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Travelling Birds (Winged Migration)
(2001) [G]

An odyssey over three years in the making, Winged Migration certainly is an amazing experience to behold. Its most impressive and moving achievement is its ability to draw the viewer into an almost foreign world, traveling along with a myriad of bird species as they undertake their semiannual...  More

The Gleaners and I
(2000) [G]

An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd...  More

Lost in La Mancha (2 Disc Set)
(2002) [M]

In August 2000, master filmmaker Terry Gilliam finally got his oppurtunity to create his dream film he laboured for a decade, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Assembling his film crew, he prepares his production in what promises to be the biggest budgeted feature film using only European...  More

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History / Natural History of the Chicken
(1988) [PG]

'Cane Toads' is the story of how cane toads were introduced to Queensland to combat the cane grub. Instead, they promptly multiplied. To biologists, the Cane Toads are a scourge, destroying native wildlife, while alternatively to many Queenslanders, they are seen as a sort of mascot. The hilarity...  More

My Voyage to Italy (2 disc set)
(1999) [M]

One of the most acclaimed directors of our time, Academy Award nominee Martin Scorsese directs and narrates this in-depth exploration of the careers of great Italian filmmakers and their art's profound influence on him. Scorsese highlights the classics of Italian cinema, from post-war neo-realism...  More

One Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi)
(2000) [M]

One Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist that in the late seventies (when almost nobody...  More

Spellbound (documentary)
(2002) [G]

Jeff Blitz’s Academy Award-Nominated Documentary is an affecting, inspiring look at eight American children as they compete in the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Defying stereotypes, the spellers run the ethnic and socioeconomic gamut, offering equal doses of humour, heartbreak...  More

The Fog of War
(2003) [PG]

Former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara was one of the most controversial and influential political figures of the 20th century. Now - for the first time ever - he sits down one on one with award-winning director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue...  More

To Be and To Have (Etre et Avoir)
(2002) [G]

Charting the events within a small single-class village school over the course of one academic year, Etre et Avoir takes a warm and serene look at primary education in the French heartlands. A dozen youngsters, aged 4-10, are brought together in a rural classroom and taught every subject by a...  More

Capturing the Friedmans (2 disc set)
(2003) [MA]

Capturing The Friedmans is a non-fiction film that explores the elusive nature of the truth through the prism of one of the strangest criminal cases in American history. The Friedmans seem at first to be a typical family. Arnold Friedman is an award winning school teacher, his wife Elaine a...  More