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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
(1999) [M]

From Errol Morris, the award-winning director of The Thin Blue Line , comes the provocative true story of Fred A. Leuchter. Jr. The son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert, Leuchter was hired by prisons across the country to make capital punishment equipment more humane. When...  More

The Right Stuff (2 disc set)
(1983) [M]

In the middle of the 20th century, America pondered its future - and looked to the skies. Based on Tom Wolfe's book, The Right Stuff is the tale of how that future began, a thrilling epic of intrepid test pilot Chuck Yeager and the seven pioneering astronauts of the Project Mercury space program....  More

Shooting the Past (2 disc set)
(1999) [M]

A three part drama written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff about the battle to save a vast photographic library. A US property developer finds the library employees still ensconced in a London building he's come to renovate. After unsuccessfully trying to sell the pictures to an advertising...  More

Into Great Silence (2 Disc Set)
(2005) [G]

The Grande Chartreuse, the Mother House of the legendary Carthusian Order of Monks, sits in solitude high in the French Alps. Into Great Silence is the first film to open the doors on life inside the Grande Chartreuse. Silence. Repetition. Rhythm Changing of time, season, and the eer-repeated...  More

Shoah (Disc 1 of 4)
(1985) [PG]

Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants, and eyewitnesses of the Final Solution - the Nazi's effort to systematically exterminate human beings. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, SHOAH...  More

Shoah (Disc 2 of 4)
(1985) [PG]

Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants, and eyewitnesses of the Final Solution - the Nazi's effort to systematically exterminate human beings. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, SHOAH...  More

Shoah (Disc 3 of 4)
(1985) [PG]

Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants, and eyewitnesses of the Final Solution - the Nazi's effort to systematically exterminate human beings. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, SHOAH...  More

Shoah (Disc 4 of 4)
(1985) [PG]

Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants, and eyewitnesses of the Final Solution - the Nazi's effort to systematically exterminate human beings. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, SHOAH...  More

Blair
(2008) [PG]

Tony Blair, Britain's former Prime Minister, tells the story of his ten years in power (1997 2007) and the major events which marked his premiership. Concentrating on the world crises and conflicts during this period and built around in-depth interviews with Mr Blair in which he talks candidly...  More

Life under Napoleon
(2006) [PG]

Perfume, cognac, champagne, wax figures, busts wherever we look, we find the French emperor's legacy. But we're not really conscious of just how much the many innovations that Napoleon introduced shape today's world. Laws, customs, machines, figures of speech; many have their roots in the...  More