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starring: Howard R. Hughes
An award-winning new film exploring his extraordinary life on a DVD packed with special features!
Winner: "Grand Festival Award" for Best Documentary at the 2004 Berkeley Video & Film Festival.
In Howard Hughes: The Real Aviator, Howard Hughes tells his own story for the first time. Through his own words, taken from his actual memos, conversations and interviews, the man who broke aviation records, survived three plane crashes, built RKO Studios and TWA and changed the face of Las Vegas forever comes to life in this thoroughly engrossing film. This film digs deeper into his life and his impact on modern aviation than any other and it’s loaded with fantastic extras!
DVD EXTRAS!
• HUGHES CONQUERS HOLLYWOOD: From Playboy to Producer
The premiere of Hells Angels (the world’s largest film premiere)
Original trailers for Hells Angels, Conqueror and Jet Fighter
• HUGHES TAKES ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Rare and dramatic testimony directly from Hughes
• THE FLYING BOAT: WORLD’S LARGEST PLANE — Hughes’ grandest achievement
• THE CONSTELLATION: The plane that changed passenger aviation
• HUGHES IN FLIGHT: Redigitized and spectacular aviation footage of Howard Hughes, "The Real Aviator"
• HUGHES AIRCRAFT HEADQUARTERS: Newly filmed footage of the famous headquarters in Culver City, California
• PHOTO GALLERY: Rare collection including Hughes’ only known color photo
PLUS!! Never-before-disclosed revelations from those who knew him best
• TERRY MOORE: Hughes’ wife and keeper of his legacy
• GEORGE FRANCOM: Member of the often referred to "Mormon Mafia" and Hughes’ personal aide and link to the outside world until the day he died
• ROBERT MAHEU: Spearheaded Hughes’ Vegas takeover; though they were in contact every day, they never met face-to-face
• JACK REAL: Hughes’ lifelong, closest friend and only outside confidante
November 11, 2004
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directed by: Xackery Irving
This award-winning documentary profiles the experiences of the prisoners and officers of the recently revived male chain gang and the world's first female chain gang. It examines the conditions of these people as they participate in these intense and highly controversial programs and the impact of chaining inmates during forced labor. Irving's camera's follow two officers and five prisoners before, during and after their release from the chain gang. This insightful reveal of what goes on in our modern-day prison system with the reinstatement of the chain gang is brutal, honest and eye-opening.
November 11, 2005
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starring: John Lithgow, Joe Morton, Kathryn Bigelow, Brian De Palma, Edward Dmytryk
directed by: Alain Klarer
The history of Hollywood and filmmaking comes alive in this spectacular nine hour celebration of movie magic. It's a mesmerizing, epic analysis that combines rare archival film, key scenes from immortal movies, interviews with leading filmmakers and commentary from noted film scholars and critics. As seen on PBS, this highly acclaimed series is the definitive chronicle of the American cinema, from its beginning to today. Includes interviews with Robert Altman, Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Spike Lee, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, Julia Roberts, Martin Scorsese, Gene Siskel, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, and many more! Episodes: The Hollywood Style, The Star, Romantic Comedy, Film Noir, The Western, The Combat Film, The Studio System, Film in the Television Age, The Film School Generation, The Edge of Hollywood.
August 08, 2000
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starring: Jesse Jackson, Juan Munoz, Ray Rogers, Mike Kinney
directed by: Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Lawrence Silk, Thomas Haneke
Academy Award(R) Winner for Best Documentary, 1990, this acclaimed motion picture captures the stark reality of working men and women making impossibly tough choices about survival during a time of extreme economic crisis. When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are divided, and the very future of this typical mid-American town is threatened! Also honored with the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Feature Documentary as well as the Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival -- you'll be riveted by the compelling real-life drama in this powerful landmark film!
March 03, 2004
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starring: David Morse, Holly Hunter, David McCullough, Jean Harvey Baker, David Herbert Donald
directed by: David Grubin
From award-winning film-maker David Grubin, this miniseries weaves together the troubled lives of a dirt-farmer's son and a wealthy Southern slave-owner's daughter. Together, Abraham and Mary Lincoln ascended to the pinnacle of power at the most difficult time in the nation's history, the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's legacy as the Great Emancipator reshaped the nation while his tragic death left Mary reclusive and forgotten.
February 02, 2005
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starring: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers, Joe Morton, Liev Schreiber, Linda Hunt
August 08, 2002
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starring: Marion Ross
directed by: Rocky Collins; Matthew Collins (III)
A look at the destruction and rebirth of San Francisco as a result of the famous 1906 earthquake.
January 01, 2006
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directed by: Ken Joy
Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906, a film by Ken Joy, is destined to be the definitive documentary of the greatest natural disaster ever to hit California. Never-before-seen footage, shot just minutes after the quake struck on April 18, 1906 at 5:13 a.m., combined with thousands of rare and previously unreleased photographs, and recreations of eyewitness accounts written by those who survived the disaster, culminate in this hour-long epic that chronicles the horror, the aftermath, and the heroes who survived it.
Ken Joy's astonishing direction takes us into the heart of the vibrant city that was San Francisco at the turn of the century. The love of the Californian for his State, and the devotion of the San Franciscan to his city, were only intensified by the disaster of April 18, 1906. It is a matter of common observation that hardships and suffering wed people to their native land. Indeed, the fear had been expressed that in a country so fair as California, the people, pampered by luxury and enervated by ease, would ultimately lose the virile qualities of citizenship which makes a nation great. There were indications here and there of the evils which flow from uninterrupted prosperity, but the privations of a few brief months hardened every fiber, and softened every heart.
Astonishing footage and photographs take us beyond the disaster by the bay, and give us a first-hand glimpse of what life was truly like in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
April 04, 2006
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starring: Andre Braugher, Pat Antici, Oudie Brown, Harry Caise, Magnolia Cooksey-Mathious
directed by: Stanley Nelson
Studio: Pbs Release Date: 05/04/2009 Run time: 60 minutes
February 02, 2004
