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Monster Trucks

Lucas Till (Actor), Thomas Lennon (Actor), Chris Wedge (Director) · Paramount
Format: DVD

: Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a talent...
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The ghost army

~ Ghost Army · Pbs (Direct)
Format: DVD

The Ghost Army was officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. From June 1944 to March 1945 it staged 20 battlefield deceptions, beginning in Normandy and ending at the Rhine River. These deceptions included an array of inflatables (tanks, trucks, jeeps, and airplanes) , sound...
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The Art of Self-Defense

Riley Stearns · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) just can't seem to win. Attacked on the street, humiliated at his job and even emasculated by his dog, he joins a local karate dojo led by the enigmatic Sensei (Alessandro Nivola) to learn how to defend himself. In the midst of his training, Casey becomes...
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Phoenix

Nina Hoss · Criterion Collection (Direct)
Format: DVD video

A riveting mystery of identity unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany in the stunning new film from acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Barbara) . Nelly (Nina Hoss) , a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured...
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Love Gilda


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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Sophie Fiennes · Kino Lorber
Format: DVD

This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones's bold aesthetic. A larger-than-life entertainer, an androgynous glam-pop diva, an unpredictable...
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Phantom thread

Joanne Sellar · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD video

Set in 1950's London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.
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Chasing Shackleton

Edmund Wardle · PBS
Format: DVD video

Can six people endure Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic rescue mission today? Using a replica boat, and the same equipment and clothing as would have been used in 1914, explorer Tim Jarvis and his crew attempt to follow in Shackleton's wake, going beyond the point of no return, using their...
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Bridge of Spies DVD

Tom Hanks · Walt Disney Studios
Format: DVD

A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, BRIDGE OF SPIES is "absolutely brilliant and totally riveting" (Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times) . James Donovan (Tom Hanks) is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold...

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In search of greatness

Gabe Polsky; Wayne Gretzky; Jerry Rice; David Epstein; Gravitas Ventures (Firm),


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Bullet Head

Paul Solet · LIONSGATE
Format: DVD

Special Features:Deleted ScenesFilmmakers' CommentaryA Canine Point of View: Writing and Directing BULLET HEADCareer Criminals and Fighting Dogs: The Iconic Cast of BULLET HEADPreparation and Performance: The Animal Actors of BULLET HEADHymns and Fanfare: The Score of BULLET HEADBULLET...
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20Th Century Women

Billy Crudup · Lions Gate
Format: DVD

During the summer of 1979, at the sunset of the Carter presidency, a Santa Barbara single mom and boardinghouse landlord (Annette Bening) decides that the best way she can parent her teenage son (Lucas Jade Zumann) is to enlist her young tenants -- a quirky punk photographer (Greta...
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Slavery By Another Name

. · PBS (DIRECT)
Format: DVD

Slavery By Another Name challenges one of America s most cherished assumptions the belief that slavery in the US ended with Abraham Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation by telling the harrowing story of how in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking...
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Challenge

Yuri Ancarani · Kino Lorber
Format: DVD

Italian visual artist Yuir Ancarani's exquisite documentary The Challenge enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this Middle Easterm gas state is on full display as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized...
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