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American Masters: This Is Bob Hope...

n · PBS Distribution
Format: DVD

During his eight-decade career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment: Vaudeville, Broadway, movies, radio, television, popular song and personal appearances. American Masters explores the entertainer's life with unprecedented...
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Forget Paris

Billy Crystal · Turner Home Ent
Format: DVD

The romantic life of NBA referee Billy Crystal is on the rebound when he falls for airline employee Debra Winger. Crystal also directs this transatlantic comedy slam dunk with top-notch supporting cast of comedy pros, including Joe Mantegna, Cathy Moriarty and William Hickey.
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Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Season 2

Maggie Smith · PBS (Direct)
Format: DVD

...it remains a glorious, escapist entertainment which, as the fabric of society is torn asunder, the economy crashes around our ears and the autumnal rain lashes down, should at least keep us distracted until Christmas. --Andrew Pettie, The TelegraphSex, blackmail, girls in nice frocks...
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Room on the Broom

n · PBS Distribution
Format: DVD

A story about a kind witch who invites a surprising collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her cat. The gang ultimately saves the witch from a fearsome dragon, and in gratitude she rewards them with a magnificent new broom which has room for everyone....
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Jay Roach · New Line Home Video
Format: DVD video

Intent on world domination, diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back to 1969 and steals Austin's "mojo". Now Austin must return to the swingin' sixties, recover his mojo and stop his nemesis from liquidating the world.
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Odd Squad: Odd Squad Villains - Best Of The Worst

· Pbs (Direct)
Format: DVD

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The Dark Knight Rises

~ Christian Bale · Warner Bros. Pictures
Format: DVD

Set eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, TDK Rises finds Bruce Wayne broken in spirit and body from his moral and physical battle with the Joker. Gotham City is at peace primarily because Batman took the fall for Harvey Dent's murder, allowing the former district attorney's...
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American Epic DVD

n · PBS Distribution
Format: DVD

From executive producers T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford and Jack White, this is the story of early American recorded music when the musical strands of a nation first combined to spark a cultural renaissance that forever transformed the future of music and the world. Also includes a feature-length...
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Craft in America: Borders and Neighbors DVD

n · PBS Distribution
Format: DVD

CRAFT IN AMERICA, the Peabody Award-winning documentary series, is an inspirational journey to the artists, objects, techniques, and origins of American craft. BORDERS and NEIGHBORS explore the connections between Mexico and the United States through craft.
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Steel Magnolias

Olympia Dukakis · Tristar Pictures
Format: Print book

The exclusive documentary is essentially a tribute to the memory of Susan Harling--the diabetic sister of Steel Magnolias playwright-screenwriter Robert Harling--whose death inspired both play and film. Robert Harling's comments are warm and welcome, but several primary cast members are absent...
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CSI: Miami: Season 6

David Caruso · Paramount
Format: DVD

David Caruso, Emily Procter, Kim Delaney. A fine cast continues to make this fact-based drama a huge success with a sixth season of spellbinding cases from crime scene investigations in the Sunshine State. Includes 21 episodes on 6 DVDs. 2007-08/color/15 hrs., 14 min/NR/widescreen.
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Pearl Harbor (Two-Disc 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition) (2001)

Michael Bay · Touchstone Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

History comes alive in the unforgettable epic motion picture PEARL HARBOR, the spectacular blockbuster brought to the screen by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. Astounding visual and audio effects put you at the center of the event that changed the world -- that early Sunday morning in paradise...
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Dragonheart: 2 Legendary Tales

Dennis Quaid · Universal Studios
Format: DVD

A freelance knight turns against the tyrant king he tutored as a boy, by teaming with the last dragon on earth. To defeat the boy-king, however, the dragon must die.
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