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[Last updated April 2013] he'll only bail Tony out if he marries a sensible woman. The trouble is, Tony isn't the sensible type -- until he meets Eloise 12 ANGRY MEN. 1957. DVD (). This classic comedy from NR features the Oscar-winning Knowing full well that a guilty verdict means song "High Hopes." death, a jury of 12 men (including and ) must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of fatally A PASSAGE TO . 1984. BLU RAY stabbing his father. But only one juror PG () wants to take the time to Adventurous young Englishwoman Adela coolly deliberate the case. Quested () journeys to colonial (Network) made his directorial debut with India with open-minded Mrs. Moore (Peggy this Oscar-nominated drama that illuminates Ashcroft). Ignoring English customs, the all the petty impediments on the path to women accompany a "native" named Dr. justice. Aziz on a tour of the Marabar Caves. The excursion turns ugly, however, when Adela emerges from the caves accusing Aziz of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. 1971. BLU RAY rape. British authorities urge Adela to press R charges, but the truth isn't as obvious as the In this classic based on government believes it to be. Anthony Burgess's novel, teenage miscreant Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) wanders aimlessly amid a bleak, futuristic urban A SEPARATION. 2011. DVD landscape, drinking drugged milk and PG-13 listening to Beethoven with his fellow An Iranian husband and wife split up over "droogs." But he also spends his time his decision to stay and care for his aging stealing, raping and beating innocent people father instead of leaving the country with his in nihilistic orgies of violence, all in an family. But his fateful choice to hire a attempt to get his nightly kicks. stranger to do most of the caretaking breeds unexpected consequences.

A FACE IN THE CROWD. 1957. DVD NR 's masterpiece proves that ABE LINCOLN IN . 1940. DVD celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be. When talent scout Marcia Jeffries () spots drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes AND MARY LINCOLN: A (Andy Griffith) and makes him a superstar, HOUSE DIVIDED. 2001. DVD he gets a taste of the good life. But his NR hunger for klieg lights, fed by run-ins with An unlikely couple, and famous people such as and Mary Todd came from vastly different Bennett Cerf (who play themselves), turns backgrounds -- he the son of a dirt farmer, desperate, and he loses sight of who he is she the daughter of wealthy slave owners. and what he's truly about. This dual tells both of their stories. From their childhoods to their marriage, to their years in the White House, . 1959. DVD [FILED this profile touches on their differences of UNDER "THE opinion on the Civil War, their marital ups COLLECTION] and downs and Mary's fragile state of mind NR after Lincoln's assassination. Tony (Frank Sinatra) is trying to keep his failing Miami hotel afloat while raising his 12- year-old son (). As a last ABSOLUTE POWER. 1996. DVD resort, he's forced to ask his harried brother, R Mario (Edward G. Robinson), for help, but POS Dept. Video Library Page 2

Cat burglar Luther Whitney () Dixiecrat determined to sink the finds himself in the president's doghouse appointment. when he spies the chief executive () trysting with a trophy wife. When their rough romancing turns lethal, efforts to AIR FORCE ONE. 1997. BLU RAY cover up the scandalous situation spiral R violently out of control. Now, Luther must stars in this high-stakes survive a desperate pursuit from the back thriller set in the skies aboard Air Force One, streets of the nation's capital to the halls of in which Russian terrorists (led by Gary power. Eastwood also directed this riveting Oldman) conspire to hijack the aircraft with crime thriller. the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the THE ACCUSED. 1988. DVD terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk R everything to uphold his principles -- and the won an Oscar for her portrayal integrity of the nation. co-stars. of Sarah Tobias in this fact-based drama. After being raped by three men in a local bar, Sarah, enraged at the light sentence AJAMI. 2009. DVD her attackers receive, persuades attorney NR Kathryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis) to press When their uncle wounds an important clan charges against the men who cheered on member, 13-year-old Nasri (Fouad Habash) the attack. But it won't be easy: Sarah has a and his older brother, Omar (Shahir shady past that could be used against her in Kabaha), fear he has put their whole family court. in terrible danger in this moving, Oscar- nominated drama set on Bank. A truce is arranged, but Omar must start ADAM'S RIB. 1949. DVD selling drugs to pay the fine he now owes. NR Meanwhile, a number of other locals Successful attorney Amanda Bonner struggle to negotiate the political and social () decides to defend tinderbox of Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood. Doris (), who stands accused of the attempted murder of her husband . . .WHY? 1978. DVD () and his mistress (Jean Hagen), NR while Bonner's lawyer husband, Adam Living in during the chaos of World (), signs on as the War II, teenager Yehia (Mohsen Mohiedine) prosecuting attorney. The sensational trial often escapes into the glamour of movies, that ensues finds them sitting at opposing dreaming of telling his own stories in sides of the courtroom -- and the dinner . But as he falls in love with a table. directs this Oscar- local girl and learns more about the Nazi nominated comedy. atrocities occurring across Europe, Yehia finds it increasingly difficult to hide. This first film in 's "Alexandria" ADVISE & CONSENT. 1962. DVD trilogy follows numerous characters in NR intertwined stories. Henry Fonda stars as Robert Leffingwell, the president's hand-picked candidate for secretary of state, in 's ALL THE KING'S MEN. 1949. DVD examination of party politics and NR Washington wheelings and dealings. But Willie Stark () is a model Leffingwell is hardly a shoe-in. A Senate politician -- until he's corrupted by the very committee has been assigned to investigate system he tries to reform. Based on the the nominee's past, dredging up dirt and cautionary Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All brewing a storm of scandal. Charles the King's Men was nominated for seven Laughton provides a memorable turn as the ; it won Best Picture, as well as and Actress for stars POS Dept. Video Library Page 3

Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge (later midlife crisis and becomes infatuated with the voice of the possessed Regan in The one of his daughter's friends (Mena Suvari). Exorcist). Director dazzles with this arresting blend of social and domestic ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN. 1976. DVD tragedy that scooped up five Oscars, PG including acting honors for Spacey. The film that launched a thousand journalism school students, All the President's Men chronicles how the work of . 1991. DVD reporters () PG-13 and Carl Bernstein () Documentarian weighs in contributed to the public downfall of with an unsettling account of the months- President Richard M. Nixon. The duo long strike of employees at the Hormel connected a Washington, D.C., hotel break- meatpacking plant, juxtaposed against the in with a Nixon "dirty tricks" team assigned Reagan administration's demolition of the to discredit Democratic rivals, launching a nation's air traffic controllers' union. In series of tense events that forced Nixon to Austin, Minn., in 1984, Hormel strikers found resign. themselves picketing during the worst climate for organized labor since the 19th century. Kopple won an Oscar for Best ALL QUIET ON THE FRONT. Documentary in 1991. 1930. DVD NR Teenage German soldiers pass from AMERICAN HISTORY . 1998. BLU RAY idealism to despair in this poignant, Oscar- R winning depiction of survival on the front A neo-Nazi (Oscar-nominee lines, adapted from an anti-war novel by ) gets sent to prison for Erich Maria Remarque and banned in a murder and comes out a changed man. But number of countries during wartime. can the reformed rebel atone for his sins Awarded Best Picture in 1930, the film has and prevent his younger brother (Edward lost little of its original impact, with brutal Furlong) from following in his hate-filled imagery and a peaceful message that also footsteps? With searing performances and earned director an gut-wrenching realism, Tony Kaye's Academy Award for Best Director. sobering drama offers a compelling and anguishing look at racism, family and forgiveness. AMANDLA! 2002. DVD PG-13 The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South . 1995. DVD Africa has been chronicled over time, but no [ON A SHARED DISK WITH "DAVE"] one has addressed the vital role music plays PG-13 in this challenge. This documentary by Lee Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd Hirsch recounts a fascinating and little- (), one of the world's most known part of South Africa's political history powerful men, can have anything he wants - through archival footage, interviews and, of - and what he covets most is Ellen course, several mesmerizing musical Wade (), a Washington performances. lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild and decimate his approval ratings in this romantic comedy. AMERICAN BEAUTY. 2000. DVD directs, and Michael J. Fox and R co-star. The film was While struggling to endure his perfection- nominated for a Best Score Oscar. obsessed wife (Annette Bening), an unfulfilling job and a sullen teenage daughter (Thora Birch), suburbanite Lester AMISTAD. 1997. DVD Burnham () falls deep into a R POS Dept. Video Library Page 4

Steven Spielberg directed this story about the 1839 revolt aboard Spanish slave ship . 1957. DVD La Amistad and the uprising's tragic FILED UNDER THE APU TRILOGY aftermath. An African-born slave (Djimon NR Hounsou) leads a mutiny against his brutal In this second film in director 's captors, but because the ship is in American Apu Trilogy, Harihar takes wife, Sarbajaya, waters, a U.S. court must decide the slaves' and son, Apu, in Benares after the fates. In an eloquent courtroom speech, ex- destruction of the family's home. Harihar president John Quincy Adams (Anthony ekes out a living reading sacred texts by the Hopkins) argues for the Africans' freedom. shores of the Ganges River. When Apu leaves to attend college in Calcutta and his father falls ill, Sarbajaya learns to cope on her own while wishing her son -- who seems . 2009. DVD to have forgotten about her -- was still home. PG-13 Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), divorcée Muna /APOCALYPSE NOW Farah (Nisreen Faour) leaves her REDUX. 1979. DVD Palestinian and takes up R residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to 's timeless epic adapts encounter the domestic repercussions of 's Heart of Darkness to the America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the , where special operations duo must reinvent their lives with some help Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) must travel from Muna's sister, Raghda (), deep into the Cambodian jungle to locate and brother-in-law, Nabeel (Yussuf Abu- and kill the mysterious -- and insane -- Col. Warda). Cherien Dabis writes and directs. Kurtz (). This double feature includes the 1979 Oscar-winning masterwork set in the Vietnam War, along AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON. 1962. DVD with the re-edited and expanded 2001 NR director's cut, Apocalypse Now Redux. The final film from cinematic giant Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story), this poignant tale centers on aging widower Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu ARGO. 2012. DVD Ryu) and his efforts to find a suitable R husband for his daughter, Michiko (Shima In 1979, when Iranian militants seize the Iwashita). Despite his struggles to come to American embassy, six Americans slip into terms with modernity and the inevitable the Canadian embassy for protection, loneliness that awaits him, Hirayama prompting the CIA to concoct an elaborate decides that his daughter's life should not be plot to rescue them by pretending that they spent caring for him. are filmmakers rather than diplomats.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. 2006. DVD ARLINGTON ROAD. 1999. BLU RAY PG R Director-producer Davis Guggenheim Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't (HBO's "Deadwood") captures former Vice the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college President in the midst of waging a professor Michael Faraday () passionate campaign -- not for the White has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) House, but for the environment -- in this since his wife's accidental death in a Oscar-winning documentary. Laying out the botched FBI operation. But all that takes a facts of global warming without getting backseat when a seemingly all-American political, Gore makes a sobering impression couple ( and ) set on the audiences who hear his message, up house next door. urging them to act "boldly, quickly and wisely" ... before it's too late. THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE. 2007. DVD POS Dept. Video Library Page 5

Taggart, a fiercely independent railroad tycoon determined to use innovative THE ART OF FLIGHT. 2007. DVD technology and enterprising partners to R revive her business, no matter the personal Jailed for immoral behavior in , cost. flamboyant homosexual Luis Molina (, who netted a Best Actor Oscar) passes The second installment of the Atlas the time by detailing scenes of his favorite Shrugged trilogy finds the world's economy romantic movie to fellow inmate Valentin in dire straits, prompting corporate Arregui (), a hard-edged political protagonist Dagny Taggart to search for a activist. Slowly, the two forge a bond based solution amid the rubble of a long- on mutual understanding and respect and abandoned factory. their relationship evolves. Director Hector Babenco's character study earned an Oscar nod for Best Picture.

BAB’AZIZ. 2006. DVD ATTLLA ’74: THE RAPE OF CYPRUS. NR 1975. DVD While trekking across the desert with his NR granddaughter Ishtar (Maryam Hamid), This documentary by Cyprus-born filmmaker Bab'Aziz (Parviz Shahinkhou), a blind Michael Cacoyannis tells a story close to the dervish, entertains her with nightly tales of a director's heart: It explores Turkey's 1974 prince who gave up his kingdom to gaze into invasion of the tiny island of Cyprus, whose a mystical pool and meditate upon his own sovereignty has been disputed ever since it soul. Along the way, the pair meets similar gained independence from the United dreamers who discover that the journey may Kingdom in 1960. Trampled underfoot in the be more important than the goal. Nacer battle between Greece and Turkey, the Khemir directs this visually stunning tale. people of Cyprus won't soon forget the toll the invasion took on their tiny island nation. BALLAD OF A SOLDIER. 1959. DVD NR AS WE FORGIVE. 2009. DVD During World War II, 19-year-old Russian soldier Alyosha wins a 10-day leave and tries to make it home. Along the way, he THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD meets several civilians, and his cheery NIXON. 2004. DVD presence is like a wartime tonic for them, R uplifting their lives. But, as he uses most of Set in 1974, this arresting psychological his free time to help others, he's left with few drama based on real-life events centers on moments to spend with family. Carefully Samuel Bicke (), an antisocial, shot (in black and white) by director Grigori unstable salesman who parlays his Chukhrai, the film earned as Oscar delusions of grandeur into a plot to nomination for its script. assassinate President . As his life begins to disintegrate, Bicke decides to take extreme measures to achieve his BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE warped version of the American Dream. The SEAMSTRESS. 2002. DVD supporting cast includes , NR and . Based on director Sijie Dai's autobiographical novel and set in Maoist during the , this ATLAS SHRUGGED, PARTS 1 & 2. 2011. nostalgic coming-of-age drama follows two DVD young men, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye PG-13 Liu), who are sent to a remote village to be 's controversial bestseller is the "re-educated" and cleansed of non- basis for this potent drama about Dagny Communist influences. While there, both fall POS Dept. Video Library Page 6 under the spell of a local beauty (Xun Zhou) after President Salvador Allende's Socialist whose heart they hope to win through a Party fared well in national elections. After secret stash of forbidden Western literature. right-wing forces aligned with Gen. Augusto Pinochet found defeat at the polls, they turned increasingly to intimidation and brutal BARCELONA. 1994. DVD violence to advance their agenda. PG-13 Ted (Taylor Nichols), a conservative, This second installment of this documentary idealistic yuppie working in sales at by filmmaker Patricio Guzmán chronicles the his 's Barcelona office, is visited by bloody political upheaval that rocked his shallow, belligerent cousin Fred, a U.S. from June to September 1973, when Gen. Navy officer. While bar-hopping, chasing Augusto Pinochet staged a military coup to women and philosophizing about love, overthrow President Salvador Allende. they're inadvertently caught up in the volatile Filmed on the streets while events were political climate of post-Franco Spain, which unfolding, this film captures the brutal irrevocably alters their lives. violence that marked Pinochet's grab for co-stars in this romantic comedy with a power, including the presidential palace serious slant. bombing in which Allende was killed.

In the third segment of his acclaimed BARRIO CUBA. 2005. DVD documentary, filmmaker Patricio Guzmán NR chronicles the efforts of common Chilean Award-winning director Humberto Solás citizens to organize and cope with the weaves three tales of hope and uncertainty aftermath of the bloody coup d'état staged among residents of a Havana barrio. Vivian by Gen. Augusto Pinochet in September yearns to have a child, a quest that puts a 1973. As these grassroots movements work strain on her relationship; elderly Ignacio together to distribute food and provide other holds out hope for a last chance at romance; services, they form a residual socialist and Willy has finally come to terms with his resistance against their brutal new right-wing homosexuality and wishes that his father government. could as well. Luisa María Jiménez, Rafael Lahera, Adela Legrá and Mario Limonta star in this potent film. BEING THERE. 1979. BLU RAY PG In director 's Oscar-winning satire, . 1966. DVD illiterate gardener Chance () is UR run over by wealthy Eve (Shirley MacLaine) One of the most influential films in the and suddenly becomes educated gent history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo's Chauncey Gardiner, thanks to Eve's The Battle of Algiers focuses on the events misunderstanding of his mumbled of 1957, a key year in 's struggle for introduction. in by Eve's family, independence from . Shot in the Chance simply regurgitates what he's heard streets of Algiers in documentary style, the on TV -- from gardening instructions to film vividly re-creates the tumultuous economic predictions -- and Washington's Algerian uprising against the occupying political elite hail him as their next star. French. The violence soon escalates on both sides in this war drama that's still THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. 1946. astonishingly relevant. DVD NR Winning seven Academy Awards (including THE BATTLE OF CHILE. 1976. DVD Best Picture), this classic drama follows NR three World War II veterans -- Filmmaker and native Chilean Patricio (), Al () and Guzmán offers this riveting examination of Fred (Dana Andrews) -- as they return to the deadly turmoil that simmered in Chile small-town America and try to come to terms between March and June of 1973, shortly with their experiences. Best Supporting POS Dept. Video Library Page 7

Actor Russell, a real veteran who lost his farce is fast, funny and out of control. Hank hands in the war, also won an Honorary Azaria co-stars. Oscar "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans." THE BIRTH OF A NATION. 1915. DVD NR BEYOND RANGOON. 1994. DVD Director D.W. Griffith's historical saga R recounts the genesis of the U.S. Civil War, stars as American widow the destruction it wrought upon the Laura Bowman, a young 's populace, and the social ills spawned by unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while Reconstruction, including the ascent of the vacationing in Burma in the late , in Ku Klux Klan. The story plays out in the this fictionalized drama based on actual intertwining fates of two fictional families -- events. Bowman initially left Francisco the Northern Stonemans and the Southern with her sister (Frances McDormand) in an Camerons. Though the film's legacy is attempt to escape painful memories of her stained by its racist content, it remains a husband and son's violent deaths. But her landmark in filmmaking technique. fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing. . 1959. DVD NR BIG HISTORY: THE BIG BANG, LIFE ON This superb retelling of the Orpheus and , AND THE RISE OF HUMANITY Eurydice Greek legend is set against Rio de 2008. DVD Janeiro's madness during Carnival. Orpheus NR (), a trolley car conductor, is Have you ever wondered: How do various engaged to Mira (Lourdes de Oliveira) but in scholarly discourses—cosmology, geology, love with Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn). A anthropology, biology, history—fit together? vengeful Mira and Eurydice's ex-lover, Big History answers that question by costumed as Death, pursue Orpheus and weaving a single story from a variety of his new paramour through the feverish scholarly disciplines. Like traditional creation Carnival night. Black Orpheus earned an stories told by the world's great religions and Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. mythologies, Big History provides a map of our place in space and time. But it does so using the insights and knowledge of modern BLACKBOARDS. 2000. DVD science, as synthesized by a renowned NR historian. This is a story scholars have been Wandering teachers travel to Iranian able to tell only since the middle of the last Kurdistan, near the border of Iraq. They century, thanks to the development of new carry blackboards on their backs that they dating techniques in the mid-1900s. As use to take cover from army helicopters Professor Christian explains, this story will hovering overhead. An old man asks one of continue to grow and change as scientists them, Said (Saeed Mohamadi), for help and historians accumulate new knowledge reading a from his son. His colleague about our shared past. Reeboir (Bahman Ghobadi) attempts to persuade a band of young thieves to allow THE BIRDCAGE. 1996. DVD him to teach them. Both find their lives R taking unexpected turns. Longtime lovers Armand Goldman () and Albert Goldman () own a Miami drag club, but when BLACKHAWK DOWN. 2001. BLU RAY Armand's son announces his intent to marry UR the daughter () of a stuffy When U.S. Rangers and an elite Force U.S. Senator (Gene Hackman), Armand team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a decides he has to fake a "normal" family. Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters Nominated for an Academy Award for art are shot down, and the Americans suffer direction, director 's comical heavy casualties, facing intense fighting POS Dept. Video Library Page 8 from the militia on the ground. Director diamond. When Archer befriends a journalist (Gladiator) captures the brutal () tracing "blood diamonds" incident. that finance terrorist groups, he's faced with a choice between riches and humanity. DiCaprio and Hounsou each earned Oscar BLAZE. 1989. DVD nods. R governor () is known for his grandiose THE BLUE KITE. 1993. DVD behavior and his fondness for strip clubs. NR Unabashed about his habits, Long falls in This critically acclaimed award-winner, love with much younger stripper banned in China for its harshly realistic () -- an affair that Long's portrayal of life under Chairman Mao, is an rivals use to attack his character. The epic look at recent Chinese history and how matchup comes as a surprise to no one, but politics affect personal lives. The film follows as their relationship progresses, Long's young Tietou growing up in the midst of the political career is increasingly strained. Cultural Revolution, watching colleagues denounce each other and neighbors spy on one another. Soon, Tietou's family and BLIND SHAFT. 2003. DVD friends -- and even Tietou -- get caught in NR the violent upheaval. True loyalty has no place in the hearts of criminals, especially two back-stabbing Chinese mobsters, Yi Xiang Li (Qiang Li) BOMBAY. 1995. DVD and Yuan Fengmin (Baoqiang Wang), who NR aren't afraid to turn on their own bosses in Tackling the controversial topic of Hindu- the name of greed and envy. Soon, Muslim racial conflict through a cross- however, they find that performing their cultural love affair, writer-director Mani misdeeds is one thing, but getting away with Ratnam delivers a riveting condemnation of them is another business altogether. religious bigotry and ethnic hatred. Six years Although one decides to change his ways, after Hindi Shekhar Mishra Narayan (Arvind trouble looms for both. Swamy) and Muslim Shaila Bano (Manisha Koirala) elope against the wishes of both families, the couple and their twin boys find BLISS, 2007. DVD themselves caught in a flood of Hindu- NR Muslim riots sweeping Bombay. After it's discovered that Meryem (Özgü Namal) has been raped, the young girl is ostracized by her family and community, who hold her accountable for the "crime." To salvage the family name, her father, Tahsin (Emin Gursoy), orders Cemal (Murat Han) to . 2004. DVD murder Meryem. But when Cemal refuses to R carry out his orders, he and Meryem escape British filmmaker Zana Briski's Oscar- to a seaside town and set sail with a winning documentary is a portrait of several charismatic professor (Talat Bulut). unforgettable children who live in Calcutta's red-light district, where their mothers work as prostitutes to ensure their survival. BLOOD DIAMOND. 2006. BLU RAY Spurred by the kids' fascination with her R camera, Briski decides to teach them In war-ravaged Sierra Leone, diamond photography. 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BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. DVD seasoned, uncharismatic reporter who can't R stand Tom's instant success on-camera or stars in an Oscar-nominated with Jane. turn as U.S. Marine , who returns home from the Vietnam War paralyzed from the chest down. After months of hellish . 2009. BLU RAY rehabilitation, he finds renewed purpose R protesting the war he once proudly fought. While working together near Wyoming's The film -- based on Kovic's autobiography Brokeback Mountain in 1963, sheepherders of the same name -- earned an Jack Twist () and Ennis Del Academy Award for Best Director, and also Mar () begin an increasingly stars Kyra Sedgwick, and passionate affair. But keeping their . relationship a secret from their wives ( and Michelle Williams) proves agonizing and all-consuming. . 2002. DVD directs this Oscar-winning drama based on a R short story by Pulitzer Prize winner E. Famed filmmaker and left-wing political Proulx. humorist Michael Moore tackles America's obsession with firearms in this Oscar- winning documentary that focuses mainly on BUFFALO BOY. 2004. DVD the Columbine High School massacre of NR 1999. Moore also visits a bank that gives In this lyrical coming-of-age story set in rural each new customer a free gun, recites Vietnam, 15-year-old Kim (The Lu Le) statistics for gun deaths in the fills in for his ill father (Huu Thanh Nguyen) and interviews folks ranging from National and leads the two family buffalo to high Rifle Association spokesman Charlton ground during the rainy season. When he Heston to shock rocker Marilyn Manson. joins a rough band of nomadic buffalo herders also on the trail, Kim sets out on an eye-opening journey in which he discovers BOYZ N THE HOOD. 1991. DVD freedom, violence and love -- as well as R secrets about his past that will change his South Central high school life forever. student Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.) struggles to stay straight in a community polluted by drugs, violence and racism, and BULWORTH. 1999. DVD his cynical, devoted father (Laurence R Fishburne) will accept nothing but the best California Sen. Jay Bulworth (Warren from him. Writer-director John Singleton's Beatty), reduced by years of compromise dramatic debut effort earned two Academy and scheming, hires a hit man to put him out Award nominations (for Best Director and of his misery. Kicking off an election Best Writing) and launched the film careers campaign with nothing to lose, Bulworth lets of Gooding and Ice Cube. his mouth get him in hot water. When his newfound honesty gives him clarity and garners respect from constituents, he BROADCAST NEWS. 1987. DVD decides to call off his assassination. 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The result is a spectacular Fahrenheit 9/11) takes on capitalism's roots, compilation of concert footage from the the floundering U.S. economy, and 2008's group's gigs in Amsterdam and global financial meltdown and subsequent City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director bank bailout in this rousing documentary. capturing not only the music - Combining stories about those who suffer - but also the musicians' life stories. most from Corporate America's greed and insatiable thirst for profits and the people most responsible for myriad crises, Moore BURMA VJ. 2008. DVD embarks on another shocking fact-finding NR rampage. Filmmaker Anders Østergaard's Oscar- nominated documentary profiles the courageous efforts of a renegade band of CASABLANCA. 1942. BLU RAY Burmese reporters who -- in the face of a PG repressive regime and media censorship -- In this Oscar-winning classic, American refuse to be silenced. Calling themselves expat Rick Blaine () plays the Democratic Voice of Burma (aka the host to gamblers, thieves and refugees at Burma VJs), these fierce "video warriors" his Moroccan during World War II place themselves in peril as they smuggle ... but he never expected Ilsa (Ingrid footage documenting their government's Bergman) - the woman who broke his heart - abuses across the border -- and to the world - to walk through that door. Ilsa hopes that at large. with Rick's help, she and her fugitive husband () can escape to America. But the spark that brought the BURNT BY THE SUN. 1994. DVD lovers together still burns brightly. R Col. Sergei Kotov, his wife Maroussia and daughter Nadia are enjoying life at their CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR. 2008. DVD beautiful country estate in Stalinist R when a mysterious man arrives, shattering congressman Charlie Wilson sets a their hopes for a peaceful existence. Mitia, series of earth-shaking events in motion who once was Maroussia's lover, seems when he conspires with a CIA operative perfectly charming at first -- but it soon (, in an Oscar- becomes clear he has a sinister agenda. nominated role) to aid Afghan mujahedeen 's powerful portrait of rebels in their fight against the Soviet Red viciousness during the Stalin era won the Army. , Emily Blunt and Amy Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Adams co-star in this fact-based political thriller directed by Mike Nichols and based on George Crile's 2003 book by the same THE CANDIDATE. 1972. DVD name. PG Robert Redford stars as Bill McKay, a California lawyer urged to run against the CHE. 2008. DVD seemingly unbeatable Republican R incumbent in a senatorial race. McKay is a delivers a searing, well-meaning innocent, but as support emotional performance as Ernesto "Che" widens for his open platform, the sellout Guevara, an asthmatic Argentine doctor who begins. With an Oscar-winning script and became one of Latin America's most appearances by real-life reporters and legendary revolutionary leaders in the politicians, The Candidate takes a biting look . Director recounts at the nature of politics. the events of the Cuban revolution, in which Guevara, Fidel Castro (Demiàn Bichir), Tamara Bunke (Franka Potente) and other CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY. 2009. DVD revolutionaries worked to overthrow the R dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. POS Dept. Video Library Page 11

Channel's cameras capture every aspect of this dynamic country, from the Shanghai CHECKPOINT. 2003. DVD Film Festival to a factory floor, a Great Wall rock concert to the legacy of Tiananmen Square and preparations for the 2008 CHILDREN OF HEAVEN. 1997. DVD Olympics. PG In this Oscar-nominated Iranian drama from CHINATOWN. 1974. DVD filmmaker Majid Majidi, a young boy (Amir R Farrokh Hashemian) accidentally loses his With a suspicious, porcelain-skinned femme sister's (Bahare Seddiqi) shoes and must fatale () bankrolling his share his own sneakers with her in a sort of snooping, J.J. Gittes (Jack relay while each attends school at different Nicholson) uncovers intricate dirty dealings times during the day. The boy ultimately in the Los Angeles waterworks and gets his enters a much-publicized foot race in hopes nose slashed for his trouble. Meanwhile, his of placing third and taking home the prize: a financier harbors a nasty family secret. new pair of sneakers. Director reimagines Los Angeles with an onionlike story that reveals itself one complex layer at a time in CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION. this classic neonoir. 2007. DVD NR This powerful, comprehensive documentary CHUNGKING EXPRESS. 1994. DVD series takes an objective, firsthand look at PG-13 China's tumultuous , examining director Kar Wai Wong the nation's social, political and cultural established a unique style with this cerebral upheaval through personal interviews and film that presents two somewhat similar but rare historical footage. Beginning in 1911 ultimately unrelated stories about loneliness with the fall of , the program and disconnection in the big city. 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The four political feat, given Iran's dogmatic view of episodes include "Power and the People," women and unstable political climate. The "Women of the Country," "Shifting Nature" fact that this film (made by a man) is and "Freedom and Justice." sensitive to women's plight sheds a ray of hope that, given time, things may gradually CHINA RISES: BEHIND THE GREAT change. WALL. 2008. DVD NR China's shift from secluded land of mystery . 1941. DVD to global economic powerhouse is explored PG in this compelling documentary about the reinvented movies at country's progress, power and people. With of 26 with this audacious biography of unprecedented access, the Discovery Times newspaper baron , POS Dept. Video Library Page 12 which, in essence, was a thinly veiled 1995's most powerful films," according to portrait of publishing magnate William Jeffrey Lyons of Sneak Previews. Randolph Hearst. Welles's complex and technically stunning film chronicles Kane's rise from poverty to become one of CLOSE-UP. 1996. DVD America's most influential men -- and it's R considered one of the best movies ever When Russian immigrant filmmaker Stefan made. Van Der Berg (Michael Mauro) is accused of committing nine murders in a gruesome incident he doesn't remember, he enters a CITY OF GOD. 2003. DVD surreal world as he becomes the center of a R media storm in this tense drama. His own Buscapé (Alexandre Rodrigues) is lawyer tries to capitalize on Stefan's plight, frightened he'll end up like the countless and Stefan's sanity begins to deteriorate as others around him -- troubled, violent or he tries to piece together what happened dead. But his saving grace is his and fights to gain his freedom. photographer's eye, through which the stories of several people who live in his forsaken Cidade de Deus unfold. Fernando THE CLOSED DOORS. 1999. DVD Meirelles and Kátia Lund direct this sobering NR look at life inside a Rio de Janeiro housing The winner of several international awards, project, reputed to be one of the most this moving drama explores how cultural dangerous parts of an otherwise magical restrictions in contemporary Egyptian city. society affect a sexually confused teenager. Mohamad (Ahmed Azmi) lives alone with his hardworking mother (Sawsan Badr). After THE CIVIL WAR. 1990. DVD he's suspended from school for spying on NR girls through a peephole, Mohamad tries to This documentary masterpiece from Ken understand his taboo longings. He soon Burns depicts the strategies and action of turns to a fanatical Islamic group -- a move famous Civil War battles, and relates the that leads him down a dark path. stories of generals, field soldiers, politicians, heroes and a beleaguered president. The Emmy-winning begins by looking COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER. 1980. 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Chapare coca growers union, solicited a In 1967, cinematographer D.A. Pennebaker groundswell of native political support during -- famous for his cinema verite style -- was the 2002 elections, a telling response to the in California to capture the searing incumbent administration's attempts to performances of the likes of such icons as eradicate the crop. The Mamas and the Papas, Otis Redding and The Who on the Monterey International Pop Festival stage. Special features in this director-approved collection include THE COLOR OF OLIVES. 2006. DVD substantial concert and behind-the-scenes NR footage. Life is anything but ordinary for Palestinian Hani Amer and his family, whose home lies in the path of a long wall being built by THE CONFORMIST. 1970. DVD to keep suicide bombers out of the country. UR Armed militia, an electrified fence and When the government orders him to kill a locked gates now separate the Amers from political refugee, Marcello (Jean-Louis their farm, providing a reminder that an age- Trintignant) agrees -- even though his target old battle is clearly not over. Filmmaker is his college mentor. Hence, he is "the Carolina Rivas' pensive documentary relies Conformist," a man who will do absolutely on natural light to lend peace to a war-torn anything to belong. environment. directs this thought-provoking drama set in 1930s fascist , a visually complex character study for which he was nominated THE CORPORATION. 2005. DVD an Academy Award for Best Adapted UR Screenplay. Filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott explore the genesis of the American corporation, its global economic supremacy THE CONSTANT GARDENER. 2005. BLU and its psychopathic leanings, with social RAY critics like and Milton R Friedman lending insight in this Justin Quayle (), a member of documentary. With their merciless quest for the British High Commission based in Africa, profit and insatiable aim to sway every launches a quest for the truth and begins his aspect of culture, conglomerates' inner own international investigation when his wife workings are scrutinized to draw conclusions (, in an Oscar-winning turn) is about "business as usual." murdered. Not even the rumors of his wife's infidelity will stop him from uncovering what really happened to her -- a conspiracy that's THE COLOR PURPLE. 1985. DVD much more dangerous than he ever PG-13 imagined. stars as Celie, a Southern woman whose correspondence with her sister in Africa helps her escape an abusive CONTROL ROOM. 2004. DVD husband (portrayed with a scary edge by NR ) and a life of bitter This documentary peers into the circumstance. directs this controversial and often dangerous Oscar-nominated drama, a sterling operations of the news network, adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize- an outlet that's become the most accepted winning novel, that boasts an evocative informational resource in the Arab soundtrack by and a moving community -- even though it often enrages performance by . its own people. Egyptian-American filmmaker gains extraordinary access to Al Jazeera THE COMPLETE journalists and examines the risks they FESTIVAL. 1967. BLU RAY confront on a daily basis by simply doing NR their jobs. POS Dept. Video Library Page 14

siblings, and punctuates the nostalgia with a soundtrack full of '70s R&B hits. THE COW. 1969. DVD NR This charming movie from Iran directed by CROSSROADS: UKRAINE AND THE won the hearts of TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRACY. 2007. DVD moviegoers at the 1971 , where it was screened amid Through the eyes of six Ukrainians, secrecy and controversy. It tells the not-so- "CROSSROADS - Ukraine and the Triumph simple story of Hassan (Ezzatolah of Democracy" examines the history and Entezami), a farmer who forms an current events of Ukraine, including its unexplainable bond with his cow. But when Orange Revolution of 2004, as context for his pet dies, his dedication morphs into exploring the question of democracy and delusional sadness, and he begins to feel what it means to be or to become an that he'd become his bovine's best friend. autonomous, free, and self-governing people. . 1957. DVD NR Veronica's devastated when the love of her . 1996. DVD life, Boris, is sent to the front lines of World PG-13 War II. She doesn't hear from him for ages, Playwright 's parable of the and becomes so distraught that she agrees 1950s anti-communist crusade (thinly veiled to marry Boris's draft-dodging cousin, who here as the Salem, Mass., witch trials of raped her during an air raid. Never knowing 1692) receives lush treatment in this Oscar- if she'll see Boris again, Veronica slowly nominated film adaptation from director begins to rebuild her life and sense of Nicholas Hytner. After being spurned by her identity. The film won the Palm d'Or at the married lover (Daniel Day-Lewis), young 1958 . Abigail Williams () stirs up a frenzy of hysteria and fear with accusations of witchcraft. earned an Oscar CRASH. 2004. BLU RAY nod for her role. R Tensions erupt when the tangled lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney CRY FREEDOM. 1987. DVD husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a PG pair of carjackers and a Korean couple In segregated South Africa, black converge over a 36-hour period in the nationalist Steven Biko () diverse metropolis of post-9/11 Los Angeles. and white newspaper editor Donald Woods , , Don () are unlikely friends with a Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton and common goal -- ending apartheid -- in this co-star in this Oscar- true story based on Woods's books Biko and winning Best Picture from writer-director Asking for Trouble. When Biko's beliefs lead . him to prison and a deadly fate, Woods rallies to expose the injustice. Director 's film earned . 1994. DVD [FILED UNDER Washington his first Oscar nod. "SPIKE LEE JOINT COLLECTION"] PG-13 Spike Lee directs this semi-autobiographical DANCES WITH WOLVES. 1990. DVD tale of a large family sharing a PG-13 apartment in the early 1970s. The story Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar focuses on Troy (Zelda Harris), whose () tries to commit suicide -- musican father () and and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, schoolteacher mother () work he's assigned to his dream post, a remote hard to provide for her and her four unruly junction on the Western frontier, and soon brothers. Lee wrote the script with his two makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux POS Dept. Video Library Page 15 tribe. This special edition of Costner's Scheduled to be put to death for brutally Oscar-winning directorial debut features an slaying two teens, Matthew Poncelet (Sean extended cut of the film, an audio Penn) seeks the aid of activist nun Helen commentary from Costner, a behind-the- Prejean (), a death-penalty scenes featurette and more. opponent. She becomes Matthew's spiritual adviser and tries to halt the execution, even though Matthew's professed innocence is DAS BOOT. 1981. DVD dubious. As the execution date draws ever R closer, Sister Helen works to save Nominated for six Oscars, this edge-of-your- Matthew's soul by getting him to confess -- seat dramatic triumph follows the trials of a and to ask divine forgiveness. German U-boat crew during World War II. Upon its restored re-release in 1997, an hour was added to the original film, which . 1978. DVD further augmented its impact. It also played R as a six-hour German miniseries. In all its In this Oscar-winning epic from director forms, the realistic and gripping battle , a group of working-class scenes and palpable human struggle make friends decides to enlist in the Army during Das Boot a critical hit. the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven (John Savage) married his pregnant girlfriend -- DAVE. 1993. DVD [ON A SHARED DISK and Michael () and Nick WITH "THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT"] () were in love with the PG-13 same woman (). But all three Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) looks so much like are different men upon their return. President Bill Mitchell that he's asked to stand in for him after the chief executive suffers an unexpected stroke -- and he's THE DELEGATE. 2003. DVD stuck in the White House till Mitchell's staff NR (led by an unctuous ) can decide what to do. Dave gets into the part, passing legislation and even developing a . 1972. BLU RAY crush on Mitchell's estranged First Lady R (). directed Four suburban friends take a canoeing trip this charming political comedy. down a river, but what starts as a lighthearted adventure becomes a voyage into the heart of darkness when redneck THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. 2004. 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What begins as an uproarious comedy evolves into a provocative, disquieting drama as director Spike Lee chronicles EL NORTE. 1983. DVD trivial events that bring festering racial R tensions to the surface on a sweltering day When the army ransacks their Guatemalan in a largely black Brooklyn neighborhood. village, impoverished teenage siblings After a number of minor misunderstandings - Enrique ( Villalpando) and Rosa (Zaide - and an effort to boycott the local pizza Silvia Gutiérrez) travel north through Mexico, parlor -- a young man (Bill Nunn) lies dead, hoping for a better life in America as the pizzeria lies in ashes, and the racial undocumented immigrants in this Oscar- schism is wider than ever. nominated drama. Kind souls aid their trek northward, but criminals and a persistent fear of deportation also dog their every DR. STRANGELOVE. 1964. BLU RAY move. Gregory Nava directs. PG When a fanatical U.S. general (Sterling Hayden) launches an air strike against the ELECTION. 1999. DVD Soviets, they raise the stakes by threatening R to unleash a "doomsday device," setting the Tracy Flick () appears to stage for Armageddon in this classic black have the election for student council comedy that brilliantly skewers the nuclear president sewn up until one of her teachers, age. The film's star-studded cast includes Mr. McAllister (), rounds George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, James Earl up a worthy opponent: a popular and naïve Jones and Peter Sellers (who steals the football player (Chris Klein) whose show and copped an Oscar nod playing knee injury has him sidelined for the season. three roles). Tracy is desperate to win the race at any cost. But Mr. McAllister is just as determined to see Tracy -- a textbook overachiever -- . 1965. DVD soundly defeated. PG A young physician () and his beautiful mistress () get swept ELMER GANTRY. 1960. DVD up in the danger and drama of the Bolshevik NR Revolution in this Oscar-winning epic based Hollywood legend nabbed a on the classic novel by Nobel Prize-winning Best Actor Oscar as glad-handing, soul- author . The film earned five redeeming charlatan Elmer Gantry, a Academy Awards in all, including statues for huckster who spins his talent for preaching Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, into a métier behind the pulpit. Hopping Best Costume Design, Best Score and Best aboard the barnstorming evangelical Screenplay. and crusade of Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean co-star. Simmons), Gantry moralizes his way to fame and fortune till an erstwhile ladylove () threatens to expose his EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN. 1994. DVD shady history as a skirt-chaser and scam NR artist. Distracted by their complicated love lives and secret ambitions, three adult sisters reluctantly humor their widower father EMPIRE OF THE SUN. 1987. DVD (Sihung Lung) by enduring the elaborate, PG traditional Taiwanese dinners he insists on Steven Spielberg directs a young Christian having every Sunday. Ang Lee directs this Bale in a stunning feature-film debut as Jim, charming tale that humorously examines the a British expatriate who's separated from his clash between modernity and tradition within parents when the Japanese army invades the contemporary Taiwanese family. Yu- Shanghai at the outset of World War II. Wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu and Kuei-Mei Eventually interned in a civilian prison camp, Yang co-star. Jim hooks up with several American POS Dept. Video Library Page 18 prisoners (led by ) and the business world. With a blend of becomes the camp mascot. Elsewhere, war fascinating footage, fast-paced interviews tidings grow ominous for the Japanese. and a wealth of information, this film is a serious lesson in the potential trappings of dishonesty and unethical behavior dogging ENEMY OF THE STATE. 1998. BLU RAY corporate America. R Hotshot Washington lawyer Robert Dean () becomes a victim of high-tech ERIN BROCKOVICH. 2000. DVD identity theft when a hacker slips an R incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a Julia Roberts earned an Oscar in this rogue National Security agent (Jon Voight) unconventional drama based on actual sets out to recover the tape -- and destroy events for her portrayal of Erin Brockovich, a Dean. directs this breakneck twice-divorced mother of three who sees an political thriller that co-stars Gene Hackman injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- as an intelligence expert who comes to with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin Dean's aid. goes to work for an attorney () and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby ENCOUNTER POINT. 2006. DVD town. She starts investigating and soon NR exposes a monumental cover-up. As violence continues in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, some of those touched by the bloodshed become advocates for EYES ON THE PRIZE. 1987. DVD peace. This documentary introduces citizens TV-PG on both sides for whom an end to conflict This Emmy-winning documentary from the has become a personal crusade. Family PBS "American Experience" series uses members of slain Palestinians and Israelis, newsreel footage and narratives from both military and civilian, share their stories famous and everyday people to take viewers and how they've turned their grief into a inside the struggle for civil rights during the force for change in the region. crucial years of 1954 through '65. Among the critical events discussed are the Montgomery bus boycott, the integration of THE ENGLISH PATIENT. 1996. DVD schools in Little Rock, the murder of activists R in and Martin Luther King's Adapted from Michael Ondaatje's acclaimed groundbreaking marches to freedom. novel set against the backdrop of World War II, Anthony Mingehlla's Oscar-winning drama stars Ralph Fiennes as a horribly FAIL-SAFE. 1964. DVD burned who recounts a tale of doomed NR romance to the nurse tending him (Juliette Director Sidney Lumet transforms the Binoche). As his story is revealed via doomsday scenario played for laughs in Dr. flashback, so too are secrets about his Strangelove into a taut thriller. When a identity and the depth of his passion for the computer glitch sends a bomber crew on a woman he loved (). suicide mission to Moscow, the U.S. co-stars. president (Henry Fonda) agonizes over how to stop it. Will Fonda tell the to shoot down the plane? Global : THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE thermonuclear war may hinge on his ROOM. 2005. DVD decision. R Based on the book of the same name by Peter Elkin, director 's THE FALL OF FUJIMORI. 2006. DVD documentary takes a behind-the-scenes NR look at the powerful energy company whose Ellen Perry's true-life political thriller downfall forever changed the landscape of documents the reign of former Peruvian POS Dept. Video Library Page 19 president Alberto Fujimori, a man who ran FAST FOOD NATION. 2006. DVD on a ticket to fight poverty but whose rule R was ultimately marked by violence, 's fictional tale (inspired by corruption and controversy. With promises 's 2001 nonfiction book of the to restore stability and crush terrorist same name) critiques the junk-food insurgents, Fujimori won popular support -- juggernaut that's arguably responsible for and the 1990 election -- but his America's alarming obesity rates. Greg administration eventually dissolved under Kinnear plays Don Henderson, a corporate the weight of political abuses and scandal. exec of a national fast-food chain, who follows beef's journey from the corrals to the slaughterhouses -- and ultimately to your FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE. 1993. DVD stomach. , Patricia Arquette R and co-star. A seemingly unshakable friendship between two Chinese opera stars gets put to the test in the face of war, a communist takeover, THE FIGHT FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. the Cultural Revolution and the intrusion of a 2008. DVD woman who tempts both of them. In a plot NR that captures 50 years of Chinese history, See how television changed the face of the once-inseparable Duan Xiaolou (Zhang presidential races with this collection of Fengyi) and Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) commercials, speeches and other footage find themselves increasingly at odds after from the campaign trail. Witness the Xiaolou weds a lovely courtesan (Li Gong). groundbreaking Kennedy-Nixon debates, which signaled a new emphasis on appearance, Lyndon Johnson's "Daisy" commercial and Nixon's "Checkers" speech. Spanning more than 50 years, the clips A FAREWELL TO ARMS. 1957. DVD illustrate the role visual media has played in NR shaping voters' perceptions of the Adapted from Ernest Hemingway's World candidates. War I novel, this drama centers on American soldier Lt. Frederick Henry (). While serving in the Italian Army, Henry has THE FIRST AMENDMENT PROJECT. an affair with nurse Catherine Barkley 2004. DVD (), and she becomes NR pregnant. The two lose touch, and Catherine How the entertainment industry tackles the is certain Henry's moved on to greener subject of civil liberties and free speech pastures. But he manages to track her down goes on trial, so to speak, in this in and arrives at her hospital documentary by The Sundance Channel bedside to find her clinging to life. and Court TV. Filmmakers and Mario Van Peebles team up for this entertaining and educational project, which FARENHEIT 9/11. 2004. DVD includes New Jersey poet laureate Amiri R Baraka reading his controversial 9/11 piece; Michael Moore's hard-hitting documentary footage from protestors at the 2004 addresses the terrorist attacks of September Republican National Convention; and more. 11, 2001, outlining the reasons the United States (and, in turn, thousands of innocent FLAG WARS. 2003. DVD Americans) became a target for hatred and NR terrorism. The film not only criticizes A gripping look at a complex issue, this President George W. Bush's response to the documentary explores the upheaval that attacks but also reinforces Moore's theory occurs in a primarily African-American that the Bush Administration used the tragic working-class neighborhood in Columbus, event to push its own political agenda. , when it becomes gentrified by an influx of white homosexuals. While longtime residents struggle to survive, the gay POS Dept. Video Library Page 20 newcomers face their own set of issues. The This insightful documentary revisits six key economic and political clash between two moments during America's first years, historically oppressed groups brings out chronicling the efforts of George prejudice and insensitivity on both sides. Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, James Madison and Aaron Burr to shape FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS. 2006. DVD the country. The program delves into the R disagreements and views that prompted Clint Eastwood directs this riveting World Franklin's appeal to abolish slavery, Burr War II drama that recounts the story of six and Hamilton's fateful duel and other U.S. soldiers who were instantly landmark events. immortalized when they were photographed raising the American flag atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi. Based on the book of the THE FRENCH CONNECTION. 1971. DVD same name, the film reconstructs the events R surrounding the snapshot, which came to Violent, foul-mouthed detective "Popeye" symbolize the U.S. troops' triumph and Doyle (Gene Hackman) pursues a suave America's indestructible spirit. Ryan French drug dealer () through Phillippe and co-star. with Captain Ahab-like zeal. Featuring a legendary car-vs.-train chase scene that stands the test of time, the film . 2003. DVD won the Best Picture Oscar. William PG-13 Friedkin's groundbreaking crime drama that This Oscar-winning documentary traces portrays cops and thugs in a similar light former Secretary of Defense Robert took the genre down a gritty, realistic path McNamara's career from government to the that influenced filmmaking for years. World Bank; but his work during the Vietnam War -- examined through archival footage and interviews -- is the real highlight. Having FRONTLINE: AL QAEDA'S NEW FRONT. worked for both presidents John . Kennedy 2005. DVD and Lyndon B. 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This gripping "Frontline" report dissects Vice accounts from his battles with his President Dick Cheney's actions as chief Republican opponents over health care and architect of the war on terror, and his battles the economy. with CIA director George Tenet over control of America's intelligence community. Interviews with more than 40 key participants shed light on the political FRONTLINE: THE INSURGENCY. 2006. infighting, from the moments after Sept. 11 DVD to the administration's feverish run-up to the and the indictment of Cheney FRONTLINE: THE MORMONS. 2007. DVD adviser Lewis "Scooter" Libby. NR Documentarian Helen Whitney directs this fascinating PBS presentation exploring the FRONTLINE: . 2007. DVD history and influence of the Church of NR Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the "Frontline" examines the U.S. missteps that fastest-growing religions in the United States led Iraq into a virtual civil war in this bold whose reach extends worldwide. Touching report. Military experts offer critical analysis on all aspects of this complex and of the failure of the "quick exit" plan, the sometimes controversial religion, Whitney flaws in leadership, the "surge" and other gains access to Mormon archives and key factors. From faulty interpretations of captures candid interviews with church history to the new military approach by Gen. supporters, opponents and historians. , this incisive investigation digs into tactical and strategic moves that failed to secure Iraq and prevent civil war. FRONTLINE: OBAMA'S WAR. 2009. DVD NR Compelling interviews with commanders on FRONTLINE: THE ENEMY WITHHIN. 2006. the ground, reports from embedded DVD journalists and analysis from home combine to provide a thoughtful examination of the war in Afghanistan in this installment of FRONTLINE: HOUSE OF SAUD. 2005. PBS's "Frontline" series. As the war DVD continues under the Obama Administration, producers Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria look at the U.S. counter-insurgency strategy FRONTLINE: THE HUGO CHAVEZ SHOW. in Afghanistan and Pakistan and consider 2008. DVD the costs of the continuing conflict. NR With Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's weekly show "Aló Presidente" as a FRONTLINE: THE PLEA. 2004. DVD backdrop, "Frontline" producer Ofra Bikel NR examines the controversial politician's life Via illuminating interviews with defense and chronicles his rise to power. Interviews lawyers, a judge and other legal experts, this with Chávez's associates, former public installment of the investigative PBS series officials and average citizens offer insights scrutinizes the effects of plea bargains on into his personality, policies and shrewd use America's justice system. While citizens are of the media. But these telling accounts also guaranteed the right to a trial by jury, plea expose fissures in his anticapitalist agenda. bargains are used to resolve almost 95 percent of felony cases even though their widespread usage threatens defendants' FRONTLINE: INSIDE OBAMA’S constitutional rights. PRESIDENCY. 2013. DVD NR As is sworn in for his second FRONTLINE: PRIVATE WARRIORS. 2006. term, "Frontline" takes a probing look at the DVD first four years of his presidency. With inside POS Dept. Video Library Page 22

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GAME CHANGE. 2012. DVD TV-MA . 2000. DVD Based on the best-selling nonfiction book, NR this political drama follows the historic 2008 Four youngsters who are coming of age in presidential race with a focus on the rural North Carolina share a slow and sometimes contentious relationship between regretful summer. Nasia (Candace Republican nominee John McCain and his Evanofski) leaves her boyfriend, Buddy running mate, Sarah Palin. (Curtis Cotton III), for George (Donald Holden). But when Buddy runs away, Nasia mistakenly thinks she's to blame. After a tragic accident, a group decision affects GANDHI. 1982. BLU RAY each of their lives. This award-winning film PG marks writer-director David Green's screen This awe-inspiring biopic about Mahatma debut and includes two of his short films. Gandhi () -- the diminutive lawyer who stood up against British rule in India and became an international of GETTYSBURG. 1993. DVD nonviolence and understanding -- brilliantly PG underscores the difference one person can The fiercest battle fought on American soil make. Epic and unforgettable, the film swept comes to the screen in a realistic production the 1983 Oscars, winning eight awards, that painstakingly re-creates the events of including Best Picture, Best Actor (Kingsley), three fateful days in July 1863 -- from the Best Screenplay and Best Director (Richard actual battle locations to the uniforms and Attenborough). boots. Tom Berenger, , Martin Sheen and Richard play key roles in this magnificent epic (based on Michael GANGES. 2007. BLU RAY Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer NR Angels). This sprawling BBC documentary takes viewers down the river that flows through the center of India's physical, historical and GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI. 1996. DVD cultural soul: the Ganges, a hallowed river to PG-13 Hindus that's also home to a diverse Decades after two hung juries cleared white population of wildlife. The video follows the supremacist Byron De La Beckwith (Oscar vital waterway from its origin in the nominee ) in the 1963 Himalayas' snowy peaks through the shooting death of civil-rights activist Medgar countryside to cities and the delta wetland Evers, assistant district attorney Bobby where the Ganges empties into the Bay of DeLaughter () reopens the Bengal. case to bring the man to justice. With support from Evers's widow (Whoopi Goldberg), DeLaughter is determined to take GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA. 1974. DVD down the murderer. co- NR stars in this drama based on the true 1994 trial. POS Dept. Video Library Page 24

Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro). co-stars. GIDEON'S TRUMPET. 1980. DVD NR In the final installment of Oscar-winning actor Henry Fonda stars in trilogy, gray-haired Michael Corleone (Al this Emmy-nominated Hallmark Hall of Pacino) struggles with a heavy heart to Fame drama based on Anthony Lewis's make the family business legitimate, but book by the same name, the true story of he's pulled into more bloodshed after he one man's fight for the right to legal counsel makes a lucrative business deal with the and its impact on the American legal Vatican. Meanwhile, Sonny's illegitimate system. When the court denies him an son, Vincent (Andy Garcia), works hard to attorney, Clarence Earl Gideon -- accused of become Michael's protégé. , petty theft -- reluctantly defends himself and , and Joe loses, later mounting an appeal to the U.S. Mantegna co-star. Supreme Court from his prison cell. GONE WITH THE WIND. 1939. BLU RAY G GOD GREW TIRED OF US. 2006. DVD Margaret Mitchell's sweeping Civil War saga PG remains one of the greatest examples of After raising themselves in the desert along cinematic storytelling. 's with thousands of other "lost boys," tempestuous Scarlett O'Hara and Clark Sudanese refugees John, Daniel and Gable's handsome rogue Rhett Butler bicker Panther have found their way to America, and battle from antebellum plantations to the where they experience electricity, running streets of postwar Atlanta. This special water and supermarkets for the first time. collector's edition features a beautifully Capturing their wonder at things Westerners restored print and many extras. take for granted, this documentary, an award winner at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, paints an intimate portrait of GOOD BY LENIN! 2003. DVD strangers in a strange land. R Alex's (Daniel Brühl) mother () falls into a coma just as the Wall is THE GODFATHER, PARTS I, II, AND III. about to come down. But when she wakes 1972/1974/1990. BLU RAY up eight months later, her heart is too weak R to withstand shock -- so Alex goes to great When organized crime family patriarch Vito lengths to keep the truth about her country's Corleone (Marlon Brando) barely survives reform a secret. Wolfgang Becker directs an attempt on his life, his youngest son, this widely praised, Golden Globe- Michael (), steps in to take care of nominated comedy set in East in the would-be killers, launching a campaign 1989 that played in festivals around the of bloody revenge. Francis Ford Coppola world. brings 's multigenerational crime saga to life in this Oscar-winning epic that also spawned Best Actor honors for Brando, THE GOOD EARTH. 1937. DVD who refused the prize for political reasons. NR took home her second The Corleone family roots are explored, consecutive Best Actress Oscar for her tracing Don Vito's (Robert De Niro) journey heartfelt portrayal of O-Lan, the long- from to a life of organized crime in suffering spouse of Chinese dirt farmer New York. In a parallel story, his grown son, Wang Lung () in this film based on Michael (Al Pacino), extends operations to Pearl S. Buck's epic tome. The lyrical tale Cuba and contends with more betrayal and chronicles the couple's changing fortunes as murder. The second film in The Godfather they survive famine and revolution, only to trilogy racked up Oscars for Best Picture, be tested again by avarice, lust and Mother Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola) and Nature. Karl Freund picked up an Academy Award for his first-rate cinematography. POS Dept. Video Library Page 25

outlooks, the compilation includes presidential addresses from Franklin Delano GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. 2006. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon BLU RAY and , as well as General PG MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" 's Academy Award- speech and Martin Luther King's last public nominated docudrama pits veteran address. television newsman Edward R. Murrow () against a determined Sen. This second volume features 10 more Joseph McCarthy and his single-minded memorable speeches from some of crusade to quell the red threat at home. American history's most prolific, Despite corporate pressure to back off, controversial and celebrated icons. Murrow and his CBS staff vow to examine Spanning decades and various political the lies and fear tactics perpetrated by outlooks, the compilation includes McCarthy during his Communist witch- presidential addresses from Franklin Delano hunts. Robert Downey Jr., Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, and Jeff Daniels co-star. Ronald Reagan, George .W. Bush and , plus speeches from Martin Luther King Jr., Barry Goldwater, Mario Cuomo and GRAND TORINO. 2008. BLU RAY . R Curmudgeonly veteran Walt This eclectic anthology presents archival Kowalski (Clint Eastwood, who also directs) footage of some of the most inspiring, must confront his Hmong immigrant controversial and history-changing speeches neighbors -- and his own long-held ever delivered, including Franklin Delano prejudices -- when the family's teenage son, Roosevelt's second inaugural address and Thao (Bee Vang), tries to steal Walt's 's of Richard Nixon. Also beloved 1972 . Walt soon featured are Robert Kennedy at the 1964 assumes the unlikely role of guardian angel Democratic National Convention, Jimmy to young Thao and his sister Sue (Ahney Carter addressing the 1979 energy crisis Her), both of whom are vulnerable to local and John F. Kennedy introducing civil rights gang influences. legislation in 1963.

GRAPES OF WRATH. 1940. DVD THE GREEN MILE. 1999. DVD NR R In this towering classic of American cinema, Director 's powerful common man Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) adaptation of 's supernatural leads his family on a harrowing journey from tale is set on death row in a Southern prison, the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the promise where gentle giant John Coffey (Michael of a better life in California. Based on John Clarke Duncan) possesses the mysterious Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and power to heal people's ailments. When the masterfully directed by , the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb stirring drama also stars Oscar winner Jane (Tom Hanks), recognizes Coffey's Darwell as Ma Joad and as miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help the fallen preacher Casy. stave off the condemned man's execution. The able supporting cast includes Bonnie Hunt. THE GREATEST SPEECHES OF ALL TIME. 2004. DVD NR THE GROUND TRUTH. 2006. DVD This collection of 10 memorable speeches R from the 20th century includes footage of Director Patricia Foulkrod's powerful some of American history's most prolific, documentary spotlights American soldiers controversial and celebrated icons. sharing -- with aching honesty -- their Spanning decades and various political experiences on the battlefield in Iraq and POS Dept. Video Library Page 26 back home as they try to reassemble their lives. These men and women discuss the anguish of war, the difficulties of readjusting to life after their tours of duty and the often . 1986. DVD callous treatment returning troops receive R from the military and the Veterans Clint Eastwood stars as tough-as-nails Administration. sergeant and war vet Tom Highway, who's assigned to whip a platoon of unruly new Marines into shape as he faces his own GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. often-humorous battles with his ex-wife 1967. DVD () and his by-the-book NR commanding officers. But Highway still Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn star manages to train his troops and command as wealthy Californians who consider their respect -- lessons that are put to the themselves progressive until their only test when the Reagan-era invasion of daughter (Katharine Houghton) brings home Grenada suddenly brings the platoon into her African American fiancé () battle. in this snapshot of race relations in the late 1960s. The film earned two Academy Awards (for Hepburn's performance and HERO. 2002. BLU RAY William Rose's ) and eight other PG-13 nominations. directs. The Qin King has long been obsessed with conquering all of China and her first Emperor, which makes him the target of GUYS AND DOLLS. 1955. DVD [FILED three legendary assassins. As a result, he UNDER "THE FRANK SINATRA promises great power to anyone who can COLLECTION] defeat them. heads the stellar cast as NR Nameless, the enigmatic county sheriff who A singing Marlon Brando stars as Sky earns his audience with the mighty King and Masterson opposite Frank Sinatra in this stands to win mountains of in the musical take on 's process. directs this lush, short stories. One of the richest Oscar-nominated epic. scores to spring from Broadway to Hollywood includes such classic songs as "Luck Be a Lady." The mix of movie stars HIGH NOON. 1952. DVD and veterans from the show's theatrical run NR makes for a one-two punch of Broadway Retiring Marshall Will Kane () skill and Hollywood glamour. insists on defending his town from a gang of hooligans who are due on the noon train -- but he faces the task alone as the cowardly townspeople flee like rats from a sinking HARLAN COUNTY, USA. 1976. DVD ship. Director creates an PG incredibly tense Western (rightly considered Director Barbara Kopple's film about the one of the true genre classics) that unfurls in 1973 coal miners' strike in Harlan County, real time -- as the clocks on the wall Ky., won a Best Documentary Oscar and constantly remind us. and Lloyd was selected for the . Bridges co-star. Highlighting the struggles of families living in shacks with no indoor plumbing and enduring hazardous working conditions, the HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER. 1973. DVD film details the conflict between the Eastover R Co. and the laborers determined to Amid shoot-outs and existentialism, a join the United Mine Workers of America. mysterious stranger (Clint Eastwood, who also directs) is hired to protect a small town from outlaws. But his recipe for defense HARVEST OF SHAME. 1960. DVD could be a deal with the devil, and soon, POS Dept. Video Library Page 27 even the enigmatic gunslinger's supporters - High school basketball is king in small-town - including Mordecai (Billy Curtis) and Sarah , and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are (Verna Bloom) -- are wondering just what all hope and no talent in this Oscar- they've signed up for. The rip-roaring nominated drama. Things go from bad to conclusion could leave the town in tatters. worse when coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) joins the team. In short order, Dale expresses ambivalence about the star HOFFA. 1992. DVD player, ostracizes himself from the townsfolk R and hires a drunk (). Feelings Oscar winner stars as for the coach change, however, when the infamous Teamster boss James Riddle sad-sack team turns itself around. "Jimmy" Hoffa in this Academy Award- nominated biopic penned by that traces Hoffa's rise through labor's ranks HOTEL RWANDA. 2005. DVD to create the most powerful union in the PG-13 country. Directed by Danny DeVito, who co- Amid of internecine tribal stars along with and John fighting in Rwanda that sees the savage C. Reilly, the film posits a guess as to what butchering of hundreds of thousands of really happened when Hoffa disappeared men, women and children, one ordinary without a trace in 1975. hotel manager (Oscar nominee Don Cheadle) musters the courage to save more than 1,000 helpless refugees. Sophie HONEY FOR OSHUN. 2001. DVD Okonedo, and R co-star in this powerful film -- often Roberto (Jorge Perugorría), a professor in described as an African Schindler's List -- Miami, decides to venture on a road trip directed by Terry George. across Cuba, ostensibly to search for the mother who may have abandoned him. But as he explores the island with a cabbie, he . 2008. BLU RAY. learns the shocking reality about his R emigration as a boy. Unexpected detours, directs this gripping drama near-death experiences and a parade of (winner of the Best Picture Oscar) following bizarre characters inhabit Roberto's trip as one of the U.S. Army's elite EOD (explosive he starts to view life from a fresh (and funny) ordnance disposal) teams operating in the perspective. ferocious war zone of Iraq. As the squad identifies and dismantles improvised explosive devices and other bombs, they HOOP DREAMS. 1994. DVD must also contend with the frayed nerves PG-13 and internal conflicts that arise from living in of this groundbreaking constant peril. , Anthony documentary meant for it to be a short Mackie, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse and movie, but wound up weaving a widely star. celebrated feature-length film spanning years filled with grace and honesty. Meet Arthur Agee and William Gates, two young HYDE PARK ON THE HUDSON. 2012. boys from equally rough Chicago DVD neighborhoods who make use of their NR prodigious basketball talents to aim for a life When the king and queen of visit outside the ghetto. But strife and setbacks U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt hoping for befall them at every turn. Will they succeed? support on the eve of World War II, Roosevelt must deal with his official duties as well as the competing interests of his HOOSIERS. 1986. DVD [FILED UNDER mother, his wife and his mistresses. "THE FRENCH CONNECTION"] PG I AM CUBA. 1964. DVD POS Dept. Video Library Page 28

UR Filmed during the heyday of the nation's revolution, four beautiful vignettes set in pre- INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. 2009. BLU RAY Castro Cuba dramatize the need for R insurrection, idealizing hardworking but A Jewish cinema owner (Mélanie Laurent) in exploited peasants and Fidel Castro's occupied is forced to host a Nazi staunch, freedom-loving revolutionaries. movie premiere, where a radical group of Although this landmark, politically charged American Jewish soldiers called the film (which wasn't released in the United Basterds, led by Lt. Aldo Raine (), States until 1995) hammers home a one- plans to roll out a score-settling scheme. sided sentiment, it's masterful filmmaking The face-off is about to go down -- that's if nonetheless. Col. Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter" (, in an Oscar-winning role) doesn't get in the way. IL POSTINO. 1995. DVD directs this World War II-set spaghetti PG Western. Mario Ruoppolo (), the mailman on an Italian island, pines from afar for a beautiful waitress. But when exiled INHERIT THE WIND. 1960. DVD Chilean poet Pablo Neruda () NR comes to live on the island, Ruoppolo Spencer Tracy (in an Oscar-nominated role) delivers Neruda's mail and picks up lessons and Fredric March square off as opposing on love, life and poetry. Noteworthy extras in attorneys Henry Drummond and Matthew this edition include director Michael Harrison Brady, respectively, in this Radford's commentary and a featurette blistering courtroom drama about the famed about the real-life Neruda. 1930s "Scopes Monkey Trial," in which a teacher was taken to task for teaching Darwinism in the classroom. The I’M NOT THERE. 2007. BLU RAY film also earned Oscar nods for its editing, R screenplay and cinematography. Six actors (including Heath Ledger and Cate co-stars as a newspaper reporter. Blanchett, in an Oscar-nominated role) portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of INNOCENT VOICES. 2004. DVD his life, chronicling his rise from unknown R folksinger to international icon. The first Based on the true story of a now-grown biography ever approved by the singer- Oscar Torres, this moving film (set in El songwriter, this stylized portrait (directed by Salvador in the mid-1980s) follows the Todd Haynes) reveals how Dylan reinvented drama of a young boy who must choose himself many times. between enlisting in the Salvadoran army or narrates. joining up with a band of guerrillas. Director Luis Mandoki presents a society of innocent IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER. 1993. victims who are caught in a blinding cross DVD fire, a life-or-death environment in which R survival is a daily struggle. Nominated for seven Oscars in 1993, this biopic features the dramatic prowess of Daniel Day-Lewis as the Irishman Gerry . 2006. BLU RAY Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to R life in prison for an IRA terrorist attack that Dispatched to the scene of a bank robbery, killed four people. As if a forced confession detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) weren't enough injustice, the police work to must match wits with a cunning thief (Clive implicate Conlon's father (Pete Owen) who's always one step ahead of the Postlethwaite) in the same crime. Emma cops. When a loose-cannon negotiator Thompson plays the lawyer who worked for (Jodie Foster) is called on for help, the years to uncover the truth. unstable situation spins out of control. Keith POS Dept. Video Library Page 29 soon finds himself questioning the motives IRON JAWED ANGELS. 2004. DVD of everyone around him. Spike Lee directs NR this taut heist thriller about the perfect crime From 1912 to 1920, a group of fiery young gone wrong. suffragettes led by Alice Paul () and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) band together to wheedle the United States into THE INSIDER. 1999. DVD adapting a Constitutional amendment R guaranteeing women the right to vote. Along Nominated for seven Oscars, this thought- the way, they incur the wrath of President provoking thriller from director Woodrow Wilson (Bob Gunton) and anger is based on the true story of a Big Tobacco other suffragette leaders ( scientist who exposed industry secrets and and ). Directed by Katja von the newsman who fought forces that would Garnier. have squelched the story. When TV producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) coaxes researcher Jeffrey Wigand (Russell IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. 1946. BLU RAY Crowe) to speak about his former NR employer's knowledge of tobacco's harmful It's a wonderful film. Frank Capra's inverted qualities, the corporations try to silence take on A Christmas Carol stars Jimmy them. Stewart as George Bailey, a good man who's spent a lifetime giving up on his dreams in order to keep life in his small town INTOLERANCE. 1916. DVD humming. When a guardian angel named NR Clarence finds a despondent George poised Many film historians hail director D.W. to jump off a bridge, he shows George what Griffith's monumental epic as one of the life would've been like had he never been greatest movies ever committed to celluloid. born. Griffith powerfully interlaces four parallel tales linked by a recurring shot of symbolically rocking the cradle of JESUS CAMP. 2006. DVD civilization. The stories, which span two PG-13 millennia, collectively illustrate how This riveting Oscar-nominated documentary intolerance has played a pernicious role in offers an unfiltered look at a revivalist such historic events as Christ's crucifixion subculture in which devout Christian and the fall of Babylon. youngsters are being primed to deliver the fundamentalist community's religious and political messages. Building an evangelical INVICTUS. 2009. BLU RAY army of tomorrow, the Kids on Fire summer PG-13 camp in Devil's Lake, N.D., is dedicated to In this drama based on real-life events, deepening the preteens' spirituality and director Clint Eastwood tells the story of sowing the seeds of political activism. what happened after the end of apartheid when newly elected president Nelson Mandela used the 1995 World Cup rugby JFK. 1991. BLU RAY matches to unite his people in South Africa. R Based on John Carlin's book, the film stars Oliver Stone's fascinating film about the as Mandela and Matt assassination of President John F. Kennedy Damon (both Oscar nominated) as Francois -- one of America's most enigmatic and Pienaar, the captain of the scrappy South mythical political figures -- is even more African team that makes a run for the dramatic thanks to the extra footage championship. included in this special edition. When Kennedy is killed while visiting Dallas, a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald (Gary THE IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS. 1997. DVD Oldman) takes the fall. But was he acting alone, or was he part of a larger conspiracy?

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JOHN ADAMS. 2008. BLU RAY NR JUDGMENT AT . 1961. DVD shines in the title role of this NR epic Emmy and Golden Globe winner that This Academy Award-winning film by recounts the life of founding father John Stanley Kramer stars Spencer Tracy as Adams as revolutionary leader, America's American judge Dan Haywood, who's first ambassador to England, the first vice chosen to guide a 1948 tribunal that's trying president and the second president. The Germans suspected of engaging in atrocities iconic cast of characters includes Abigail during World War II. Against the backdrop of Adams (), George Washington the , Haywood must obtain justice (David Morse), Thomas Jefferson (Stephen in a case with raised stakes and mixed Dillane) and Benjamin Franklin (Tom emotions. co-stars in an Wilkinson). Oscar-lauded performance as defense counsel for the Nazi prisoners.

JOURNEYS WITH GEORGE. 2002. DVD NR JUDGMENT DAY: INTELLIGENT DESIGN California Democratic congresswoman ON TRIAL. 2007. DVD 's daughter, Alexandra, NR followed presidential hopeful George W. With this episode, the popular "Nova" series Bush on the campaign trail with her camera. examines the trial of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area The result is a personal portrait of a man School District, a controversial legal battle who would become the leader of the free sparked by a group of science teachers who world. refused to comply with an order to teach intelligent design. Through scene re- creations, interviews and expert testimony, the program presents the arguments of both THE JOY LUCK CLUB. 1993. DVD sides and illuminates the conflict that thrust R the people of Dover into the worldwide Based on the novel by Amy Tan, Wayne spotlight. Wang's drama follows four Chinese women living in California -- Suyuan (Kieu Chinh), . 1991. DVD [FILED Lindo (Tsai Chin), Ying-Ying (France Nuyen) UNDER "SPIKE LEE JOINT COLLECTION"] and An-Mei (Lisa Lu) -- who gather weekly R to play mahjong and share stories about Flipper () is a successful, their lives. They also enjoy sharing stories married architect. Angie ( Sciorra) about their daughters (Ming-Na Wen, is a temporary office worker. When they Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita and Rosalind meet, it's Jungle Fever. Director Spike Lee Chao) and lamenting some of the younger vividly explores the gray area between love generation's choices. and sex and the other distractions that bifurcate blacks and whites. Samuel L. Jackson picked up Cannes Film Festival and JOYEUX NOEL. 2005. DVD New York Film Critics awards for his PG-13 powerful portrayal of Snipes's crack- As the French, Scottish and German addicted brother. soldiers prepare to open their presents on Christmas Eve, 1914, a momentous event KANDAHAR. 2001. 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BLU written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, RAY an assassin () is shot at the R altar by her ruthless employer, Bill (David Jailed for immoral behavior in Brazil, Carradine), and other members of their flamboyant homosexual Luis Molina (William assassination circle. But "The Bride" lives to Hurt, who netted a Best Actor Oscar) passes plot her vengeance. Setting out for some the time by detailing scenes of his favorite payback, she makes a death list and hunts romantic movie to fellow inmate Valentin down those who wronged her (including a Arregui (Raul Julia), a hard-edged political one-eyed Daryl Hannah), saving Bill for last. activist. Slowly, the two forge a bond based on mutual understanding and respect and their relationship evolves. Director Hector KILL BILL, VOL. 2. 2004. BLU RAY Babenco's character study earned an Oscar R nod for Best Picture. In the second installment of Quentin Tarantino's outrageously inventive Kill Bill series, the Bride (Uma Thurman) . 1974. DVD unwaveringly continues on her "roaring R rampage of revenge" against the band of Sheriff Bascomb () tries to keep assassins who had tried to kill her and her the peace as racial strife hits his small unborn child. The woman visits each of her Alabama town, where the mayor sides with former associates one by one, checking off local Klansmen. Tensions boil over when a the victims on her Death List Five until black man is accused of raping a white there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill woman () and an angry man (). (O.J. Simpson) resorts to vigilante justice. As outsiders arrive for a civil rights rally, the KKK organizes a lynching party. Richard KILLER OF SHEEP. 1977. DVD Burton, Lola Falana and Cameron Mitchell NR co-star. Shot in 1977 on a $10,000 budget while its director, Charles Burnett, was in , this landmark urban drama sketches a vivid KOYAANISQATSI. 2002. DVD portrait of African-American life in the '70s. Depicting the Los Angeles ghetto of Watts through the eyes of a slaughterhouse worker KRAMER VS. KRAMER. 1979. DVD (Henry G. Sanders), the movie's episodic PG vignettes and evocative soundtrack paint a Ted (Dustin Hoffman) is a career-driven picture of economic exclusion and muted yuppie -- until he finds out his dissatisfied hopes dusted with moments of transcendent wife (Meryl Streep) is leaving him and their joy. 6-year-old son. But just as Ted begins to love being a full-time parent, his wife reappears to reclaim the boy. Poignant and THE KILLING FIELDS. 1984. DVD beautifully acted, this cinematic tearjerker R swept the 1979 Academy Awards, winning portrays Sydney Schanberg, Oscars for Hoffman and Streep in addition to journalist who won a Best Picture, Best Director and Best Pulitzer for his coverage of the civil war in Screenplay honors. Cambodia. Aided by his translator, Dith Pran (Haing S. 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classic Euripides play, old romances resurface and former friends take up arms in . 1998. DVD a bloody coup attempt. NR Directed by James Moll and executive- produced by Steven Spielberg, this THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND. 2006. powerful, Oscar-winning documentary BLU RAY recounts the harrowing stories of five R Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of During an African medical mission in the the holocaust and the reign of . In 1970s, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan addition to the testimonials of the Hungarian (James McAvoy) impresses brutal Ugandan subjects, the heart-wrenching film also dictator Idi Amin (, in an includes accounts from U.S. soldiers who Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning role) by participated in the of the Nazi acting swiftly in a crisis and becomes the death camps in 1945. dictator's personal physician. Garrigan enjoys the perks of his new position, until he begins to become aware of Amin's THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO. 1998. DVD inhumanity -- and his own complicity. R Writer-director captures the end of an era, chronicling love and LAST TRAIN HOME. 2009. DVD heartbreak in a mirror-balled world of NR exclusive packed with young Documentarian Lixin Fan follows a couple singles who dispense wit drier than their who, like 130 million other Chinese martinis. A smart script and spot-on peasants, left their rural village for work in performances from an ensemble cast the city, leaving their children to be raised by (including , Chloë grandparents. The husband and wife return Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale) distinguish only once each year, on an arduous 1,000- Stillman's satire, the final installment in his mile journey. But their homecoming is not a so-called "yuppie trilogy." warm one, as their now teenage daughter, Qin, makes her bitter resentment known and debates pursuing a factory job herself. THE LAST EMPEROR. 1987. BLU RAY PG-13 Recounting the last years of China's Ching LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. 1962. DVD Dynasty through flashbacks and flash- PG forwards, this Oscar-winning epic charts the Director 's Oscar-winning epic life of Pu Yi (John Lone) -- who ascended tells the true-life story of British warrior-poet the throne at age 3 -- from coddled aristocrat T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), who helped to enlightened insurgent to ordinary citizen. unite warring Arab tribes so they could strike Co-starring Peter O'Toole as Pu Yi's back against the Turks in World War I. Scottish tutor and directed by Bernardo Lushly filmed and expertly acted, this Bertolucci, the lavish drama collected nine timeless classic underscores the clash Academy Awards, including Best Picture. between cultures -- and within one man -- that changed the tide of war. Alec Guinness and co-star. THE LAST HOMECOMING. 2008. DVD NR Performance, passion and politics collide for . 2007. BLU Alexandra (Maria Kitsou) and Orestes RAY (Hristodoulos Martas) as a family vacation R on the Greek island of Cyprus turns deadly As tens of thousands of Allied troops push amid a battle for island control between further inland, the Japanese troops normally civil Greek and Turkish neighbors. defending Iwo Jima during World War II While the young couple helps Orestes' prepare to meet their fate in this Clint mother produce a local performance of a Eastwood-directed Oscar nominee, a POS Dept. Video Library Page 33 companion piece to his hit film Flags of Our Director Steven Spielberg takes on the Fathers. Ken Watanabe stars as a Japanese towering legacy of Abraham Lincoln, general who knows his men are focusing on his stewardship of the Union outnumbered and, with no hope of rescue, during the Civil War years. The biographical that most will eventually die in battle -- or saga also reveals the conflicts within end up killing themselves. Lincoln's cabinet regarding the war and abolition.

LEWIS AND CLARK: THE JOURNEY OF THE CORPS OF DISOVERY. 1997. DVD NR THE LIVES OF OTHERS. 2007. BLU RAY Sent by President Jefferson to find the R fabled Northwest Passage, Lewis and Clark Set in 1980s East Berlin, director Florian led the most courageous and important Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut feature expedition in American history. It was the (which earned an Oscar for Best Foreign United States' first exploration of the West Language Film) provides an exquisitely and one of the nation's most enduring nuanced portrait of life under the watchful adventures. Journey with them across a eye of the state police. When a successful breath-taking landscape for an experience playwright and his actress companion that explores the history -- and the promise become subjects of the Stasi's secret -- of America. surveillance program, their friends, family -- and even those doing the watching -- find their lives forever changed. ! THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 2004. DVD NR LUMUMBA. 2001. DVD This PBS production showcases the events NR that led up to the American War for At the Berlin Conference of 1885, when Independence, in comprehensive and Europe divided up the African continent, the sequential order. No stone is left unturned, Congo became the personal property of as everything from the Tea Party to King Leopold II of . On June 30, the approval of the U.S. Constitution is 1960, a young self-taught nationalist, Patrice explored. The documentary combines Lumumba (), became the first narration, reenactments of events, head of government of the new independent interviews with academics and historians, state. He lasted only two months in office actors' dramatic readings of letters and before being brutally assassinated. Raoul diaries written at the time and much more. Peck directs this award-winning biopic.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. 1997. DVD MACHUCA. 2005. DVD PG-13 NR In this poignant tragicomedy, a clever Seeking escape from his stormy home life, Jewish Italian waiter named Guido (Roberto well-to-do youngster Gonzalo (Matias Quer) Benigni, who also directs and won an Oscar befriends Pedro (Ariel Mateluna), a poor, for his role) is sent to a Nazi concentration bullied pupil who's attending his school on camp during World War II, along with his scholarship. The two grow close despite wife (Nicoletta Braschi) and their young son class hierarchy, but politics threaten to (Giorgio Cantarini). Refusing to give up destroy their friendship. Set in 1973 hope, Guido tries to protect his son's Santiago amid political unrest, this tale innocence by pretending that their centers on the friendship of two schoolboys imprisonment is an elaborate game, with the from vastly different backgrounds. grand prize being a tank.

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PG-13 classic from director is While the final Mad Max film can't outrun the one of the best. first two, director George Miller delivers an awesome depiction of order amid chaos. Max () becomes embroiled in the THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. 2004. internal tensions of Bartertown, ruled by the BLU RAY imperious Aunty Entity (). Will R ex-cop Max turn into an assassin? Featuring In this remake of the 1962 political thriller, the inventive Thunderdome fight sequence, Capt. Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) this installment offers of action. Adam and Sgt. Raymond Shaw () Cockburn and Bruce Spence co-star. are taken captive during the first Persian and brainwashed so that they're programmed to rebel once they return MALCOLM X. 1992. DVD home. Ten years later, as Shaw's mother PG-13 (Meryl Streep) is busy helping her son in his Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated drama bid for the presidency, Marco recalls the illuminates the life of black nationalist brainwashing. Can he get to Shaw before Malcolm X (Denzel Washington), following it's too late? him from his early days in prison to his conversion to Islam, marriage to Betty Shabazz () and discovery of MANDELA. 1996. DVD Elijah Mohammad's (Al Freeman Jr.) Nation NR of Islam writings. When Malcolm turns his This outstanding documentary recounts the back on the Nation of Islam (following a astonishing story of Nelson Mandela, told in pilgrimage to Mecca), he becomes a murder his words. Mandela was born into a divided target. South Africa, with the white Afrikaner minority in sole possession of political authority. Mandela's opposition to apartheid MAN BITES DOG. 1992. DVD led to his 27-year imprisonment. Eventually UR released from prison, Mandela oversaw A satirical look at how the media affects and South Africa's transition to a genuine promotes violence in modern society. democracy and became its first black Spoofing reality television, a fascinated president. documentary crew follows a charismatic yet unrepentant serial killer on his murder sprees. The crew attempts to objectively MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES. 2007. document the horror, but as the violence DVD escalates, they ultimately get sucked into NR participating. Man Bites Dog won the More than a simple portrait of an artist, this International Critics' Prize at the 1992 documentary about celebrated photographer Cannes Film Festival. is also an examination of industrialization and globalization. Known for finding strange beauty in large industrial THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. 1962. vistas, Burtynsky searches for great shots DVD [FILED UNDER "THE FRANK on trips to China and Bangladesh. In SINATRA COLLECTION] contrast to his seemingly impersonal PG-13 aesthetic, the film focuses on individuals, Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is a revealing the dreariness and dangers of Korean War hero with a lethal secret: He's industrial work. been brainwashed by the communist Chinese. With one phone call, the Reds can transform Shaw into a deadly assassin -- unless fellow veteran Bennett Marco (Frank MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA. 2005. Sinatra) can stop them first. Some thrillers DVD remain as suspenseful -- and timely -- as NR when they were first released, and this POS Dept. Video Library Page 35

Each year, drunken revelers at Mardi Gras profound cinematic work effectively fuses flash a little skin at parade floats and at the drama with documentary footage. crowd in exchange for beads. But the streets of New Orleans couldn't be farther from the Chinese factory where the beads are made. METROPOLITAN. 1990. DVD David Redmon's documentary juxtaposes PG-13 the excess of Carnival against the reality of Writer-director Whit Stillman's witty comedy workers who string 12 necklaces to earn one of manners (which won an Independent penny. Uncompromising and darkly Spirit Award for Best First Feature) pokes humorous, the film has won a host of festival gentle fun at a group of upper-class awards. Manhattan preppies who gather regularly to play bridge and engage in intellectual discussion. Led by acerbic cynic Nick MARS ATTACKS. 1996. DVD (Christopher Eigeman), the coterie adopts PG-13 "proletariat" Tom Townsend (Edward directs an all-star cast in this Clements), who has reservations about his outlandishly funny spoof of 1950s-era sci-fi new socialite friends and what they flicks, featuring bulbous-headed Martians represent. come to Earth hell-bent on world domination and destroying everyone and everything in their path! Can the president (Jack MICHAEL CLAYTON. 2007. BLU RAY Nicholson) save America -- and the planet -- R from the invaders? Or are we all just toast? Screenwriter Tony Gilroy delivers a finely Annette Bening, , Sarah tuned directorial debut with this dramatic Jessica Parker, Glenn Close and Michael J. thriller about burned-out corporate lawyer Fox co-star. Michael Clayton (George Clooney), a man who's built his career on cleaning up other people's messes. When a guilt-ridden MATEWAN. 1987. DVD colleague () threatens the PG-13 settlement of a multimillion-dollar case, Well-intentioned labor leader Joe Kenehan Clayton faces his biggest challenge yet. () arrives in Matewan, W. Va., nabbed an Oscar for her turn to unionize the the coal mine workers. But as a conflicted general counsel. his efforts to organize the coal company workers spark one of the most violent incidents in the history of the 1920-21 Coal THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD. 2004. DVD Wars. Tensions grow between the minors NR and the company men, igniting a powder It's a known fact that desperate people will keg of racial hostility, corruption and be driven to take desperate measures. And betrayal. directs; James Earl when we say driven, we mean it -- literally. Jones also stars. This movie is based on the incredible true story of a man who takes his wife and five children on a 2,000-mile bicycle trip across MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT. Brazil in search of a decent job. Stars 1968. DVD Cláudia Abreu and Manoel Sebastião Alves NR Filho. When his wife and many of his friends emigrate to the United States, Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), a wealthy, introspective THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR. 1988. author, decides to remain in Cuba. This DVD choice gives him a unique perspective on R his native country -- the revolution, the Based on John Nichol's book set in a tiny condition of his fellow countrymen and New Mexican town, Robert Redford's Cuba's relationship with the United States. comedy-drama pits the little guys against big Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, this development. When a local resort owner wants to expand, farmer Joe (Chick POS Dept. Video Library Page 36

Vennera) takes a stand. The eccentric locals MISSISSIPPI BURNING. 1988. DVD divide on the issue, but organized action R mixed with a little magic unites them to fight When three civil rights workers disappear in for their rights. John Heard, Christopher 1964 Mississippi, two FBI agents (Gene Walken, Sonia Braga, Ruben Blades, Daniel Hackman and Willem Dafoe) with wildly Stern and costar. divergent investigative styles find themselves resorting to increasingly violent tactics to apprehend the culprit Ku Klux MILK. 2008. BLU RAY Klan. Crucial to the case is the testimony of R a beautician (Frances McDormand) who's Sean Penn (in an Oscar-winning role) stars struggling to break free from her husband's in this fact-based drama about Harvey Milk, influence. Director 's fact-based the openly gay activist and San Francisco drama received seven Oscar nods. politician who was murdered along with Mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber) by disgruntled city supervisor Dan White (Josh MO' BETTER . 1990. DVD [FILED Brolin) in 1978. Emile Hirsch, UNDER "SPIKE LEE JOINT COLLECTION"] and Diego Luna co-star in director Gus Van R Sant's compelling biopic, which also earned Spike Lee wrote and directed this story Oscar nods for Best Picture and Best about fictional musician Bleek Gilliam Supporting Actor (Brolin). (Denzel Washington), a trumpeter with an equal talent for music, women and trouble. Bleek is a self-centered man with his own MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN. 1936. DVD quartet -- and two women vying for his NR attention. The Branford Marsalis Quartet When small-town tuba player Longfellow dubs Gilliam's band on the soundtrack; Bill Deeds (Gary Cooper) lands a $20 million Lee, Spike's father, wrote the score. inheritance and moves to the big city, the sharks begin to circle, including a sassy reporter () who'll do anything for MODERN TIMES. 1936. BLU RAY a scoop -- until she falls for her subject. G Director Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life) Conceived and produced as talking pictures delivers a heartfelt romantic allegory about were taking Hollywood by storm, Charlie daring to stand up for principles in the face Chaplin's brilliant satire of the machine age of greed and malice. was also his last "silent," even though it also features his first words spoken on film. The Little Tramp shuffles bravely forward into a MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. maze of technology and the rapidly 1939. DVD changing shape of society. Although barely NR in control of his own fate, he demonstrates When idealistic junior senator Jefferson pluck and endurance in the face of Smith () arrives in unstoppable forces. Washington, D.C., he's full of plans and dazzled by his surroundings -- qualities he retains despite widespread corruption . 2001. DVD among his cynical colleagues. Jean Arthur R puts in a sharp performance as Smith's As the monsoon rains loom in director Mira streetwise secretary, who helps him Nair's romantic drama, Lalit Verma navigate his way through Congress, in this () and his extended family Academy Award-winning classic from reunite for the last-minute arranged director Frank Capra. marriage of his daughter Aiditi (Vasundhara Das) in New Delhi. But long-guarded secrets threaten to tear the family apart. As wedding MISSION TO MOSCOW. 1943. DVD preparations proceed, five stories intersect, highlighting different aspects of love and crossing boundaries of class and continent. POS Dept. Video Library Page 37

Walter Salles's film is based on Guevara's diaries of the trek, a deeply personal MONSTER’S BALL. 2001. BLU RAY that ultimately crystallized the R young man's budding political beliefs. Death row in the Louisiana State Penitentiary is the hothouse backdrop for this hard-hitting drama about racist prison MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN. guard , who falls in love 2009. DVD with the wife (Best Actress Oscar winner NR ) of a condemned man he helped An unprecedented look inside politically execute. plays Thornton's fractured Zimbabwe under dictator Robert hopelessly bigoted father, and rapper Sean Mugabe, this documentary follows Michael "Puffy" Combs astonishes as Berry's ill- Campbell, one of the country's few fated, "dead man walking" husband. remaining white farmers, as he bravely battles to protect his land from government seizure. After suing Mugabe for racial MOOLAADE. 2004. DVD discrimination and human rights violations, NR the 75-year-old Campbell must brace his Senegalese writer-director Ousmane family to face potentially life-threatening Sembene makes an impassioned plea retaliation. against of salinde, or female circumcision, in this moving portrait of a society in transition. In a West African village . 2005. DVD run by uncompromising Muslim males, fiery R Colle (Fatoumata Coulibaly) provides safe In this thriller based on actual events, harbor for young girls fleeing their Palestinian terrorists hold hostage and "cleansing" rituals. But what one man terms ultimately kill a group of Israeli athletes "a minor domestic issue" soon puts the during the 1972 Summer Olympics in whole town on the verge of bloodshed. Munich, prompting a Mossad agent (Eric Bana) to track down the assassins in the tragic aftermath. Ciaran Hinds and Geoffrey THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN Rush co-star in this film directed by Steven AMERICA. 2009. DVD Spielberg and written by , the NR award-winning playwright of "Angels in Revisit a pivotal point in American history in America." this documentary that chronicles Pentagon insider Daniel Ellsberg's daring endeavor to leak top-secret government papers that THE NAMESAKE. 2006. DVD disclosed shocking truths about the Vietnam PG-13 War and Nixon's presidency. Judith Ehrlich Gogol Ganguli (Kal Penn) is torn between and Rick Goldsmith direct this absorbing, his parents' (Irrfan Khan and Tabu) Indian Oscar-nominated account that features traditions and his decidedly modern lifestyle, compelling interviews with Ellsberg, retired and frankly prefers for his friends to call him New York Times editor Max Frankel and "Nick." But the true meaning of his name is a other key figures. story that spans two continents -- and two generations. Based on Jhumpa Lahiri's best- selling novel, 's coming-of-age THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES. 2004. 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Robert Duvall. contrasts The actors also wrote and performed their their avarice as an old-school TV journalist own songs. hopelessly out of step in writer 's Oscar-winning masterpiece, which predicted today's rash of trash NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CHINA’S LOST television and shock-laden news GIRLS. 2005. DVD broadcasts. NR Accompanied by her team from her travel show, "National Geographic's Ultimate NATURAL BORN KILLERS. 1994. BLU Explorer," reporter Lisa Ling ("The View") RAY flies off to China with American parents set R to adopt baby girls, the casualties of the Director Oliver Stone's stark satire of media country's long-standing one-child policy. In and murder still generates controversy. hewing to this strict rule, families wind up Mickey and Mallory Knox ( aborting, abandoning or hiding their and , respectively) hit the road daughters, many of whom end up in the on an interstate killing spree that triggers a United States, brought by couples longing manhunt and garners amazing ratings for a for children. tabloid TV star (Robert Downey Jr.). Shocking, bloody and relentlessly violent, Stone's visually frenetic film makes a chilling NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: INSIDE NORTH statement about the American cultural KOREA. 2006. DVD landscape. NR Disguised as a medical coordinator, National Geographic correspondent Lisa Ling gains NIGHT AND FOG. 1955. DVD access into North Korea and gives viewers a NR powerful glimpse inside one of the most Employing haunting images, such as a hill of restrictive countries in the world. Through human hair or a pyramid of shoes, director personal accounts and exclusive footage, Alain Resnais contrasts 1955 footage of Ling exposes the difficulties North Koreans Auschwitz's quiet, empty buildings with face while living in such an oppressive black-and-white footage shot there in 1944. regime, coping with poverty, hunger and the This landmark documentary -- one of the lack of civil liberties. first cinematic reflections on the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust -- is as lyrical as it is graphic, and has influenced THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S contemporary movies such as Schindler's BEST IDEA. 2009. DVD List. TV-G The award-winning documentarian turns his insight and cameras to the history and NINE TO FIVE. 1980. DVD breathtaking splendor of America's national PG parks. 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Director Master Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou Oliver Stone re-creates the turbulent days of turns his lens on the travails of modern the early 1970s as a shadowy epic of lies China's peasants. When teacher Gao (Gao and intrigue. The cast includes James Enman) town for a month, 13-year old Wei Woods, and Joan Allen, but the (Wei Minzhi) is pressed into serving as his film belongs to Hopkins, who portrays Nixon substitute at the school from which she just as a man possessed of great gifts but graduated. If she keeps her class intact, she haunted by past failures. will receive a bonus. But when a student leaves for the city, she follows and strives relentlessly to bring him back. . 2007. DVD NR This Oscar-nominated documentary from O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? 2000. filmmaker (and former Brookings Institution DVD fellow) Charles Ferguson examines the PG-13 decisions that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion With their collective eye focused on of Iraq and the handling of the subsequent retrieving a cache of hidden money, three occupation by President George W. Bush convicts (George Clooney, and his administration. Featuring detailed and Tim Blake Nelson) break out of jail in analysis and exclusive interviews with Depression-era Mississippi and embark on central players, the film pulls no punches as an epic journey that bears more than a few it chronicles the twists and turns America similarities to Homer's Odyssey. Along the took on the . way, they fast-talk their way out of jams, sidestep alluring riverside sirens and record a hit country song as the Soggy Bottom NO MAN’S LAND. 2001. DVD Boys. R Talk about dynamite concepts. ... 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This pulse-pounding thriller stars , Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, ONE BRIGHT SHINING MOMENT. 2005. and Meg Foster. This was director DVD 's final film, adapted from the NR novel by Robert Ludlum. Retracing presidential candidate George McGovern's unsuccessful run for office in 1972 -- despite his well-respected intellect . 1985. BLU RAY and decency -- this political documentary R interviews McGovern himself, as well as Nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes, this supporters and activists such as , tense Western stars Clint Eastwood (who Gloria Steinem, and Howard also directs) as a stranger in a clerical collar Zinn, to explore the volatility of the electoral who rides into a mining town and comes to process. A period-appropriate soundtrack the aid of some gold prospectors under the features songs by Bob Dylan, Donovan and thumb of a ruthless landowner (Richard Elvis Costello. Dysart). 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PHILADELPHIA. 1993. DVD each other and delivering speeches to their PG-13 classmates. attorney Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks, in an Oscar-winning role) launches a wrongful termination suit against the hand PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL. 2008. that feeds him when his law firm finds out DVD about his HIV-positive status -- and his NR homosexuality -- and fires him. Denzel Director Gini Reticker and producer Abigail Washington co-stars as a homophobic E. Disney's documentary tells the story of lawyer who reluctantly agrees to take Andy's the thousands of Liberian women, both case in this -directed film, Christian and Muslim, who helped end the the first major-studio picture to tackle the bloody civil war in 2003 that killed over topic of AIDS. 200,000 people. Through nonviolent protests, these brave women forced a resolution in the peace talks, and their PLATOON. 1986. DVD efforts led to the election of Africa's first R female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Helmed by Oliver Stone, this searing autobiographical drama chronicles the Vietnam experiences of naïve volunteer THE PRESIDENTS COLLECTION. 2008. soldier Chris Taylor (), whose DVD view of the conflict starts to change after NR witnessing murder and rape at the hands of From the American Experience on PBS. his compatriots. Platoon won Academy Includes documentaries on Theodore Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Truman, with Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and earning supporting actor nods as rival George HW Bush. topkicks who offer Sheen contrasting role models. PRIMARY. 1960. DVD NR PLEASANTVILLE. 1998. DVD Filmmaker Robert Drew trailed Senator John PG-13 F. Kennedy as he campaigned against Geeky teenager David (Tobey Maguire) and Hubert Humphrey for the Democratic his popular twin sister, Jennifer (Reese presidential nomination in Wisconsin in Witherspoon), get sucked into the black- 1960. The first film in which the sync sound and-white world of a 1950s TV called camera moved freely with characters "Pleasantville," and find a world where throughout a breaking story, Primary is everything is peachy keen all the time. But recognized as a breakthrough in when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts documentary filmmaking and was selected Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, as an historic film for inclusion in the Library she literally brings color into its life. Gary of Congress's National Film Registry in Ross directs this Oscar-nominated comedy. 1990.

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Director and a stellar cast -- the bizarre warriors commanded by the including Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn and Ed charismatic Lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), Harris -- chronicle NASA's early transition a violent leader whose scruples are as from breaking in 1947 to barren as the surrounding landscape. the expeditions of the Mercury astronauts in the 1960s. Richly variegated and surprisingly funny, this film adaptation of a ROGER & ME. 1989. DVD novel by Tom Wolfe brilliantly depicts the R personal, political and technological In this blistering, satirical documentary, ex- achievements it took for America to get journalist Michael Moore gives a personal ahead in the space race. account of the tough times in his hometown of Flint, Mich., after the General Motors plant was closed in the mid-1980s. The film THE RIVER. 1952. DVD revolves around Moore's dogged attempts to NR gain an interview with Roger Smith, the In this drama set in India against the elusive and well-insulated head of GM and backdrop of the Ganges river, withdrawn the man responsible for massive layoffs that British teenager Harriet (Patricia Walters) eliminated more than 30,000 jobs and left and her outgoing, boisterous best friend, the town destitute. Valerie (Adrienne Corri), both have a crush on debonair outsider Capt. John (Thomas E. Breen). Though his heart lies with beautiful : GIMME local native Melanie (Radha Shri Ram), SHELTER. 1970. BLU RAY John's dark past as a WW II veteran keeps R him from acting on his feelings and plunges Featuring classic renditions of "Sympathy for him deeper into depression. the Devil," "Under My Thumb," "Satisfaction," "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Wild Horses," this unvarnished THE ROAD HOME. 2000.DVD documentary chronicles the Rolling Stones' G chaotic 1969 American tour. The film starts Veteran director Yimou Zhang helms this off on a high note at a riveting New York City enduring love story starring Ziyi Zhang show and concludes in the aftermath of the (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as Zhao infamous Altamont Speedway gig, where Di, a young country girl who falls head over Hell's Angels who were hired to do security heels for the village's new schoolteacher, ultimately brutalized concert-goers. Luo Changyu (Hao Zheng), in 1950s China. The couple's demure courtship is cut short when the new communist government RONALD REAGAN: THE GREAT summons Luo to the city for questioning COMMUNICATOR. 2004. DVD during the Cultural Revolution, leaving Zhao NR to wait longingly for his return. From his early years as a radio sports broadcaster to a Hollywood film career to his eventual emergence as perhaps the key THE ROAD TO 9/11. 2005. DVD political figure in the latter half of the 20th century, Ronald Reagan was one of the most effective public speakers in THE ROAD WARRIOR. 1981. DVD. presidential history. This unique biographical [SHARED DISC WITH MAD MAX] documentary explores Reagan's powerful R communication skills through speeches, rare In this sequel to the dystopian action- newsreels, movie footage and clips of more adventure Mad Max, Mel Gibson returns as than 100 presidential appearances. the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an search for gasoline. Arrayed THE RUSSIAN GAMBLE. 2009. DVD against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are POS Dept. Video Library Page 46

SALAAM BOMBAY! 1988. DVD and seven men are tasked with penetrating NR German-held territory and bringing the boy This wrenching story concerns a 10-year-old home. Steven Spielberg and boy who's tossed out onto the streets of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski paint a Bombay to find work. As he tries to earn harrowing picture of the price of war and enough money to return home, he finds it's heroism -- one that netted them Oscars for hard enough just trying to stay alive in this Best Director and Best Cinematography, lawless world. This first fiction film from respectively. director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) won her the new director's award at Cannes in 1988. Nair hired many Bombay street kids THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA. 1993. for the film, and some scenes are filmed in DVD an actual brothel. NR Little things mean a lot in the world of 10- year-old Mui, a girl who's trained to be a SALT OF THE EARTH. 1954. DVD house servant in 1950s Vietnam. This film NR follows Mui as she grows up in pre-war Director Herbert Biberman's prescient Saigon, and finds quiet love with a family drama incited a furor upon its release with friend. Dialogue seems almost tertiary in this the political overtones in its story about the film that celebrates the senses, as the young Mexican-Americans who went on strike to girl discovers the world around her and protest unsafe conditions and unfair marvels at every new sight, sound and scent treatment at New Mexico's Empire Zinc she experiences while going about her Mine. Presaging the civil rights and feminist workday life. movements, the 1954 film -- the only one blacklisted in American history -- paints a thought-provoking picture of the struggle by SCHINDLER' LIST. 1993. DVD the miners and their families. R stars as , a greedy German factory owner made rich by exploiting cheap Jewish labor. But as World War II unfolds, he becomes an unlikely SALVADOR. 1986. DVD humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to R help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz. Co- Washed-up photojournalist Richard Boyle's starring Ralph Fiennes, Steven Spielberg's (James Woods) bad habits keep him from holocaust epic won seven Academy Awards getting jobs, so he heads to El Salvador with (including Best Picture) and is an his pal Dr. Rock (James Belushi) to find unforgettable testament to the possibility of work amidst the country's fledgling civil war. human goodness. But he soon finds that the danger is more than he can handle. Boyle and Rock realize that they need to flee before the violence SEABISCUIT. 2003. BLU RAY escalates, but Boyle doesn't want to leave PG-13 his new girlfriend (Elpidia Carrillo) behind. A knobble-kneed colt becomes a winning Oliver Stone directs. thoroughbred at the hands of its owner (Jeff Bridges), its unorthodox trainer (Chris Cooper) and its jockey, a half-blind ex- SANKOFA. 2003. DVD prizefighter (Tobey Maguire), in this depression-era drama based on the true story of champion racehorse Seabiscuit. . 1998. DVD During a trying period in U.S. history, people R across the country became fascinated with As U.S. troops storm the beaches of the inspiring success of Seabiscuit, awarded Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the Horse of the Year in 1938. battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain Tom Hanks POS Dept. Video Library Page 47

SECRET HONOR. 1984. DVD Frankenheimer demonstrates the same NR mastery that made The Manchurian Philip Baker Hall stars as Richard Nixon in Candidate a classic, and Lancaster gives an this adaptation of a one-man effective performance in an unsympathetic stage play that tracks the former president role. as his career takes a dive. The film opens in the aftermath of Nixon's resignation after much speculation about his involvement in SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. 1997. BLU RAY the Watergate scandal. As the reality of his PG-13 life and choices begins to set in, Nixon Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (Brad propels himself further into a drunken stupor Pitt) journeys to the Himalayas without his and lets loose on all his past and present family to head an expedition in 1939. But enemies. when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a . He escapes with a fellow SEE HOW THEY RUN. 2002. DVD detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, NR where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama This witty look at San Francisco's mayoral (Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk), whose runoff between Willie Brown, Tom Ammiano friendship ultimately transforms his outlook and Clint Reilly provides a candid look at the on life. mudslinging and scandal that seem to accompany all political races. Direct in its delivery, this documentary holds very little SID & NANCY. 1986. DVD back and includes appearances by Bill R Maher, Sean Penn, Jesse Jackson, Arianna This gritty biopic portrays the relationship Huffington and more. and downward spiral of Sex Pistols bassist () and his junkie girlfriend, (), from their first meeting soon after Vicious joined the iconic punk band to the tragic end of their story. Hole front woman Courtney SERGEANTS 3. 1962. DVD [FILED UNDER Love plays Nancy's friend, Gretchen, and "THE FRANK SINATRA COLLECTION] music from the Clash's Joe Strummer, the NR Pogues, the Circle Jerks and others is Frank Sinatra and the members of his included on the soundtrack. famous Rat Pack -- , Sammy Davis Jr., and Joey Bishop -- star in this comical retelling of the 1939 THE SIEGE. 1998. BLU RAY classic Gunga Din, transplanted to the R 1870s American West. Joined by freed slave When U.S. military zealots abduct a Muslim Jonah Williams (Davis), the trio of religious leader, constitutional rights are eponymous sergeants (Sinatra, Martin and summarily suspended, and martial law is Lawford) take on an American Indian chief imposed in New York as hard-line Army intent on consolidating tribes and knocking Gen. William Devereaux (Bruce Willis) off every paleface in sight. cordons off to form a detention camp. In a struggle to save the day, FBI agents Anthony "Hub" Hubbard (Denzel . 1964. DVD Washington) and Frank Haddad (Tony NR Shalhoub) team with CIA operative Elise Military aide Martin Casey (Kirk Douglas) Kraft (Annette Bening) in this action-packed stumbles across a plot by his boss (Burt thriller. Lancaster) to overthrow the U.S. president (Fredric March), who has just negotiated a controversial peace treaty. Casey's SILKWOOD. 1983. DVD dilemma: Follow orders and remain silent, or R betray his boss. Director John POS Dept. Video Library Page 48

While working at an Oklahoma nuclear a jaded inspector (Irfan Khan) with power plant, Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) remarkable tales of his life on the streets becomes exposed to radiation. When the and the story of the woman (Freida Pinto) he official investigation is tampered with, Karen loved and lost. directs this conducts her own inquiry, but she Oscar-winning Best Picture. disappears under suspicious circumstances before its completion. Kurt Russell co-stars in this fact-based drama, which was SICKO. 2007. DVD nominated for multiple Oscars and earned PG-13 a Best Supporting Actress Golden Michael Moore sets his sights on the plight Globe for her minimalist performance. of the uninsured in this Oscar-nominated documentary that uses Moore's trademark humor and confrontational style to ask the . 1994. difficult questions and get to the truth behind BLU RAY the health care crisis. In the world's richest R country, 45 million people have no health Framed in the 1940s for the double murder insurance, while HMOs grow in size and of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker wealth. Moore also explores the widespread Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) begins a new use of antidepressants and their possible life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts link to violence. his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden (Bob Gunton). During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be . 2005. BLU RAY admired by the other inmates -- including an NR older prisoner named Red (Morgan Arrested for participating in the White Rose Freeman) -- for his integrity and resistance movement, anti-Nazi activist unquenchable sense of hope. Sophie Scholl () is subjected to a highly charged interrogation by the Gestapo, testing her loyalty to her cause, SHOAH. 1985. DVD her family and her convictions. Based on NR true events, director Marc Rothemund's Director Claude Lanzmann's devastating absorbing Oscar-nominated drama explores Holocaust documentary sheds light on one maintaining human resolve in the face of of the darkest periods in the history of intense pressure from a system determined humankind. With more than nine hours of to silence whistle-blowers. footage, the film relies solely on testimony from survivors, witnesses and perpetrators. Eschewing archival footage, Lanzmann interviews each subject -- many at length -- beginning with Simon Srebnik, one of only THE SOUTH PARK MOVIE. 1999. BLU two Jews who survived the Chelmno death RAY camp. R The potty-mouthed youngsters of "South Park" co-creators Trey Parker and Matt SHOUTING FIRE: STORIES FROM THE Stone move from cable television to the big EDGE OF FREE SPEECH. 2009. DVD screen in this Oscar-nominated animated comedy. With a loose plot involving , and the corruption of . 2008. BLU RAY American youth via their Canadian R neighbors, this film boasts old-school After coming within one question of winning animation, dialogue to make the censors it all on the Indian version of "Who Wants to blush and catchy songs with clever, often Be a Millionaire?," 18-year-old Mumbai profane lyrics. "slumdog" Jamal Malik () is arrested on suspicion that he cheated his way to the top. While in custody, he regales STAFFERS ’04. 2004. DVD POS Dept. Video Library Page 49

NR divorce her and marry a young girl. French Experience the 2004 Democratic campaign journalist Freidoune (Jim Caviezel) is pulled from the unique perspective of campaign into Soraya's tragic story when he meets a staffers with this behind-the-scenes desperate woman named Zahra (Shohreh documentary. From the Iowa caucuses to Aghdashloo). Kerry's presidential nomination, the film follows the tireless workers assigned to support John Kerry, Howard Dean, Joe STOP MAKING SENSE. 1984. BLU RAY Lieberman, Wesley Clark and Dennis NR Kucinich on the campaign trail. The Jonathan Demme expertly crafted captures the candid moments and this unrivaled concert film from footage of unexpected twists and turns of a pivotal three live gigs at Hollywood's Pantages campaign. Theatre. The staging concept -- the brainchild of Talking Heads front man David Byrne -- begins with the lead vocalist striding STARSHIP TROOPERS. 1997. DVD onto an empty stage, acoustic and R boom box in hand. With each new tune, In this sci-fi adventure based on a novel by another band member or backup singer Robert A. Heinlein and directed by Paul joins Byrne onstage, building steadily toward Verhoeven, fire-spitting, brain-sucking bugs the smokin' . attack Earth, and the city of Buenos Aires is wiped off the map. Coming to the rescue are Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien), Dizzy (Dina THE STORY OF INDIA. 2007. BLU RAY Meyer), Carmen (Denise Richards) and Ace NR (Jake Busey), courageous soldiers who Explore the rich culture of India with this travel to the distant Klendathu system for the visually striking program that takes viewers ultimate showdown. on a fascinating journey from the country's ancient origins to its significant place in our contemporary global community. Hosted by STATE OF FEAR. 2005. DVD noted British historian Michael Wood, the series explores the many facets of Indian society, including the arts, spiritual . 1948. DVD traditions, the diverse population, the rising NR high-tech business community and much At the urging of power-hungry newspaper more. executive Kay Thorndyke (), industrialist Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy) is persuaded to campaign THE STORY OF QII JU. 1993. DVD for the Republican presidential nomination. NR To boost his public persona, Matthews delivers a superbly nuanced reunites with his estranged wife (Katharine performance as the titular heroine in director Hepburn). She quickly uncovers the Yimou Zhang's droll take on the absurdities corruption that's infected her once moral of bureaucratic impotency. Set in a remote husband. Frank Capra directs this Chinese province, the film follows pregnant compelling adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize- peasant Qui Ju on her resolute quest for winning play. justice after the village elder kicks her husband in the family jewels. Merely seeking an apology from the stubborn chief, Qui Ju THE OF SORAYA M. 2008. BLU soon gets caught in the cogs of an RAY exasperating legal system. R Set in 1986 Iran at the start of Khomeini's reign, director Cyrus Nowrasteh's drama STORYTELLING. 2001. DVD tells the true story of Soraya (Mozhan R Marnò), whose husband plots to have her Writer-director Todd Solondz (Welcome to falsely accused of adultery so he can the Dollhouse) presents two stories -- POS Dept. Video Library Page 50

"Fiction" and "Non-Fiction" -- focusing on the NR racial and sexual tension bubbling in a In the Supreme Court, nine enigmatic and college writing class and the hidden esteemed officials sit in final judgment of the fractures in a suburban household. Raw, most significant cases. This series blends chilling and wrenching in its exploration of history and biographies to present the how we turn fact into fiction and lies into human side of those whose decisions truth, Storytelling serves as a modern fable impact the lives of all Americans. Computer for people who don't need happy endings. graphics clarify complicated legal concepts and interviews with experts shed light on how and why decisions are made in the SUMMER HOURS. 2008. DVD U.S.'s highest court in the land. NR Sensing that death is close at hand, 75- year-old Hélène (Edith Scob) summons her SUZHOU RIVER. 2000. DVD three adult children to her home in the NR French countryside and tasks them with The Suzhou River that flows through deciding the fate of her extraordinary art Shanghai is a reservoir of chaos and collection. , Charles Berling poverty, but also a meeting place for and Jérémie Renier star as the three memories and secrets. This tale -- of a siblings forced to ponder their legacy and woman named Marda who falls in love with identity in this touching drama from a dramatically beautiful young woman internationally acclaimed writer-director named Moudan --- reveals the river as a . Chinese Styx in which forgotten stories and mysteries are revealed.

SUMMER PALACE. 2006. DVD SYRIANA. 2005. BLU RAY NR R students and lovers Yu Hong (Lei America is at the beck and call of the Middle Hao) and Zhou Wei (Xiaodong Guo) are torn East when it comes to the oil industry, and apart during student pro-democracy all its players -- Washington, sheiks, oil demonstrations, and Zhou flees to the companies, field workers -- intersect with country. Years later, haunted by the memory each other in this political thriller from of Yu, Zhou returns to China to find his true director . The star-studded love. But has their love survived the cast includes , Amanda Peet, intervening years of political and personal Chris Cooper, and turmoil? Directed by Ye Lou, this George Clooney, who won a Best atmospheric drama also features Xueyun Supporting Actor Oscar and Golden Globe Bai, Lin Cui and Long Duan. for his role as CIA operative Bob Barnes.

SUPERSIZE ME. 2004. DVD . 1997. DVD PG-13 NR On the heels of recent lawsuits against In Iranian director's 's McDonald's, director takes award-winning drama, Mister Badii a hilarious and often terrifying look at the (Homayoun Ershadi) drives about Tehran effects of fast food on the human body, looking for someone to bury him when he using himself as the proverbial guinea pig. commits suicide -- or rescue him if he fails. For one month, Spurlock eats nothing but But it's difficult to find anyone who will help. McDonald's, ordering everything on the A taxidermist (Abdolrahman Bagheri) menu and "super-sizing" his order whenever eventually agrees, mostly so he can use the asked. The result is a sobering examination money to care for his sick son. But there's of the line between personal and corporate another reason -- he once attempted suicide responsibility. himself.

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R Martin Scorsese crafts a violently prophetic, THELMA & LOUISE. 1991. DVD gripping vision of urban decay and insanity R in which mentally unstable Vietnam vet Waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) drives a cab and naive housewife Thelma Dickinson through the sleaziest streets of pregentrified () take off for a simple weekend New York City and befriends a child hooker free of men … and become outlaws blazing (Jodie Foster). The groundbreaking film a cathartic trail across America. earned four Oscar nominations, including nods for Best Picture, Best Score, and for De Niro and Foster's haunting THEY CALL IT MYANMAR: LIFTING THE performances. CURTAIN. 2012. DVD NR Shot clandestinely over a two-year period in . 2007. DVD the second-most isolated country on the NR planet, Burma, this documentary lifts the Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in curtain to expose everyday life in a country the Room) directs this Best Documentary that has been held in the iron grip of a brutal Oscar winner that uses interviews, news military regime for 48 years. footage and firsthand reports to examine the Bush administration's policy on torture. The film focuses on the case of an Afghan taxi driver who picked up three passengers and THIRTEEN DAYS. 2000. DVD never returned home. Instead, he wound up PG-13 dead at the Bagram Air Base, killed by When a nuclear missile presence escalates injuries inflicted by U.S. soldiers. in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) attempts to curb the threat with help from his aides, his generals and his TEN. 2002. DVD younger brother, Bobby (Stephen Culp), NR then the U.S. attorney general. After Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami assessing the situation, they quickly realize trains his lens on contemporary Iran as seen the Soviets could launch offensive through the eyes of one woman. We witness warheads, leaving the fate of the world the female driver as she motors through the hanging by a thread. Kevin Costner co-stars streets of Tehran over the course of several in this drama based on actual events. days. During that time, she picks up 10 passengers (including her sister and young son, a prostitute and a jilted bride). What we TIANANMEN SQUARE. 2007. DVD begin to fathom is how complex -- and NR varied -- modern Iran has become. The History Channel uses previously unseen footage and declassified sources to revisit 1989 Beijing, where hundreds of THANK YOU FOR SMOKING. 2005. DVD student protesters were killed by the R Chinese military on Tiananmen Square. The On a mission to make the country forget the program examines the growth of the dangers of smoking, Big Tobacco spin opposition to the ruling Communist Party, doctor Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) the efforts the government took to quell the promotes his product in and dissenters and the lasting repercussions the hushes those who bad-mouth cigarettes, all historic event had on Chinese politics and the while trying to remain a role model to his culture. young son. , Katie Holmes, Robert Duvall and William H. Macy co-star in 's razor-sharp satire, which TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION. 2003. won Spirit Award for Best DVD Screenplay. UR

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Ten years in the making, this feature-length documentary was filmed during nine TOKYO STORY. 1953. DVD remarkable journeys throughout Tibet, India NR and Nepal, chronicling the dark secrets of Director Yasujiro Ozu focuses on an elderly Tibet's recent past through interviews, couple (Chishu Ryu and Chieko personal stories and archival images. Martin Higashiyama) in post-World War II Japan Sheen narrates, and Susan Sarandon and who travel to Tokyo to visit their children but Ed Harris provide voice-overs for this are received rather coldly by their offspring; powerful film that takes viewers to the long- in fact, the only one happy to see them is forbidden "rooftop of the world" with an their widowed daughter-in-law (Setsuko unprecedented richness of imagery. Hara). In an attempt to get them out of the way, the children shuttle their aging parents TITO AND ME. 1992. DVD off to a health spa, a decision that could NR come back to haunt them. In 1954 , 10-year-old Zoran (Dimitrije Vojnov) -- to his parents' consternation -- develops a fascination with TRAFFIC. 2000. DVD the country's charismatic but despotic ruler, R Marshall Tito (Vojislav Brajovic). Zoran is Steven Soderbergh's Oscar-winning drama also consumed with thoughts of a female intricately weaves three disturbing classmate who plans to take a walking tour snapshots of America's drug war. At the of Tito's homeland. Sparked by his dual forefront are a U.S. drug czar (Michael obsessions, Zoran wins an essay contest Douglas) who learns his daughter is an that earns him a spot on the tour … but he's addict and a Mexican cop (Benicio Del Toro in for some unexpected lessons. in an Oscar-winning role) dealing with a corrupt system. Meanwhile, a wealthy housewife (Catherine -Jones) whose . 1962. DVD husband is arrested for dealing must choose NR to carry on the business or sacrifice her Southern comforts abound in this big-screen lifestyle. adaptation of 's novel as lawyer Atticus Finch (, in an Oscar- winning role) defends an innocent black man . 1934. DVD (Brock Peters) against rape charges but NR ends up in a maelstrom of hate and Leni Riefenstahl's infamous propaganda film prejudice. Meanwhile, with help from a friend documenting the Third Reich's 1934 (John Megna), Finch's children, Jem (Phillip Nuremberg Party Rally features a cast of Alford) and Scout (Mary Badham), set their thousands -- including Adolf Hitler, Heinrich sights on making contact with a reclusive Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, neighbor (Robert Duvall). Hermann Goering and other top officials. Images of cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, banners lining TO LIVE. 1994. DVD Nuremberg's streets and Hitler's climactic NR speech illustrate with chilling clarity how A bold, energetic masterpiece from Zhang Germany fell under his spell. Yimou, the foremost director from China's influential "fifth generation" of filmmakers. Continuing his brilliant collaboration with China's best-known actress, Gong Li, Zhang weaves a tapestry of personal and political TROUBLE THE WATER. 2008. DVD events, following the struggles of an NR impoverished husband and wife ( Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal and Li) from their heyday in the 1940s to the recount a surprising tale of heroism amid hardships that accompanied the Cultural tragedy in New Orleans, where a wannabe Revolution in the 1960s. rapper and her husband brave the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina to rescue POS Dept. Video Library Page 53 their neighbors. Featuring live video diary In this tale illuminating the plight of illegal footage from the couple, the Oscar- aliens, Kate del Castillo plays Rosario, a nominated documentary is both a poignant woman working illegally in the United States portrait of a family's will to survive and a to provide a better life for her son Carlitos startling portrayal of Katrina's devastating (Adrian Alonso), who remains at home in power. Mexico. Longing for his mother, Carlitos stows away on a van that's headed for the border. But an already treacherous journey TRUMAN. 1995. DVD becomes even more so when Carlitos is PG separated from his smugglers (Jesse Garcia owns the screen with his and America Ferrera). performance as U.S. president Harry S. Truman. Coming to power in the shadow of the legendary Franklin Roosevelt, Truman . 1992. BLU RAY survived near-certain defeat in the 1948 R election and led the rebuilding of postwar Retired gunslinger William Munny (Clint Europe. Sinise perfectly captures the Eastwood) reluctantly takes one last job -- underrated 33rd president's unpretentious and even more reluctantly accepts a style, which concealed a razor-sharp boastful youth (Jaimz Woolvett) as a political will. Diana Scarwid keeps pace as partner. Together, they learn how easily Truman's wife. complicated truths are distorted into simplistic myths about the Old West. Gene Hackman (who won an Oscar) and Richard THE TURANDOT PROJECT. 2001. DVD Harris stand out as old foes who have an NR unhappy reunion. The film also earned This documentary from director Allan Miller Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director takes you behind the scenes with conductor (Eastwood). Zubin Mehta as he stages the Puccini opera "Turandot" in two decidedly different locations: Florence, Italy, and Beijing, China. UNTIL WHEN. . .2004. DVD The film focuses primarily on the NR unexpected areas of dramatic interest and Director Dahna Abourahme's documentary conflict that opened up when the production, follows four Palestinian families who live in initially scheduled only for Florence, was Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem, given official permission to be remounted in painting a genuine portrait of life in the Beijing. settlement through interviews, photo archives and emotionally compelling footage. A revealing look at how displaced UNCONSTITUTIONAL: THE WAR ON OUR people survive such frustrating CIVIL LIBERTIES. 2004. DVD circumstances, this moving film also shares NR what inspires the refugees to keep a firm Following the terrorist attacks on September grasp on their hopes for a better tomorrow. 11, 2001, Congress passed a series of legislations known as The , which is designed to assist law enforcement in THE UP SERIES. preventing future terrorist attacks. Take an 1964/1971/1978/1985/1992/1999/2006 inside look at this controversial bill through DVD the eyes of legal analysts and constitutional NR. experts as they examine the possible When Seven Up was broadcast in 1964, it dangers The Patriot Act poses to our civil broke new ground and became the first liberties and individual freedoms. segment of a laborious and momentous labor of love: an engrossing chronicle of the lives of 14 students from varied social UNDER THE SAME MOON. 2007. DVD backgrounds, beginning when they were 7 PG-13 years old. The first meeting with the group of wide-eyed, innocent children invites viewers POS Dept. Video Library Page 54 to take a look at lives in the making; the so when they learn Malú's divorced mother follow-up film, 7 Plus Seven, checks in on plans to remarry and leave the country, them 7 years later and every 7 years after taking Malú with her, the two friends go on a that. quest to prevent their separation. Leaving Havana and traveling on foot and by any available vehicle, the children try to reach . 2007. DVD Malú's father before he signs papers NR permitting her to emigrate. When the Three Gorges Dam makes life hard for the Yu family, daughter Yu Shui must take a job aboard a cruise ship, where she enters into a dizzying microcosm of modern China. Meanwhile, her parents face W. 2008. BLU RAY the rising waters of the Yangtze. Chinese PG-13 Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang's Oscar winner Oliver Stone directs an all-star beautifully photographed film of China's cast in this satiric retrospective of the life peasant life and cultural upheaval was and political career of George W. Bush nominated for Best Documentary for the (), from his troubles as a young Independent Spirit Awards. adult through his governorship of Texas and all the way to the Oval Office. plays Vice President Dick Cheney, V FOR VENDETTA. 2005. BLU RAY with Elizabeth Banks as First Lady Laura R Bush and Thandie Newton as Secretary of From the pages of David Lloyd and Alan State Condoleezza Rice. Moore's groundbreaking graphic novel springs the enigmatic "V" (Hugo Weaving), a masked freedom fighter who's taken up . 1997. DVD arms against the totalitarian government in a R futuristic Britain. Finding an unlikely ally in a When the president is caught in a sex young woman named Evey Hammond scandal less than two weeks before the (), V urges the citizenry to election, White House spinmaster Conrad fight the oppression of the state. John Hurt Brean (Robert De Niro) creates a phony war and also co-star. with the help of Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to distract the electorate. From acclaimed director Barry VIETNAM: A TELEVISION HISTORY. 2004. 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WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS. he expected. Tian Chengren, Zhang Yan, 2010. BLU RAY Hai Yang and Yu Weijie provide support in PG-13 this touching tale. Trader Jake (Shia LaBeouf) tries to mend the broken relationship between his fiancée, Winnie (), and her father, WATCHMEN. 2009. BLU RAY Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), while R avenging the fate of his mentor, Lou (Frank Zack Snyder directs this adaptation of Alan Langella), by getting close to Wall Street's Moore and Dave Gibbons's graphic novel new megalomaniac, Bretton James (Josh set in a parallel Earth in 1985, where Brolin). Centered on the 2008 financial superheroes are prohibited from using their crisis, director Oliver Stone's follow-up is a powers despite the threat of nuclear war. modern-day ode to unfettered capitalism When one of their number is murdered, and, of course, greed. however, the outlaw heroes -- including Dr. Manhattan (), Silk Spectre (Carla Gugino), Rorschach (Jackie Earle THE WAR. 2007. DVD Haley) and Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) -- unite TV-14 to defend themselves. Documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick bring the harrowing history of World War II to life through the personal accounts THE WEATHER UNDERGOUND. 2002. of a handful of participants from four DVD "typical" American towns -- proving nothing UR was typical during this terrible time. This sobering documentary about a group of Historical footage and photographs combine 1960s "committed freedom fighters" known with realistic sound effects to create visceral as the Weather Underground chronicles a scenes of the battles at Omaha Beach, global trend of revolution that sprang from Guadalcanal, Okinawa and more in this the belief that not acting against violence is seven-part PBS presentation. violence. A radical offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, the Weathermen didn't just march or sit in: They rioted and . 1993. DVD bombed -- not to change the American PG political scene but rather to destroy it. In this intensely observational documentary, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker examines the inner workings of President Bill Clinton's first WEDDING IN GALILEE. 1988. DVD White House campaign in the early 1990s, NR focusing on the wizardry of James Carville The elder of a Palestinian village in Israel and George Stephanopoulos. One of the seeks and is granted permission to hold a founding members of the direct cinema traditional wedding for his son on one movement, Pennebaker applies the genre's condition: that the Israeli military governor hallmarks of reality and truth to craft a and his staff be guests of honor at the fascinating portrait of modern American ceremony. In director Michel Khlefi's first politics. feature, two disparate cultures come together (and set aside their complex differences) for one day of bipartisan WARM SPRING. 2003. DVD celebration. NR Fleeing the clutches of an abusive foster parent, orphan Xiao Hua finds safe haven in WELCOME TO SARAJEVO. 1997. DVD the home of a kindly old gent who vows to R give her everything he has to afford her a In Michael Winterbottom's heartbreaking film better life. But in the face of meager about war-torn Bosnia, resources, disapproving neighbors and a stars as English reporter Michael jealous son and daughter-in-law, the man's Henderson, one of many journalists good intentions meet more resistance than dispatched to cover the mayhem in the POS Dept. Video Library Page 56

Sarajevo. When Michael observes the countless children left orphaned by the war, THE WIND WILL CARRY US. 2000. DVD he risks his life to help spirit an orphan NR named Emira (Emira Nusevic) out of the This film's abstract, symbolic plot follows a country -- even as he competes with an man named Behzad and two of his American journalist (Woody Harrelson) to colleagues as they travel from Tehran, Iran, get the story. to the tiny village of Siah Dareh, located on a dry, barren mountainside. There they observe the harsh life and everyday . 1961. DVD activities of the villagers. Technology -- or UR the lack thereof -- figures prominently in this Winner of 10 Academy Awards including film, which is considered director Abbas Best Picture, this classic musical set among Kiarostami's most socially critical work. the tenements of New York City finds star- crossed lovers Maria () and Tony () caught in the midst WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE. 2004. DVD of a turf war between rival street gangs. The NR modern story features Deftly maintaining an evenhanded tone in original choreography by , tackling a sensitive topic, this documentary as adapted from the Broadway stage first traces the roots, rise and history production. Oscar winners and of the conservative evangelical movement in co-star. America. The film then goes on to explore how President George W. Bush's religious beliefs inform his decisions as the country's . 2005. DVD commander in chief. Included are rare PG-13 archival clips, interviews with leading Filmed during the Iraq War, Eugene evangelists and comments from key players Jarecki's Sundance Grand Jury Award- in Washington. winning documentary dissects America's military machine with a keen eye to answering a necessary question: Why do we WITHOUT THE KING. 2007. DVD engage in war? Through personal stories of NR soldiers, government officials, scholars, In this provocative documentary about journalists and innocent victims, the film Swaziland's ruling family -- the last absolute examines the political and economic monarchy on the African continent -- King interests and ideological factors, past and Mswati III faces myriad challenges as he present, behind American militarism. governs a troubled, poverty- and AIDS- stricken country where the average life expectancy is 31 years. The film contrasts 's lavish lifestyle with the meager existence of most of Swaziland's people, whose discontent has created the WILD CHINA. 2008. BLU RAY seeds of a revolutionary movement. NR This six-part series from the BBC uncovers THE WIZARD OF OZ. 1939. DVD some of the most exotic and uncharted G natural habitats hidden within the vast and There's no place like home for young diverse topography of China, including Dorothy (), who's been swept Yunnan's forests, the Tibetan plateau, the farm in Kansas to a Silk Road and the Mongol steppes. Through wonderland of munchkins, flying monkeys high-definition and other cutting-edge and different-colored horses. She must camera technologies, the footage presented follow the Yellow Brick Road to the all- here captures stunning wildlife sequences, knowing Wizard of Oz to find her way home. along with a plethora of breathtaking Along the way, she meets the Scarecrow landscape photography. (), the Tin Man (Jack Haley) and the Cowardly Lion (), who help her POS Dept. Video Library Page 57 fend off the Wicked Witch of the West Living alone in a tenement above the (Margaret Hamilton). railway, a grown Apu passes his days reading poetry, playing his wooden flute and looking for work. Although poor and without THE WOODEN CAMERA. 2003. DVD family, he remains hopeful about his future. NR After reuniting with a childhood friend, Apu Jean-Pierre Cassel stars in this engrossing marries the man's cousin. But marital bliss is drama about two friends, Madiba and Sipho, short-lived, as a terrible tragedy awaits the whose lives are changed forever after they newfound lovers. This is the third and final chance upon the body of a dead man and film in the renowned Apu trilogy from decide to make off with two of his director Satyajit Ray. belongings. Madiba chooses the man's video camera, while Sipho picks his gun. Their choices appear to signal the decisions XIU XIU: THE SENT DOWN GIRL. 1999. they'll make in near the future: Madiba DVD becomes , while Sipho R aggressively stalks the world. At the height of China's Cultural Revolution, a girl is sent to a remote area as part of a government initiative and finds her exile a WOODSTOCK. 1970. DVD liberating adventure -- and a nightmarish R trap. Brimming with beautiful images and The director's cut of Michael Wadleigh's moving performances, Xiu Xiu: The Sent Oscar-winning documentary restores Down Girl is a rich tale about the individual footage snipped from the original 1970 cost of collective decisions. Actress Joan release. With the help of a young editor Chen's directorial debut won accolades. named Martin Scorsese, Wadleigh not only chronicles Woodstock's memorable music and legendary artists, he also captures the THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON festival's dauntless free spirit. The VACATION. 2006. DVD presentation features live performances PG from, among others, ; the Who; When his parents' political leanings force his Janis Joplin; and Crosby, Stills and Nash. family to flee Brazil in haste, 12-year-old Mauro (Michel Joelsas) is left behind to live with his grandfather on the outskirts of São WORKING GIRL. 1988. DVD. [FILED WITH Paulo in the city's Jewish community. 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writing (the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay) YI YI. 2000. DVD characterize this highly fictionalized tale NR from John Ford. Among movie critics' highest-rated foreign films of 2000, Yi Yi chronicles three generations of a Taiwanese family mired in Z. 1969. DVD a crisis of self-doubt. The film focuses NR mostly on computer worker N.J. (Nien-Jen Based on true events, director Costa- Wu) and his wife and two children. A chance Gavras's Oscar-winning film closely parallels meeting with a former lover compels N.J. to the real-life assassination of a Greek doctor question the assumptions on which his life is and humanist whose 1963 murder led to based. Warm and thoughtful, Yi Yi posits public scandal and eventual overthrow of the that truth is something we may never know. democratic government in Greece. Part mystery and part thriller, the film made its YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU. 1939. mark as a groundbreaking political roman à DVD clef, and its edge-of-your-seat plot, vérité NR photography and driving score resonate In this Frank Capra classic, Tony (James even today. Stewart) and Alice (Jean Arthur) meet and fall in love. But things are far from rosy: He's the son of a millionaire, and she and her . 2012. DVD wacky family live in a house that's in the way R of the senior Kirby's construction project. For a decade, an elite team of intelligence Will an office building literally stand in the and military operatives, working in secret way of true love? The movie, adapted from a across the globe, devoted themselves to a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by George S. single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Kaufman and , delivers the Laden. ZERO DARK THIRTY reunites the answer. Oscar-winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer (2009, Best Picture, THE HURT YOUNG & RESTLESS IN CHINA. 2008. LOCKER) for the story of history's greatest DVD manhunt for the world's most dangerous NR man. Helmed by Sue Williams, this eye-opening documentary follows a cross section of Chinese entrepreneurs, pacesetters and struggling Gen-Xers swept up in a bubbling cauldron of rapid social and economic transition. Profiling a handful of people -- including an activist attorney, a hotelier and a downtrodden rap artist -- the film charts their trajectories over the course of four years and looks at how the sweeping transformations are affecting them.

YOUNG MR. LINCOLN. 1939. DVD NR With Henry Fonda in the title role, this biopic follows the future president through his early law career -- with the drama focusing on his defense of two brothers unjustly accused of murder -- and traces Honest Abe's budding political consciousness. Sure-handed direction, powerful performances and strong