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The Weather Underground
(more) »rank: 6219starring: Tse-tung Mao, Walter Mondale, Brian Flanagan (II), Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon
directed by: Sam Green (II), Bill Siegel
: :The key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this Oscar-nominated documentary. The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took their scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to especially violent extremes. Never a well-populated movement, the Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, weary of hiding, most of them had turned themselves over to the authorities. That journey, by which a fire-breathing revolutionary such as Bernadine Dohrn became a (still fiery) gray-haired wife and mother, is an intriguing one. This film, rich in period footage ...
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
(more) »rank: 8603starring: John Lennon, Pat Nixon, Chris Charlesworth, Everett Dirksen, Gloria Emerson
directed by: David Leaf, John Scheinfeld
:Description:The compelling and provocative story of John Lennon's evolution from beloved Beatle to outspoken artist and activist to iconic inspiration for peace, and how, in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in American history, Lennon stood his ground, refused to be silenced and courageously won his battle with the U.S. Government. :In retrospect, it seems absurd that the United States government felt so threatened by the presence of John Lennon that they tried to have him deported. But that's what happened, as chronicled in directors David Leaf and John Scheinfeld's The U.S. vs. John Lennon. The film starts ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream
(more) »rank: 8998starring: Martin Luther King Jr.
:Description:'I have a dream today.' On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King spoke these words as he addressed a crowd of more than 200,000 civil rights protesters gathered at The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Two months earlier, President John Kennedy had sent a civil rights bill to Congress, but it was struck down. Although Kennedy was concerned about the possibility of widespread violence during this protest, he realized he was powerless to stop it and embraced the movement instead. Known as the 'March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' the country expected to hear King deliver strong words to his ...
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Naqoyqatsi
(more) »rank: 16771starring: Marlon Brando, Bella Donna, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bhagwan Mirchandani
directed by: Godfrey Reggio
:Description:Miramax Home Entertainment and Oscar(R)-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, TRAFFIC, 2000) present NAQOYQATSI ('Life As War'), from filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, in collaboration with composer Phillip Glass, whose original score features renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In this cinematic concert -- the concluding film of the Qatsi Trilogy preceded by the critically acclaimed KOYAANISQATSI ('Life Out Of Balance'), and POWAQQATSI ('Life In Transformation') -- mesmerizing images reanimated from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, chronicle the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic, and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy ...
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Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
(more) »rank: 10162starring: Thelonious Monk, Nica De Koenigswarter, Barry Harris, Bob Jones (IV), Johnny Griffin
directed by: Charlotte Zwerin
:Description:Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser. Filmmaker Bruce Ricker couldn't believe his luck. Michael and Christian Blackwood's extensive 1968 footage of the groundbreaking modern jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, including the only footage of the very private Monk off stage, was in excellent condition. The reels were, in Ricker's words, 'just sitting there like the Dead Sea Scrolls of jazz.' Ricker, as co-producer, joins director and fellow producer Charlotte Zwerin (Gimme Shelter), executive producer Clint Eastwood and others to bring these scrolls to astonishing life. Their Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser combines the Blackwood's rare footage of Monk in studio on ...
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Mike Douglas - Moments & Memories
(more) »rank: 17156starring: Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Newhart, John Lennon, Mel Brooks, Bill Cosby
directed by: Al Greenfield
: :- Before there was Oprah or Dr. Phil or Ellen, or any of these people, there was Mike Douglas.- - Jay Leno, remembering Mike Douglas on The Tonight ShowLegendary daytime talk show host Mike Douglas influenced many of today's biggest stars, including Barbara Walters, Jay Leno, Regis Philbin, and Rosie O'Donnell, among many others. He ruled daytime talk from 1961 to 1982, reaching as many as 15 million people with a single show and averaging an astounding seven million viewers a day. MOMENTS AND MEMORIES takes a look back at Douglas' tenure as talk-show-host extraordinaire. The program unlocks a plethora ...
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The Search for Robert Johnson
(more) »rank: 9346starring: John Hammond, Miller Carter, Eric Clapton, Wink Clark, Honeyboy Edwards
directed by: Chris Hunt
: :- Before there was Oprah or Dr. Phil or Ellen, or any of these people, there was Mike Douglas.- - Jay Leno, remembering Mike Douglas on The Tonight ShowLegendary daytime talk show host Mike Douglas influenced many of today's biggest stars, including Barbara Walters, Jay Leno, Regis Philbin, and Rosie O'Donnell, among many others. He ruled daytime talk from 1961 to 1982, reaching as many as 15 million people with a single show and averaging an astounding seven million viewers a day. MOMENTS AND MEMORIES takes a look back at Douglas' tenure as talk-show-host extraordinaire. The program unlocks a plethora ...
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Citizen King
(more) »rank: 9981starring: Taylor Branch, David Halberstam, Martin Luther King, Andrew Young
directed by: Noland Walker, Orlando Bagwell
:Description:CITIZEN KING, a two-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmakers Orlando Bagwell and Noland Walker, explores the last five years in the life of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Personal recollections and eyewitness accounts of friends, movement associates, journalists, law enforcement officers, and historians illuminate this little-known chapter in the story of America's most influential moral leader in the 20th century.
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The History Channel Presents Voices of Civil Rights
(more) »rank: 9171starring: Martin Luther King Jr.
: :From the fearless resolve of a single man to the remarkable voices of thousands marching VOICES OF CIVIL RIGHTS provides a stunning overview of one of America s greatest defining moments.VOICES OF CIVIL RIGHTS: This collection of personal narratives was created by a group of journalists photographers and videographers as they embarked on a bus trip around the country to create the largest archive of oral histories of the Civil Rights Movement.MISSISSIPPI STATE SECRETS: Go inside the shadowy operations of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission whose job was to spy on people connected to the Civil Rights Movement.CROSSING THE BRIDGE: ...
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Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
(more) »rank: 32898starring: Angela Bassett, Jeremy Rabb, Andre Braugher, Eric Foner, Kemp Harris
directed by: Noland Walker, Jacquie Jones, Susan Bell
:Description:Africans in America is now available on DVD! Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery is the groundbreaking series that makes history by sharing it from a new perspective. Nearly ten years in the making, this landmark six-hour set exposes the truth through surprising revelations, dramatic recreations, rare archival photography and riveting first-person accounts. :'Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged.' So says WGBH about its six-hour series Africans in America, and they are absolutely right. Interviews with historians and luminaries such as General ...
