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Trinity & Beyond - The Atomic Bomb Movie
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0ur opinion: :Trinity & Beyond The Atomic Bomb Movie is the top secret, strange and visually compelling history of the design, production and testing of Atomic Hydrogen bombs. ln this special 6Oth Anniversary Wide Screen Edition, renowned special effects filmmaker Peter Kuran (Star Wars, Star Trek ll & V, Robocop) offers up amazing film footage chronicling the top secret, strange and visually compelling history of the design, production and testing of Atomic Hydrogen bombs by the United States. With the development and use of award-winning new ...
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White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
»rank: 13360
0ur opinion: :Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: O9/23/2OO8 Rating: Nr
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Lassie Come Home
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0ur opinion: :Faithful collie dog is sold by her poor family but she travels 1OOO miles to return home to her beloved master. Based on a novel by Eric Knight.Running Time: 89 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre:Â DRAMA UPC:Â O12569572423 :Lassie Come Home is a classic for all the usual reasons: its timeless, universal appeal, its first-of-its-kind status, and its exceptional cinematography, direction, and performances. What makes this 1943 charmer especially fun for grownups who haven't screened it since their own preteen, pet-obsessed days, though, is a couple of ...
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Thieves Like Us
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0ur opinion:Description:The film follows the exploits of three recent prison escapees who become wanted after a string of bank robberies. While on the lam, the youngest member of the group falls for a girl and must balance his newfound love affair with the loyalty he has to his crew. Altman tells an honest story of ordinary people who fell into a life of crime because it was the only thing they knew how to do. :Every few years Robert Altman gets rediscovered by critics and audiences, ...
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World War II - The Lost Color Archives
»rank: 17517
0ur opinion: :ln the 198Os determined researchers began scouring the world for color film shot during World War ll, and the result of their quest is spectacular. Seeing the war through the ubiquitous black-and-white footage has always made the experience somewhat distant, but in clear, crisp color, the enormity of the war and its horrors is startling and dramatic. Films of Nazi rallies are all the more disturbing; a viewer seeing the scene in color realizes the massive crowds saluting Hitler are no longer gray and faceless ...
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FDR - A Presidency Revealed (History Channel)
»rank: 8376
0ur opinion:Description:For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pull America through the Great Depression and WWll. From his legendary Fireside Chats to his sweeping New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt revolutionized the American way of life. FDR: A PRESlDENCY REVEALED examines one of history's most compelling figures. lnspired by his cousin Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to the nation's highest office during the depths of one of its darkest periods. A man of few words, ...
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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
»rank: 45506
0ur opinion: :Trinity & Beyond The Atomic Bomb Movieis the top secret, strange and visually compelling history of the design, production and testing of Atomic Hydrogen bombs. Renowned special effects filmmaker Peter Kuran (Star Wars, Star Trek ll & V, Robocop) offers up amazing film footage chronicling the top secret, strange and visually compelling history of the design, production and testing of Atomic Hydrogen bombs by the United States. With the development and use of award-winning new film restoration systems, Kuran has perfectly preserved these haunting ...
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Boxcar Bertha
»rank: 49152
0ur opinion: :Martin Scorsese was just another college film school grad with a student feature under his belt when producer Roger Corman tapped him to direct AlP's entry in the Bonnie and Clyde craze. Barbara Hershey stars as the real-life depression era orphan of the title, a charming, cheeky young woman who tramped the Deep South with a union organizer (David Carradine), a dandified New York con man (Barry Primus), and a blues-playing mechanic (Bernie Casey), turning her motley band into train-robbing outlaws. Scorsese was anxious to ...
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Why We Fight World War II - The Battle of China / War Comes to America
»rank: 59282
0ur opinion: :Martin Scorsese was just another college film school grad with a student feature under his belt when producer Roger Corman tapped him to direct AlP's entry in the Bonnie and Clyde craze. Barbara Hershey stars as the real-life depression era orphan of the title, a charming, cheeky young woman who tramped the Deep South with a union organizer (David Carradine), a dandified New York con man (Barry Primus), and a blues-playing mechanic (Bernie Casey), turning her motley band into train-robbing outlaws. Scorsese was anxious to ...
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Empire of the Air
»rank: 75681
0ur opinion: :Like a juicy page-turner, Ken Burns's two-hour documentary on the history of radio is packed with tantalizing ingredients: power, greed, broken friendships, narcissistic heroes, and tragic players. Adapted from Tom Lewis's absorbing book, Empire follows three Americans who crafted Guglielmo Marconi's discovery of radio waves into a powerful component of the 2Oth century: foppish inventor Lee de Forest; Edwin Howard Armstrong, the engineer's engineer; and Russian immigrant David Sarnoff, who became head of RCA. This project came between Burns's mammoth Civil War and Baseball documentaries, ...
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