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July 31, 2010
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Inspired by his love of comic books, high school student Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) decides to transform himself into a masked crime fighter -- a decision that eventually thrusts the teenager into Internet stardom. Soon, Dave's antics inspire a wave of would-be heroes to don costumes and live out their superhero fantasies. Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloe Moretz also star in this comic book adaptation from director Matthew Vaughn.
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This disc includes episodes 7-8.
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After meeting Gina (Kelly Macdonald) in a café, lonely civil servant Lawrence (Bill Nighy) asks her to join him at the G8 Summit in Iceland. The shy outsiders hit it off, but their attraction is tested when Gina's personal convictions contradict Lawrence's professional duties. Macdonald earned an Emmy for her performance in this made-for-television movie that charts the disintegration of a May-December romance.
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While he projected unflappable confidence on the outside, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt suffered from a barrage of personal demons -- yet his inner turmoil never kept him from success. This installment of the "American Experience" series examines family letters and diaries, authentic film footage and rare interviews with distant relatives to reveal a fascinating figure whose unique brand of ambition would make him unforgettable.
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Steven Soderbergh's sci-fi thriller finds Dr. Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) aboard the space station Prometheus, whose crew had been investigating the planet Solaris and subsequently ceased all communications -- without explanation -- with Earth. Dr. Kelvin finds out exactly what happened and is given a chance to revisit an old love (Natascha McElhone) … but can he really go home again? Based on Stanislaw Lem's novel.
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Campbell Scott directs this coming-of-age dramedy that follows an 11-year-old girl, Bo (Valentina de Angelis), as she spends the summer of 1974 watching her father (Sam Elliott) battle a bout of depression that proves to be crippling. Bo's parents (Joan Allen plays her mother) moved to New Mexico to escape the stresses of the big city and now find they're being investigated by the government for tax evasion.
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This disc includes episodes 1-2.
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This disc includes episodes 3-4.
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This disc includes the following episodes: "The Scarface Mob," "The Empty Chair" and "Ma Barker and Her Boys."
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Running from debt collectors, screenwriter Joe (William Holden) stumbles upon the crumbling mansion of former silent-film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). As he begins working for Norma, writing a comeback screenplay, their professional relationship evolves into something more. A provocative look inside Hollywood show business, Billy Wilder's classic noir won Academy Awards for Art Direction, Music and Screenplay.
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Young, naïve Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) is en route to Bangkok to join her new husband, a wealthy diplomat who works for the French Embassy. But once she arrives, her husband initiates her into a world of sexual ecstasy beyond anything she'd ever imagined. Kristel became an international star as a result of this titillating French screen adaptation of Emmanuelle Argan's controversial novel of the same name.
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Anne Fontaine's erotic drama explores the ramifications of betrayal in a marriage. When Catherine (Fanny Ardant) discovers her husband (Gerard Depardieu) is having an affair she hires a stripper to seduce him and report back to her about his sexual escapades. After a time the two women form an unlikely friendship that changes the three of them forever.
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After losing his hearing as a soldier during the Vietnam War, Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston) returns to America, where he falls in with an unlikely circle of friends and finds a new calling as a spokesman for the disabled. His activist efforts eventually lead to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This inspiring and entertaining true story won the Audience Award at the 2007 AFI Dallas International Film Festival.
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Director Martin Scorsese hits a satirical bulls-eye in this black comedy that explores the absurd lengths to which nebbish Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) will go to land a spot on the TV talk show of his idol, Jerry Langford (a wonderfully caustic Jerry Lewis). Pupkin believes that one appearance on Langford's show will be his ticket to stardom, so he kidnaps his idol and sets into motion a chain of events you have to see to believe!
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Delve into the career of poet, author, composer and musician Leonard Cohen, who has been called one of the premiere folk singers of the 1960s and '70s. This documentary relies on rare concert footage, archival photos and interviews with music critics to help explain the significance of Cohen's unique art. The film focuses on the five albums he released between 1967 and 1977, including "Death of a Ladies' Man," produced by Phil Spector.
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Combining a fearless dedication to experimentation and a fresh emphasis on visual presentation, the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet has emerged as a leading voice for new music, earning five Grammy Awards. This dynamic recording includes George Crumb's musical response to the Vietnam War, "Black Angels," and Tan Dun's "Ghost Opera," featuring a blend of sophisticated techniques and folk traditions. An electrifying theatrical experience!
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Director-producer Ron Maxwell mines America's history in this epic movie chronicling the Civil War's beginnings in 1861 to the tragic Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 and the heroes who defended their honor on both fronts. Robert Duvall is Gen. Robert E. Lee, who leads the Confederates; Jeff Daniels is Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a Bowdoin College professor who fights for the Union army, and Stephen Lang portrays Gen. Stonewall Jackson.
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Soon after landing a plum job working for FBI operative Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper), young agency employee Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) learns he's been brought in to spy on his boss, who's suspected of selling secrets to the Soviets. But can O'Neill handle such an important assignment with so little field experience, or will Hanssen get to him first? Laura Linney and Dennis Haysbert co-star in this high-stakes thriller based on a true story.
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Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton, who earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal) spends her days doting on her working-class family. But Vera also has a secret side: Her family and friends don't know that she visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for their unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities get wind of her activities -- then illegal in 1950s England -- Vera's world quickly falls apart, deeply affecting both her and her family.
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This disc includes "Episode I."
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Director Akira Kurosawa's magnificent rumination on Shakespeare's tragic "Macbeth" is a dark samurai drama set in feudal Japan, in which two soldiers -- Washizu (Toshirô Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) -- find themselves lost in a dense forest during a powerful thunderstorm. When they encounter a ghostly old woman who predicts Washizu will soon rise to power, the soldier embarks on a murderously ambitious path and quickly fulfills the prophecy.
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That perspicacious wizard, Merlin (Sam Neill), takes center stage in this made-for-TV retelling of the legend of King Arthur and his court. As the king's right-hand man, Merlin tries to protect Arthur as he gains Excalibur, constructs Camelot and suffers the betrayal of his wife, Guinevere (Lena Headey). John Gielgud, Helena Bonham Carter, Rutger Hauer and James Earl Jones also cross lances in this medieval epic.
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When charismatic lawyer John Milton (Al Pacino) recruits the successful young attorney Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) to his high-powered Manhattan firm, both Kevin and his wife (Charlize Theron) find life on Park Avenue seductive. That is, until strange things begin to happen. By the time the pair begins questioning John's plans and who -- or what -- Kevin actually works for, it might be too late in director Taylor Hackford's creepy thriller.
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Buoyed by the news that they are expecting their first baby, Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) embark on a journey to locate the perfect place on the planet to raise their child. But their quest inevitably yields many unexpected surprises. Sam Mendes directs this quirky comedy while Allison Janney, Catherine O'Hara, Josh Hamilton, Jim Gaffigan, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jeff Daniels co-star.
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Acclaimed director Werner Herzog went to Kuwait in 1992 to document the aftermath of the first Gulf War, focusing on the devastating oil fires set by retreating Iraqi soldiers that transformed the country's beautiful landscape. Herzog, who also made the films Aguirre, The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, crafts a moving and mostly silent presentation accompanied by classical music and moments with Kuwaitis lamenting the devastation of the war.
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Astro Boy (voiced by Freddie Highmore), a young robot created by Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage), embarks on a dangerous odyssey, navigating unknown territory in search of purpose before returning home to save his loved ones. Metro City is desperately in need of a hero who has extraordinary superpowers like x-ray vision, remarkable speed and the ability to fly in this sci-fi anime based on Osamu Tezuka's manga.
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This disc includes the episodes "The Grandest Enterprise Under God" and "Death Runs Riot."
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This disc includes the episodes "The Geography of Hope" and "Fight No More Forever."
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This documentary follows an adopted American woman -- one of thousands of Vietnamese children who were separated from their families and flown to America in 1975 -- who gets more than she bargained for when she's reunited with her birth mother. The film emphasizes how much culture, rather than innate physical characteristics, can shape an individual. The film won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
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Robert Francis Kennedy could very well have been president if his tragic murder hadn't intervened. This probing, perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of the third Kennedy son, the boy Joe Sr. called the "runt." Featuring extensive interviews with family members, friends, journalists, Washington insiders and civil rights activists, the film chronicles the pivotal role RFK played in many of the major events of the 1960s.
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This disc includes the second part of the series.
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This disc includes the third part of the series.
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In 1940, Adolf Hitler's dangerous philosophies and armies had overtaken much of Europe, destroying the lives of thousands of men and women and dismantling entire countries. Britain proved to be his biggest nemesis, however. Watch as the Battle of Britain unfolds in this fascinating recollection of some of World War II's dreariest and darkest hours, leavened only by the determination of the Allied forces to fight Hitler's evil.
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This disc includes the following episodes: "Beginnings," "Conquest!" and "Dynasty."
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This disc includes the following episodes: "Nations," "King Death" and "Burning Convictions."
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This disc includes the following episodes: "The Body of the Queen," "The British Wars" and "Revolutions."
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This disc includes the following episodes: "Britannia Incorporated," "The Wrong Empire" and "Forces of Nature."
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This disc includes the following episodes: "Victoria and Her Sisters," "Empire of Good Intentions" and "The Two Winstons." Also included are a bibliography, biographies of key historical figures and more.
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This disc includes the following episodes (1-3): "Caravaggio: Painting Gets Physical," "Gianlorenzo Bernini: The Miracle Worker" and "Rembrandt van Rijn: Rough Stuff in the Halls of the Rich.
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This disc includes the following episodes (4-6): "Jacques-Louis David: Airbrushing the Revolution." "JWM Turner: Painting up a Storm" and "Van Gogh: Painting from the Inside of the Head."
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This disc includes the following episodes (7-8): "Picasso: Modern art Goes Political" and "Rothko: The Music of Beyond in the City of Glitter."
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Indolent Roman slave Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) has one wish: to purchase his freedom. With his master and mistress away for the day, Pseudolus learns that the master's son, Hero (Michael Crawford), has fallen for a beautiful virgin in a slave merchant's house. The ever-crafty Pseudolus then cooks up a scheme that will allow him to go free if he can procure the girl for Hero. Richard Lester directed this frenetic adaptation of the stage musical.
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This program captures the final Broadway stage performance of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical "Rent," filmed live in Manhattan's Nederlander Theatre, where the play ran for 12 years. Following a group of young artists struggling with life and love in the era of the AIDS epidemic, the production features show-stopping renditions of songs such as "One Song Glory," "I Should Tell You," "I'll Cover You," "Will I?" and more.
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Czech pilot Franta Slama (Ondrej Vetchy) and his young protégé, Karel Vojtisek (Krystof Hadek), escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to join the British Royal Air Force in fighting the Germans. A father-son relationship develops between the two. After three months of training, they're both finally sent into combat, but the stress of the war, plus their mutual love for a married English woman, tests their strong friendship.
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In his first feature film, director Juzo Itami shows the separation between traditional Japanese values and the younger generation. When her curmudgeonly father unexpectedly dies, modern wife Chizuko (Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband, Wabisuke (Tsutomo Yamazaki), must plan a three-day Buddhist funeral that involves complex rituals and exorbitant expenses. The motley crew of mourners includes a gaggle of relatives -- and Wabisuke's mistress.
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Eager to flee his humdrum life in 1950s New York, booze-loving journalist Paul (Johnny Depp) moves to Puerto Rico and begins writing for a local rag, but his life becomes unhinged when he falls for a gorgeous woman (Amber Heard) and clashes with her shifty fiancé (Aaron Eckhart). Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, this adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's early novel also stars Richard Jenkins as Paul's editor.
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A plucky young singer and dancer (Eleanor Powell) tries her best to convince her onetime childhood sweetheart (Robert Taylor), who's grown up to become a successful promoter, that she has enough talent for the Broadway stage. But he's so busy making eyes at the wealthy widow he's dating (June Knight) that he barely has time for his former flame. Buddy Ebsen and Jack Benny co-star in this classic Hollywood musical.
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Through interviews with holocaust survivors, newsreel footage, letters, journals and news reports, this Oscar-winning documentary chronicles the hardships faced by the European Jews freed from concentration camps in 1945. Many survivors discovered they no longer had homes to return to and found themselves in "displaced persons" camps. The establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was seen as the solution to providing the refugees a homeland.
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Inspired by a true story, director Kevin Asch's film tells the story of Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a young Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn who breaks with Orthodox tradition when he becomes an intercontinental Ecstasy smuggler for an Israeli drug cartel. A blend of neurotic coming-of-age dramedy and tense crime thriller, the film features Justin Bartha ("National Treasure") as Sam's pal Yosef and hip-hop recording artist Q-Tip in a supporting role.
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As Christianity gains steam in Roman Egypt toward the end of the fourth century A.D., a young slave (Max Minghella) weighs his desire for freedom against his growing love for his mistress (Rachel Weisz), an atheist as well as a professor of philosophy. Alejandro Amenábar (The Others) directs this epic drama based on the life of Hypatia of Alexandria, a noted Greek scholar and mathematician. Rupert Evans co-stars.