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The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns


starring: Civil War


: :No Description Available.Genre: DocumentaryRating: NRRelease Date: 28-SEP-2004Media Type: DVD :The most successful public-television miniseries in American history, the 11-hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the 'Ken Burns approach,' its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writer's name at their conclusion, fresh live footage of ...

The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition)


starring: Laurence Olivier, Sir Max Aitken, Stephen Ambrose, André Beaufre, David Belchem
directed by: Hugh Raggett, Ted Childs, David Elstein, Martin Smith (VII), John Pett


: essential video:Sir Jeremy Isaacs highly deserves the numerous awards for documentaries he has earned: the Royal Television Society's Desmond Davis Award, l'Ordre National du Mérit, an Emmy, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. His epic The World at War remains unsurpassed as the definitive visual history of World War II. The Second World War was different from other wars in thousands of ways, one of which was the unparalleled scope of visual documents kept by the Axis ...

The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara


starring: Robert McNamara
directed by: Errol Morris


: :The Fog of War, the movie that finally won Errol Morris the best documentary Oscar, is a spellbinder. Morris interviews Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and finds a uniquely unsettling viewpoint on much of 20th-century American history. Employing a ton of archival material, including LBJ's fascinating taped conversations from the Oval Office, Morris probes the reasons behind the U.S. commitment to the Vietnam War--and finds a depressingly inconsistent policy. McNamara himself emerges as--well, ...

Battle 360 - Season 1 (History Channel) (Steelbook)


starring: USS Enterprise
directed by: various


: :For nearly a decade, the legendary World War II aircraft carrier USS Enterprise held a pivotal place on the turbulent seas of war, engaging in some of the fiercest multi-front battles ever witnessed in modern combat. The only carrier to be front and center in every major sea conflict in the Pacific, the Enterprise and her crew s battles were marked by intense firepower, instinct and a 360-coordination between the ship, the destroyers, the aircraft above and the ...

Carrier


starring: .
directed by: Maro Chermayeff


: :CARRIER is a character driven, edge-of-your-seat, nonfiction drama as well as a total immersion in the high stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier. CARRIER follows a core group of film participants aboard the USS Nimitz, from the admiral of the strike group to the fighter pilots to the youngest sailors, as they navigate personal conflicts around their jobs, families, faith, patriotism, love, the rites of passage and the war on terror.

Dogfights -The Complete Season 2 (History Channel)


starring: Various
directed by: Rob Lihani


: :System Requirements:Running Time: 799 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 733961114195 Manufacturer No: AAAE114190

God Grew Tired of Us


starring: John Bul Dau, Panther Bior, Daniel Abul Pach
directed by: Christopher Quinn


: :An award-winning critically acclaimed documentary narrated by Nicole Kidman GOD GREW TIRED OF US explores the indomitable spirit of three Lost Boys from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. Traveling barefoot across the sub-Saharan desert John Bul Dau Daniel Abol Pach and Panther Blor were among the 25000 Lost Boys (ages 3 to 13) who fled villages formed surrogate families and sought refuge from famine disease wild animals and ...

The First World War - The Complete Series


starring: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Erich Ludendorff, Manfred von Richthofen, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
directed by: Simon Rockell, Marcus Kiggell, Corina Sturmer


:Description:This definitive ten-part series offers insight and analysis to provide a coherent and strategic military narrative of the worldwide conflict that changed history.

No End in Sight


starring: Campbell Scott, Gerald Burke, Ali Fadhil, Omar Fekeiki, Robert Hutchings (II)
directed by: Charles Ferguson (III)


: :The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq s descent into guerilla war warlord rule criminality and anarchy NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping insider s tale of wholesale incompetence recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in ...

The French Revolution (History Channel)


starring: George Ivascu, Phillip Levine (II), Rodica Lazar
directed by: Doug Shultz


: :On July 14 1789 a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism war murder and carnage followed bringing about the end of feudalism and the rise of equality and a new world order.THE FRENCH REVOLUTION is a definitive feature-length documentary that encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization. With dramatic reenactments illustrations and paintings from the era plus revealing accounts from journals and expert commentary ...



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