"Left home at the age of seven/one year later I'm carryin' an AK-47." For hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier in Sudan's brutal civil war, these lyrics are hardly empty posturing. They are the bitter reality of a young man who wa more...
"The most frankly sensual movie in memory," (Los Angeles Times) Pascale Ferran's intelligent, deeply moving, and exquisitely photographed Lady Chatterley brings D.H. Lawrence's most celebrated and notorious literary work to the screen. more...
Tall Tales & Legends presents The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, starring Ed Begley Jr, Beverly D'Angelo, and Charles Durning. Ichabod Crane is the superstitious schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow who's in love with Katrina. more...
Brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen. Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool hall more...
Director Derek Jarman's (Caravaggio, The Tempest) feature film debut Sebastiane lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics. more...
Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as Jacques Laurent, a former pornographic filmmaker who returns to the industry in this controversial and explicit drama from director Bertrand Bonello. more...
Shot over an entire year in 2004, THE BRIDGE is a startling documentary about San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and the people who go there to end their lives. Director Eric Steel and his crew managed to dissuade some of the tortured souls who peered more...
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies yet still resounds with the brilliance and charm of his later works. Directed by Peter Hall using The Royal Shakespeare Academy's cast of actors, this 1968 version is one of t more...
SUPER SIZE ME is one man's journey into the world of weight gain, health problems and fast food. It's an examination of the American way of life and how we are eating ourselves to death. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by more...
Orson Wells stars as Harry Lime and Joseph Cotten plays his childhood friend, Holly Martins, in this all-time classic thriller scripted by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed. Martins search for Lime through the seedy underworld of postwar Vienna and more...
Africa: The Serengeti takes you on an extraordinary journey to view a spectacle which few humans have ever witnessed, the Great Migration across the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and Kenya. James Earl Jones narrates this stunning, award-winning film more...
This audacious contemporary classic dramatizes a fascinating experiment with the question "What would Jesus do?" The film put a welcoming spotlight on boyish Quebec actor Lothaire Bluteau and firmly cemented Denys Arcand (Decline of the America more...
Old school Hong Kong action abounds in this lightning fast kung fu classic. The 8 masters are seeking the child of their enemy for an act of revenge when the child is rescued and taken to a Shaolin Temple for training. He grows up to be a skilled fighter more...
Apple-lover Jonathan Chapman has come of age. Follow Johnny as he sews apple seeds across the land, under the instruction of his true love Betty Nature and to the dismay of the Smithville despot Jack Smith, in this classic American folk tale.
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Perhaps one of the most underrated songwriters of the last century, BE HERE TO LOVE ME chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of Townes Van Zandt with a simple unpredictability that mimics the way the artist lived his short life. more...
In this dark, sensual and visually sumptuous drama set in in 1920's China, Ju Dou (Gong Li), is forced into marriage to Yang Jin-Shan (Li Wei), the wealthy owner of a silk dying mill. She is repeatedly mistreated and tortured by her elderly husband for more...
The Tiger and the Snow is about a Roman poet and lecturer named Attilio (Benigni) who feels compelled to head to Baghdad when he discovers that the woman he loves, Vittoria (Nicoletta Braschi) has been seriously injured during a bomb explosion. more...
One of the great satirists of Italian cinema, controversial filmmaker Marco Ferreri often used shock value to draw conclusions about the excesses of modern life. This collection unites eight of the master's greatest works of artful grotesque, including more...
Described as "kinky material trapped in a cage of Victorian propriety" (The New York Times), Psychopathia Sexualis is a dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance. more...
This DVD features two classic histories of the movies, both containing important historical content. The first is J. Stuart Blackton's March Of The Movies (1933), compiled and narrated by Blackton and the second is The Pictures, a.k.a. The Film Parade more...
The threat is real... It is happening today! The terrifying vision of an ominous movement! This acclaimed, award-winning film exposes the powerful resurgence of Fascism that preys upon the young and disenfranchised. Manipulated by fanatics, brainwashed by more...
Based on the true story and a bestselling novel, this powerful epic captures the incredible journey of German soldier Clemens Forell in his dramatic escape from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. Through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, more...
Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other. more...
Digitally remastered from the large format film originally presented in IMAX theaters, this picturesque documentary explores the ruins of the ancient Mayan civilization, including examinations of their palaces, temples, and mysterious pyramids. more...
From the diary of Johann Cavallius, comes a bloody tale of terror as the evil of Count Dracula, the Nosferatu, descends upon the unsuspecting hamlet of Bremen. Jonathon Harker is snared in the bloody web of the Vampyre during a long journey over the more...
Rarely is a documentary both as comedic and socially insightful at the same time as Czech Dream. What began as a film school project becomes a funny and provocative look at the changes of ambitions, desires and behaviors as old-fashioned Communism is more...
In this sixty-minute documentary you'll learn the real story of Pearl Harbor and the uphill battle that was to follow. It is a tale that teaches us the will to survive and the ability to prevail over the worst of circumstances. more...
