From the makers of the documentary classics Dont Look Back and The War Room. D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus are simply the best - so when they turn their sights on the competition for the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (MOF), France's Nobel Prize for pastry, you're in for a treat. Sixteen chefs whip up the most gorgeous, delectable, gravity-defying concoctions, and edge-of the seat drama.
P.O.V.: Food, Inc. & Food Inc.: A Participant Guide - DVD & Book, Save $5
Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
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P.O.V.: Food, Inc. Blu-ray
Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 91 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States
P.O.V.: William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe DVD
In the 1960s and 70s, William Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. as well as represented some of the most reviled members of society. Filmmakers Emily and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father recounting the historic causes that he fought for, revealing a man that even his own daughters did not always understand, a man who risked public outrage and the safety of his family so that justice could serve all.
Companion music CD to the PBS P.O.V. program The Way We Get By
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Production Year: 2009
Country Of Origin : United States
P.O.V.: The Way We Get By - DVD & CD Soundtrack, Save $5
On call 24/7 for the past 6 years, a group of senior citizens transform their lives by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine. Volunteerism and support for troops, without the politics, are highlighted in this profoundly moving film. Winner of 12 festival awards, this special POV film can be shared with the entire family to inspire and engage them.
BRONX PRINCESS follows headstrong 17-year-old Rocky's journey as she leaves behind her mother in New York City to reunite with her father, a chief in Ghana, West Africa. Filmed during the tumultuous summer between high-school and college, BRONX PRINCESS tells Rocky's coming-of-age story. By confronting her immigrant parents' ideas of adulthood, Rocky reconciles her African heritage with her dream of independence.
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Production Year: 2008
Length: 38 minutes on 1 Disc
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States
P.O.V.: The Way We Get By DVD
On call 24/7 for the past 6 years, a group of senior citizens transform their lives by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine. Volunteerism and support for troops, without the politics, are highlighted in this profoundly moving film. Winner of 12 festival awards, this special POV film can be shared with the entire family to inspire and engage them.
What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? Shot in a Ukrainian hospital full of desperate patients, The English Surgeon is an intimate portrait of brain surgeon Henry Marsh as he wrestles with the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship, and openly confronts moral and ethical issues which touch every one of us.
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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 93 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-14
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States
P.O.V.: Last Man Standing: Politics: Texas Style DVD
So how did Texas, once a solidly Democratic "Johnson Country" only a generation ago, become known for its dominating brand of Republicanism? Last Man Standing takes a camera to Texas to find out in a behind-the-scenes portrait of two unpredictable elections. A battle for state representative and a polarizing race for governor, which pits Bush's ascendant state Republican Party against a historic, multi-cultural Democratic ticket.
Fueled by an abiding passion for saving endangered animals, Richard Ogust abandons his life as a writer to build a fragile ark that is constantly on the brink of capsizing. THE CHANCES OF THE WORLD CHANGING is the poetic, lyrical tale of a saintly, but all-too-human artist who sacrifices nearly everything in his quest to preserve the world's disappearing turtles and tortoises.
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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2007
Length: 99 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States
P.O.V.: Taking on the Kennedys DVD
In 1994, practicing physician Kevin Vigilante, a Rhode Island Republican who has never held office, challenged Democratic favorite son Patrick Kennedy for a U.S. House seat representing the fifth most Democratic District in the nation and nearly won. With unrestricted access to the candidates filmmaker Joshua Seftel presents a hard-hitting deconstruction of political campaigns and powerful dynasties.
The tragic and grisly photograph, a woman on a motel floor, dead after an illegal abortion, stirred a nation and inflamed a movement. Now, as told by her family and friends, Leona's Sister Gerri tells the powerful and thought-provoking story of the anonymous woman behind the image and how she became an extraordinary icon for the ever-controversial abortion issue.
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Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 1995
Length: 75 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States
P.O.V.: Dark Circle DVD
Weapons of mass destruction are being developed in the U.S., nuclear power is re-emerging, and the capability to build atomic bombs is spreading to other countries. Dark Circle follows the trail of plutonium from the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons facility in Colorado, to the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
Rich in stunning footage of the Canadian wilderness and poignant interviews with the emotionally reticent Njootli men, ARCTIC SON chronicles the story of a father and son who reunite after living years and worlds apart. Ultimately, too, this powerful film reveals the ties that bind us to land, heritage, and people.
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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2008
Length: 75 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States
P.O.V.: The Fire Next Time DVD
Kalispell, known as the "last best place" in America, is undergoing rapid growth, a reality that pleases few and drives some to extreme measures. The Fire Next Time portrays ordinary people divided and united by forces larger than themselves. When hard change comes to a bucolic Montana town, locals must choose sides in a series of conflicts over the environment, jobs, and the future of the community.
The shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapult a small Long Island town into national headlines, unmasking a new front line in the border wars: suburbia. For nearly a year, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini lived and worked in Farmingville, New York, so they could capture first-hand the stories of residents, day laborers and activists on all sides of the debate.
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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2003
Length: 78 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States
P.O.V.: Critical Condition DVD
Critical Condition investigates America's worsening health care crisis by following a diverse group of uninsured individuals as they battle critical illnesses without adequate medical care. It is through their eyes and words that we are taken through the gaping holes in the health care system, where care is often delayed or denied ultimately, costing them their jobs, health, homes, savings, and even lives.
In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average Californian working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9006, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary a civil rights champion. Of Civil Wrongs And Rights brings to life the inspirational story of an unsung American civil rights hero and demonstrates the power of ordinary citizens to rise up against injustice.