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King of jazz

John Murray Anderson · The Criterion Collection
Format: DVD video

Long available only in incomplete form, this film appears here newly restored to its original glory, offering a fascinating snapshot of the way mainstream American popular culture viewed itself at the dawn of the 1930s.
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Ballers: The Complete First S1

Various · HBO Studio
Format: DVD

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Wild Strawberries

Peter Cowie · Criterion Collection
Format: Book

The film that catapulted Bergman to the forefront of world cinema is the director's richest, most humane movie. Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg (masterfully played by the veteran Swedish director Victor Sjostrom) , is forced to face his past, come to terms...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Gary Trousdale · Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment ; Burbank
Format: DVD video

Quasimodo ventures from his tower to the joyous festival of fools, but the crowd turns cruel and rejects him because of the way he looks. The gypsy Esmeralda rescues him and he finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves--while reminding us to see people as they are rather...
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Garfield: 20 Stories

· Pbs (Direct)
Format: DVD

Join everyone's favorite fat cat Garfield, along with his pal Odie and owner Jon Arbuckle, for twenty hilarious adventures from the classic Saturday morning animated series! Garfield lives to sleep and eat - especially when lasagna is on the menu. Tag along with Garfield and friends as they...
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Jazz Loft

Sara Fishko · Kino Lorber
Format: DVD

In 1950s Manhattan, a dingy, five-story wreck of a loft building becomes the home and obsession of the brilliant photographer W. Eugene Smith who leaves his family and moves there to live the artist s life. Smith, crashing after a stellar but frustrating career at LIFE Magazine, wires the building...
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American Masters: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise DVD

n · PBS Distribution
Format: DVD video

This film celebrates Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her life during some of America s most defining moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South, to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana...
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Before I Fall

Zoey Deutch · Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Samantha Kingston has everything: the perfect friends, the perfect guy, and a seemingly perfect future. But after one fateful night, Sam is trapped reliving the same day over and over, and starts to question just how perfect her life really was. As she untangles the mystery of a life derailed,...
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The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare · Modern Library; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

“I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.”—The Comedy of Errors Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this raucous story of mistaken identity and family—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive...
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Robocop

Arne L Schmidt · Orion Pictures Corporation
Format: DVD

There's a new law enforcer in town and he's half man, half machine! From the director of Total Recall and Basic Instinct comes a "sci-fi fantasy with sleek, high-powered drive" (Time) about an indestructible high-tech policeman who dishes out justice at every turn! When...
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Welcome to Me

Kristen Wiig

A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
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Nature's Great Race DVD

n · PBS
Format: DVD

Every year, millions of animals embark on epic journeys on an astonishing scale, crossing hostile landscapes, traveling hundreds of miles, overcoming fearsome obstacles, and facing intense dangers in a race to reach their destination. Follow caribou, elephants, and zebra on breathtaking...
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Secrets of the dead. Teotihuacan's lost kings

Jens Afflerbach
Format: DVD video

Follow a team of international scientists documenting an archeological sensation: the exploration of royal tombs beneath the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacn'?. Not much is known about this long-lost society. When archeologists discover evidence of a sacrificial chamber beneath the famous...
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Labor Day

Kate Winslet · Paramount
Format: DVD

Thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele, all the while confronting the pangs of adolescence. Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, an intimidating man clearly in need of help. Frank convinces them to take him into...
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Risen

Cliff Curtis · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

RISEN is the epic Biblical story of the Resurrection, as told through the eyes of a non-believer. Clavius (Joseph Fiennes) , a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius (Tom Felton) , are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus (Cliff Curtis) in the weeks...
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