Documentary / Biography - DVD

<p>This America Undercover documentary charts the long-anticipated rise, scandalous near-fall, and subsequent salvation of Air America Radio, a liberal radio network geared towards those whose opinions skew a bit more to the "Left of the Dial." Told through verite footage shot at the New...

<p>The trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg during the height of The Cold War shook America to its core. And in light of the stranglehold Senator Joe McCarthy's red scare propaganda had on the nation, a true reflection of Julius and Ethel...

<p>In this emotionally jarring piece from HBO Documentary Films, award-winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy explores the dark events that occurred in 2003 at Abu Ghraib, the infamous Iraqi prison. Interweaving news and archival footage, unsettling still photos of the crimes, and eyewitness accounts from military...

<p>Wide Awake is acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alan Berliner's uniquely personal tour through a lifelong obsession with insomnia. A brilliantly edited blend of the hilarious and deeply personal, Wide Awake weaves hundreds of archival film clips, consultations with sleep specialists, an overnight stay at a...

<p>Suspenseful, deeply engaging and heart-wrenching, The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell illustrates the tumultuous evolution of a controversial policy which fostered hate and intolerance within the military -- and undermined the very freedoms American soldiers fight for -- by forcing gay and...

<p>In 1957, Little Rock Central High School became a symbol of the struggles and hopes of the Civil Rights Movement. Nine African-American students were prevented from entering the building by an angry mob of whites outside the school. After 50 years, it is a...

<p>Produced and directed by Oscar and Emmy Award winner Bill Couturi (HBO's Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam), this one-hour documentary is an intimate, deeply moving tribute to American soldiers recently killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Produced in association with LIFE books and the...

<p>The mystery of coma and brain injury has captivated America's imagination for decades but little is understood about the injured brain and its ability to heal. The Center for Head Injuries at JFK Medical Center is one of America's premier institutions for studying and...

<p>Welcome to the Believe It or Not Hall of Curiosity. Here you'll find a woman reciting 200+ words in 24 seconds, the world's smallest book (a 5/16" x 1/8" tome of the Rubaiyat), a 6-year-old lifting 200 pounds, a man-eating tree, a duck teaching...

<p>Produced and directed by 11-time Emmy Award-winner Jon Alpert, this 64-minute verite documentary takes an unforgettable look inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), the U.S. Army's premier medical facility in Iraq and former site of one of Saddam Hussein's elite medical facilities. Shot...

<p>Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She sensitively explores the controversial subject of the blurring of gender as well as the serious social and family problems - even dangers - often faced by those whose gender may fall somewhere in between male and female. Narrated...

<p>A globally scaled follow-up to April 2001's highly rated Naked States: America Undercover, this documentary follows the celebrated and controversial artist Spencer Tunick on his latest, most ambitious project: a one-year trek to all seven continents to take photographs of naked people, individually and...

<p>In this 80-minute documentary, three 10-year-old children leave their native countries to participate in one of the Islamic world's most famous competitions, a test of memory and recitation known as The International Holy Koran Competition. Up against much older students, these youngsters have committed...

<p>On the afternoon of July 26, 2009, Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway in New York for nearly two miles, eventually smashing into an oncoming SUV and killing herself, her daughter, three nieces, and all three people in the...

<p>This feature documentary follows members of the Ramapough Mountain Indian tribe in Ringwood, NJ, in their five-year search for justice through a mass-action, tort lawsuit. From the middle '50s to the late '70s, the Ford Motor Company operated an assembly plant in Mahwah, NJ...

<p>At Afghanistan's Badam Bagh Women's Prison, half the inmates are jailed for "moral crimes." Though these would hardly be considered punishable crimes in the Western world, behavior in Afghanistan is strictly controlled by an ideology of honor, and transgression can bring ruin to an...

<p>Intrepid journalist/filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi -- who has built an award-winning reputation with her playful, politically charged HBO documentaries focusing on both the famous (George Bush, Ted Haggard, John McCain, Barack Obama) and not-so-famous (right-wing Republicans, Evangelicals, motel kids in California) -- unabashedly waves the...

<p>In the true Olympic spirit, HBO Sports presents JOE LOUIS: AMERICA'S HERO BETRAYED, a profile of Joe Louis, the greatest heavyweight boxer of his time who transcended not only his race, but also the sport of boxing, to personify America's struggle with the Nazis...

<p>HBO Documentary Films presents Silencing the Song: An Afghan Fallen Star, a follow up to the Sundance Award-winning Afghan Star, which premiered on HBO in March 2010. Afghan Star followed the stories of four contestants on Afghanistan's hugely popular reality-TV singing competition, including one...

<p>Here is the incredible story of how an Austrian paper-hanger rose from total obscurity to become the absolute master of the German people -- the definitive pictorial record of the Nazi demagogue who unleashed his private madness on the world. Based on William L....

<p>From Emmy - winning filmmakers Marc Levin and Daphne, The Louisiana state bird -- the brown pelican -- spent 45 years on the endangered species list. After years of being relocated back to its natural habitat, the April 2010 BP explosion and oil spill...

The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 had a devastating effect on the people of the United States and left a deep psychic wound that is still felt by those who were inspired by his vibrancy and passion for positive change. Two days...

<p>From Emmy - winning filmmakers Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson, this 40-minute documentary recounts the horror of March 25, 1911, when young garment workers perished in the worst industrial accident in New York City history (up until 9/11), triggering widespread reforms and ushering in...

<p>Producer-writer-director Jamie Uys, who brought us the uproarious "The Gods Must Be Crazy," delivers awe-inspiring family entertainment in this unique look at the animal world. Four years of production, one hundred thousand miles of travel and half a million feet of film went into...

<p>Being stigmatized with the label "learning disabled" can have a devastating effect on children struggling with dyslexia. Facing the social and academic challenges of growing up and going to school when dealing with words is a daily struggle, children living with dyslexia are the...

<p>The Vagina Monologues, created and performed by Eve Ensler, debuted off-off-Broadway in 1996. This controversial work soon rode a wave of national acclaim and continues to be performed in North America and around the world. It has been translated into 14 different languages and...

<p>This Oscar -nominated documentary is both a poignant profile of former Gov. Booth Gardner as he battles the physical and mental onslaught of Parkinson's Disease, and an exploration of the contentious debate between proponents and foes of Initiative 1000, a controversial bill championed by...

<p>Directed and produced by award-winning photographer/filmmaker Neil Leifer, this 31-minute documentary demonstrates, through an extreme example, how creative people with disabilities are transcending their limitations to create art. The subjects in Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers have been drawn to photography for...

<p>This 30-minute documentary takes an enlightening look at young people with a wide spectrum of learning differences, offering a compelling portrait of the ways in which these children are able to compensate by using their strengths to overcome their challenges. Many say they are...

<p>A true twentieth century Renaissance man, Gordon Parks is one of the most prolific and diverse artists in America today. A preeminent photographer, poet, novelist, composer and filmmaker, Parks's artisitc vision knows no boundaries. This candid portrait of the artist is a journey through...

<p>Across the United States, violent crime in prison is an everyday reality, with inmates routinely exposed to assault, riot, rape and murder. Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder examines the culture of institutional violence through the events that led to one brutal prison...

<p>A mother decides her 22-year-old son's been a virgin long enough. A couple yearns for a little extramarital action. A pimp wants to add a fresh filly to his stable. A husband looks to cash in on his wife's birthday present. A pair of...

<p>From acclaimed director Kirby Dick (HBO's Showgirls: Glitz and Angst, Cinemax's Chain Camera and The End), this Academy Award-nominated and Sundance-selected feature documentary tells the deeply personal story of a man who confronts the trauma of past sexual abuse by a local priest, only...

<p>Acclaimed filmmaker Rory Kennedy examines the aim and effectiveness of the controversial Southern U.S. Border Barrier, a 700-mile fence erected along the more than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Kennedy follows her title subject through private ranches, protected wilderness, bustling border towns and scrub desert, offering...

<p>Located just south of Buffalo, the little Victorian-style village of Lily Dale, NY, is home to the world's largest community of "mediums" women and men who claim to have the special capability of communicating with the dead. Every July since 1879, the town's residents...

<p>El Espiritu de La Salsa -- (The Spirit of Salsa) Lonely hearts from all over New York City meet in Spanish Harlem once a week at Santo Rico Dance School, where they learn to perform Salsa. The film follows a diverse cast of New...

<p>In Homeless: Children Of the Working Poor Alexandra Pelosi follows children living in motels as their families struggle to survive in one of the richest zip codes in America.</p>

<p>12TH AND DELAWARE visits a street corner in Ft. Pierce, Fla. that is ground zero for the ferocious abortion-rights battle. On one side of the intersection stands A Women's World, an abortion clinic; across the street is the Pregnancy Care Center, a pro-life outpost...

<p>STUDS TERKEL: LISTENING TO AMERICA chronicles the life of America's greatest oral historian. Intermixed with the telling of Terkel's eccentric career -- as actor, musicologist, activist and bestselling author, -- are glimpses of this man's quintessentially American philosophy that every life counts; everyone's story...

<p>While exploring the larger Iranian struggle that was taking place and that rallied around her image, For Neda tells the personal story of Neda Agha-Soltan and her tragic death in the Iranian protests following the recent presidential election results.</p>

<p>What do you do with a pitcher whose dominance has helped his team claim two world-championship banners? If the pitcher is burly lefty George Herman Ruth, you banish him from the mound, put a bat in his hand and watch him clout one record-setting...

<p>A severe drought threatens Navajo herdsmen living on the parched 1949 Utah-Arizona border. But two intrepid friends -- one Navajo, one the son of a white trader -- hear of hidden pastureland offering abundant water somewhere beyond the red cliffs. So they set off...

<p>"What is the fate of the world?" With breathtaking Technicolor photography and thrilling up-close encounters with the undersea world, The Sea Around Us gave audiences early warning about the environmental dangers threatening our planet. Based on Rachel Carson's acclaimed book and written, directed and...

Two billion years in the making!" trumpeted the ads for this fabulous Technicolor treat from Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno). The Animal World investigates the wonders of an astonishing array of creatures from butterflies to whales. But the unquestioned highlight is...

<p>From the acclaimed Maysles Films production team, this Oscar-nominated, Sundance Award-winning documentary follows three generations of African-Americans from Mississippi as they battle extreme poverty and illiteracy. Living in a trailer without running water or lights, matriarch LaLee Wallace watches her grandchildren struggle in school,...

<p>Charismatic, charming and complex, Sergio Vieira de Mello was the UN's go-to guy, a man who could descend into the most dangerous places, charm the worst war criminals, and somehow protect the lives of the ordinary people to whom he'd devoted his life. Based...

<p>Cathouse: The Specials is a 2-Disc compilation of Cathouse: Sex, Guys and Videotapes; Cathouse: Three Ring Circus; Cathouse: What's on the Menu; Cathouse: Menage a Trois; The Best of Cathouse; and Cathouse: Come to the Party. This compilation shows familiar girls, new girls and...

<p>This 70-minute documentary follows the final days of freedom for Wendy Maldonado's fateful decision to protect her family from abuse at all costs, even her own freedom. Wendy, an Oregon Mother of four who pleaded guilty, along with her oldest son Randy for murdering...

<p>Emmy -winning documentary series, Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York Parts 1-3 heads back to the familiar streets of the Big Apple to record more intimate nocturnal conversations with actual NYC taxicab passengers.</p>

<p>Documentary focuses on the workers of the General Motors Assembly Plant in Moraine, Ohio -- which opened in 1981, and churned out an average of 280,000 small trucks and SUVs a year -- from the announcement a year ago that the Plant will be...