor, and garden preparations that were undertaken and what happened during the visits. Includes 20 episodes.
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Tracking through 12,000 years of history in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, James Burke shows how past events and technologies led to modern inventions, such as the atomic bomb, engines, electric lamps, telecommunications, the computer, refrigeration, the production line, jets, plastics, rocketry, and movies.
Publisher
Refuel Productions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Directed by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and executive produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic, and Chris Paul, this documentary tells the story of James Wilks, elite Special Forces trainer and The Ultimate Fighter winner, as he travels the world on a quest to uncover the optimal diet for human performance. What Wilks discovers permanently changes his understanding of food...
6) Zero days
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A black ops cyber attack launched by the U.S. and Israel on an Iranian nuclear facility unleashed malware with unforeseen consequences. The Stuxnet virus infiltrated it's pre-determined target only to spread it's infection outward, ultimately exposing systemic vulnerabilities that threatened the very safety of the planet. Delve deep into the bourgeoning world of digital warfare in this documentary thriller from Academy Award winning filmmaker Alex...
Series
Winter rails over Donner volume 1
Publisher
Donner Rails
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Shows the men and machines who clear the tracks over the Sierras in the winter.
Documents the history of snow service operations over Donner Pass and the railroad's annual evffort to keep a green light burning on the mainline.
8) Marc Chagall
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
A definitive biography accompanied by spectacular images of the artist's greatest work.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant documentary, a portrait of this fast-changing port city. Restoring censored images and filling in forgotten facts, Jia provides an alternative version of twentieth-century China's fraught history as reflected through life in the Yangtze city. He builds his narrative through a series of eighteen interviews with people from all walks of life.
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
One of the most celebrated British painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of the very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves in self-portraiture with such consistency. Spanning nearly seven decades his self-portraits give a fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development as a painter, from his earliest portrait painted in 1939 to the final one executed 64 years later. This intense and unflinching gaze has produced a...
12) Mary Shelley
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
The real-life story of Mary Shelley, and the creation of her immortal monster, is nearly as fantastical as her fiction. Raised by a renowned philosopher father in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There isn't any telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their...
Publisher
A.U.M. Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Feature-length environmental documentary, following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today and investigates why the world's leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it"--Container.
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Leonardo da Vinci is acclaimed as the world's favorite artist. Many TV shows and feature films have showcased this extraordinary genius but often not examined closely enough is the most crucial element of all: his art. Leonardo's peerless paintings and drawings will be the focus of the film present every single attributed painting, in Ultra HD quality, never seen before on the big screen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 753
Language
English
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A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, it recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Adams, a drifter who was charged with the murder of a Dallas police officer and sent to death row, despite overwhelming evidence that he did not commit the crime.
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