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Annika: Season One Masterpiece

Nicola Walker, Jamie Sives, Katie Leung, Ukweli Roach, Kate Dickie, Silvie Furneaux, Paul McGann - PBS (Direct)
Format: DVD

DI Annika Strandhed (Nicola Walker) has returned to Glasgow to head up the Marine Homicide Unit, where she is tasked with solving the puzzling crimes and unexplained murders that wash up in Scotland's waters. Producer: Kieran Parker. Authors: Nick Walker, Lucia Haynes, Frances Poet.
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ABC's: Introducing the Alphabet

- The Brainy Baby Learning Library
Format: DVD-ROM

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The Queen

Stephen Frears - Miramax Home Entertainment
Format: DVD video

The Queen begins with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"--Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of adroit use of newsreel...
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Das Boot : The director's cut [DVD]

Ju?rgen Prochnow - Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

At the height of World War II, a young submarine crew heads out to sea on a top-secret mission that all but ensures most will never make it home alive. Ordered to patrol the Atlantic and destroy an allied armada bringing supplies to Britain, these raw recruits must band together, bracing...
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A CHRISTMAS STORY

Peter Billingsley - Warner Home Video
Format: Video

A wild and witty look at the all-American family at Christmas. It reflects a time when all a boy really wanted was a Red Ryder BB gun. You'll shoot your eye out.
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The Wicker Man

Cage, Nicolas
Format: DVD


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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Single-Disc Edition) (2008)

Frank Marshall - Paramount Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Nearly 20 years after riding his last Crusade, Harrison Ford makes a welcome return as archaeologist/relic hunter Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, an action-packed fourth installment that's, in a nutshell, less memorable than the first three but great...
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Cadillac Records

Adrien Brody - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Cadillac Records chronicles the rise of Leonard Chess' (Adrien Brody) Chess Records and its recording artists including Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright) , Little Walter (Columbus Short) , Chuck Berry (Mos Def) , Willie Dixon (Cedric The Entertainer) and the great Etta James (Beyonce...
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In Defense of Food

Michael Schwarz - Pbs (Direct)
Format: DVD video

Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants. With those seven words, journalist Michael Pollan distills a careers worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to peoples health by todays industrially-driven Western diet. Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most...
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I, Daniel Blake The Criterion Collection

Ken Loach - Criterion Collection
Format: DVD

An urgent response to the political realities of contemporary Britain, this bracing drama from celebrated filmmaker Ken Loach takes a hard look at bureaucratic injustice and ineptitude through the eyes of an unassuming working-class hero. After a heart attack leaves him unable to hold a job,...
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