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- Koran By Heart DVD
- In this 80-minute documentary, three 10-year-old children leave their native countries to participate in one of the Islamic world’s most famous competitions, a test of memory and recitation known as The International Holy Koran Competition. Up against much older students, these youngsters… [ read more ]
- $19.98


- Love Crimes of Kabul DVD
- At Afghanistan’s Badam Bagh Women’s Prison, half the inmates are jailed for “moral crimes.” Though these would hardly be considered punishable crimes in the western world, behavior in Afghanistan is strictly controlled by an ideology of honor, and transgression can bring ruin to an entire… [ read more ]
- $19.98


- Mann v. Ford DVD
- This feature documentary follows members of the Ramapough Mountain Indian tribe in Ringwood, NJ, in their five-year search for justice through a mass-action, tort lawsuit. From the middle ‘50s to the late ‘70s, the Ford Motor Company operated an assembly plant in Mahwah, NJ that produced… [ read more ]
- $19.98


- Saving Face DVD
- Every year in Pakistan, at least 100 people are victimized by acid attacks. The majority of these are women, and many cases go unreported. With little or no access to reconstructive surgery, survivors are physically and emotionally scarred, while many reported assailants – typically a… [ read more ]
- $19.95


- Saving Pelican 895 DVD
- From Emmy® - winning filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodksy: The Louisiana state bird – the brown pelican – spent 45 years on the endangered species list. After years of being relocated back to its natural habitat, the April 2010 BP explosion and oil spill ravaged the brown pelican’s nesting homes… [ read more ]
- $19.98


- Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech
- Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus explores the current state of free speech in America and gives viewers a fascinating perspective on the First Amendment throughout our history. Through contemporary case studies dealing with the complex issue of limits on free speech at public… [ read more ]
- $19.98


- The Alzheimer's Project DVD
- One of the most devastating forms of memory loss is Alzheimer's disease, an irreversible and progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. Today, Alzheimer's is the second most-feared illness in America, following cancer, and may affect as many as five million… [ read more ]
- $19.97


- There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane DVD
- On the afternoon of July 26, 2009, Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway in New York for nearly two miles, eventually smashing into an oncoming SUV and killing herself, her daughter, three nieces, and all three people in the other car. Only her five-year-old son… [ read more ]
- $19.98


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- Too Big To Fail Blu-ray with HBO Select
- Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big To Fail offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film… [ read more ]
- $39.95


- White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki DVD
- The trauma of war lingers long after the scars have healed. On August 6, 1945, American forces dropped an atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Steven Okazaki's HBO special "White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (2007) tells the story of… [ read more ]
- $19.99


- Silencing the Song: An Afghan Fallen Star DVD
- HBO Documentary Films presents Silencing the Song: An Afghan Fallen Star, a follow up to the Sundance Award-winning Afghan Star, which premiered on HBO in March 2010. Afghan Star followed the stories of four contestants on Afghanistan’s hugely popular reality-TV singing competition,… [ read more ]
- $19.98


- No One Dies in Lily Dale DVD
- Lily Dale, NY has the largest community of adults with the ability to communicate with the dead. [ read more ]
- $19.98


- Wartorn: 1861-2010 DVD
- Civil War doctors called it hysteria, melancholia and insanity. During the First World War it was known as shell shock. By World War II, it became combat fatigue. Today, it is clinically known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a crippling anxiety that results from exposure to… [ read more ]
- $19.99


- Taxicab Confessions: NY NY Parts 1-3 DVD
- Emmy®-winning documentary series, Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York Parts 1-3 heads back to the familiar streets of the Big Apple to record more intimate nocturnal conversations with actual NYC taxicab passengers. In this special, a desperate group of revelers, fetishists,… [ read more ]
- $24.98


- Boy Interrupted DVD
- On the night of Oct. 2, 2005, Hart and Dana Perry’s 15-year-old son Evan jumped to his death from his New York City bedroom window. This moving film is the story, told by his filmmaker parents and others who knew him, of Evan’s life and death, and his life-long struggle with bipolar… [ read more ]
- $19.98


- I Can't Do This But, I Can Do That: A Film For Families About Learning...
- This 30-minute documentary takes an enlightening look at young people with a wide spectrum of learning differences, offering a compelling portrait of the ways in which these children are able to compensate by using their strengths to overcome their challenges.Many say they are no different… [ read more ]
- $19.98


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