Dead presidents 3 Features

Dead presidents 3

Features rare and stunning footage recorded by Soviet camera crews on the front lines most of it unseen since the series original broadcast on public television 30 years ago. The docu-series delivers a sweeping chronicle of the Soviets struggle against and ultimately victory over the Nazi war machine. From Germanys invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 to the Russians victorious march into Berlin in 1945, The Unknown War takes a 360-degree look at the strategies, suffering, heroism and courage of the Soviet experience with footage retrieved from the vaults of the Kremlin. Here are the devastating battles in the air, at sea and on land; and the poignant stories of daring and loss from what the Russians call The Great Patriotic War. This epic documentary series sheds new light on the Red Armys massive contribution to the Allies defeat of Hitler. Extras: Interview with Rod McKuen; analysis by Willard Sunderland, Associate Professor of Russian History at the University of Cincinnati. From Shout! Factory. Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies 2008 looks at how early filmmaking influenced the Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. 95 from Arthouse Films. Transcendent Man 2009 gets inside the mind of the award-winning scientist and specialist Ray Kurzweil through extensive interviews with Kurzweil and revealing conversations with friends and colleagues. The film outlines Kurzweils theory of singularity the point when change occurs so rapidly that humans will need to merge with technology to keep up while also chronicling his history, his myriad accomplishments including 24 patents, and his unique vision of the future Within 25 years, computers will have consciousness and humans will soon be bionic. 95 from Docurama. In A Small Act 2010, a young Kenyans life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received. 95 from Docurama. Reagan 2011 celebrates the centennial of the 40th presidents birth, examining the man behind the myth. 95 from AE Home Entertainment. need more of the Royal Wedding? BBC Warner has complete coverage of the event in The Royal Wedding of William Catherine and PBS has a documentary on the ceremony, William Kate: Planning a Royal Wedding. Two extraordinary classic films come to market this week, both from The Criterion Collection, and both in DVD and Blu-ray: Diabolique 1954, an intense thriller from Henri-Georges Clouzot The Wages of Fear about two women one the fragile wife of a sadistic school headmaster, the other his willful mistress who team up to hatch a daring revenge plot to put him in his place. Shocking for its time, the film still holds up with its narrative twists and turns and unforgettably scary images. Features dead presidents 3 performances by Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot and Paul The Japanese New Wave thrived in the 1960s, with such directors as Seijun Suzuki, Kinji Fukasaku and Masahiro Shinoda making movies that explored the moral code, violence and honor of the Yakuza, generally pitting a lone gangster against the mob mentality. Among the best is Shinodas Pale Flower, 1964, a cool and seductive film about a Yakuza, fresh out of prison, who becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal Also due this week: Beverly Hills Cop 1984, the film that cemented Eddie Murphys place as an A-list star, gets the Blu-ray treatment with commentary by director Martin Brest; three featurettes: Beverly Hills Cop The Phenomenon Begins, A Glimpse Inside the Casting Process and The Music of Beverly Hills Cop; as well as an interactive Location Map; from Paramount. All in the Family: Season Nine 1978-79 is a three-disc set with 23 episodes, 93 from Shout! The Bionic Woman: Season 2 1976-77 is a five-disc set with 24 episodes, from Circles of Deceit 1993-96 is the debut of the riveting spy thriller starring Dennis Waterman as an ex-SAS operative freelancing for the British government, in a set with four full-length dramas from Acorn Covert Affairs: Season One 2010 is a three-disc set with 11 episodes, from The Feathered Serpent Complete Series 1976 includes all 12 episodes from the two seasons of the cult classic set in ancient Mexico. Patrick Troughton stars as the villainous high priest Nasca in this ITV drama, which is available to audiences for the first time. From Acorn Flashpoint: The Complete Third Season 2010-11 is a four-disc set with 20 episodes of the series about the cops in the SRU inspired by Torontos Emergency Task Force tactical team, a unique unit of elite heroes who rescue hostages, bust gangs, defuse bombs, scale buildings and interrogate suspects all in a days work; 99 from Royal Pains: Season Two 2010 is a four-disc set with 12 episodes, from Tim Eric Awesome Show Great Job: Season 5 2010 includes 10 episodes of the Adult Swim series, 97 from The Wild Thornberrys: Season One 1998-99 is a four-disc set with 20 episodes, 93 from Shout! Factory. When a massive power outage plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, a disparate group of individuals find that theyre the only remaining people in the city and, soon enough, they realize that an encroaching darkness is out to get them as well in Vanishing on 7th Street 2010, starring Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo and Thandie Newton; from Magnolia Home Blue Valentine, The Illusionist, No Strings Attached and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. For more releases this week, see the Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases. The Criterion Collection releases oddball American auteur Jonathan Demmes Something Wild 1986 on Blu-ray this week, a stunning portrait of late-1980s America painted with one-part satire, one-part black comedy and one-part terror. This was Demmes fourth film preceded by Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, which the studio took away from him, and the concert film Stop Making Sense after his apprenticeship with the Roger Corman school of low-budget productions and you can see him fine-tuning the stlye that will go on to serve him well in Married to the Mob and The Silence of the Lambs. In Something Wild, a straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon, where her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta, Something Wild is both a kinky comic thriller and a radiantly off-kilter love story.