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"Napoleon is a new kind of hero, complete with a tight red 'fro, sweet moon boots, and skills that can't be topped. Napoleon spends his days drawing mythical beasts, duking it out with his older brother, Kip, and trying to avoid his scheming Uncle Rico. When two new friends enter Napoleon's life - shy Deb and mustachioed Pedro - the trio launches a campaign to elect Pedro for class president and make the student body's wildest dreams come true. But...
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An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes landmark independent and avant-garde works, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering special effects, one-reel adventures and comedies, cartoons and experimental animation, home movies, travel films from the 1910s, working training films from the 1920s, political ads from the 1930's, and other film types invented during the...
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Years ago, at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, a unique litter is born. Snoopy, Spike, Andy, Olaf, Marbles, Belle, Molly and Rover and brothers and sisters. They grow up and form a band. However, they become separated when they are sold. Years later, Charlie Brown can't help but notice how sad Snoopy has become. He suggests that Snoopy have a family reunion. The whole gang enthusiastically responds, and even when they return to their birthplace for the...
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A collection of films from the National Archives that include how the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war began, rescue missions, actual footage of daily activities, combat operations, and personal stories. Also included is a look at Vietnam's history, culture and economy, and a military training film about an airman who suffers medical consequences by not taking the necessary precautions as instructed by the Department of Defense.
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Video release compiling 35 of the artist's memorable and sometimes groundbreaking music videos. Throughout his illustrious career, Michael Jackson not only changed the way music sounded, he changed the way it looked. Breaking through barriers of all kinds--including the preconceived notion of a 'promotional music video', Michael created cinematic short films with universal appeal that brought his songs to life.
7) Private
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Mohammad, his wife Samia, and their five children live in a large, isolated house located midway between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement. Viewed as a strategic lookout point, the house is forcefully overtaken by Israeli soldiers, who confine Mohammad and his family to a few downstairs rooms in daytime and a single room at night. Against Samia's wishes, Mohammad decides to keep the family together in the house until the soldiers move...
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Frosty the snowman: When Frosty comes to life, he must weather a storm of adventures and the plans of an evil magician before he can find safety and happiness at the North Pole. Frosty returns: When a power-hungry tycoon invents a product that will eliminate snow, Holly must convince the people of Beansboro to save the snow and her friend Frosty.
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Expect to find exploding cars, innocent bystanders smacked in the head with hammers, half-naked underware models chased by cross-dressing villains, auctioneers crawling across airplane wings to retrieve false teeth, memory-impaired lovers, somnambulists, drunken reprobates, deranged acrobats, and the Keystone Kops.
10) Das Fräulein
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Das Fräulein is the story of two Balkan refugees. Reza owns a restaurant and has lived in Switzerland for 25 years. Ana is a Bosnian who breezes into Reza's life and injects both joy and discontent. Happiness describes a Polish American woman who buys a box of happiness in a store and cannot decide what to do with it.
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Focusing on the work of French filmmaker Jean Painlevé, this collection features twenty-three Painlevé nature films; a 2005 performance of the ninety-minute score, The sounds of science, written in 2001 by members of the rock group Yo La Tengo to accompany eight of Painlevé's films; an interview with Yo La Tengo; and the eight-part 1988 French television series, Jean Painlevé au fil de ses films, which explores Painlevé's life and work through...
13) The general
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Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved, an engineer sets out to win the Civil War single handedly with the help of his cherished locomotive. The film simltaneously comic and historically accurate in its details.
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Islam has more than 1.2 billion adherents worldwide. Today, it is imperative that the West understand Islam's role as both a religion and a way of life, what Muslims believe, their practices and history. This set of twelve thirty-minute lectures present an exploration of Islamic law, mysticism, civilization, and Muslim life and society through the ages. Examines the "struggle for the soul of Islam" occurring today between conservatives and reformers,...
19) War made easy : how presidents & pundits keep spinning us to death: The bases are loaded ; Flight
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Three films examine modern American war, especially the Iraq War, and the propaganda, political agendas, and deceptions that may underly it. War made easy, based on the bestselling book by Norman Solomon, examines the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq, and how propaganda and the media are used to persuade the nation that military aggression has been the appropriate...
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