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The Press Secretary - A Fascinating All-Access Look Inside Clinton's White House Press Office
:Description:It’s September 2000, and Bill Clinton is in the final months of his Presidency. With access not allowed since the Kennedy administration, you’re there as high-definition cameras capture a fascinating insider’s view of the tense scenes swirling around White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart. Eavesdrop on high-level officials, see behind-the-scenes dramas as they happen, and hear candid insights from White House correspondents Helen Thomas and Claire Shipman.
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Presence
:Description:It’s September 2000, and Bill Clinton is in the final months of his Presidency. With access not allowed since the Kennedy administration, you’re there as high-definition cameras capture a fascinating insider’s view of the tense scenes swirling around White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart. Eavesdrop on high-level officials, see behind-the-scenes dramas as they happen, and hear candid insights from White House correspondents Helen Thomas and Claire Shipman.
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Earthworm Tractors
:Description:It’s September 2000, and Bill Clinton is in the final months of his Presidency. With access not allowed since the Kennedy administration, you’re there as high-definition cameras capture a fascinating insider’s view of the tense scenes swirling around White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart. Eavesdrop on high-level officials, see behind-the-scenes dramas as they happen, and hear candid insights from White House correspondents Helen Thomas and Claire Shipman.
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Whisper Kill
:Description:It’s September 2000, and Bill Clinton is in the final months of his Presidency. With access not allowed since the Kennedy administration, you’re there as high-definition cameras capture a fascinating insider’s view of the tense scenes swirling around White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart. Eavesdrop on high-level officials, see behind-the-scenes dramas as they happen, and hear candid insights from White House correspondents Helen Thomas and Claire Shipman.
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Sergeant York
: essential video:Gary Cooper plays Alvin York, the real-life country lad and sharpshooter drafted to fight during World War I but blocked from killing by his pacifist sentiments. Howard Hawks makes a rousing, heroic film out of the tale, and Cooper gives one of his best performances (for which he won an Oscar). The 1941 feature seems as much a valentine to wartime America (and a not-so-subtle piece of propaganda) as anything, with Hawks capturing splendidly shot scenes of life in York's home state of Tennessee, which in turn provide a striking contrast ...
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Earthworm Tractors (Natural Born Salesman, A)
:Description:With JOE E. BROWN, JUNE TRAVIS, GUY KIBBEE, DICK FORAN, GENE LOCKHART. Wide-mouthed funny-man Joe E. Brown was at his best playing comically oblivious braggarts who were single-minded in their self-assurance. They would bluster on about being the best at everything but ultimately would prove to be far less than infallible. Here Brown stars as Alexander Botts, a self-described 'natural born salesman.' Lately hes been hawking nondescript gadgets, and there is very little profit here. This displeases the father of the girl he loves. She isnt too impressed herself. She tells Botts that ...
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They Died with Their Boots On
: essential video:Bert Glennon, who shot Stagecoach and seven other John Ford classics, has given this Raoul Walsh biopic of George Armstrong Custer a burnished glow--an evocative interplay of raw sunlight and elegiac shadow like no other vintage Warner Bros. Western. Glennon's artistry and Walsh's trademark gusto sustain enthusiasm even as the screenplay beggars belief. The flamboyant Custer (Errol Flynn), rushed into Civil War service straight from West Point, did get promoted overnight to general and establish a spectacular record for 'ride to the guns' leadership. However, Custer as defender of Indians' rights--to ...
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